The Antioch Police Department, embroiled in scandal and indictments, dragged its feet on instituting reforms such as body cams that are common elsewhere in the Bay Area.
'It seems like these three have come together and decided to be a gang, a gang of thugs, with badges and guns and launchers and a dog, and they just decided to use all these things to have fun by terrorizing people and hurting people,' former judge says.
SAN JOSE, Calif. — The allegations of brutality and bravado among Antioch police officers who shared “gory pics” and vowed “blood for blood” are spelled out over 29 pages in
Five Antioch and Pittsburg officers were just charged in an alleged scheme to make tickets go away, for bribes that allegedly included a bottle of tequila.
The Contra Costa District Attorney’s Office has charged five Antioch and Pittsburg police officers in an alleged conspiracy to drop traffic tickets in exchange for apparent bribes of food and liquor, court records filed Friday show. The documents show former Antioch police Officer Timothy Manly Williams was charged with felony counts of conspiracy to commit an act injurious to public and accepting a bribe in a 2020 case where he allegedly accepted Teremana tequila – the brand founded by actor