Crooked Cop Cops Plea

District Attorney Jan Scully announced today that 27-year-old Brandon Mullock, a former Sacramento Police Officer, pled no contest to four felony charges, one count of perjury and three counts of filing false police reports.

Mullock resigned from the police force in August of 2010. In September 2010, after discovering Mullock had written police reports with ignificant inaccuracies compared to the actual events as recorded by the in-car video camera, the District Attorney’s Office dismissed 79 cases where Mullock was the principle officer/witness, most involving DUI arrests. In 73 ofthe cases, there had already been convictions,which were recalledand set aside.

Working with the Sacramento Police Department, the District Attorney then proceeded with an investigation focused on whether Mullock should be charged with any crimes. That investigation found that Mullock’s material false statements included: that DUIsuspects refused to do certain field sobriety tests when they had not in fact refused (in some cases, there had not even been an attempt to administer thetests); that the DUI suspects staggered or slurred their speech when they did not; and that the DUI suspect smade incriminating statements about their intoxication when they did not. One of the more egregious false statements involved a case where the passenger in a DUI suspect’s car admitted that marijuana found in the car was his.

Mullock arrested the DUI suspect for possession of the marijuana and wrote in his police report that all the passenger said to Mullock was,“I don’t speak to the fuzz, man.”

Criminal prosecution of Mullock began in May 2011. He was ultimately charged with 33 counts of perjury and filing false reports by a peace officer, arising out of 23 separatecases. As part of entering his no contest plea, Mullockagreed the charges being dismissed can be considered by the judge in deciding what his sentence should be.

Mullock faces up to five years in prison, will be a convicted felon, and will never be able to work as a peace officer again. Sentencing is scheduled for April 19, 2013 at 9:00 a.m. in Superior Court Department 19 before the Honorable Patrick Marlette.