Updated at 8:19 p.m., Wednesday, June 13, 2007
Former police officer headed to prison
Advertiser Staff
A former Honolulu police officer was sentenced today to 18 months in prison for leaking "sensitive law-enforcement information" about the police department's gambling detail to protect a cockfighting operation near Waialua Elementary School from November 2004 to March 2005.Bryson Apo, 31, pleaded guilty to the charge and was sentenced by federal Judge Susan Oki Mollway. He will begin serving his sentence on Aug. 1.
Apo and eight others were indicted April 6, 2006, for their involvement in the conspiracy.
Former police officer Glen Miram and Charles Gilman pleaded guilty on Dec. 14, 2006, and Feb. 22, 2007, respectively, and sentencing for both is pending.
Trial for the remaining defendants indicted was recently continued to January 2008.
The defendants are John Saguibo, accused of getting law enforcement information from police and telling co-defendant Damien Kalei Hina he was target of law enforcement and should stop using his telephone. Saguibo and Gilman were among six charged with operating cockfights and illegal gambling.
Police officer Kevin Brunn is charged with conspiring to help protect the operation while Officer John Edwin Cambra IV and his father, John Edwin Cambra III, are charged with trying to prevent the FBI on June 21, 2005, from recovering cockfight gaffs.
Officer Barry Tong is charged with illegally possessing a machine gun May 24 last year.
