Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna said the state, and not his department, was the proper office to investigate charges of fraud in concealed gun permits.
Six months after his predecessor announced a criminal investigation into an alleged fraud scheme involving some of the deputies responsible for issuing concealed carry licenses, Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna confirmed this week that he has turned the matter over to state prosecutors.
in charge of handling the case. That move sparked concerns about the department investigating itself instead of referring the matter elsewhere.“When I got here, we did turn it over to the state attorney general’s office,” Luna told The Times in an interview Monday at the Hall of Justice. “That had no business being in this building.”
“If Sheriff Luna claims that the CCW/fraud investigation ‘had no business being in this building,’ then that only demonstrates that he himself has no business in the building,” Villanueva said.
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