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
ret5hd
(20,502 posts)Iggo
(47,561 posts)closeupready
(29,503 posts)Don't you feel safer now?
Wolf Frankula
(3,601 posts)How do you tell the cops from the crooks? The cops commit more felonies.
Wolf
RebelOne
(30,947 posts)of petty thefts. He said that it take a thief to catch a thief.
shanti
(21,675 posts)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.
Bill76
(39 posts)olddad56
(5,732 posts)AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)El_Johns
(1,805 posts)cosmicone
(11,014 posts)because someone in the US attorney's office will create holes in the evidence or some other ploy.
jsr
(7,712 posts)they had to suffer.
ChairmanAgnostic
(28,017 posts)debunkthis
(99 posts)supply side law enforcment?
DeSwiss
(27,137 posts)mountain grammy
(26,638 posts)they just might be convicted.. now wouldn't that be something?!
frylock
(34,825 posts)Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)"Yeah,...I done enough of dat...."