Ex-LAPD officer pleads no contest to perjury
Rafael Perez, the disgraced LAPD officer at the center of the Rampart corruption scandal, pleaded no contest Tuesday to perjury for lying on a driver’s license application.
He is scheduled to be sentenced Nov. 30 to three years’ probation. His plea was entered in Los Angeles County Superior Court in Torrance.
Perez was arrested in July for using the name Ray Perez on a license application in June 2005, the Department of Motor Vehicles said.
Perez, 39, has since changed his name to Ray Lopez, according to a district attorney’s office statement.
The former anti-gang officer set off the scandal by telling authorities in 1999 that Los Angeles police had planted evidence, beaten and shot suspects and framed people for crimes they did not commit. He made the allegations after his arrest for stealing cocaine from LAPD evidence facilities. He was convicted of corruption-related offenses.
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