Chester Lake

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Chester Lake
Detective Chester Lake.
Title Detective
Affiliation New York City Police Department
Division Special Victims Unit
Occupation Police officer
Current status Alive (In Custody)
First Appearance SVU: "Outsider"
Last Appearance SVU: "Cold"
Played by Adam Beach

Detective Chester Lake is a transfer from Brooklyn SVU. Detective Lake was later partnered with Detective Odafin Tutuola.

Contents 1 Biography 1.1 Early life 1.2 Police force 2 Appearances/Actors

[edit] Biography

[edit] Early life

Detective Lake is of Native American ancestry, Mohawk nation as revealed in "Impulsive". He speaks proudly of his ancestors who helped build the city (many ironworkers in early New York were indeed Native Americans). Every male member of his family for the preceding three generations, was an ironworker. In the season 9 episode "Avatar" he says he is a collector of rare books. He often suffers from insomnia, which can sometimes be beneficial in solving a case, as it did in locating informants in the episode "Harm". In the episode "Svengali", he suffered a concussion when Benson's stalker put a bomb in a pizza box.

Lake used to compete as an amateur mixed martial artist with the fight name "Naptime" (due to his right hook) and had plans to turn pro, but quit after suffering a torn ACL. In the episode "Fight" in season nine he also tells his co workers that he was a foster child.

[edit] Police force

Detective Lake was wanted for the murder of a fellow police officer accused of raping two illegal immigrants in the Season 9 finale. Following a jury deadlock in the case of the accomplice (another NYPD Officer) and the suspension of ADA Casey Novak, Detective Lake was arrested for the murder of the suspect.

[edit] Appearances/Actors

• Canon (1 show, 2 seasons, 21 episodes)
  • Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (First appearance, Last appearance, 2 seasons, 21 episodes) - Adam Beach
    • Season 8, 2 episodes
    • Season 9, 19 episodes