A jury found former Adelanto Mayor Pro Tem Jermaine Wright guilty of attempted arson and bribery June 22.
Wright solicited $45,000 in bribes related to marijuana zoning and code enforcement from an undercover FBI agent, and hired a second undercover FBI agent to burn down his restaurant in a failed attempt to commit insurance fraud, according to the affidavit against him.
Wright continually trusted a confidential informant whom he considered a friend, who contacted the FBI for every crime Wright planned. Wright also told the informant to make an FBI agent “go away,” and appeared to have staged his own assault in order to plead memory loss, according to the affidavit. Wright was
