OAKLAND — Not long ago, Morteza Amiri was seen as a rising star in the Antioch Police Department, a K9 officer known for ...

OAKLAND — Not long ago, Morteza Amiri was seen as a rising star in the Antioch Police Department, a K9 officer known for finding illegal guns and racking up dozens of bites with his “fur ...

On March 14, a federal jury found Amiri, 33, guilty of one count of deprivation of rights under color of law and one count of ...

OAKLAND — A jury has convicted ex-Antioch police officer Morteza Amiri of depriving one person of civil rights and falsifying reports but acquitted him of the remaining charges, including ...

The trial for Morteza Amiri and Devon Wenger will test the government’s contention that the two men used the power of their badges to intimidate, injure and oppress the people of the city they ...

ANTIOCH, Calif. (KGO) -- Prosecutors presented a federal jury with volumes of racist text messages sent by Antioch police officers. But when the verdict was read on Friday -- in a trial that ...

OAKLAND — A jury must now decide whether ex-Antioch police Officer Morteza Amiri gleefully conspired to prey on residents in a racist “blood for blood” campaign across the city he was sworn ...

A federal jury on Friday found Morteza Amiri guilty of depriving a person of civil rights when he illegally released his K-9 ...