{"id":661389,"date":"2010-02-10T21:35:40","date_gmt":"2010-02-11T02:35:40","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-10-04T10:28:52","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T14:28:52","slug":"former-redondo-beach-police-officer-accused-of-embezzling-money-pleads-guilty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/661389","title":{"rendered":"Former Redondo Beach police officer accused of embezzling money pleads guilty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A former Redondo Beach police officer accused of taking more than $75,000 from a law enforcement officers&#8217; association pleaded guilty Wednesday to one count of grand theft by embezzlement, authorities said.<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>Gene Tomatani, 40, is expected to pay $75,388 in restitution between now and his sentencing March 15, the Los Angeles County district attorney&#8217;s office said. He has already paid $12,000 toward the restitution.<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>Tomatani agreed to a settlement and is expected to be sentenced to 90 days in County Jail and three years&#8217; probation. He must attend a year of Gamblers Anonymous, the district attorney said.<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>Tomatani was the president and treasurer of the Redondo Beach Police Officer&#8217;s Assn. and was accused of embezzling the money between May 2004 and May 2008.<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>He resigned from the department in October.<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>&#8211;Robert J. Lopez<input id=\"gwProxy\" type=\"hidden\"><\/input><input id=\"jsProxy\" onclick=\"jsCall();\" type=\"hidden\"><\/input><\/p>\n<div id=\"refHTML\"><\/div>\n<p><input id=\"gwProxy\" type=\"hidden\"><\/input><input id=\"jsProxy\" onclick=\"jsCall();\" type=\"hidden\"><\/input><\/p>\n<div id=\"refHTML\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former Redondo Beach police officer accused of taking more than $75,000 from a law enforcement officers&#8217; association pleaded guilty Wednesday to one count of grand theft by embezzlement, authorities said.Gene Tomatani, 40, is expected to pay $75,388 in restitution between now and his sentencing March 15, the Los Angeles County district attorney&#8217;s office said. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2979,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-661389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2M3z","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2979"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=661389"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":762577,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661389\/revisions\/762577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}