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Sheriff’s deputy lied about being shot by sniper

Elegant Weapon

Elegant Weapon

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Oct 31, 2017
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Deputy Angel Reinosa, 21, who admitted in a follow-up interview to detectives that he made up the whole story, will be relieved of his duties and face a criminal investigation
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Signs it was a hoax surfaced quickly.

On Wednesday evening, only hours after Deputy Angel Reinosa had put out a call for help over his radio that he had been shot by a sniper, investigators were beginning to doubt the rookie's story.

Reinosa, a 21-year-old deputy assigned to the department's Lancaster station, said he had been on his way to his car in the station's parking lot when he was hit by rifle fire from a nearby apartment building. He claimed the protective vest he was wearing stopped a shot to his chest, while another bullet had grazed his shoulder.

But investigators noted there had been no 911 calls reporting gunfire in the area and no bullets were found in the parking lot. A hole in his shirt that Reinosa said came from a bullet was far too large.

And on the radio Reinosa sounded much too calm for someone who had just been shot, let alone a green deputy still in his first year on the job, multiple sheriff's officials and others with knowledge of the investigation told the L.A. Times on Sunday.
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When Reinosa put out the call for help, there was no choice but to assume he was telling the truth and set in motion the massive response that included locking down the apartment building overnight to conduct a thorough, door-to-door search, the sheriff said.

Although it soon became clear that the deputy's story did not add up, investigators couldn't jump to conclusions, the sheriff added. On Saturday, he said Reinosa confessed when investigators confronted him with the evidence that indicated the shooting was bogus.

"He admitted to cutting the holes in his shirt," Villanueva said. "We know the 'what' and the 'how.' We don't know the 'why.'"

Reinosa's motive for faking an assassination attempt remained unknown, but Lancaster Mayor R. Rex Parris said in an interview that the deputy had been struggling in his first year in the field — a probationary training period that all deputies must complete before becoming full-fledged deputies.

"He was not advancing through the training program at an adequate pace," Parris said. "There had been a lot of attention on him."

Parris declined to elaborate further on Reinosa's performance, citing police privacy laws, but said the deputy was scheduled to be transferred from the Lancaster station and speculated that he had been unhappy about the pending move.
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I don't think there was a thread on this here.

One 21 year old with a badge causes a an entire apartment building to be raided, basically. He easily could have killed someone with his bullshit "authority".



 
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Lant_War

Lant_War

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The Fallen
Jul 14, 2018
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Well I'm glad there wasn't a sniper in a city lol, super paranoid about that
 
Z-Beat

Z-Beat

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Oct 25, 2017
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Banished to Lancaster but liked it there so much he faked a sniper?
 

Deleted member 1248

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Oct 25, 2017
12,018
The bar is already so low for becoming a cop in America and this fuckwit couldn't even clear it, so he lied about being sniped and was bad at that, too?

He actually qualifies to be a cop now. He's probably just inept enough at being a human being to excel at the job.
 

Deleted member 11413

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Oct 27, 2017
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Yeah I saw this story a week ago and thought about posting it here but ended up not doing it. Pretty crazy stuff. Just another one to add to the pile of why ascribing inherent virtue to police officers simply because of their job is a really bad idea.
 
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