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Two former Los Angeles County sheriffs deputies were charged Wednesday for allegedly planting guns as evidence inside a medical marijuana dispensary to justify an arrest.
Julio Cesar Martinez and Anthony Manuel Paez each face one felony count of conspiracy to obstruct justice and altering evidence as a peace officer, the district attorneys office said. Martinez is also charge with two court of perjury and one count of filing a false report.
On Aug. 24, 2011, Martinez and Paez wrote a report claiming they were patrolling West 84th Place in Los Angeles when they witnessed a drug deal, according to prosecutors. The report said one of the subjects was carrying a gun, according to the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office.
Prosecutors claimed that Martinez said he followed a suspect inside a medical marijuana dispensary where he found one gun in a trash bin and another on top of a desk next to ecstasy pills.
http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/Los-Angeles-Sheriffs-Department-District-Attorney-Conspiracy-Charges-Perjury-Medical-Marijuana-Dispensary-256422231.html
randys1
(16,286 posts)I am sorry but we have allowed our police forces to become nothing but corrupt cesspools...
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)WTF's.
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)htuttle
(23,738 posts)2pooped2pop
(5,420 posts)hells yeah!
YOHABLO
(7,358 posts)HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)frylock
(34,825 posts)these fucking idiots were unaware that dispensaries have cameras!
Downwinder
(12,869 posts)TeamPooka
(24,286 posts)Uh huh. No need to rush to facts.