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Newsjock

(11,733 posts)
Thu Feb 27, 2014, 03:59 PM Feb 2014

6 San Francisco police officers indicted

Source: San Francisco Chronicle

Five San Francisco police officers and a former officer have been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges including extortion, dealing drugs, stealing computers and other property from suspects and searching residential hotels without legal justification.

The wide-ranging federal probe stemmed from allegations first made in 2011 by city Public Defender Jeff Adachi, who released a series of surveillance videos showing what he called a pattern of misconduct by officers.

According to indictments unsealed Thursday, Officers Arshad Razzak, 41, Richard Yick, 36, and Raul Eric Elias, 44, all formerly assigned to the Southern police station at the city's Hall of Justice, are accused of conspiring to threaten and intimidate residents of single-room occupancy hotel rooms by entering them without legal justification by using a master key.

Sgt. Ian Furminger, 47, Officer Edmond Robles, 46, and former Officer Reynaldo Vargas, 45, of Palm Desert, engaged in "multiple criminal conspiracies," including drug dealing, stealing money, gift cards and other items from suspects, and stealing money, drugs and other valuable items that were seized on behalf of the city, the indictment said.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/6-San-Francisco-police-officers-indicted-5273906.php

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6 San Francisco police officers indicted (Original Post) Newsjock Feb 2014 OP
Yay cops! ret5hd Feb 2014 #1
They're the best! Iggo Feb 2014 #4
Even better, armed with lethal weapons! closeupready Feb 2014 #8
Real Cops Acting Like TV Cops Wolf Frankula Feb 2014 #2
I once dated a cop in Miami who admitted to me a couple RebelOne Feb 2014 #11
Cop date stories shanti Feb 2014 #17
Solidarity among cops is the enabler of police corruption. Bill76 Feb 2014 #18
the police are your friend. olddad56 Feb 2014 #3
Started in 2011? Wow, the wheels of justice DO turn slow... AtheistCrusader Feb 2014 #5
stealing from the poor. El_Johns Feb 2014 #6
$20 says they will be found not guilty cosmicone Feb 2014 #7
And they'll get stress disability from the ordeal jsr Feb 2014 #9
naw, that's limited to pedophile priests. ChairmanAgnostic Feb 2014 #15
Could this be referred to as debunkthis Feb 2014 #10
K&R DeSwiss Feb 2014 #12
Well, since they're not on video tasing, beating or shooting someone mountain grammy Feb 2014 #13
fuck tha police frylock Feb 2014 #14
"Wait, could I get to search the girls?" Spitfire of ATJ Feb 2014 #16

Wolf Frankula

(3,601 posts)
2. Real Cops Acting Like TV Cops
Thu Feb 27, 2014, 04:02 PM
Feb 2014

How do you tell the cops from the crooks? The cops commit more felonies.

Wolf

RebelOne

(30,947 posts)
11. I once dated a cop in Miami who admitted to me a couple
Thu Feb 27, 2014, 05:30 PM
Feb 2014

of petty thefts. He said that it take a thief to catch a thief.

shanti

(21,675 posts)
17. Cop date stories
Thu Feb 27, 2014, 07:04 PM
Feb 2014

The first and last time I dated a LEO, a deputy sheriff, he told me a story about a winery trip to Napa with a fellow officer. He said they drove back swigging bottles of wine, and yes they were shitfaced. Wait, it gets better.

The were pulled over by CHP, and when they flashed their badges, the CHP officer waved them on their merry way. He seemed to be bragging as he recounted the story - I was not amused.

Years later, I found that he had moved way up in the ranks. Sounds par for the course, nowadays.

 

cosmicone

(11,014 posts)
7. $20 says they will be found not guilty
Thu Feb 27, 2014, 04:22 PM
Feb 2014

because someone in the US attorney's office will create holes in the evidence or some other ploy.

mountain grammy

(26,638 posts)
13. Well, since they're not on video tasing, beating or shooting someone
Thu Feb 27, 2014, 05:59 PM
Feb 2014

they just might be convicted.. now wouldn't that be something?!

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