They met at a festival. He was a sheriff’s deputy — and a stalker, her lawsuit claims

They met at a festival. He was a sheriff’s deputy — and a stalker, her lawsuit claims

By James Queally, Los Angeles Times LOS ANGELES — Briana Ortega had been home for all of three minutes when she heard a fist pounding against her door. She opened it to find a Riverside County sheriff’s deputy “claiming a black man with dreadlocks had jumped over her backyard fence” and was trying to break into her La Quinta home, according to court records. Almost immediately, Ortega, 29, suspected Deputy Eric Piscatella was there for other rea…