A veteran California Highway Patrol officer has been indicted in an alleged bribery scheme at the Department of Motor Vehicles office in El Cajon -- the second such scandal to hit that office in recent years.
The indictment of CHP officer Carlos Ravelo was unsealed Thursday in San Diego federal court. He pleaded not guilty to issuing two temporary driver's licenses that he knew were bogus.
The indictment says that charges are "substantially the same facts" as the case of former DMV employee Alva Benevidez, who pleaded guilty in February to taking bribes of more than $5,000 to help people charged with drunk driving to retain their licenses.