Sheriff's officials are accused of planting drug evidence, then trying to hide how it was moved from one criminal case to another.
Orange County sheriff’s officials are being accused in court records of planting evidence by moving drugs found in one investigation into the file of a second, unrelated drug case.
“This is the kind of conduct that should send chills down the spines of the public — sworn officers shifting evidence from one case to another and then doing everything in their power to cover up what they did,” said Tammy Nguyen, a deputy public defender in the case. Defense attorneys said documents recently released by the Orange County Crime Lab clued them in that the evidence was moved. The lab tests and examines evidence such as confiscated drugs. According to the filing, a note in documents provided by the lab stated the evidence was moved, at the request of the Sheriff’s Department, from one case file to another on Nov. 4, 2020, nearly two weeks after the search.
In an interview, Sanders said evidence suggested the move was deliberate, and not an accident on the part of law enforcement, pointing to their alleged efforts to hide the drug’s movement from one case to another. Tiscareno and LeFlore have repeatedly appeared in these allegations and audits of the department’s handling, he said.
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