Men setup for DUI arrests

[Liberal_in_LA]

Contra Costa deputy's 'dirty DUI' arrests
Justin Berton, Chronicle Staff Writer

(03-08) 15:23 PST DANVILLE -- A Contra Costa County sheriff's deputy told another officer he was making "dirty DUI" arrests - in which men were being plied with alcohol and set up for police stops - on behalf of a private investigator who was seeking damaging information against the victims, an investigator said in court documents.

Deputy Stephen Tanabe, 47, told the reserve sheriff's deputy on patrol with him the night of Jan. 14 that a drunken-driving arrest the pair were making outside a Danville bar was a "set-up" and that the target needed to be "dirtied" for a future court date, a sheriff's investigator wrote in a search warrant affidavit unsealed Tuesday.

Tanabe, an Alamo resident, was arrested Friday night on suspicion of drug and weapons crimes but has not been charged. He is free on $260,000 bail.


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[Boswell]

1. biggest gang in town...

[auntsue]

2. I agree that the "set up" is wrong - it's entrapment.

However, who's responsible for knowing that more than one drink in a hour would most likly cause a over the limit blood alcohol level. They guy was drinking and then he chose to drive. Yes It's wrong of the cops to tempt and lie in wait for him - but he does bare some responsibility.

[Atman]

3. Oh for fuck sake!

Seriously? Did you read how and why he was stopped? Of course he bears "some responsibility." But...but...he didn't get caught, he was deliberately led into a situation for the direct profit of others! What the fucking fuck? How can you even begin to defend that, even given the paucity of details supplied in the post?

:banghead:

[lumberjack_jeff]

4. Who was the private investigator working for? n/t

[Liberal_in_LA]

5. ex-wife of one of the targeted men