A Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department investigation into a rumor against Lt. Joseph Garrido for allegedly using a department vehicle for personal use ended without identifying the source or finding evidence to support the allegations. The investigation revealed a trail of conflicting accounts and memory lapses among top Sheriff’s Department officials.
When L.A. County Sheriff’s Sgt. William Morris was investigating a criminal case against a fellow lieutenant based on a rumor, he kept running into a glaring problem: No one could tell him where the rumor had started. The claim was that Lt. Joseph Garrido had been spotted using a department-issued vehicle to tow his boat to Lake Havasu City in Arizona for a vacation in 2022 — an offense that, if true, could have gotten him disciplined or even prosecuted.
It had trickled down from the highest levels of the Sheriff’s Department to land in front of Morris at the Internal Criminal Investigations Bureau in May of that year. Morris probed top executives for months about the rumor’s origins and received a confounding mix of finger-pointing and memory lapses, as detailed in a 1,100-page investigative case file reviewed by The Times. Then-Sheriff Alex Villanueva, for example, told Morris he heard the allegation from his chief of staff at the time, John Satterfield. Satterfield said he heard it from multiple sources, but he could recall only one: the constitutional policing advisor. The advisor, Georgina Glaviano, first said she actually heard it from Satterfield, but then said she couldn’t remember for sure. Meanwhile, Morris’ supervisor — Capt. Catrina Khasaempanth — allegedly told a lieutenant she heard about the allegation from then-Undersheriff Tim Murakami’s office, though Khasaempanth later denied talking to Murakami directly about it. Meanwhile, Murakami said he learned about it during a meeting between the sheriff and his top commanders. Despite recording nearly two dozen interviews in about a year, Morris never identified the tipster or found evidence of the allegations against Garrido. Instead, he had another, more troubling, theory: Garrido had been set u
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