The police chief for the Port of Los Angeles has been indicted by a federal grand jury on Thursday on 16 counts of corruption, making false statements to the FBI, tax evasion and failing to file federal corporate tax returns.

According to the US Department of Justice, it is expected that Ronald Jerome Boyd will surrender next week. As per a maximum of 124 years in federal prison, if he will be convicted on all counts, he faces a maximum of 124 years in federal prison.

Gene Seroka, executive director of the Port Said that he is on administrative leave until further notice following the indictment. The city and Port of Los Angeles will cooperate in the investigation of this issue. According to Ed Robinson, Boyd's attorney, his client is aware about the investigation and had cooperated with authorities.

The charges against Boyd are associated to a project to develop PortWatch, a social networking program that designed in order to help give information and alert authorities about possible criminal activity at the facility.

According to prosecutors, he made a deal in order to share revenues with another company in response for helping that firm get the contract to develop PortWatch. A spokesman for the port, Phillip Sanfield said that they don't make use of the PortWatch app.

"We believe that our PortWatch app is first of its kind nationally and our hope is that it will provide for better means of disseminating critical information to our constituents and more meaningful and speedy response to any reported incident", Boyd was quoted as saying in a news release announcing the launch of PortWatch in 2012, according to the LA Times.