Rookie Cop Fired after Losing His Gun

A rookie police officer whose weapon was found in the hallway of an apartment complex in Culver City on Oct. 25 no longer works for the Los Angeles Police Department, police Chief Charlie Beck said in remarks reported today.

Found in the same hallway in the building on Canterbury Drive was a bullet lodged in a wall. An examination of the weapon determined it was registered to an LAPD officer, triggering an LAPD internal affairs investigation of the officer, who was off duty at the time and whose name has not been made public.

The officer under investigation is “no longer one of my officers,” Beck told the Los Angeles Times, declining to say whether he had quit or been fired.

The Culver City Police Department has been investigating who fired the weapon found on Oct. 25 and why, and that probe is coming to an end, Culver City police Lt. Sam Agaiby told The Times. He said the findings would be submitted to the District Attorney’s Office “in a few days.”

City News Service