The Region : Aid Cutoff for Oregon Sheriff Upheld

The Los Angeles Board of Pension Commissioners voted 4 to 1 to approve a hearing examiner’s recommendation to discontinue the disability pension of a former Los Angeles police officer who is the sheriff of Josephine County (Grants Pass), Oregon. The former policeman, William E. Arnado, 44, took office last January while drawing his $1,700-a-month disability pension for back problems. Arnado must now be examined by a private doctor who will determine if the hearing examiner’s finding is correct that Arnado is healthy enough to return to a job on the Los Angeles Police Department. “I knew it was coming,” Arnado, a former Marine and SWAT team member, said when informed of the decision. He said that if the finding stands, he has not decided if he would stay on as sheriff or return to a police job in Los Angeles.