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Laguna Beach Police Department organization

also: Laguna Beach police, Laguna Police Department

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Ron Lister member_of Laguna Beach Police Department book_quoted
“which for some reason always seems to be the case with base housing, but whatever. It was awful. Now, the base was not there. The base was like probably a 45-minute drive away from there. It was up by LAX. This story is just too crazy. In l…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 7 @ 26:04

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The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 11
▶ 12:23 That falls in line with everything else we found out. The search also found Teflon-coated bullets commonly referred to as cop killers. In the LA Police Department summary of searches at locations associated with Ricky Ross, Deputy Chief Gle…
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 11
▶ 16:40 When they called the FBI to ask for a copy of their old files on the Lister investigation, Special Agent Tim Bezek stated that the FBI reports and the transcripts of Lister's grand jury were protected by national security. See how that work…
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 15
▶ 21:18 The two agents were on the prowl for money launderers, and a good way to find them was to track the sales of money counting machines. T.O. and Knudsen dropped by Bell Police Department to see if anyone knew anything about this guy buying al…
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 15
▶ 24:20 Cash seized from traffickers and money launderers began being used to pay officers' salaries for overtime. So, in other words, we don't want to bust people too far up the chain. We just want to get the medium down so we can pay our bills. T…
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 15
▶ 32:50 He had observed the movement of 750,000, 230,000, 130,000, and 150,000, respectively. Guzetta began compiling his debriefing notes into a series of reports. He titled it Project Sahara because he figured the Torreses could help dry up the c…
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 15
▶ 35:21 Ricky Ross confirmed that Blanton had an uncanny ability to accurately predict upcoming police raids, but said he was never able to explain his clairvoyance. The Torres brother told Gazzetta that Blanton was working with the Laguna Beach po…
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 18
▶ 12:52 There was going to be basically a 30-day prep culminating in executing the search warrants that were going to be served at 14 locations in Los Angeles, Orange County, and San Bernardino counties. The briefing books outlined the entire plan.…
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 21
▶ 56:24 Bell PD detective Jerry Gazzetta, the narcotics officer who originally began the investigation, was accused of stealing cocaine but never charged. In 1988, IRS agent Carl Knudsen, who'd had a falling out with Gazzetta over his handling of t…
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 21
▶ 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…
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 7
▶ 26:04 which for some reason always seems to be the case with base housing, but whatever. It was awful. Now, the base was not there. The base was like probably a 45-minute drive away from there. It was up by LAX. This story is just too crazy. In l…
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 7
▶ 29:01 He would quit the Laguna Police Department in 1980 to pursue that vocation full time. He was in the alarm business. You just got to be kidding me here. And what he he started off in the alarm business. And he had some muckety mucks from Ara…