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KING CITY, Calif. -- A California farming town was grappling Wednesday with a profound violation of trust after learning the acting police chief and a handful of officers were charged with selling or giving away the impounded cars of poor Hispanic residents and other crimes.

The misgivings had been building for some time. Investigators heard people - many unable to speak English - complain that police were taking their cars and money, and there was nothing they could do about it.

"I'm not at all surprised by the arrests, I'm just surprised there weren't more charges," restaurateur Vivian Villa said Wednesday in Spanish while sizzling a pan of beef in preparation for the lunch rush. "Now maybe some of them are going to feel what we feel when they target us."

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Later in the day, Villa held a meeting in her little restaurant where about a dozen community members spoke out against police abuse and corruption.

Latinos account for nearly 90 percent of the community of 13,000 people tucked among fields of tomatoes, strawberries and lettuce along the Salinas River, 150 miles southeast of San Francisco.

Farm mechanics Francisco Mendez and Alfonso Perez, stopping at a taco stand before heading into work, both described being stopped frequently by police for having tinted windows or broken tail lights.

"It seems like they just want a reason to pull you over," Mendez said.

Tuesday's arrests, which also included a former police chief, came after a six-month probe of the police department launched in September when a visiting investigator - there to check out a homicide - heard from numerous sources that the community didn't trust its police department.

By this week, authorities said they had enough evidence to arrest a total of six people linked to the department for a variety of crimes ranging from bribery to making criminal threats. They were all quickly released on bail.

"Ordinary citizens, again and again, told us they didn't trust the police," said acting chief assistant Monterey County District Attorney Terry Spitz. "There are more investigations underway."

Tow shop owner Brian Miller, his brother acting police chief Bruce Miller and Sgt. Bobby Carillo were scheduled to be arraigned Monday on bribery charges after authorities said vehicles impounded from Hispanic immigrants were funneled to the tow yard then sold or given away.

Prosecutors said an undetermined number of vehicles were sold or given away for free when the owners couldn't pay fees to reclaim them. Two people at Miller's Towing in King City refused comment.

Former Chief Dominic David Baldiviez and Mario Alonso Mottu Sr. were set to be arraigned March 6 for embezzlement of a city-owned Crown Victoria. Officer Jaime Andrade, accused of possession of an assault weapon and illegal storage of a firearm, and officer Mark Allen Baker, accused of making criminal threats, are also slated for a March 6 arraignment.

Bruce Miller said the charges were baseless, and his family had received death threats since prosecutors disclosed details of the case. Messages for Baldiviez and Brian Miller were not immediately returned. A man who answered the phone at a listing for Baker hung up when asked about the case.

Andrade said he had not obtained an attorney. He said hopefully, the truth would come out soon and "things will be cleared up."

City Manager Michael Powers said all but Mottu had been placed on paid leave during the investigation prior to their arrests, and that he hopes to announce a new, interim police chief Thursday.

Fixing King City's sense of well-being is a bigger challenge.

"Obviously no one should be targeted because of race, but recent immigrants are at something of a disadvantage," Powers said. "They already fear the police. It makes them easy prey."

Powers said a community meeting would be held in two weeks to try to resolve concerns of angry citizens and those worried about the depleted police force, where 10 of the 17 sworn positions were held by Latinos.

State Sen. Bill Monning, whose district includes King City, said he was "incensed and outraged," and thanked the FBI and local authorities for their ongoing pressure.

"While I hope this is an isolated incident, I fear it is not," he said. "There continues to be situations throughout the state where the immigrant workforce is subjugated to tyranny of those abusing their authority."

County Supervisor Simon Salinas said it's going to take community oriented policing to get the town to trust authorities again.

"It's certainly going to be a black eye for King City," Salinas said.

Complaints of misconduct have been raised during the past few years in this historic, agricultural community where John Steinbeck's father settled in 1890s and met his wife. With wide streets, historic buildings and old oaks, parts of the city haven't changed much since Steinbeck wrote of King City in parts of Mice and Men and To a God Unknown.

But some said they are now afraid in the city.

"I'm not sure who is taking care of the town," said San Lorenzo Liquors store owner Myukng Hong who reopened Wednesday after closing early the night before after learning of the arrests.

At Leyva's Tow Yard, which police often bypassed with impounded cars, George Oliveros said many people in the community were aware of the investigation for months.

"In King City, a lot of people really try to stay away from the police," he said. "Cops aren't really helping the people, they focus on helping themselves."

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Madison ? The chief legal counsel of the state Department of Transportation has been forced out of his job after the release last week of a sexually explicit joke he emailed to former aides of Gov. Scott Walker.

In the email written in the form of a fake news release, John Schulze joked about venereal diseases, oral sex and legalizing prostitution to provide jobs for welfare recipients.

The joke turned up in a recently unsealed cache of 4-year-old emails involving the criminal appeal of a former Walker aide during his time as Milwaukee County executive, but the joke itself actually appears to date back to 1998, when Schulze was doing another stint as a state employee.

DOT spokeswoman Peg Schmitt confirmed that Schulze had left the agency on Friday, two days after the joke was released in the court records. That news was first reported by the Madison weekly newspaper Isthmus.

"It came to our attention last week that an email sent by a Department of Transportation employee before his joining the administration contained inappropriate and offensive content. The email is in poor taste and there is no room for this poor conduct in Governor Walker's administration," Walker spokesman Tom Evenson said.

The 16-year-old joke, emailed under the subject line of "look what I found on an old zip drive," contained a made-up story of Senate staffers who had contracted venereal diseases while on an official fact-finding trip.

"1) I cannot believe I sent this over the state email system 2) I am one funny dude," Schulze wrote in March 2010 to a half-dozen Republicans, including aides to Walker at the time in Milwaukee County and his campaign for governor.

Schulze, who started his legal job with the DOT in May 2013, made just over $109,000 a year, according to state payroll records. In 2011, Walker and legislative Republicans shifted the position of agency chief legal counsel in state government from a civil service job to a political appointment.

That change meant the Walker administration was free to fill the DOT position with a loyal lawyer as opposed to one deemed to be the most qualified. It also gave the administration more leeway to be able to force Schulze out last week.

Schulze did not respond to requests for comment.

Previously Schulze served as an administrator for the state Public Service Commission ? another political appointment ? and as corporate secretary for American Transmission Co., according to his LinkedIn page.

Before that he served in the state Assembly and Senate as a staffer and as an aide to then-GOP Govs. Tommy Thompson and Scott McCallum.

At the time he resent the email in March 2010, he was working for American Transmission Co.

The fake news release mentions Walker's former chief of staff at Milwaukee County, Jim Villa, another former Senate staffer.

"'Arrrgh! God, it hurts when I pee,' shouted Villa from a ground floor state Capitol restroom. 'I thought Clymedia (sic) was a flower!'" the email reads.

The fake news release also references another Senate staffer who was willing to pay more for sex with a transsexual than with a transvestite.

"Believe me, there is a big difference," the staffer is quoted as saying.

The Schulze joke was among the roughly 28,000 emails released through the criminal appeal of Kelly Rindfleisch, a former deputy chief of staff to Walker in Milwaukee County who was convicted of campaigning on public time.

In 2010, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported that Schulze was among those writing for the anonymous scottforgov.com blog, which regularly skewered Walker's 2010 Republican primary opponent, former U.S. Rep. Mark Neumann, and his Democratic gubernatorial foe, Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett.

Brian Fraley, a former head of the now defunct Senate Republican Caucus, was among those copied on the email along with Rindfleisch, who also served as a GOP staffer in the Legislature.

"I am glad you cleaned up your act by the time I hired you, man I can't type that with a straight face," Fraley wrote back. "Schulze, this isn't even in the top 10 worst things you've ever done."

Fraley, who also couldn't be immediately reached for comment, is now the managing editor of Right Wisconsin, which along with the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel is owned by Journal Communications Inc.

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