A former Norwalk, Connecticut, police officer has been charged with five counts of third-degree computer crime and five counts of second-degree forgery. Police said that Edgar Gonzalez filed written warnings into police databases for traffic stops that he never performed. They began investigating Gonzalez after receiving a complaint from one of the drivers whom Gonzalez claimed he had stopped and issued a warning to.
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