Chester Lake



Chester Lake was a male Human who was a detective in Manhattan's Special Victims Unit. He was partnered with Odafin Tutuola. He transferred from Brooklyn SVU.

Early life
Detective Lake is of Native American ancestry, Mohawk nation. 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. 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. He suffered a concussion when Benson's stalker put a bomb in 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. He also tells his co workers that he was a foster child. This causes him to be sympathetic to two boys from a bad neighborhood who were murder suspects. He realizes one was pleady guilty to protect his brother and used his own story to convince him to tell the truth: while in the Acadamy he got involved in an altercation and was facing an assault charge and a cousin of his took it to protect him. In the end Lake proves the two's innocence and gets them back into a college that they had been kicked out of and planned to reunite them with their mother, but after learning that she had died of an overdose, he took them out to dinner rather than tell them the truth.

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