An FBI raid in the Bay Area led to the arrest of 10 officers with the Antioch and Pittsburg police departments, including three facing civil rights charges.
U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of California Ismail J. Ramsey, right, speaks to reporters during a press conference to announce federal authorities have charged 10 current and former Northern California police officers in a corruption investigation Thursday, Aug. 17, 2023, in San Francisco. Arrest warrants were served Thursday in California, Texas and Hawaii.
Those three officers - Morteza Amiri, Eric Rombough and Devon Wenger - were already under investigation for sending racist and homophobic text messages. Antioch officer Timothy Manly Williams is charged with the destruction, alteration and falsification of records in federal investigations, obstruction of official proceedings and deprivation of rights under color of law. Williams allegedly interfered with an ongoing homicide investigation that was focused on an Oakland-based gang that authorities believed was responsible for several shootings.
“Any police officer who breaks public trust must be held accountable, especially because our effectiveness relies heavily on confidence and support from our community,” he said. Ramsey, the U.S. attorney, described the civil rights charges against Amiri, Rombough and Wenger as “disturbing.” Between March 2019 and November 2021, Amiri’s police dog, Purcy, bit 28 people, 19 0f whom were Black, according to prosecutors. Rombough had also deployed a 40mm gun that fires less-lethal ammunition at 11 people between November 2020 and August 2021, prosecutors say.
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