Former Officer Pleads Guilty to Fraud Charges
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A former Santa Monica police officer has pleaded guilty to Workers Compensation fraud, money laundering and grand theft and will begin serving a year-long jail sentence for the crimes next week.
Gabriel Saurez, a decorated 12-year veteran of the SMPD, will report to Los Angeles County Jail to begin serving his sentence on Monday as part of a plea agreement reached last week in Los Angeles County Criminal Court.
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Despite some assertions here earlier this year that this was all bogus, it now is certain that it was not. They had built a very strong case against Gabe, enough so that he felt that it was in his best interest to take a reduced plea.
Aside from the unhappy aspects of this, it will be interesting as to whether Saurez is now a "prohibited person," as it is a sentence of year (not "a year and a day"), and I understand that the charges to which he pled out were misdemeanors.
Gonna be kinda tough to earn a decent living as a "gun tactics trainer" if he cannot legally handle a firearm.