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Commissioner Rasha Gerges Shields, in the course of the weekly LAPD Commission assembly on Tuesday, Aug. 20, requested the chief if the division was ever in possession of the weapon.
“There’s no proof to recommend that,” he mentioned.
The gun turned up within the bed room of an Airbnb utilized by two South American nationals, or so-called crime vacationers, who have been charged final week within the armed theft of a $1 million watch on the Beverly Wilshire Hotel on Aug. 7, authorities mentioned.
Whether that weapon was used throughout Dorner’s murderous rampage in opposition to legislation enforcement in 2013 was unclear.
Dorner had sought revenge for dropping his job and killed 4 folks, together with the daughter of a then-LAPD captain in Irvine, earlier than taking his personal life in a cabin within the San Bernardino County mountains throughout a standoff with police.
In the theft case, Jamer Mauricio Sepulveda Salazar, 21, of Colombia faces a federal cost of interference with commerce by theft and one rely of possessing a firearm in furtherance of a violent crime, federal authorities mentioned. Jesus Eduardo Padron Rojas, 19, of Venezuela has been charged with conspiracy to commit theft.
The two have been accused of robbing a person as he sat on the patio of a restaurant on the Beverly Wilshire Hotel, with one holding him at gunpoint and chambering a spherical whereas the opposite eliminated the watch, a silver Patek Philippe.
The males then bought right into a blue Toyota Corolla and fled with Sepulveda driving, based on court docket paperwork. They have been arrested throughout a visitors cease on Aug. 10.
The FBI is investigating the case. Choi mentioned federal authorities are trying into how the suspects got here to own the gun.
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