Posted on 04/26/2006 10:05:30 AM PDT by BurbankKarl
Detectives are trying to figure out why a handgun belonging to a reserve deputy for the Orange County Sheriff's Department was found at the Bel-Air mansion of the former European video game executive accused of crashing a rare Ferrari Enzo in Malibu in February.
Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies confiscated the gun during a raid at the home of Bo Stefan Eriksson, who faces grand theft, embezzlement and DUI charges related to the accident.
L.A. County Sheriff's Department spokesman Steve Whitmore confirmed Wednesday that the .357 magnum Smith & Wesson was registered to Roger A. Davis, a Newport Beach businessman and deputy with the Orange County sheriff's professional services division. Davis also serves on Orange County Sheriff Michael S. Carona's Advisory Committee.
Davis was issued a permit to carry a concealed weapon by the Orange County Sheriff's Department in August 2002 for self-protection, according to public records.
The disclosure adds yet another twist to the Ferrari crash saga.
But it also comes as Carona has come under criticism for his large expansion of the reserve deputy program, in which he has given badges and in some cases concealed-weapon permits to volunteers with no police training.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
The O.C. ping
Did someone say batches?
Ahem.
Not just to volunteers, but campaign contributors, cronies and other assorted scum of the earth.
Carona is such a crook. (He's a Republican!)
Bet his dude doesn't get another Ferrari Enzo anytime soon! What a whack job he must be!!
Not-so-Organized Crime at work!
Did you see this one?
http://www.ocweekly.com/news/news/dirty-stupid-or-both/25006/
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