Hot off the wire: (More) preferential treatment for Getzy?
"CHP captain accused of fixing traffic ticket for hockey star"
SANTA ANA (AP) -- A California Highway Patrol captain has been placed on leave while authorities investigate whether he tampered with a speeding ticket issued to Anaheim Ducks center Ryan Getzlaf.
Ken Rosenberg, whose office is decorated with Ducks memorabilia, is accused of removing the ticket filed by an officer who stopped Getzlaf March 14 after he was spotted driving about 84 mph on a toll road.
"We received information that this particular citation may have been improperly processed," CHP Assistant Chief Steven Lykins said.
Citations are normally sent to court and processed within 10 days, but a copy of the ticket didn't get to court until April 28 -- 45 days after it was issued.
"It's clearly inappropriate for anyone to circumvent the legal process by taking action with an official document such as a citation," Lykins said.
A phone number for Rosenberg, of Mission Viejo, was not listed.
Getzlaf, one of the Ducks' top scorers, is playing for Canada at the world hockey championships in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
SANTA ANA (AP) -- A California Highway Patrol captain has been placed on leave while authorities investigate whether he tampered with a speeding ticket issued to Anaheim Ducks center Ryan Getzlaf.
Ken Rosenberg, whose office is decorated with Ducks memorabilia, is accused of removing the ticket filed by an officer who stopped Getzlaf March 14 after he was spotted driving about 84 mph on a toll road.
"We received information that this particular citation may have been improperly processed," CHP Assistant Chief Steven Lykins said.
Citations are normally sent to court and processed within 10 days, but a copy of the ticket didn't get to court until April 28 -- 45 days after it was issued.
"It's clearly inappropriate for anyone to circumvent the legal process by taking action with an official document such as a citation," Lykins said.
A phone number for Rosenberg, of Mission Viejo, was not listed.
Getzlaf, one of the Ducks' top scorers, is playing for Canada at the world hockey championships in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
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J.P. Hoornstra has been covering the Anaheim Ducks since 2007. Eight months after the University of Wisconsin won its third NCAA hockey championship, he was born in a frigid Madison winter. He betrayed his blue-blooded beginnings by graduating from UCLA in 2003, and welcomes any and all dialogue on the finer points of hockey.
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