Associated Press
LOS ANGELES, Calif. (AP) - A former Ontario police officer was sentenced Monday to more than two years in federal prison for obstructing a drug trafficking investigation.
Douglas John Bos, 34, of Canyon Lake was sentenced to 30 months in prison for warning one of the targets of a federal investigation not to meet with a man who was a government informant.
Bos pleaded guilty on July 26, 2001, to one federal count of obstruction of justice.
U.S. District Judge George H. King called Bos’ actions “the ultimate betrayal of the public.”
Bos was working as a member of a task force being led by the federal Drug Enforcement Administration. The task force was investigating the suspected smuggling of large quantities of pseudoephedrine into the United States from Canada.
On Oct. 28, 2000, while he was assigned to the investigation, Bos telephoned one of the targets of the investigation to warn him not to meet with the informant that same day.
During the phone call, Bos asked the man for money.
The man, Nidal Hamayel, 45, of Moreno Valley, was indicted in January along with 35 other defendants in the international drug smuggling case.