A former San Francisco police officer convicted of conducting an a illegal search of a residential hotel room and writing a false report about it was sentenced by a federal judge Tuesday to one year and two months in prison.
Arshad Razzak, 44, a member of the police department for 19 years, was also fined $12,500 by U.S. District Judge Richard Seeborg of San Francisco.
“The betrayal of public trust by a sworn police officer is extraordinarily serious,” Seeborg said.
Seeborg called Razzak’s action in entering a resident’s room at the Henry Hotel on Sixth and Market streets without consent or a warrant during a 2010 drug investigation “a brazen violation of the Fourth Amendment rights” to be free of unreasonable search and seizure.
The report written by Razzak falsely said officers knocked on the resident’s door and received her permission to enter.