Two LASD detectives indicted for perjury, filing false report
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LOS ANGELES - A grand jury indictment unsealed Friday charges two Los Angeles County sheriff s detectives with lying about their roles involving a search warrant that was served at an East Los Angeles home in September 2018.
Pedro Guerrero-Gonzalez, 34, was indicted Thursday on one count of filing a false report, and Noel Lopez, 41, was indicted on one count of perjury, according to the Los Angeles County District Attorney s Office.
The two are set to be arraigned June 14 in a downtown Los Angeles courtroom.
Guerrero-Gonzalez is accused of falsifying another detective s statement in a report, while Lopez allegedly lied in a declaration that deputies saw one of the men arrested throw a case containing a rifle onto the floor, according to the District Attorney s Office.
By City News Service
May 14, 2021
LOS ANGELES (CNS) - A grand jury indictment unsealed today charges two Los Angeles County sheriff s detectives with lying about their roles involving a search warrant that was served at an East Los Angeles home in September 2018.
Pedro Guerrero-Gonzalez, 34, was indicted Thursday on one count of filing a false report, and Noel Lopez, 41, was indicted on one count ofperjury, according to the Los Angeles County District Attorney s Office.
The two are set to be arraigned June 14 in a downtown Los Angeles courtroom.
Guerrero-Gonzalez is accused of falsifying another detective s statement in a report, while Lopez allegedly lied in a declaration that deputies saw one of the men arrested throw a case containing a rifle onto the floor, according to the District Attorney s Office.
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Last month, L.A. District Attorney George Gascón received an unusual proposal from Sheriff Alex Villanueva: The sheriff wanted to create a joint task force with the DA to fight government corruption and target dirty politicians. The mission of [the task force] is to develop meaningful and productive investigatory relationships among our detectives and deputy district attorneys, who are charged with investigating public corruption, said a draft memorandum of understanding written by the Sheriff s Department and obtained by LAist. It argued the task force would serve as a force multiplier.
The memo said the DA would chair the group and it envisioned other law enforcement agencies joining. Participants would brief each other on sensitive cases they were working on, it said.
Instead of issuing speeding tickets to the drivers, both defendants allegedly issued citations for not having proof of insurance, even though the drivers had valid insurance at the time, according to prosecutors.
The alleged misconduct came to light after a Los Angeles deputy police chief told a Sheriff’s captain that the two defendants possibly had issued falsified traffic tickets, according to the complaint.
Bail was set at $25,000 for each defendant. If convicted as charged, Berk faces a possible maximum sentence of five years in state prison, while Fisk faces up to three years and eight months in prison.
The case remains under investigation by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department’s Internal Criminal Investigations Bureau.
Instead of issuing speeding tickets to the drivers, both defendants allegedly issued citations for not having proof of insurance, even though the drivers had valid insurance at the time, according to prosecutors.
The alleged misconduct came to light after a Los Angeles deputy police chief told a Sheriff’s captain that the two defendants possibly had issued falsified traffic tickets, according to the complaint.
Bail was set at $25,000 for each defendant. If convicted as charged, Berk faces a possible maximum sentence of five years in state prison, while Fisk faces up to three years and eight months in prison.
The case remains under investigation by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department’s Internal Criminal Investigations Bureau.