March 2, 2006
LOS ANGELES -- Nineteen people, many of them former police officers or with police connections, have been charged with staging home robberies in Southern California to steal drugs, money and weapons, prosecutors said on Thursday.
The defendants are charged with committing more than 20 robberies and burglaries between 1999 and 2001 while posing as police officers, arriving in squad cars and wearing Los Angeles Police Department badges.
They handcuffed, threatened and assaulted their victims and in one case hit a man with a stun gun, prosecutors said. When the raids did not yield the anticipated drugs, prosecutors said, they stole any items of value, sold them and split the profits.
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