Beltran allegedly covered up the incident by approving a false dive report written by a second police officer, Michael Michalik. The two allegedly let the diver use police sonar equipment.
In the charging document, Police Supt. David Brown recommended Beltran and Michalik be fired from the department. The Police Board is set to hear the charges May 18.
Michalik has resigned from the department and Beltran has been suspended without pay, police spokesman Anthony Spicuzza said.
Yohei Yamada in Lake Michigan at Burnham Harbor in 2019.
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Yamada, the diver, gained attention last July when he recovered Rizzo’s wedding ring that slipped off his finger into Belmont Harbor. “He’s lost a lot of weight recently and had just washed his hands and was kind of shaking it and it just flew off,” Yamada told the Chicago Sun-Times then.