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FORMER LOS ANGELES POLICE OFFICER AND
CO-CONSPIRATOR
SENTENCED FOR CIVIL RIGHTS VIOLATIONS
Former
Los Angeles Police Department Officer Ruben Palomares and his
cousin and co-conspirator, Gabriel Loaiza, were sentenced today
in federal court in Los Angeles for their roles in a series of
home-invasion robberies over a two-year period, the
Justice
Department announced. Palomares was sentenced to 158 months in
prison and 5 years of supervised release. Loaiza was sentenced
to 108 months in prison and 5 years of supervised release.
Palomares and Loaiza both previously pleaded guilty to
conspiring to violate civil rights, conspiring to possess
cocaine with the intent to distribute, deprivation of rights
under color of law, and using a firearm during and in relation
to a crime of violence. Palomares and Loaiza also testified in
the January 2008 trial in which a federal jury found their
fellow co-conspirators, William and Joseph Ferguson, guilty of
conspiring to violate civil rights; conspiring to possess
narcotics with intent to distribute; and possession of narcotics
with intent to distribute.
Evidence presented at the plea hearings and the January 2008
trial of co-conspirators William and Joseph Ferguson revealed
that Palomares and Loaiza were members of a wide-ranging
criminal conspiracy that committed over 40 burglaries and
robberies throughout the Los Angeles area between early 1999 and
June of 2001. Palomares was the ringleader of this conspiracy,
which included other law enforcement officers as well as drug
dealers. The robberies generally were committed after the group
received information that a particular location was involved in
illegal drug-trafficking. The robbery teams usually consisted of
multiple sworn police officers in uniform or displaying badges
who would gain access to the residence by falsely telling any
occupants that they were conducting a legitimate search for
drugs or drug dealers. Victims often were restrained, threatened
or assaulted during the search. These assaults included firing a
stun gun at a victim, striking victims with police batons and
putting a gun in the mouth of a victim. When the group stole
drugs, they would use co-conspirators to sell the drugs, then
split the profits from these sales among the group.
In all, 17 defendants, including law enforcement officers from
the Los Angeles Police Department, the Long Beach Police
Department, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, and the
California Department of Corrections, have been convicted of
federal crimes in connection with the conspiracy. Co-defendant
Joseph Ferguson was sentenced to 97 months in prison on May 5,
2008.
“ These defendants, who were sworn to serve and protect the
people of Los Angeles, went from enforcing the law to breaking
the law,” said Grace Chung Becker, Acting Assistant Attorney
General for the Civil Rights Division. “While the vast majority
of law enforcement officers carry out their difficult duties in
a professional manner, the Department of Justice will not
hesitate to prosecute those who cross that line.”
“ With brazen disregard for the safety of those he was
victimizing, Ruben Palomares repeatedly violated the sanctity of
the law he was sworn to uphold,” said Thomas P. O’Brien, U.S.
Attorney for the Central District of California. “Public
corruption cases like this are among the most serious and
important cases that we prosecute. Preserving the public’s right
to integrity throughout all levels of government is one of the
Justice Department’s highest priorities.”
This case was investigated by Special Agent Phil Carson of the
Federal Bureau of Investigation, with the assistance of Steve
Sambar, Roger Mora, and Mark Bigel of the Los Angeles and Long
Beach Police Departments. This case was prosecuted by Special
Litigation Counsel Jeffrey S. Blumberg and Trial Attorney Josh
Mahan of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, and
Assistant U.S. Attorney Douglas M. Miller of the Central
District of California.
The Civil Rights Division is committed to the vigorous
enforcement of every federal criminal civil rights statute, such
as the laws that prohibit the willful use of excessive force or
other acts of misconduct by law enforcement officials. The
Division has compiled a significant record on criminal civil
rights law enforcement prosecutions. In Fiscal Year 2007, the
Criminal Section convicted the highest number of defendants in
its history, surpassing the record previously set in Fiscal Year
2006. During the last seven years, the Criminal Section obtained
convictions of 53 percent more defendants (391 v. 256) in law
enforcement prosecutions than the previous seven years.
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