FBI paid deputy to smuggle cellphone in jail sting

[bemildred]

Source: LAT

FBI agents probing misconduct allegations in the L.A. County Jail orchestrated an undercover sting in which they paid about $1,500 to a sheriff's deputy to smuggle a cellphone to an inmate, sources said.

The revelation is the first public indication that the FBI's investigations into allegations of inmate beatings and other deputy misconduct in the jails have uncovered possible criminal wrongdoing.

The FBI conducted the cellphone sting without notifying top Sheriff's Department brass, enraging Sheriff Lee Baca and causing a rift between the two law enforcement agencies.

Baca, who is scheduled to meet Tuesday with U.S. Atty. Andre Birotte Jr. to discuss the escalating tensions, went on television Monday to slam the FBI, saying smuggling a cellphone inside a secured lockup created a serious safety breach. Baca suggested that the FBI committed a crime by doing so.

Read more: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-fbi-jails-20110927,0,5914180.story

[Lasher]

1. Kinda reminds me of Pakistan's outrage when we didn't warn them we were going to get bin Laden.

So that the ISI could hide him somewhere else before we got there.

[bemildred]

2. I like it when they fight among themselves. nt

[SpartanDem]

6. I don't blame FBI for not telling them

you know word;ve gotten out quick that the FBI was snooping around.

[Lasher]

7. That was my point in making the comparison with bin Laden/Pakistan.

[HereSince1628]

3. Bad boys! Bad Boy! Watch gonna do?

Watcha gonna do?
Bad Boys! Bad Boys!

Do you suppose the phone had a 'file' ap.

[SkyDaddy7]

4. Just curious...I want to ask a question...

What is a "'file' ap" in a cell phone? And what is its purpose or use?

Thanks!!

[Lasher]

5. It was a joke.

'File ap', to be used to file through the bars and facilitate their escape. Get it? Yuk yuk.