Highway Patrol Officer Sentenced for Fraud

Former California Highway Patrol officer Tony Yao will be on probation for five years and have to pay $80,555 in restitution following a conviction on three felony charges related to a workers' compensation claim he filed following a May 2011 injury, the Sacramento Bee reports. Yao on Wednesday was also sentenced to 240 days in the Sacramento County jail, but the incarceration was stayed pending his admission into a work release program. A Sacramento jury on Dec. 18, 2014, found Yao guilty of violating the Penal Code by filing a fraudulent claim and concealing an event relevant to a ...