Detectives with the Long Beach Police Department did not expect to hear they had a leak in the department when they listened to a wiretapped call back in 2012. An alleged member of the Baby Insane Crip street gang explained to another member on the recorded call that “the copy lady” kept him up-to-date about a murder investigation where several members of the gang were suspects.
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Prosecutors with the Los Angeles District Attorney’s Office say former Long Beach Police Detective Yvonne Robinson, 50, is “the copy lady” who leaked confidential information.
On Monday, Robinson, a 13-year veteran with the police department, listened to recorded wiretap calls in a downtown Los Angeles courtroom as her criminal trial got underway. Robinson was arrested and charged in 2013 with conspiracy to obstruct justice. Police also arrested Prentice Jones, her relative by marriage, on the same charge. Robinson and jurors listened to Jones’ voice explain in another recorde