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A federal judge today sentenced a former Chicago police officer to three and half years in prison for accepting bribes in exchange for steering business to tow truck drivers.
Juan Prado, a 12-year veteran of the department, pleaded guilty in July to accepting hundreds of dollars in payoffs from a tow truck operator who was secretly working for the FBI.
Ten Chicago police officers have been snared as part of an undercover FBI probe code-named Operation Tow Scam. Seven have been convicted, and charges are pending against the other three officers.
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