By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Lee Baca was not happy about a cell phone that turned up in a Los Angeles County jail. Baca is the LA County Sheriff, and the cell phone was smuggled to an inmate — an FBI informant — by agents of the FBI, according to the LA Times. The Feds are…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A joint FBI-Los Angles Police operation aimed a cutting a backlog of gang-related killings is showing some results, the Los Angeles Times reports. The paper reports that the joint operation, which began in July 1 and ends Sept. 30, has resulted in 43 homicide arrests. And the paper reported that the…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The FBI teamed up with the police department to help solve 27 murders in the past three months, the Los Angeles Times reports. The paper reports that under the joint effort, which began July 1, the FBI provided six agents, equipment, crime lab help and money to pay for LAPD detectives’…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com An attorney for a Los Angeles cop who was acquitted last week of illegally exporting guns says the laws are so confusing it’s difficult for people to adhere to them all. “There is so much confusion when comes to these requirements,” Humbarto Diaz, a federal public defender, said in an interview…
The investigation is intensifying. Where’s the next raid going to be? By The Las Vegas Sun staff LAS VEGAS — Federal authorities are executing a search warrant today at the Las Vegas medical office and home of Michael Jackson’s personal physician, Dr. Conrad Murray, as part of a manslaughter investigation into the singer’s death. Michael…
The last thing this police department needs is more bad publicity. The question is whether this probe will have any legs. By Jack Leonard Los Angeles Times LOS ANGELES — Federal authorities have launched a civil rights investigation into several Los Angeles police officers accused of lying under oath in a drug possession case that…
