Crime & Safety
LASD Deputy Says Department Failed To Protect Him From Alleged Compton Station Gang
Following the report, the suit alleges that the department turned over a recording of a phone call to a gang — putting a deputy in danger.
LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) — A deputy at the Compton Sheriff’s Station has filed suit, alleging the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department put his life in danger after he made a report alleging illegal activities by a group of deputies.
Austreberto Gonzalez, a decorated Marine Corp combat veteran with a daughter diagnosed with diabetes, anonymously reported “criminal activities of a deputy gang at Compton Station which existed to violate the rights of the public and other sheriff’s department employees,” in February, according to the suit.
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