A Rialto police officer working on a drug task force and an Orange County criminal defense lawyer were in custody Monday after a federal grand jury indicted them on bribery charges of arranging for a criminal case to be dismissed.
Officer Aaron Scott Vigil, 41, of Highland, and attorney Lawrence Anthony Witsoe, 67, of Mission Viejo, surrendered to the FBI after being named in a three-count indictment that was unsealed Monday.
The indictment handed down June 1 claims Vigil, while serving as a task force officer with the Drug Enforcement Administration in Riverside, agreed to accept a $2,500 bribe.
The alleged violations are the latest scandal to hit the Rialto police.
In November, two officers quit and four others were severely disciplined after an internal investigation into allegations of sex with strip club workers at police union headquarters.
The investigation came after a waitress at the strip club made allegations of group sex, on-duty sex and other liaisons inside union headquarters and the agency's narcotics office.
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