Three California Police Officers Face Firings Over Disabled Military Veteran License Plates

Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) patrol SUV crossing railroad tracks at Crenshaw Boulevard under a sunny urban setting.(Shutterstock) Military.com | By Derricke Dennis Published March 18, 2026 at 3:00am ET In Riverside, California, the local police department is embroiled in a legal battle over license plates. They are not plates that belong to citizens, but to three police department officers who are also military veterans, and have state issued disabled military veteran plates on their personal cars.

Those license plates, the department claims, were improperly obtained by officers Timothy Popplewell, Raymond Olivares and Richard Cranford. Riverside Police Chief  Larry Gonzalez has moved to fire the officers after questions were raised over how they can be disabled veterans while meeting the demands of being full-time officers on the force since 2019.

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