A former Hollywood Police officer ended his appeal and
surrendered at the Broward County Jail on Friday to begin serving a 90-day
sentence for falsifying records following a crash four years ago, court records
showed.
On Feb. 16, 2009, Dewey Pressley, 46, was the DUI
investigator when Officer Joel Francisco's patrol car rear-ended a car driven
by Alexandra Torrens-Vilas. The video camera mounted on the dashboard of
Pressley's patrol car recorded Pressley discussing the collision report and
saying he was willing to bend the truth to protect a fellow officer because
Torrens-Vilas had failed a roadside sobriety test. Prosecutors dismissed
drunken driving charges against Torrens-Vilas after they released the recording
to the public. Pressley and Francisco were fired and charged.