4 Guilty in Oakland Officers’ Trial
A U. S. District Court jury on Friday found four former Oakland Housing Authority police officers guilty of conspiring to make false arrests and to beat and intimidate residents in a case that stemmed from the largest federal probe of a police agency in Northern California.
The former officers, members of a special anti-drug squad, were convicted of conspiring to violate the civil rights of a dozen residents of housing authority units by beatings, intimidation, the filing of false police reports and lying in their testimony against suspected drug dealers.
Jurors found the men not guilty of lesser counts involving alleged thefts. The jury was deadlocked on one theft charge in the 19-count indictment.
Convicted were Scott Dwyer, 29, of Vallejo; Daniel Broussard, 40, of Oakland; Juan Reese, 35, of Milpitas, and Larry Houston, 25, of El Cerrito.
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