By ARIN MIKAILIAN
CrimeProstitutionLaw
EnforcementAmerican International GroupCalifornia Public Employees' Retirement
System
Glendale cop is set to receive
$10,579 a month on paid leave despite his arrest in a prostitution sting
A Glendale police sergeant
arrested last month for allegedly soliciting a prostitute will make more than
$10,000 a month on paid leave until he retires at the end of 2015, records
show.
The arrangement was reached
months before Sgt. Vahak Mardikian’s arrest during an investigation of a Nevada
prostitution ring, the Glendale News-Press reported.
Glendale police Sgt. Vahak Mardoun Mardikian
was charged with soliciting an undercover Las Vegas police detective at the
Flamingo casino. (Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department)
Mardikian was one of five
officers who filed a lawsuit in 2010 against the Glendale Police Department
alleging discrimination, retaliation and harassment because they're Armenian.
He was demoted in early 2012
following claims that he was pressuring fellow officers to join the lawsuit,
but he successfully appealed and was reinstated last year.
Under the settlement deal,
Mardikian will receive $10,579 a month in paid leave through Dec. 29, 2015,
after which he will be required to retire from the police department, according
to settlement documents.
