Officer faces retrial in arrest report case

One of the four police officers charged with falsifying documents to get more overtime is scheduled to be retried in Circuit Court on Sept. 19.

Initially, the charges against Sgt. Duke Zoller were dismissed in May when Circuit Judge Edward Kubo determined the case had taken too long to go to trial. Kubo, however, allowed prosecutors to refile the case.

At his arraignment Monday, Zoller’s attorney, Richard Wurdeman, entered a plea of not guilty, and Zoller’s case was assigned to Kubo.

Kubo had also dismissed the charges against Sgt. Aaron Bernal and officers Christopher and Patrick Bugarin.

The four have been charged again and are accused of putting the names of the two sergeants on arrest reports to show that they were at DUI checkpoints when they actually weren’t so that they could increase the chances of gaining overtime later if defendants challenged the arrests in court.