The State - News from Dec. 30, 1985

Charges that a former Parlier police chief and one of his officers bugged a City Council meeting in 1982 have been reinstated by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Former Chief Joe Anaya and one of his officers, T. Henry Zavala, were indicted in October, 1983, on federal charges of electronically eavesdropping on a closed Parlier City Council meeting at which council members discussed a plan to fire Anaya. Anaya contended that he was fired because he was looking into allegations of embezzlement and bribery involving council members and because he refused to suppress evidence pointing to corruption.