It inevitably would produce a field information card identifying the man as a gang member, he said, “because he self-admitted and we found those photographs.” The woman also would get a card referring to her “as an associate” of a gang member. As the deputies conducted their search, Lucio explained the significance of the stop. Gerardo Lucio, their supervising officer, pulled up. The man quickly admitted that the gun and drugs in the safe were his and that he was a member of the Park Village Compton Crips.Īfter Boden and Garcia had handcuffed the pair and were searching their car, Sgt. Thumbing through the device, Garcia found photographs of him posing with shotguns and pistols, a blue bandanna wrapped around his face.
The young man also had an unlocked cellphone on him. 22-caliber pistol, several grams of marijuana, prescription drugs, a digital scale and two driver’s licenses that had been reported stolen. 22-caliber pistol, several grams of marijuana, prescription drugs, a digital scale and two driver’s licenses that the deputies discovered had been reported stolen.ĭuring a fall 2014 stop in Carson, Calif., deputies from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department’s gang unit searched a car, finding a gun safe with a. Boden pulled two bullets out of the man’s pants pocket a search of the car yielded a gun safe with a. The deputy forced him onto the hood of the squad car and handcuffed him. Both deputies sprang out of the squad car and asked the man and his companion, a woman, to step out of the vehicle.Īs Boden held the man’s hands behind his head and searched his pockets, the man started to struggle. Boden saw the man rolling a blunt of what he thought looked like crushed marijuana. Several times during the 2014 patrol – with a Reveal reporter riding along – they stopped, searched and questioned young blacks and Latinos about drugs, gangs and what they were doing in a particular neighborhood.Ībout 10 minutes into their shift, the deputies spotted a young couple in a silver Chevrolet parked under a tree in a J.C.
The intent of that evening’s patrol was to prevent shootings – but the deputies also were on the hunt for intelligence about gang feuds and activity.
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