Bertarelli v. State

TAYLOR, Judge.

The appellant, Frank Federico Bertarelli, was convicted of theft of property in the second degree, a violation of § 13A-8-4, Code of Alabama 1975. He was also convicted of violating the Ethics Act.

The State’s evidence tended to show that Larry Armstead, a captain in the Montgomery Police Department, suspecting that certain officers were stealing money, planted drugs and $2,300 in cash in an apartment where alleged drug sales were said to take place. A police trainee was also used as a decoy outside the apartment. He had $540 on his person.

The appellant, an officer in the…