Riverside County Sheriff's Department organization
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Claims (2)
Riverside County Sheriff's Department spied_on
Contras guest_asserted
“Costa Rican shrimp company North and the Cuban CIA operatives were using to funnel aid to the Contras. The second part was a story about the parallel investigation of Contra drug trafficking done in the summer of 1986 by DEA agent Castillo …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 24 @ 1:05:45
Riverside County Sheriff's Department covered_up
Ron Lister documented
“If the sheriff's office files are accurate, nearly all of the seized evidence was given back to Blanton and Lister within days of the raid, and apparently no copies were retained by the department, even for intelligence purposes. The sherif…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 18 @ 52:35
Mentions (36)
▶ 56:01
All the briefings, because, you know, in Southern California, you get these news blasts that go out. Well, there was a bulletin that went out to us, to all the detectives. We got wind of it. It was some type of briefing. But it talked about…
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gave them the list of the intended targets. So that's where we left off. So in October 1986, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's raids were nothing but an irritant to the Nicaraguans. And I want to stop here for just a second and reiterate thi…
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asking the IRS to supply agents to help out on the case. As you know, Anderson wrote, this is a narcotics investigation involving FBI, DEA, and Los Angeles Sheriff Department units in Riverside and Whittier, California. It's a sensitive mat…
▶ 37:21
I told the chief it's bigger than I can handle. These guys are talking about millions of dollars in cocaine. They're talking about a Nicaraguan leader named Calero. They're involved in this. Colombian families. They strike the fear into the…
▶ 37:48
Guzetta didn't mind at all. In fact, he was thrilled at the prospect. The majors are hot shit, he said. They had all the resources. They had all the funding and had all the manpower. They had their surveillance equipment, night vision goggl…
▶ 38:22
The L.A. defense attorney, Jay Lichtman, put it, quote, this was really the cream of the crop, the elite, the top officers of the sheriff's department, unquote. They were considered the best drug detectives in the nation. They also won noto…
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have been burned. It hadn't even started. The case was still sitting on the top of his desk. Nobody had done anything except run a couple of computer checks and no one besides Gary Gussetta and now the DEA even knew about the majors working…
▶ 33:53
I.J. O'Neill, who investigated Lister and Blanton for several years, said the sheriff's probe was compromised by an FBI agent who did a clumsy investigation and contacted someone who knew Blanton, and they told Blanton about it. In an inter…
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Bothy and Garner took copies home with them to safeguard them from theft. Now imagine that. You're cops and you can't trust the evidence custodian in the cop station to protect the evidence. These guys are making copies, taking them home be…
▶ 47:42
According to Deputy Bartlett, two federal agents came into the office very angry. With the agents were a zone lieutenant and a narcotics bureau lieutenant, both of whom also appeared very mad. The agents put some of the evidence into boxes …
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archives confirmed that agents from the DEA, FBI, and IRS arrived at the office and for two days poured through the seized files, making copies of everything. Later that night, a cable from the CIA's LA office marked immediate director was …
▶ 52:07
An investigation by the L.A. County Sheriff's Department in late 1996, this was like 10 years later, strongly disputed the idea that mysterious federal agents swooped down and stole away the documents relating to this case. Investigators ha…
▶ 52:35
If the sheriff's office files are accurate, nearly all of the seized evidence was given back to Blanton and Lister within days of the raid, and apparently no copies were retained by the department, even for intelligence purposes. The sherif…
▶ 53:27
All of the property that wasn't claimed, including the cocaine and weapons manual, was allegedly destroyed six months later. That destruction occurred while the investigation was still open. As Jerry Gussetta had done earlier, the L.A. Sher…
▶ 53:56
to investigate the activities of the CIA. He said, and his superior officers, quote, felt it would be more appropriate handled by federal agencies from that point because of the evidence that was continuing about the narcotics trafficking o…
▶ 54:26
Sergeant Gordon, in fact, was no longer even around. He had been promoted. According to Sergeant Hoffman's note, one of the first things the federal agents did was to put Gordon's bombshell search warrant affidavit under seal, which kept it…
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Lister confirmed that he, quote, often met with Scott Weekly because Weekly was very knowledgeable in the area of commercially available military-related systems, unquote. He said Weekly was a dependable source of information as to which sy…
▶ 37:21
dangling a pork chop in front of a dog. Seizing cash had become the majors' specialty by the end of the 80s. They were no longer real narcotic detectives anymore. Thanks to expanded asset forfeitures, the majors had become a sin tax collect…
▶ 40:41
In a series of lightning raids that night, the authorities found some of the marked cash in the homes and cars of the deputies. Sheriff Block immediately suspended nine members of the squad. Within 48 hours, distraught and appearing heavily…
▶ 48:17
into the United States. Braun's motion linked the Blanton family to the crash that Hassan Foss C-123 drug plane in Nicaragua in October 86. In other words, he's going for broke here. The same crash Scott Weakley claimed on tape that he'd be…
▶ 51:09
and would be nothing more than a smokescreen to divert the jury's attention. Since the raid had occurred in 1986, Hagman argued it was well outside the time frame for allegations in the indictment. There was no connection. Well, except for …
▶ 56:53
The L.A. County Sheriff's Department was called in to investigate, but couldn't find any evidence that Gazzetta had anything to do with it. Indeed, it was discovered that the Bell Police had given one of the keys of the locker to a convicte…
▶ 32:57
which showed that the police had several informants telling them the drug money was going to the Contras. Our sources provide us with case file numbers and supposedly non-existent investigatory files at the L.A. County Sheriff's Office. And…
▶ 40:03
There is no connection between the Contras and African-American drug dealers because Blanton said he had stopped sending money to the Contras by the time he met Ross. No mention was made of the DEA reports, the Sheriff Department's affidavi…
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the idea that a reasonable, accurate number could ever be found in an illicit drug trade. No solid, this is a quote, no solid evidence has emerged that either Menendez or Blanton contributed any money to the rebels after 1984. The story dec…
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Costa Rican shrimp company North and the Cuban CIA operatives were using to funnel aid to the Contras. The second part was a story about the parallel investigation of Contra drug trafficking done in the summer of 1986 by DEA agent Castillo …
▶ 1:06:15
and 3,000 pages of one secret document about the Blanton raid that had just been released by L.A. County Sheriff's Office. I also wrote a sidebar on Joe Kelso's attempt to investigate allegations of DEA drug trafficking in Costa Rica, altho…
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This placed the location in Maricopa County, just outside of Phoenix. Two investigative agencies would come into play, the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office and the FBI. Three points were made by the news media. The rails had been sabotaged …
▶ 23:31
The next morning, the author studied the aerial view of the scene depicted in the AP wire photo. Four passenger cars still coupled together were off the tracks laying on their side to one side of a small bridge with two angled down into a d…
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He also knew that Maricopa County deputies would not have access to what we had discovered during our investigation in Oklahoma City, and that if the federal agencies followed the same course as they had in Oklahoma, and if they were direct…
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us to have access to the look down capabilities that night. No right wing bunch of Gestapo militia types had the capability of pulling this off. It was obvious that the investigation was like Oklahoma being steered. Jack and the author deci…
▶ 1:14:20
to help out other than make them aware of the possibilities of a much bigger picture. To protect those involved in the investigation who we met with in Phoenix, he only provides the reader with the meeting lasted almost three hours. When we…
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of the unidentified aircraft, the timeframe it occurred, the fact that all of the radar balloons were mysteriously down that night with an inadequate explanation from the military, the lack of ingress and egress tracks, the evidence non-exi…
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One of Maricopa's sources advised us that they were chasing down a rumor that two campers that reported seeing men in parachutes dropping in the vicinity. At the same time, their unofficial meeting occurred. The FBI was busy in the local co…
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You might consider leaking the word that your agency was interested in the possible connection between the activists at Marana and what happened at Hyder. You might even mention that you are following up on the idea that someone may have us…
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The last contact that we had with the Maricopa County Sheriff deputies came in the form of a telephone call from one of our contacts soon after the meeting. You know the five types of terrorist targets you listed? Yes. Well, we've got the S…