PI, not police, sought video that cleared teen of murder charge

http://www.reviewjournal.com ^ | 09/24/2014 | RICARDO TORRES

[redreno]

A private investigator working on what’s become a botched murder case sought evidence North Las Vegas police didn’t: video from the suspect’s alibi.

That suspect was Patrick Wayne Harper, the 16-year-old cleared in the killing of Andrea Lafon. Police said she died during a marijuana deal gone bad.

Investigator Toby Tobiasson, working for lawyer Kristina Wildeveld, got a court order for surveillance video from the convenience store Harper said he was at when Lafon was shot about 7:15 p.m. Sept. 5.

The video shows Harper leaving the AMPM at 5th Street and Washburn Road — more than two miles from where the shooting happened — that day at 7:14 p.m., Tobiasson said Wednesday.

“It was impossible for Patrick to have committed this crime,” said Tobiasson, who retired from the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department in 2013 after 24 years.

After leaving the store with a slushy drink, Tobiasson said, Harper went to a football game at his school, Mojave High. Students and coaches said they saw him there.

“They said Patrick is a good kid,” Tobiasson said. “He’s all about athletics.”

[JRandomFreeper]

Cops and prosecutors go after low-hanging and easy wins, not justice.

/johnny

[Parley Baer]

Nifonged?

[ansel12]

Investigator Toby Tobiasson, working for lawyer Kristina Wildeveld, got a court order for surveillance video from the convenience store Harper said he was at when Lafon was shot about 7:15 p.m. Sept. 5. The video shows Harper leaving the AMPM at 5th Street and Washburn Road — more than two miles from where the shooting happened — that day at 7:14 p.m., Tobiasson said Wednesday. “It was impossible for Patrick to have committed this crime,” said Tobiasson, who retired from the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department in 2013 after 24 years.

If that is true, then people in the legal system need to face felony charges and be driven out of office and the police department.

[B4Ranch]

Hopefully a false arrest suit will follow.

[eyeamok]

Police showed a photo of Harper to a witness who was in the car when Lafon was shot, but she didn’t recognize him, according to a police report. Investigators later took the witness to Harper’s school to see him, and she still didn’t recognize him.

And why exactly did they Arrest this kid?? article doesn’t say. But it does say they had NO EVIDENCE to support anything. Which means he is and was a VICTIM OF FELONY KIDNAPPING, Every last Nazi Thug involved including the DA and the Judge that allowed this belongs in Prison for LIFE.