LA jail deputy allegedly took FBI bribe

Release Date 28 Sep, 2011 in CBS News

Report Details Wide Abuse in Los Angeles Jail System New York Times - Jennifer Medina - 28 Sep, 2011 LOS ANGELES �" One inmate said he was forced to walk down a hallway naked after sheriff's deputies accused him of stealing a piece of mail. They taunted him in Spanish, calling him a derogatory name for homosexuals. ...
LA jail deputy allegedly took FBI bribe CBS News - 28 Sep, 2011 (AP) LOS ANGELES �" A Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy accepted a $1500 bribe to smuggle a cellphone to a jailed inmate in an FBI sting, a person familiar with the matter told The Associated Press on Tuesday. The bribe was paid as part of a ...
Los Angeles County Jails Investigated By FBI Huffington Post - Thomas Watkins - ‎Sep 26, 2011‎ LOS ANGELES -- The FBI is investigating allegations of civil rights abuses by deputies at Los Angeles County's sprawling jail network, authorities said Monday. The probe follows complaints by the American Civil ...
FBI probing Los Angeles County jails CBS News - ‎Sep 26, 2011‎ (AP) LOS ANGELES �" The FBI is investigating allegations of civil rights abuses by deputies at Los Angeles County's sprawling jail network. Sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore said Monday federal authorities were targeting the country's largest jail ...
	FBI sneaked cellphone into LA jail in deputy misconduct probe Los Angeles Times - ‎Sep 25, 2011‎ FBI agents sneaked a cellphone to an inmate inside the LA County jail as part of a probe into allegations of inmate beatings and other misconduct by deputies, a Times investigation has found. The jails have been plagued with problems over the last ...
Two dozen inmates injured in disturbance at sheriff's main jail Los Angeles Times - ‎Sep 24, 2011‎ About two dozen inmates were injured Friday in a major disturbance inside the Los Angeles County's Sheriff's Department's Men's Central Jail, according to the department's operation log. Inmates from five modules on the second floor of the downtown Los ...
	FBI probing reports of beatings in LA County jails Los Angeles Times - Robert Faturechi - ‎Sep 24, 2011‎ Federal agents sneaked a cellphone into Men's Central Jail as part of their investigation of misconduct, sources say. Inmates wait in a section of Men's Central Jail in downtown Los Angeles. Federal authorities are said to be investigating beatings of ...
	Los Angeles Jail Faces Severe Abuse Allegations Gather.com - Chris Sosa - 28 Sep, 2011 Disturbing allegations are being made by three volunteers that Los Angeles County deputies have been abusing inmates at Men's Central Jail. The volunteers include two chaplains and a film producer who all give accounts of vicious beatings. ...
	Sheriff Deputies Went to Home of FBI Case Agent Who Headed Sting; Sheriff ... ticklethewire.com - Allan Lengel - 28 Sep, 2011 Expect more craziness in coming days and weeks in the scandal brewing in Los Angeles where the FBI paid a sheriff's deputy to sneak a phone into the county jail for an inmate in what turned out to be a sting. ...
	Sheriff Baca meets with feds over FBI jails investigation abc7.com - 28 Sep, 2011 LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- An undercover sting by the FBI into the Los Angeles County jail system has uncovered alleged misconduct. Sources close to the investigation say a sheriff's deputy took a bribe to smuggle a cellphone to an inmate. ...
FBI Paid LA Sheriff's Deputy $1500 to Smuggle Phone to Inmate in Sting ticklethewire.com - Danny Fenster - 28 Sep, 2011 The LA Times reports that a cell phone smuggled into the Los Angeles County jail to help document alleged inmate abuse was smuggled in by a county Sheriff's deputy, who was paid about $1500 as part of an FBI ...
Sheriff, US Attorney to discuss FBI probe of LA County jails Contra Costa Times - 28 Sep, 2011 Sheriff Lee Baca is expected to meet today with the US attorney in Los Angeles amid growing tension between his department and the FBI over a new FBI probe of alleged deputy misconduct in the Los Angeles County jail system, the nation's largest. ...
FBI Sneaks Cell Phone Into LA Jail KIONrightnow.com - ‎Sep 26, 2011‎ LOS ANGELES, Calif. - The Los Angeles Times is reporting the FBI was able to get a cell phone to an informant in a Los Angeles jail as part of it's investigation into allegations of deputy misconduct. Over the past 10 years, Los Angeles jails have ...
FBI probes civil rights abuse in LA County jails 89.3 KPCC - ‎Sep 26, 2011‎ Sheriff Lee Baca shot back Monday at the tactics the FBI is using to probe allegations of civil rights abuses in Los Angeles County jails. Federal authorities are targeting the country's largest jail system, even smuggling a cellphone into one facility ...
	FBI investigation targets LA County jails abc7.com - ‎Sep 26, 2011‎ A sign outside the Twin Towers Correctional Facility is seen in this undated photo. (KABC Photo) LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Los Angeles County jails have become the target of a civil-rights abuse investigation by the FBI. Agents say they are looking into ...
FBI Investigating LA County Jails for Reports of Deputy Involved Inmate Beatings Reason Online (blog) - Paul Detrick - ‎Sep 26, 2011‎ The LA Times wrote this weekend that the Federal Bureau of Investigation is probing LA County jails for cases of misconduct by deputies, including inmate beatings. From the Times: Federal authorities are investigating allegations of inmate beatings and ...
FBI probing Los Angeles County jails Bloomington Pantagraph - ‎Sep 26, 2011‎ AP \| Posted: Monday, September 26, 2011 4:10 pm \| Loading… The FBI is investigating allegations of civil rights abuses by deputies at Los Angeles County's sprawling jail network, authorities said Monday. The probe follows complaints by the American ...
Sheriff Lee Baca on GDLA MyFox Los Angeles - ‎Sep 26, 2011‎ Los Angeles - Sheriff Lee Baca is furious about an FBI undercover investigation of the jail system. The LA Times reported that FBI Agents sneaked a cell phone into one of the county jails, so an informant could tell them about deputies beating inmates. ...
Lee Baca, L.A. County Sheriff, Pissed That FBI Smuggled Cellphone Into His ... LA Weekly (blog) - Dennis Romero - ‎Sep 26, 2011‎ LA County Sheriff Lee Baca is pissed off at the FBI for reportedly smuggling a cellphone into County Jail so that an inmate could spy on deputies' controversial treatment of men behind bars. ...
Racial fighting leads to inmate injuries at Central Jail Daily Breeze - ‎Sep 26, 2011‎ A racially divided fight among about two dozen Los Angeles County inmates left several recovering from injuries. The fight between black and Hispanic inmates from five holding modules on the second floor of Men's Central Jail, 441 S. Bauchet St., ...
	FBI Probe into LA County Jail Angers Sheriff ticklethewire.com - Danny Fenster - ‎Sep 26, 2011‎ 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, ...
	Jail volunteers accuse deputies of abusing LA County prisoners Los Angeles Times - 28 Sep, 2011 Three volunteers at Men's Central Jail in Los Angeles say in sworn declarations that sheriff's deputies abused inmates and that supervisors failed to take reports of the beatings seriously. An inmate talks on the phone at the LA County Men's Central ...
AP source: LA jail deputy took bribe in FBI sting Seattle Post Intelligencer - Thomas Watkins - 28 Sep, 2011 LOS ANGELES (AP) â€” A Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy accepted a $1500 bribe to smuggle a cellphone to a jailed inmate in an FBI sting, a person familiar with the matter told The Associated Press on Tuesday. ...
	FBI paid deputy to smuggle cellphone in jail sting Los Angeles Times - Robert Faturechi - ‎Sep 26, 2011‎ The officer allegedly accepted about $1500 to smuggle a cellphone to an inmate who was an FBI informant, sources say. Sheriff asks whether the FBI is capable of investigating alleged jail abuses. Sheriff Lee Baca says the FBI investigation into jail ...
LA Times: FBI probing reports of beatings in LA County jails Uprising - 28 Sep, 2011 Federal authorities are investigating allegations of inmate beatings and other misconduct by deputies in Los Angeles County jails, with FBI agents going so far as to sneak a cellphone to an inmate to get reports from inside, according to law ...
FBI investigating alleged beatings of inmates in Los Angeles County jails ... Sacramento Bee - Robert Faturechi - ‎Sep 24, 2011‎ LOS ANGELES -- Federal authorities are investigating allegations of inmate beatings and other misconduct by deputies in Los Angeles County jails, with FBI agents going so far as to sneak a cell phone to an inmate to get reports from ...