LAX Police Assistant Chief Resigns Amid Corruption Allegations: Report

LOS ANGELES, CA — The ex-assistant chief of the Los Angeles Airport Police force is set to be sentenced Sept. 26 on a federal tax evasion case linked to a corruption probe involving the former chief of police at the Port of Los Angeles, court documents show.

Brian Walker pleaded guilty in June to a misdemeanor tax fraud count which carries a penalty of up to a year in prison.

He stepped down from his job on Monday, and his resignation was accepted by Los Angeles World Airports, the city agency that runs the airport, Nancy Suey Castles of LAWA confirmed.

According to federal prosecutors, Walker did not report income from his work with At Close Range Inc., a Torrance security company partly owned by former port police chief Ron Boyd.

Boyd pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI during a probe of his financial dealings, committing tax evasion and failing to file complete income taxes for 2011. He retired from the force last November and is set to be sentenced next month.

Prosecutors wrote that although Walker reported that he made about $150,000 in 2012, his income was actually "substantially higher."

In the initial 16-count indictment issued last year, Boyd was accused of "honest services" wire fraud alleging he operated a scheme to defraud the city and the Harbor Department of their right to his honest services. He is expected to be sentenced to no more than two years in federal prison.

— City News Service, photo courtesy of LAWA