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He was acquitted of two additional excessive force charges, as well as a broader charge that he participated with other officers in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12030325/dog-bites-foam-bullets-and-fear-victims-testify-to-ex-antioch-officers-excessive-force\">a conspiracy to use unlawful force\u003c/a> against Antioch residents over a three-year period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amiri’s attorney, Paul Goyette, asked the court to consider an ankle monitor or other form of detention until his sentencing, saying it was likely that being jailed in Alameda County would be dangerous for him, given his status as a former police officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>White, however, said that Goyette did not meet the burden of proof to show that Amiri would be neither a flight risk nor a risk to the community if he were allowed to remain out of custody until his sentencing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12029459\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/AmiriOpening.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12029459\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/AmiriOpening.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1125\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/AmiriOpening.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/AmiriOpening-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/AmiriOpening-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/AmiriOpening-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/AmiriOpening-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/AmiriOpening-1920x1080.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Paul Goyette, defense attorney for former Antioch police officer Morteza Amiri, gives his opening statement in the federal trial against Amiri and another former Antioch officer at the U.S. District Courthouse in Oakland on March 3, 2025. Amiri, seated at lower right, faces charges that he and former officer Devon Christopher Wenger conspired to severely injure suspects over a period of three years. \u003ccite>(Vicki Behringer for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Amiri’s “stated fear of treatment by inmates that he arrested” added to his status as a flight risk, White said, but the judge added that the court informed jailers of Amiri’s former job and will “inform them that they should take appropriate measures” to ensure his safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amiri’s case stemmed from a larger \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11958522/fbi-arrests-antioch-pittsburg-police-officers-following-indictments\">police corruption scandal\u003c/a> within the Antioch and Pittsburg police departments that was made public in 2023. The federal investigation revealed a trove of racist and violent text messages sent between officers. Amiri was also convicted last year with five other officers who schemed to obtain fraudulent college degrees for a pay raise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As evidence of his risk to the community, White cited texts that Amiri sent, which included “pride over inflicting pain and sending people to the hospital” and his “use of slurs, which indicates that he dehumanizes suspects.” He also mentioned the “savagery” of the K-9 attack on Adrian Arroyo, for which Amiri was convicted of the excessive force charge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amiri’s K-9, Purcy, bit Arroyo after Amiri stopped him for riding his bicycle without any lights after dark. 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Robbins in a statement. “As today’s jury verdict makes clear, officers who put themselves above the law will be held accountable.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The case against Amiri stems from a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11958522/fbi-arrests-antioch-pittsburg-police-officers-following-indictments\">police corruption scandal\u003c/a> that became public in 2023 and implicated members of both the Antioch and Pittsburg police departments for exchanging violently racist text messages, falsifying college coursework to bump their pay and allegedly distributing steroids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amiri and two other former Antioch officers initially faced what may have been the most serious criminal charges to emerge in the case. But one officer took a plea deal, another case ended in a mistrial, and Amiri’s conviction was far more limited than the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12030325/dog-bites-foam-bullets-and-fear-victims-testify-to-ex-antioch-officers-excessive-force\">broad conspiracy prosecutors had set out to prove\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amiri’s sentencing on the two guilty counts is set for June, according to his attorney, Paul Goyette. He said the jury “got it right” when it found Amiri not guilty of conspiracy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors had presented to the jury volumes of offensive text messages as evidence that Amiri and other officers were conspiring and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11985781/antioch-police-targeted-black-people-with-dogs-and-40mm-launchers-suit-alleges\">encouraging one another to use excessive force\u003c/a>. Goyette called those texts “trash talking” among numerous colleagues in a dangerous profession.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12029521\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/IMG_5882-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12029521\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/IMG_5882-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1125\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/IMG_5882-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/IMG_5882-KQED-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/IMG_5882-KQED-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/IMG_5882-KQED-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/IMG_5882-KQED-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/IMG_5882-KQED-1920x1080.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Daniel Romo testifies on the first day of the federal trial against Morteza Amiri and Devon Christopher Wenger at the U.S. District Courthouse in Oakland on March 3, 2025. Amiri and Wenger face charges that they conspired to severely injure suspects over a period of three years. \u003ccite>(Vicki Behringer for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“What the text messages weren’t — they weren’t evidence of an agreement between Mr. Amiri and anybody to go out and violate anybody’s rights,” Goyette said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former Antioch officer Eric Rombough pleaded guilty shortly before the trial began, and he was a prominent witness in the prosecution’s case, as was another former Antioch and Pittsburg officer who pleaded guilty to charges in a separate federal case — Timothy Manly-Williams. The trial took a surprising turn two weeks ago when the judge \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12029643/bay-area-police-conspiracy-trial-shaken-up-by-mistrial-for-1-of-2-former-officers\">declared a mistrial\u003c/a> against Amiri’s co-defendant, Devon Christopher Wenger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rombough testified for the prosecution that he and Amiri encouraged each other to violently punish suspects. He testified that he lost respect for the civil rights of the people he was policing and felt “a huge sense of shame.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The single use of force for which Amiri was convicted Friday of deprivation of rights and falsifying records came on July 24, 2019, when Manly-Williams was on a ride-along with Amiri, his roommate at the time. Amiri started a conflict with a man on a bicycle, and Manly-Williams released the police dog to maul the bicyclist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12029173 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/Sacramento-Shove_Horiz.00_00_09_16.Still005-1020x574.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amiri texted colleagues that it was a “stretch” of a resisting arrest case, that he’d left information out of his official report and joked while referencing a “piece of the suspect’s flesh” hanging from the jaws of his K9.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The split verdict comes after about two days of jury deliberations, which started Wednesday. In \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12030621/police-corruption-trial-of-ex-antioch-officer-goes-to-jury-deliberations\">closing arguments\u003c/a>, the prosecution and defense presented two very different pictures of Amiri’s time at the Antioch Police Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The prosecution argued that Amiri showed a pattern of repeated excessive force, aided by his police K9, Purcy, and studded with celebrations of violent incidents in private text messages with other officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Goyette argued that the vulgar messages were cherry-picked to make his client look bad and depicted the “rough” way officers speak to each other in a stressful and desensitizing work environment. Goyette also attempted to discredit many of the prosecution’s witnesses, including people who were unhoused when they were arrested and had criminal records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amiri was \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndca/pr/antioch-police-officer-convicted-federal-jury-conspiracy-and-wire-fraud\">convicted last year\u003c/a>, along with five other officers, in a scheme to obtain fraudulent college degrees for a raise in pay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors have not indicated whether they will bring Wenger to trial again on civil rights charges. He still faces separate charges of illegally distributing steroids. A jury trial on the steroid charges is set for late April.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/kdebenedetti\">\u003cem>Katie DeBenedetti\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amiri’s sentencing on the two guilty counts is set for June, according to his attorney, Paul Goyette. He said the jury “got it right” when it found Amiri not guilty of conspiracy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors had presented to the jury volumes of offensive text messages as evidence that Amiri and other officers were conspiring and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11985781/antioch-police-targeted-black-people-with-dogs-and-40mm-launchers-suit-alleges\">encouraging one another to use excessive force\u003c/a>. Goyette called those texts “trash talking” among numerous colleagues in a dangerous profession.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12029521\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/IMG_5882-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12029521\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/IMG_5882-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1125\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/IMG_5882-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/IMG_5882-KQED-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/IMG_5882-KQED-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/IMG_5882-KQED-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/IMG_5882-KQED-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/IMG_5882-KQED-1920x1080.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Daniel Romo testifies on the first day of the federal trial against Morteza Amiri and Devon Christopher Wenger at the U.S. District Courthouse in Oakland on March 3, 2025. Amiri and Wenger face charges that they conspired to severely injure suspects over a period of three years. \u003ccite>(Vicki Behringer for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“What the text messages weren’t — they weren’t evidence of an agreement between Mr. Amiri and anybody to go out and violate anybody’s rights,” Goyette said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former Antioch officer Eric Rombough pleaded guilty shortly before the trial began, and he was a prominent witness in the prosecution’s case, as was another former Antioch and Pittsburg officer who pleaded guilty to charges in a separate federal case — Timothy Manly-Williams. The trial took a surprising turn two weeks ago when the judge \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12029643/bay-area-police-conspiracy-trial-shaken-up-by-mistrial-for-1-of-2-former-officers\">declared a mistrial\u003c/a> against Amiri’s co-defendant, Devon Christopher Wenger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rombough testified for the prosecution that he and Amiri encouraged each other to violently punish suspects. He testified that he lost respect for the civil rights of the people he was policing and felt “a huge sense of shame.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The single use of force for which Amiri was convicted Friday of deprivation of rights and falsifying records came on July 24, 2019, when Manly-Williams was on a ride-along with Amiri, his roommate at the time. Amiri started a conflict with a man on a bicycle, and Manly-Williams released the police dog to maul the bicyclist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amiri texted colleagues that it was a “stretch” of a resisting arrest case, that he’d left information out of his official report and joked while referencing a “piece of the suspect’s flesh” hanging from the jaws of his K9.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The split verdict comes after about two days of jury deliberations, which started Wednesday. In \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12030621/police-corruption-trial-of-ex-antioch-officer-goes-to-jury-deliberations\">closing arguments\u003c/a>, the prosecution and defense presented two very different pictures of Amiri’s time at the Antioch Police Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The prosecution argued that Amiri showed a pattern of repeated excessive force, aided by his police K9, Purcy, and studded with celebrations of violent incidents in private text messages with other officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Goyette argued that the vulgar messages were cherry-picked to make his client look bad and depicted the “rough” way officers speak to each other in a stressful and desensitizing work environment. Goyette also attempted to discredit many of the prosecution’s witnesses, including people who were unhoused when they were arrested and had criminal records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amiri was \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndca/pr/antioch-police-officer-convicted-federal-jury-conspiracy-and-wire-fraud\">convicted last year\u003c/a>, along with five other officers, in a scheme to obtain fraudulent college degrees for a raise in pay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors have not indicated whether they will bring Wenger to trial again on civil rights charges. He still faces separate charges of illegally distributing steroids. A jury trial on the steroid charges is set for late April.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/kdebenedetti\">\u003cem>Katie DeBenedetti\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12030325/dog-bites-foam-bullets-and-fear-victims-testify-to-ex-antioch-officers-excessive-force\">federal trial of a former Antioch police officer\u003c/a> wrapped up closing arguments on Wednesday, capping off six days of testimony that, along with hundreds of text messages, prosecutors say prove he conspired to deprive residents of their rights by using excessive force for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The case against Morteza Amiri stems from a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11958522/fbi-arrests-antioch-pittsburg-police-officers-following-indictments\">sweeping corruption scandal\u003c/a> implicating members of the Antioch and Pittsburg police departments that shook the Bay Area — and brought questions of police culture and complacency into the limelight — in 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After closing arguments, the jury will now decide whether the evidence is enough to find that Amiri conspired to violate civil rights, used unreasonable force on three specific occasions, and falsified records on one of those occasions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You saw proof beyond a reasonable doubt,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Eric Cheng said as he began the prosecution’s closing statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He rested much of the case on the testimony of Amiri’s former colleague, Eric Rombough, who pleaded guilty to separate conspiracy charges earlier this year and became a key witness for the prosecution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rombough told jurors that as he and Amiri became “the best of friends” on the job, their “proactive” policing style also took a “dark turn,” leading them to encourage each other’s use of excessive force — often aided by Amiri’s police K9, Purcy, and Rombough’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11985781/antioch-police-targeted-black-people-with-dogs-and-40mm-launchers-suit-alleges\">40-millimeter impact round launcher\u003c/a>, which fires a hard foam projectile.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This turn was in violation of the oaths that they swore as police officers and in violation of the law,” Cheng said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12029300/former-antioch-officers-face-trial-for-alleged-conspiracy-civil-rights-violations\">from February 2019 to March 2022\u003c/a>, Rombough, Amiri and former officer Devon Christopher Wenger “encouraged each other to hurt people in the community,” even when it wasn’t necessary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You heard Mr. Rombough’s testimony about this agreement,” Cheng continued. “When he was asked, ‘What was your agreement with Mr. Amiri and Mr. Wenger?’ His response was, ‘We were all on the same page that we didn’t feel the correct punishment was being issued, and we could dish out our own.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cheng also highlighted texts sent between former officers, including Amiri, Rombough and Wenger, the latter of whom faced charges in an associated case that ended in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12029643/bay-area-police-conspiracy-trial-shaken-up-by-mistrial-for-1-of-2-former-officers\">a mistrial last week\u003c/a>. While Amiri’s defense has written off the vulgar messages as the “rough” way officers speak to each other in a stressful work environment, Rombough testified otherwise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They were serious. They were not a joke. They wanted to actually use force and hurt people, even if it wasn’t necessary,” Cheng said, summarizing Rombough’s statements on the stand. “They planned on it, they talked about it, and they even set it up.”[aside postID=news_12030325 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250303-ANTIOCHPOLICE-10-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg']The messages are part of a larger trove that the FBI uncovered in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11974853/judge-finds-8-antioch-police-officers-tainted-by-racial-bias-reduces-criminal-charges\">a 2023 investigation\u003c/a> into the Antioch and Pittsburg police departments that included racist memes and notes shared among officers and directed at Antioch’s Black and Latino residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some texts that prosecutors have read into the record throughout the trial discuss the incidents involving three men Amiri is accused of having deprived of their rights through excessive force, including Daniel Romo, who testified last week that Purcy bit him in a tent in a homeless encampment that he ran into after being chased by police in 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I walked out the tent and game planned how to f— him up,” a message from Amiri to Wenger said. “Went back and did justice. Wish you were there. Inside a tent with no cams [body-worn cameras], you would have loved it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amiri said the dog “was hungry for human lol,” to which Wenger responded, “f— yes, f— that nerd.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s what f—ing happens when you run, you acquire a tax. His tax was paid properly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cheng also reviewed similar message exchanges related to the other two people on whom Amiri is accused of using unreasonable force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The celebration of injuries and pain show the motivation and purpose behind these uses of force, not legitimate police purposes, but f—ing people up for the sake of inflicting injury,” Cheng said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the prosecution rested, the defense spent the afternoon painting a starkly different picture of the hundreds of messages shared between Antioch officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorney Paul Goyette said that prosecutors were putting “cherry-picked messages” — pulled from many more sent in group chats with entire shift crews and others between two officers spanning 2019 to 2022 — under a microscope.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said that the way the officers texted was a “coping mechanism” for dealing with seeing “the worst things humans can do to other humans.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Goyette suggested that the high crime, enormous stress and desensitization officers faced contributed to an “us versus them” mentality among the department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Certainly in law enforcement, especially in the city of Antioch, but it’s also in the military,” he said. “It could be firefighters and paramedics, surgeons and ER staff, construction and industrial workers, any stressful, dangerous job. … What you’re going to get is bravado, exaggeration, dark humor, gallows humor.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12029523\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12029523\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/IMG_5881-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1125\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/IMG_5881-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/IMG_5881-KQED-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/IMG_5881-KQED-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/IMG_5881-KQED-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/IMG_5881-KQED-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/IMG_5881-KQED-1920x1080.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nicole Castronovo, defense attorney for former Antioch police officer Devon Christopher Wenger, gives her opening statement in the federal trial against Wenger and another former Antioch officer at the U.S. District Courthouse in Oakland on March 3, 2025. \u003ccite>(Vicki Behringer for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Goyette told the jury that the text messages sent were not accurate, factual or an admission of excessive force — they were personal communications sent “in the heat of the moment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also took aim at the witnesses the prosecution leaned on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you decide that a witness has deliberately testified untruthfully about something important, you may choose not to believe anything that witness said,” Goyette told the jurors, targeting the testimony of Adrian Arroyo, who was bitten by Purcy in 2019 — a case that Amiri is accused of falsifying the police report about.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arroyo, who Goyette said has a “long history of criminal activity … of drug use,” testified that federal investigators had given him puppy urine pads at one point ahead of the trial but that he had not asked for them specifically.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s one of the probably many things he asked for that the government provided to him,” Goyette said. “He lied to you about something like that, which you might look at and go … ‘It really doesn’t matter.’ Yes, it does because it’s a reward. It’s an incentive to come in here and testify.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Goyette also emphasized the three dog bite victims’ history of drug use. He alleged that Romo’s testimony was riddled with lies and accused the third witness, Mason Zeigler, of “role-playing with FBI this week.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s called telling the witness what to say,” Goyette said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regarding the text messages, Goyette argued that while they were “not politically correct, [and] they certainly can be viewed as unprofessional,” they didn’t violate the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Maybe officers need to be counseled, disciplined, maybe need to be fired … but whether you laugh or are offended by it, [they] are not a crime,” Goyette said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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Inside a tent with no cams [body-worn cameras], you would have loved it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amiri said the dog “was hungry for human lol,” to which Wenger responded, “f— yes, f— that nerd.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s what f—ing happens when you run, you acquire a tax. His tax was paid properly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cheng also reviewed similar message exchanges related to the other two people on whom Amiri is accused of using unreasonable force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The celebration of injuries and pain show the motivation and purpose behind these uses of force, not legitimate police purposes, but f—ing people up for the sake of inflicting injury,” Cheng said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the prosecution rested, the defense spent the afternoon painting a starkly different picture of the hundreds of messages shared between Antioch officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorney Paul Goyette said that prosecutors were putting “cherry-picked messages” — pulled from many more sent in group chats with entire shift crews and others between two officers spanning 2019 to 2022 — under a microscope.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said that the way the officers texted was a “coping mechanism” for dealing with seeing “the worst things humans can do to other humans.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Goyette suggested that the high crime, enormous stress and desensitization officers faced contributed to an “us versus them” mentality among the department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Certainly in law enforcement, especially in the city of Antioch, but it’s also in the military,” he said. “It could be firefighters and paramedics, surgeons and ER staff, construction and industrial workers, any stressful, dangerous job. … What you’re going to get is bravado, exaggeration, dark humor, gallows humor.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12029523\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12029523\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/IMG_5881-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1125\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/IMG_5881-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/IMG_5881-KQED-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/IMG_5881-KQED-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/IMG_5881-KQED-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/IMG_5881-KQED-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/IMG_5881-KQED-1920x1080.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nicole Castronovo, defense attorney for former Antioch police officer Devon Christopher Wenger, gives her opening statement in the federal trial against Wenger and another former Antioch officer at the U.S. District Courthouse in Oakland on March 3, 2025. \u003ccite>(Vicki Behringer for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Goyette told the jury that the text messages sent were not accurate, factual or an admission of excessive force — they were personal communications sent “in the heat of the moment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also took aim at the witnesses the prosecution leaned on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you decide that a witness has deliberately testified untruthfully about something important, you may choose not to believe anything that witness said,” Goyette told the jurors, targeting the testimony of Adrian Arroyo, who was bitten by Purcy in 2019 — a case that Amiri is accused of falsifying the police report about.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arroyo, who Goyette said has a “long history of criminal activity … of drug use,” testified that federal investigators had given him puppy urine pads at one point ahead of the trial but that he had not asked for them specifically.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s one of the probably many things he asked for that the government provided to him,” Goyette said. “He lied to you about something like that, which you might look at and go … ‘It really doesn’t matter.’ Yes, it does because it’s a reward. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 3:30 p.m. Thursday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A federal judge in Oakland declared a mistrial Wednesday against one of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12029300/former-antioch-officers-face-trial-for-alleged-conspiracy-civil-rights-violations\">two former Antioch police officers charged with conspiracy\u003c/a> as part of a major police corruption scandal that shook the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Devon Christopher Wenger was in court this week alongside Morteza Amiri to face charges that they repeatedly used unlawful and excessive force as part of a three-year conspiracy to violate civil rights. On the third day of trial, however, Judge Jeffrey S. White announced that the case against Wenger would not continue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ruling came after White took the courtroom into closed-door proceedings, ordering everyone but the attorneys and defendants out just minutes after the day began. The court’s order was sealed, providing little information about the reason for the mistrial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the charges against Wenger — including a constitutional violation involving the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11985781/antioch-police-targeted-black-people-with-dogs-and-40mm-launchers-suit-alleges\">unreasonable use of a 40-millimeter impact launcher\u003c/a> — have not been dismissed, U.S. attorneys presiding over the case will need to refile against Wenger if they want his case to be heard, said his attorney, Nicole Castronovo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amiri’s case will continue independently and is presumed to be unaffected by Wenger’s mistrial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12029717\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12029717\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250303-ANTIOCHPOLICE-01-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250303-ANTIOCHPOLICE-01-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250303-ANTIOCHPOLICE-01-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250303-ANTIOCHPOLICE-01-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250303-ANTIOCHPOLICE-01-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250303-ANTIOCHPOLICE-01-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250303-ANTIOCHPOLICE-01-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Antioch Police Department in Antioch on March 3, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It was an unexpected outcome,” Castronovo told KQED. “The way the media ran with him and the optics and dynamics of how this whole Antioch story unfolded, it was a very difficult case to present because of that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. attorney’s office declined to comment on the mistrial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Castronovo said she could not comment on why the judge ordered a mistrial. However, in a court filing Wednesday, White said that Wenger’s attorney had “made an oral motion for mistrial based upon her inability to provide effective representation.” Amiri’s attorney then asked to sever the trial so that the case against his client could still proceed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both motions were granted “for the reasons stated under seal” in a separate filing, White wrote. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an earlier order filed Tuesday to Bill Seki, a founding partner at the law firm representing Wenger, White wrote that Castronovo was unable to keep up with the pace of the trial and was falling behind in complying with court orders. Several times during the trial, Castronovo complained about not having access to certain materials presented by the prosecution and was admonished by White for “meandering” during her cross-examination of witnesses and for being otherwise ill prepared. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Castronovo also accused prosecutors Monday of violating a previous court order when they moved to submit messages that Wenger sent Amiri into evidence, an objection that was repeatedly overruled by White. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Although the Court notes that thus far [Castronovo] has effectively represented her client, the Court is concerned that she has been unable to work with the Court and counsel to administer this trial effectively, which could potentially affect the completion of the trial and inconvenience the Court and jury,” White wrote in his filing to Seki. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>White ordered Seki to provide Castronovo with more support in her defense of Wenger, which Seki said he was “unable to do” because of the firm’s recent reorganization. He and Castronovo are the only attorneys within the firm with criminal law experience, Seki said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A response filed Tuesday by White declared Seki’s explanation insufficient, and the judge ordered that the firm provide Castronovo with additional help immediately. Seki responded that a paralegal would be sent into Oakland the next day to assist Castronovo. An investigator familiar with the case and another associate in the firm would also be made available as the trial progressed. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By Wednesday, however, White officially declared the proceedings involving Wenger a mistrial. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Castronovo said she could not comment on the filings between White and Seki, citing the court’s sealed order, and added that she could not confirm whether the concerns in the filings are related to White’s decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of the evidence against them, Wenger and Amiri were accused of exchanging graphic and racist text messages about the use of force and suspects. They were among at least 14 Antioch officers and supervisors found to have sent such messages to one another, according to a report by the Contra Costa District Attorney’s Office that was spurred by an FBI investigation into \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11947876/antioch-police-racist-texting-scandal-confirms-what-many-black-and-brown-residents-have-decried-for-years\">the racist text scandal\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the trial, prosecutors read aloud from several of the text messages exchanged between Wenger and Amiri, many of which specifically pertained to Amiri’s use of his K9 to maul suspects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12029444 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Amiri-Opening_KQED-1020x574.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assistant U.S. Attorney Alexandra Shepard said during her opening statements on Monday that the messages between Amiri and Wenger showed the two conspiring and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12029444/ex-antioch-officers-corruption-trial-begins\">encouraging each other to hurt Antioch civilians\u003c/a> without cause.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to get into something tonight bro!!!! Let’s go 3 nights in a row dog bite,” Wenger texted Amiri in one of the messages Shepard read to the jury.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Castronovo, the messages that prosecutors showed the jury were “cherry-picked” and were not enough to demonstrate a conspiracy between Amiri and Wenger to hurt people. Being in law enforcement is a stressful job, and officers will speak “rough” as a way of coping, she said during her opening statements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amiri and Wenger were not present at each other’s alleged use-of-force incidents, Castronovo said, calling prosecutors’ decision to present their cases as if they were misleading.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s always difficult to represent a police client as a defendant, especially in areas where the police are especially unpopular,” Castronovo said. “I just hope that should this matter be refiled, that the truth, [Wenger’s] innocence and how good he is will come across.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The case against Wenger and Amiri is part of a larger \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11958522/fbi-arrests-antioch-pittsburg-police-officers-following-indictments\">federal investigation into the Antioch Police Department\u003c/a>. Two other former police officers, Eric Rombough and Timothy Allen Manly Williams, were also charged amid the several allegations of misconduct facing the police force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rombough took a plea deal earlier this year and was expected to be a key witness for prosecutors. Manley, who is charged with communicating with the target of a wiretap investigation and unlawfully tampering with a witness’ cellphone, is also on the list of witnesses the prosecutors may call as part of their remaining case against Amiri.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although a mistrial was declared in the conspiracy case against Wenger, he also faces charges of illegally distributing steroids in a separate case to be tried in April.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/shossaini\">Sara Hossaini\u003c/a> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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Several times during the trial, Castronovo complained about not having access to certain materials presented by the prosecution and was admonished by White for “meandering” during her cross-examination of witnesses and for being otherwise ill prepared. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Castronovo also accused prosecutors Monday of violating a previous court order when they moved to submit messages that Wenger sent Amiri into evidence, an objection that was repeatedly overruled by White. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Although the Court notes that thus far [Castronovo] has effectively represented her client, the Court is concerned that she has been unable to work with the Court and counsel to administer this trial effectively, which could potentially affect the completion of the trial and inconvenience the Court and jury,” White wrote in his filing to Seki. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>White ordered Seki to provide Castronovo with more support in her defense of Wenger, which Seki said he was “unable to do” because of the firm’s recent reorganization. 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They face several additional charges alleging specific constitutional violations involving \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11985781/antioch-police-targeted-black-people-with-dogs-and-40mm-launchers-suit-alleges\">unreasonable use of a police K9 and a 40-millimeter impact round launcher\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They planned to hurt people, they encouraged each other to hurt people, then they went out to hurt people who didn’t deserve it,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Alexandra Shepard told the jury assembled in federal court in Oakland. “The acts in this trial were criminal, unreasonable, unjustified and unlawful. And as you will see, they were planned.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A third officer, Eric Rombough, took a plea deal a little over a month ago, and he’s now expected to be a key witness for the prosecution. Shepard mentioned Rombough’s hobby of collecting spent impact round shells he’d fired at people on his fireplace mantel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They planned to use force even when it wasn’t necessary,” Shepard told the jury, adding that the officers celebrated it by exchanging photographs of the damage they caused.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She read out loud directly from texts the officers exchanged, according to evidence prosecutors intend to introduce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12029459\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12029459\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/AmiriOpening.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1125\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/AmiriOpening.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/AmiriOpening-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/AmiriOpening-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/AmiriOpening-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/AmiriOpening-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/AmiriOpening-1920x1080.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Paul Goyette, defense attorney for former Antioch police officer Morteza Amiri, gives his opening statement in the federal trial against Amiri and another former Antioch officer at the U.S. District Courthouse in Oakland on March 3, 2025. Amiri, seated at lower right, faces charges that he and former officer Devon Christopher Wenger conspired to severely injure suspects over a period of three years. \u003ccite>(Vicki Behringer for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Gory pics are for personal stuff,” she read from one of Amiri’s texts, referencing gruesome injuries inflicted by his K9. “Cleaned up for the case.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Describing the dog attack of Daniel Romo in 2020, Amiri texted: “Bro, we saw him laying in bed just acting like he was asleep. I walked out of the tent and game planned how to f— him up,” Shepard read to the jury. “Went back and did justice.” The prosecution displayed a photo of about two dozen shred-like lacerations under Romo’s shoulder blade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to the federal corruption case built on officers’ text messages, Amiri, Wenger and Rombough were among at least 14 Antioch officers and supervisors found to have \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11947876/antioch-police-racist-texting-scandal-confirms-what-many-black-and-brown-residents-have-decried-for-years\">swapped racist texts\u003c/a>, according to a report by the Contra Costa District Attorney’s Office that was released independent of the FBI investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the first defense opening statement, Amiri’s attorney, Paul Goyette, described a somewhat casual culture in the Antioch Police Department, where officers were encouraged to communicate with each other in group text messages on their personal phones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12029300 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/AntiochPoliceDepartmentAP-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These texts are … a bunch of trash-talking that doesn’t connect up in any shape or form with arrests made,” Goyette said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Goyette defended Amiri’s use of his K9, Purcy, noting that well over 90% of the time Purcy was deployed, no one was bitten. “The prosecution wants you to believe that Morteza Amiri and Purcy were on a feeding frenzy, feeding on the people of Antioch,” Goyette said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also told the jury no complaint was filed over the use of the K9 against Romo, which he said Amiri used as a safer alternative for officers after Romo fled and hid in a homeless encampment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wenger’s attorney, Nicole Castronovo, told the jury that prosecutors had “cherry-picked” officers’ text messages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amiri, Wenger and Rombough were not there for each other’s uses of force highlighted in the case, she said. “Yet the government put them all together as if they planned these things and planned these events, based off texts with no context.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The trial, expected to last about three weeks, is related to several other federal prosecutions spawned from the same sprawling \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11958522/fbi-arrests-antioch-pittsburg-police-officers-following-indictments\">investigation into the Antioch Police Department\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another former Antioch officer, Timothy Allen Manly Williams, is charged with communicating with the target of a wiretap investigation and unlawfully seizing and destroying a witness’ cellphone. 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Rombough recently pleaded guilty, and he may become a crucial witness for the prosecution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://law.stanford.edu/robert-weisberg/\">Robert Weisberg\u003c/a>, a professor of criminal law at Stanford University, said it is “very unusual” for police to be prosecuted in something other than a single incident that resulted in someone’s death. When presented to jurors — who are often sympathetic to police — those cases are often framed in life-or-death, self-defense scenarios, he said. In contrast, the charges against Amiri and Wenger are about systemic abuse of people’s rights, and they stem back to the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If racist police in the South attacked civil rights workers or attacked Black citizens just out of racist proclivities — where you could not expect the state criminal authorities to intervene — these were the laws,” Weisberg said. “These criminal laws here are not like some newfangled technicality. They are very much embedded in American history.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/09/10/exclusive-fbi-criminal-investigation-of-antioch-pittsburg-cops-grows-grand-jury-convening/\">FBI was investigating\u003c/a> alleged criminal activity by Antioch police, they uncovered a trove of \u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2023/07/15/im-already-good-at-racial-profiling-new-batch-of-antioch-cops-texts-show-how-much-racism-and-policing-intertwined/\">racist and misogynistic text messages\u003c/a> shared among officers in the department and some in Pittsburg.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A report from the Contra Costa County District Attorney’s Office named 14 \u003ca href=\"https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/23778279/disclosure-report-court-redactions-final.pdf\">Antioch officers\u003c/a> — sergeants, detectives and supervisors, including Wenger, Amiri and Rombough — who sent those racist memes and texts directed at Black and Latino Antioch residents, including then-Police Chief Steven Ford and former Mayor Lamar Thorpe. About half of the department’s officers received the messages, yet none reported it to superiors or outside authorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the indictment was unsealed, about 20% of all Antioch officers were put on administrative leave. The scandal \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11946551/antiochs-racist-police-text-message-scandal-could-mean-dropped-charges-in-other-cases\">upended criminal cases\u003c/a>, resulted in several protests, and provided evidence for what \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11947876/antioch-police-racist-texting-scandal-confirms-what-many-black-and-brown-residents-have-decried-for-years\">many residents had alleged for years\u003c/a>: A culture that tolerated excessive force and racism was spread throughout the Antioch Police Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eventually, \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/authorities-charge-10-current-and-former-california-police-officers-in-corruption-case\">10 officers would face charges of corruption\u003c/a>, ranging from faking college degrees to distributing steroids, in addition to the alleged civil rights violations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.lls.edu/faculty/facultylistl-r/lauriellevenson/\">Laurie Levenson\u003c/a>, a law professor at Loyola Law School, said “a major police corruption case” like this one is “relatively rare and they’re not easy to win.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In this particular case, what might be the greatest help to the prosecutors are other officers who have pled guilty and agreed to cooperate,” Levenson said, “because in order to win these cases, you often need an insider who explains what kind of misconduct was going on with the police and that they were acting intentionally. That’s the type of evidence that jurors will pay attention to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In January, Rombough \u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2025/01/14/ex-antioch-officer-admits-conspiring-to-injure-oppress-threaten-and-intimidate-the-people-of-antioch/\">pleaded guilty\u003c/a> to one count of conspiracy and two counts of deprivation of rights under the color of the law, admitting that he and other Antioch officers used premeditated violence, failed to report uses of force and then falsified police reports. Rombough’s plea deal includes a provision that he could receive leniency for cooperating with prosecutors, and a status conference in his case is scheduled for April 22, after Amiri and Wenger’s trial could be concluded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amiri and Wenger are charged with one count of conspiracy “to injure, oppress, threaten, and intimidate residents of Antioch, California.” Wenger faces one count of deprivation of rights under the color of law for a specific incident, while Amiri faces four such counts, along with a single count of destructing, altering and falsifying records in a federal investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the heart of the trial are the text messages between Amiri, Wenger, Rombough and several unnamed officers that suggest they celebrated using violence on the people of Antioch with racist language.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not long after he was hired by Antioch police in 2017, Amiri was partnered with a K9 service dog named Purcy, who prosecutors allege he commanded to bite at least 28 people in Antioch, sharing graphic photos of the injuries the dog inflicted with other officers and keeping an ongoing tally of them as they occurred.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ill bite em,” Amiri texted Wenger and Rombough on April 21, 2019, after a suspect fled, according to the indictment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In July 2019, while his roommate — an officer at another department — was with him for a ride-along, Amiri set Purcy on a person for not having a light on their bike at night. Amiri sent several officers a bloodied photo of the person on a gurney in an ambulance, and Rombough replied, “yeah buddy good boy purcy” and “fuck that turd,” the indictment states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When one officer asked what cut the dog’s face, Amiri allegedly replied, “that’s a piece of the suspect’s flesh lol.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The indictment includes several instances where Wenger and Rombough thanked Amiri for “biting” a suspect, including instances where they sought out interactions with citizens so the dog could bite them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“imagine fat ass purcy on your fucking throat [smiling crying emoji]” Amiri texted Rombough on Nov. 26, 2021, after sharing a bloody picture from his body camera of a woman Purcy bit, according to the indictment.[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11985781,news_11986351,news_11974853\"]“That’s perfect I love it,” Rombough allegedly responded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“i shit myself when i saw that,” Amiri allegedly replied. “i thought he was gonna kill her.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rombough’s reply included a racial epithet remarking on the woman being Black.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rombough was on APD’s SWAT team, gang unit and now-disbanded Problem-Oriented Policing, or POP, team and was charged with using a 40mm less-lethal launcher to shoot at least 11 people in a span of nine months ending in August 2021. Rombough allegedly collected the spent rounds and displayed them on the mantle of his home to create the stars and stripes of the American flag.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We just have to find a way to finish your flag!!!” an unnamed officer texted Rombough in March 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know challenge accepted,” Rombough allegedly replied.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The indictment also alleges that Amiri, Wenger and Rombough didn’t report or attempted to cover up their unjustified uses of violence. Text messages suggest the three said in their reports that the suspects were resisting to justify their uses of violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another Antioch officer, Timothy Allen Manly Williams, was indicted on three charges in separate federal prosecution developed from the same broad investigation. The first two charges stem from allegedly calling the target of a wiretap investigation he was monitoring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The third charge stems from May 6, 2021, when Manly witnessed a bystander record an unnamed K9 officer biting a suspect under arrest. Manly “seized the witness’s telephone and destroyed it,” prosecutors say. Manly’s case is ongoing, and prosecutors listed him as a witness they expect to call against Amiri and Wenger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amiri has already been convicted of a crime in relation to what federal investigators learned after seizing phones from Antioch and Pittsburg officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“can i hire you [ ] to do my … classes? ill pay you per class,” federal prosecutors alleged that Amiri texted another person. “don’t tell a soul about me hiring you for this. we can’t afford it getting leaked and me losing my job.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was the \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndca/pr/antioch-police-officer-convicted-federal-jury-conspiracy-and-wire-fraud\">last of six officers\u003c/a> to be found guilty of paying someone else to complete an online degree in his name so he could receive a pay raise. Samantha Peterson of the Antioch Police Department was also found guilty, as well as Patrick Berhan, Amanda Theodosy, Ernesto Mejia-Orozco, and Brauli Rodriguez Jalapa of the Pittsburg Police Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wenger was also one of \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndca/pr/antioch-and-pittsburg-police-officers-and-employee-charged-various-crimes-ranging\">two Antioch officers\u003c/a> charged with illegally distributing anabolic steroids, as well as trying to delete evidence from his phone before handing it over to investigators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His co-defendant, Daniel Harris, pleaded guilty to possession and conspiracy to distribute anabolic steroids as part of a plea agreement in September.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A jury trial on those charges is set for April 28.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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They are very much embedded in American history.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/09/10/exclusive-fbi-criminal-investigation-of-antioch-pittsburg-cops-grows-grand-jury-convening/\">FBI was investigating\u003c/a> alleged criminal activity by Antioch police, they uncovered a trove of \u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2023/07/15/im-already-good-at-racial-profiling-new-batch-of-antioch-cops-texts-show-how-much-racism-and-policing-intertwined/\">racist and misogynistic text messages\u003c/a> shared among officers in the department and some in Pittsburg.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A report from the Contra Costa County District Attorney’s Office named 14 \u003ca href=\"https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/23778279/disclosure-report-court-redactions-final.pdf\">Antioch officers\u003c/a> — sergeants, detectives and supervisors, including Wenger, Amiri and Rombough — who sent those racist memes and texts directed at Black and Latino Antioch residents, including then-Police Chief Steven Ford and former Mayor Lamar Thorpe. About half of the department’s officers received the messages, yet none reported it to superiors or outside authorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the indictment was unsealed, about 20% of all Antioch officers were put on administrative leave. The scandal \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11946551/antiochs-racist-police-text-message-scandal-could-mean-dropped-charges-in-other-cases\">upended criminal cases\u003c/a>, resulted in several protests, and provided evidence for what \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11947876/antioch-police-racist-texting-scandal-confirms-what-many-black-and-brown-residents-have-decried-for-years\">many residents had alleged for years\u003c/a>: A culture that tolerated excessive force and racism was spread throughout the Antioch Police Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eventually, \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/authorities-charge-10-current-and-former-california-police-officers-in-corruption-case\">10 officers would face charges of corruption\u003c/a>, ranging from faking college degrees to distributing steroids, in addition to the alleged civil rights violations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.lls.edu/faculty/facultylistl-r/lauriellevenson/\">Laurie Levenson\u003c/a>, a law professor at Loyola Law School, said “a major police corruption case” like this one is “relatively rare and they’re not easy to win.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In this particular case, what might be the greatest help to the prosecutors are other officers who have pled guilty and agreed to cooperate,” Levenson said, “because in order to win these cases, you often need an insider who explains what kind of misconduct was going on with the police and that they were acting intentionally. That’s the type of evidence that jurors will pay attention to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In January, Rombough \u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2025/01/14/ex-antioch-officer-admits-conspiring-to-injure-oppress-threaten-and-intimidate-the-people-of-antioch/\">pleaded guilty\u003c/a> to one count of conspiracy and two counts of deprivation of rights under the color of the law, admitting that he and other Antioch officers used premeditated violence, failed to report uses of force and then falsified police reports. Rombough’s plea deal includes a provision that he could receive leniency for cooperating with prosecutors, and a status conference in his case is scheduled for April 22, after Amiri and Wenger’s trial could be concluded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amiri and Wenger are charged with one count of conspiracy “to injure, oppress, threaten, and intimidate residents of Antioch, California.” Wenger faces one count of deprivation of rights under the color of law for a specific incident, while Amiri faces four such counts, along with a single count of destructing, altering and falsifying records in a federal investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the heart of the trial are the text messages between Amiri, Wenger, Rombough and several unnamed officers that suggest they celebrated using violence on the people of Antioch with racist language.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not long after he was hired by Antioch police in 2017, Amiri was partnered with a K9 service dog named Purcy, who prosecutors allege he commanded to bite at least 28 people in Antioch, sharing graphic photos of the injuries the dog inflicted with other officers and keeping an ongoing tally of them as they occurred.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ill bite em,” Amiri texted Wenger and Rombough on April 21, 2019, after a suspect fled, according to the indictment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In July 2019, while his roommate — an officer at another department — was with him for a ride-along, Amiri set Purcy on a person for not having a light on their bike at night. 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That same morning, they also raided two other homes on the block, filling a dump truck with about $1 million worth of weed cultivated by unlicensed growers. Whether the three houses are connected is still under investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency follows up on anonymous tips to identify illicit cannabis operations, which is how officers found Liu’s house in Antioch. Agents surveyed the property and identified an excessively high use of electric power from the home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12002851\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12002851\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/OPDOfficerGrowHouse2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/OPDOfficerGrowHouse2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/OPDOfficerGrowHouse2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/OPDOfficerGrowHouse2-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/OPDOfficerGrowHouse2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/OPDOfficerGrowHouse2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/OPDOfficerGrowHouse2-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Officers used a power saw to cut through a reinforced steel door during a raid on April 30, 2024, of a marijuana grow house owned by Oakland Police Officer Samson Liu. \u003ccite>(Courtesy California Department of Cannabis Control)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>However, DCC officers didn’t realize Liu was an Oakland police officer until they began their investigation, and they notified the Oakland Police Department on the day of the raid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for the Oakland Police Department told KQED on Tuesday that Liu was placed on administrative leave effective April 30 and said the matter is still under investigation, declining to provide further details. Liu’s Oakland Police Department salary in 2023 was $137,239.46, with an additional $157,814.37 in overtime, according to watchdog site Transparent California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although California voters legalized adult consumption of marijuana in 2016, illegal pot is still big business. The benefits of participating in the underground economy are obvious.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s just lucrative. It’s a cash business,” Smith said. “You don’t have to pay any taxes. You don’t have to pay any overhead. A lot of the individuals that are brought in for labor are being taken advantage of, and therefore [growers] have really low overhead, and they can make a lot of money.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12002332 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/BontaCannabis2-1020x608.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Smith and investigators are not sure why the Contra Costa area in particular has become a hotbed of illegal indoor cultivation. A recent CNN investigation that first reported Liu’s connection to the home raided in April found that Antioch has had the second-most marijuana raids in the state, just after Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t know if it’s just ease of getting into the market, lots of new houses, or if there’s something else going on,” Smith said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Illegal cultivation can pose high risks for consumers and for neighbors of underground grow operations. “There’s the local risk of fire because they’re pulling so much power that they’re overloading and they’re usually bypassing the meters and the safeties on the house,” Smith said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Additionally, because they’re not regulated, growers are using all kinds of illegal pesticides and things that are hazardous to individuals who may consume them. 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