Spokane Officer Pleads Guilty; Loses Job

SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — A Spokane police officer has pleaded guilty to a charge that he lied to federal agents about the fatal beating of a mentally disabled man. KXLY-TV reports that Officer Tim Moses was given a yearlong suspended sentence for making a false statement and that he's losing his job on the force. His statements concerned the March 2006 case of Otto Zehm.