A plea deal between a Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department deputy and federal prosecutors filed on Jan. 11 reveals that the deputy engaged in a pattern of using his badge to steal drugs and money, including an October robbery where he and at least two others stole 1,226 of pounds of marijuana, $615,000 in cash and $30,000 in money orders from a Los Angeles marijuana distribution warehouse.

Marc Antrim, 41, of South El Monte, a patrol deputy who was assigned to the sheriff’s station in Temple City, agreed to plead guilty to six federal charges related to drug trafficking, unlawfully detaining three others during the robbery and depriving them of their constitutional rights, brandishing a gun during the robbery and using his status as a law enforcement officer to carry out the crime.

One of the accomplices, Kevin McBride, 43, of Glendora also signed a plea deal, admitting to the armed robbery and drug trafficking crimes.

Though federal prosecutors have not yet made sentencing recommendations, the plea agreement said Antrim may serve about 13 years in federal prison. Antrim, McBride, and Eric Rodriguez, 32, of Adelanto, who were arrested in November, had previously faced a possible sentence of 40 years. Rodriguez has not signed a plea deal. A judge’s order has kept the three in jail since Nov. 13.

The plea deal revealed a pattern of behavior where Antrim used his badge to commit “criminal conduct.” Antrim confessed to at least four other occasions where he seized cash and drugs during unlawful searches. He never reported these seizures to the Sheriff’s Department, the plea deal said. Antrim agreed to forfeit any money, property, or assets gained from, or used in, his “criminal conduct,” including a 2012 Silver Mercedes sedan.

According to the plea agreement, the pattern continued in the early morning of Oct. 29, 2018, when Antrim, who was off-duty; McBride, Rodriguez, and unnamed “co-conspirators” robbed a commercial marijuana warehouse in Los Angeles. Antrim drove to the warehouse with McBride and one other individual, using a Ford Explorer SUV taken from a sheriff’s station. Antrim donned a green vest that said “sheriff,” while McBride and the other person posed as law enforcement officials, wearing green jackets with Sheriff’s Department patches or insignia on the sleeve and chest. Law enforcement duty belts were wrapped around their waists.

As related by the plea deal, the three carried guns. Antrim had his on-duty handgun. The group entered the warehouse and showed an employee a fake search warrant. The group then forced the two warehouse security guards and the warehouse employee into the backseat of the sheriff’s SUV. They watched as Antrim and the group carried boxes, garbage bags, and clear bags of marijuana from the warehouse, into a Penske truck.

During the operation, Los Angeles Police Department officers arrived at the warehouse. McBride and the other individuals ran away, leaving behind their uniforms, while Antrim stayed behind. He was able to lie his way through the officers’ questions, saying he was working as a part of the Sheriff’s Department’s narcotics unit, conducting a lawful search at the warehouse.

Once the LAPD officers left, Rodriguez arrived with another individual in a Dodge Ram truck. The group drove off with the drugs and money, stashing them at McBride’s house in Glendora, and later that day, to a storage space in Walnut.

Antrim remains an employee of the department and was removed from duty without pay, said Nicole Nishida, spokeswoman for the Sheriff’s Department. Officials at the department declined to comment on the plea deal since the criminal investigation is ongoing.

Antrim’s defense attorney, Edward Robinson, confirmed that his client had agreed to the plea deal earlier this month, but declined to comment further on the case.

Defense attorneys for McBride and Rodriguez did not immediately return requests for comment.

Thom Mrozek, spokesman for the U.S. Attorney’s Office, said federal investigators are continuing their probe of the October robbery. The two plea agreements mention several unnamed “co-conspirators.” When asked whether more individuals would be charged in connection to the incident, Mrozek said it is within the realm of possibility.

He expects a sentencing date for Antrim and McBride to be set within the next three months.