Two sheriff’s sergeants “manipulated evidence and got caught,” alleges a deputy public defender.
Orange County prosecutors have dropped a felony drug case in the aftermath of defense allegations that embattled sheriff’s Sgt. Matthew LeFlore and his partner planted evidence.
“If officers hide the truth about how they handled evidence, they shouldn’t be officers,” Nguyen said. “The dismissal is a relief for Mr. Kelley, but it’s reasonable to ask how many other times this has happened without the defendant ever finding out.” In the Kelley case, LeFlore wrote in a police report dated Oct. 20, 2020, that he collected and booked methamphetamine that he said was seized from Kelley’s motel room in Buena Park. LeFlore and Tiscareno had the room under surveillance and conducted a probation search.However, according to a court motion filed by Nguyen, the methamphetamine actually was seized that same day from a neighboring room at the Coral Motel, unrelated to Kelley. Staying in that room was defendant Royal Baker.
The sheriff’s internal evidence tracking system shows no signs of the switch, only that the methamphetamine was booked into the Kelley case on Oct. 19, 2020, by Tiscareno, not LeFlore, as stated in his report. LeFlore has a history of allegedly mishandling evidence. A sheriff’s audit in 2018 showed LeFlore failed to book evidence in a timely manner in 18 cases, although he wrote in some of his reports that he had properly stored the items.
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