Ex-police officer in Calif. gets 15 years for taking drugs, supplying to others

Ex-police officer gets 15 years in drug case

LOS ANGELES — A former police officer in Southern California has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for taking narcotics from drug traffickers and peddling the drugs to other dealers.

Alvaro Murillo was sentenced Monday in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles, four months after being convicted of two drug conspiracies, one count of extortion and one count of submitting a false tax return.

Murillo was accused of using his position on a federal drug task force to recruit informants in the drug world and have them help him steal narcotics from dealers and traffickers.

A second man in the case, Alberto Del Real-Gallardo, pleaded guilty to drug conspiracy.

Murillo, a former sergeant, was suspended from the Huntington Park force in 2006.