Ex-police dispatcher gets jail for tow truck bribes

A former Philadelphia police dispatcher received a 14-month prison sentence Tuesday morning for accepting payoffs from tow truck operators.

Dorian Parsley, 44, admitted to running a bribery scheme which netted her more than $35,000 from tow truck drivers in return for secretly tipping them off with text messages and personal cell phone calls.

Between February 2011 and December 2013, she provided the operators with confidential information about traffic accidents, disabled vehicles, and personal information about accident victims. Her actions not only provided "an unfair advantage to her bribers," federal prosecutors said, but was was in violation of police department policies and procedures.

On July 21, Parsley pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy, solicitation of a bribe, and honest services fraud. In addition to the prison term, she will also be required to pay a $1,000 fine and serve one-year of supervised release, prosecutors said.