T.O. resident Dennis Archie, a former Los Angeles Fire Department inspector, pleaded guilty to accepting a $500 bribe.

Archie, who resigned from LAFD, was sentenced on Oct. 7 to 180 days in L.A. County Jail and ordered to pay $10,000 in restitution for accepting a bribe to approve the expansion of a Reseda nursing care facility.

Prosecutors claimed he was paid the money by the facility he was to inspect with the understanding the facility would pass his inspection even if it wasn’t up to code.

The 58-year-old decorated fire department inspector demanded and received a $500 bribe from the board-and-care facility for inspection approval while the transaction was observed by LAPD detectives.

After he pleaded guilty to the one felony count, seven other felony counts for alleged commercial bribery at other nursing care facilities were dropped.

Archie was arrested for commercial bribery on Jan. 12 by the L.A. Police Department. He was taken to the police department’s West Valley Station and released on $20,000 bail.

At the time of his arrest, LAFD spokesperson Ron Myers said the fire department was taking the allegations seriously and cooperating 100 percent with the police department.

—Nancy Needham