Former Burlington officer pleads no contest to false statements

Former Burlington police officer Christopher Lopez in court. Pool file photo by Ryan Mercer/Burlington Free PressBURLINGTON — A former city police officer pleaded no contest Wednesday to a misdemeanor charge of making false statements to law enforcement, stemming from his report about a 2016 drug arrest.
Christopher Lopez resigned from the Burlington Police Department in February after it emerged that video captured by his body camera during a traffic stop contradicted his statements in a