November 4, 2009
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contacts: Joe Scott, Director of Communications
Sandi Gibbons, Public Information Officer
Jane Robison, News Secretary
Shiara Dávila-Morales, Assistant PIO
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LOS ANGELES – A former Inglewood police officer accused of pointing a firearm at a motorist while off-duty pleaded today, the District Attorney’s Office announced.

Deputy District Attorney Amy Pellman Pentz of the Justice System Integrity Division said Michael Lewis Robinson, 44, pleaded no contest to one felony count of brandishing at a person in a motor vehicle and one misdemeanor count of assault with a deadly weapon.

Robinson entered the plea before Los Angeles Superior Court Judge David Horwitz. The defendant was ordered to return for sentencing on May 19, 2011.

Under the terms of a negotiated plea agreement, the defendant is expected to do 250 hours of community service and complete an anger management program. Upon meeting those two conditions, he will be sentenced to three years probation.

The charges stem from an incident on March 31, 2008, during which Robinson allegedly flashed a firearm in a threatening manner at another motorist on the 405 freeway. The defendant’s two children, then ages 6 and 11, were in the vehicle at the time, prosecutors said.

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