PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Three of the four defendants in an alleged bribery scam involving a police dispatcher and several tow-truck operators pleaded not guilty to the charges against them.
The Philadelphia Daily News (https://bit.ly/1jQIjOp) said Dorian Parsley, William Cheeseman and Stepfon Flowers entered the not-guilty pleas at their arraignments in federal court Wednesday.
Parsley is a civilian police dispatcher who has since been suspended from the police department with intent to dismiss.
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FBI and Philadelphia police investigators say she took cash bribes of $100 to $200 a week from the tow-truck operators and in exchange tipped them off to locations of accidents or abandoned cars.
Cheeseman is an owner of a Philadelphia auto-body shop allegedly involved in the scheme. Harris and Flowers are tow-truck operators who occasionally worked for Cheeseman.
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Information from: The Philadelphia Daily News, https://www.phillydailynews.com/
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