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Four federal indictments charge 10 police officers from two different police departments, Antioch and Pittsburg, with multiple crimes including excessive force, fraud, distributing anabolic steroids and falsifying police reports.
Mykaella Elizabeth Sharlman was allegedly mutilated and burned by two men in California, but prosecutors dropped the case because of a scandal in the Antioch Police Department.
The two men accused of burning a woman's body in Antioch last year will not stand trial after the Contra Costa County District Attorney's determined the case was tainted too much by officers involved in the Antioch Police Department's racist texting scandal.