SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — A former Antioch police officer, Morteza Amiri, was sentenced to serve seven years in prison for using excessive force against suspects, falsifying police records, and participating in a scheme to obtain pay raises.
The federal prison sentence was handed down by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey White. Amiri, 34, committed his crimes while working as an Antioch Police Department K9 officer.
“Amiri misused his police dog to inflict unnecessary and excessive force against a victim and cheated his way into a pay raise. These crimes are appalling in themselves, but even more so that they were committed by a police officer. Amiri is now being held to account for his multiple betrayals of the public trust,” said United States Attorney Craig Missakian…