The testimony was alarming. “Both the Office of Inspector General and the Civilian Oversight Commission have active investigations into deputy gangs that are intended to help eradicate them, and we look forward to their findings.” During the trial, lawyers for the county repeatedly pointed out that Waldie bore the tattoo of another deputy group — the Gladiators — and painted …
April Tardy, then a chief in the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, testified in a public hearing in the Civilian Oversight Commission’s investigation of deputy gangs in July 2022. In an apparent shift from her sworn statements to the Civilian Oversight Commission last year, Undersheriff April Tardy testified during a civil trial Tuesday there was no confirmed work slowdown led …
Lt. Larry Waldie testifies Tuesday at a hearing held by the Sheriff Civilian Oversight Commission, which is investigating “deputy gangs” within the department. Jefferson Chow started investigating a fight between deputies assigned to the East L.A. sheriff’s station, he was instructed by a supervisor to question witnesses about groups of deputies that behaved something like street gangs. Eli Vera, who …
A Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy associated with the gang-like group of deputies with matching tattoos from Compton station testified that he has attended about seven so-called inking parties since he first saw the image on a shirt more than a decade ago. Juarez said patrol deputies discuss who can get the tattoo, but he refused to call the process …
At the Compton sheriff’s station, it’s called a ghost gun: a weapon a deputy says he spots on a suspect but that is never found when colleagues respond to the scene and search for it. “In reality, they’ve never seen the gun,” L.A. County Sheriff’s Deputy Austreberto Gonzalez said under oath. “Accepting the deputy’s testimony, there is evidence that the …