Local News in Brief : Probation for Ex-Officer
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A former Los Angeles police officer received three years’ probation and a $5,000 fine Monday, after pleading no contest to a charge of illegally applying for a disability pension.
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Robert Altman also ordered former Sgt. John Petrosky, 37, to perform 200 hours of community service after entering his plea to one felony count of attempted grand theft, said Al Albergate, spokesman for the district attorney’s office.
Petrosky, who served on the police force for 10 years, was accused of lying to the city pension board in 1983 when he reapplied for a stress disability pension. The pension had been denied in 1982 and again in 1983 after evidence was obtained that Petrosky had operated his own real estate business while on a one-year disability leave, Albergate said.
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