ELMA, N.Y. (WKBW) — Internal records obtained by the 7 News I-Team show an Erie County Sheriff’s Office deputy used his position to make a traffic stop as a favor for a friend.
Records show the deputy, Salvatore Vaccaro, then lied to investigators, withheld key information from prosecutors, falsified a police report, and later targeted the same driver through a Department of Motor Vehicles audit.
All of the allegations were sustained following an internal investigation. Discipline, however, did not come until nearly a year after the arrest…