Suspected Robbery Could become Drug Investigation

the South Gate Police Department (SGPD) responded to a call from a person claiming to be witness to a robbery in progress. Officers arrived to scene at 5200 block of Aldrich Road within minutes.

Upon arriving the affected parties, an adult male and his niece, were found unharmed. None of their property was also missing. However, after being questioned by the SGPD the investigation took a different turn.

The adult male victim told the SGPD that two adult Hispanic males who claimed to be deputies with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department approached him in front of his home.  The suspects provided no identification and told the male victim that they were going to arrest him for selling methamphetamines.

The two men are said to have frisked the male victim while making their demands.

Upon seeing her uncle frisked, the female victim confronted the two men and called the SGPD. She believed that a robbery was taking place. The two suspects ran on foot upon being confronted by the niece and were not found by the officers of the SGPD.

However, the female victim claims that the two men told her uncle that they were there not to arrest him, but to tax him on some alleged methamphetamine sales.

The SGPD told South Gate Patch Latino that they as of now do not know if the adult male victim is in fact involved in the drug trade. However, that the case will be turned over to the detective bureau, and moved over to narcotics if it does become drug related.

The SGPD is withholding the names of the affected parties. No arrests were made and the investigation is ongoing. 

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