2 Rialto police officers resign, 4 disciplined amid sex scandal investigation
Two Rialto police officers have quit and four others have been severely disciplined after an internal probe was completed into allegations they had sex with strip club workers at police union headquarters, the chief said Friday.
The announcement is the latest chapter in a scandal that has sullied the image of the Rialto Police Department since allegations of group sex, on-duty sex and liaisons inside union headquarters and the agency's narcotics office by a waitress at the strip club became public this summer.
The waitress at the Spearmint Rhino Gentleman's Club in Rialto, Nancy Holtgreve, is suing the city for $500,000, alleging the department violated her civil rights after her relationship with one officer soured when she got pregnant by him, and the officer began threatening her.
Rialto Police Chief Mark Kling said the actions taken by the department reached far beyond the two officers identified by Holtgreve and showed how seriously they pursued the sexual misconduct probe. Kling said the two officers’ resignations came as the department was pursuing their terminations.
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