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Long Beach, CA

Damian Ramos given credit for time served, on pro­ba­tion for three years

LOS ANGELES — A for­mer Long Beach police offi­cer who pleaded no con­test to an embez­zle­ment charge was sen­tenced Wednes­day to a year in jail.

Los Ange­les Supe­rior Court Judge Dorothy B. Reyes gave Damian Ramos, 33, credit for 190 days he has already served behind bars, which means he will not serve any more time because of good-time and work-time credits.

Ramos, how­ever, was also placed on three years probation.

Ramos, who was on the force for five years, pleaded no con­test on Feb. 10 to one count of embez­zle­ment by a pub­lic officer.

Ramos was charged last August after tak­ing four firearms that were to be booked as prop­erty. Two firearms were recov­ered, the other two remain miss­ing, said Shiara Davila-Morales, a Los Ange­les County Dis­trict Attorney’s spokeswoman.

In a state­ment released by the LBPD at the time of Ramos’ the depart­ment noted an inter­nal inves­ti­ga­tion was launched after a “busi­ness turned over numer­ous weapons to Ramos. How­ever, the depart­ment dis­cov­ered that not all of the weapons had been placed into evidence.”

Fel­low for­mer Long Beach Police offi­cer Der­rick Dins­more was also arrested in con­nec­tion with the case and went to trial ear­lier this month.

Dins­more was acquit­ted May 17 on two crim­i­nal counts, with the jury delib­er­at­ing less than two hours before arriv­ing at their verdict.

He was charged with one felony count of receiv­ing stolen prop­erty and one mis­de­meanor count of petty theft.

Ramos was orig­i­nally charged with 13 felony counts but in the plea nego­ti­a­tion the charge was dropped to a sin­gle count.

Because Ramos pleaded to a non-serious, non-violent felony offense he received one day of credit time for each day already served in county jail, mean­ing that his entire sen­tence has already been served, Davila-Morales explained. 

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