He was caught with cocaine and now he's setting up innocent officers to save himself. Perez began cooperating with authorities as part of a plea bargain after he was caught stealing cocaine from a police locker. The district attorney's office is still investigating his allegations and Deputy Dist. Over defense objections, he gave the prosecution the standard two weeks to file a new charging document, called an information, and scheduled re-arraignment of the defendants for July 31. Last week, the supervising criminal court judge, Larry P. Fidler, told the defendants he would grant a motion to disqualify the entire bench because one of the new charges involves Sgts.
Defense attorneys face no deadline in making their disqualification decision.
The fourth officer charged in the case is Paul Harper.