Officers from Antioch and Pittsburg were rounded up on federal conspiracy charges in a series of early Thursday morning raids led by the FBI.
Federal authorities Thursday charged 10 current and former Antioch and Pittsburg police officers in a set of sweeping indictments alleging offenses ranging from cheating on training classes to savage violations of civil rights in one of California’s biggest criminal cases of police corruption.
The indictment, for example, alleged that in February 2019, Amiri and Rombough talked about coming to work on a day they planned to take off to retaliate against a person who they believed had crossed a fellow officer. A federal grand jury in San Francisco handed down the four separate indictments, each charging different schemes. None of the officers was charged with all the alleged offenses.
The wire fraud counts carry a maximum sentence of 20 years, as do the falsification of evidence charges, while the deprivation of rights counts carry a maximum sentence of 10 years. “There is absolutely no reason for Mr. Rombough to appear here in handcuffs today,” his attorney, Will Edelman, said in court.Amiri, Rombough, Berhan, Peterson, Rodriguez-Jalapa, and Mejia-Orozco all pleaded not guilty. Prosecutors agreed to release each of the men on $100,000 property bonds, provided they agree not to contact alleged victims, co-defendants or witnesses, to relinquish their weapons, to surrender their passports, and to agree to travel restrictions.
Ryu granted Mejia-Orozco — who works as an armed security guard in San Francisco — a chance to argue in a future hearing that he should be allowed to possess a gun at work.
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