Reports surface that three L.A. County Sheriff's Department employees gave special treatment to actor/director Mel Gibson during his DUI arrest last year.
The Office of Independent Review states that the employees failed to follow proper procedures during the actor's arrest and tried to withhold details of the arrest report, which contained alleged anti-Semitic statements by Gibson.
The officers involved are two sergeants and a jailer. One received a two-day suspension and the others received written warnings.
"The violations resulted from the decision about when and how to release Mr. Gibson from custody," the OIR says.
The same review found that there were no policy violations in the imprisonment of heiress Paris Hilton when she was arrested earlier this year.
The OIR is an independent oversight group entrusted with ensuring that internal investigations by the sheriff's department are "thorough, fair and effective in addressing allegations of misconduct and other critical events," the OIR says in a statement.
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