ANTIOCH, Calif. – A former Antioch police officer who a jury found guilty last week was ordered into custody.
A federal jury on Friday found Morteza Amiri guilty of depriving a person of civil rights when he illegally released his K-9 on a man and falsifying reports, but acquitted him of conspiring with other police officers to commit violence, the East Bay Times reported.
Then, on Tuesday, Senior U.S. District Judge Jeffrey White ordered Amiri into federal custody, although he will wait in Santa Clara County jail until his sentencing in June, which is when he will later be transferred to a federal prison, the East Bay Times reported.…