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July 24, 2009

LAFD Inspector Accused of Soliciting, Accepting Bribes

LOS ANGELES – A Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD) inspector has been charged by the District Attorney’s Public Integrity Division (PID) with soliciting and accepting bribes from operators of small nursing care facilities run out of private homes in the San Fernando Valley.

The charges against 58-year-old Dennis Martin Archie, filed yesterday in a felony complaint for arrest warrant, were disclosed by the District Attorney’s office today. Archie, who is suspended without pay from the LAFD, is scheduled to appear for arraignment tomorrow in Department 30 of Los Angeles Superior Court.

Case No. BA 359002 alleged that Archie accepted or solicited bribes ranging from $500 to $2,000 from seven victims in 2008 and this year. He was charged with four felony counts of accepting a bribe and four felony counts of soliciting a bribe. Bail was recommended at $200,000.

Deputy District Attorney Gary A. Nielsen, the PID prosecutor handling the case, said Archie, a career firefighter, had been assigned to the San Fernando Valley as a fire inspector. He worked out of the Van Nuys office and part of his job was to inspect small nursing homes for the elderly that were operated out of private homes.

Authorities said some operators paid him in exchange for clearances and some did not. The victims operate homes in Reseda, Northridge, Winnetka, Burbank, Chatsworth and West Hills.

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