Days after Sheriff Robert Luna confirmed turning an investigation into suspected gun permitting fraud over to state prosecutors, the department on Thursday walked back that statement and said the matter had instead been turned over to federal authorities.
, the department on Thursday walked back that statement and said the matter had instead been turned over to federal authorities.
After The Times published a story Thursday morning about the case, Jason Skeen — Luna’s chief of staff — reached out to say the sheriff had misspoken, and, in fact, the matter had not been referred to state prosecutors.An FBI spokeswoman would not confirm or deny the meeting, or the investigation. But after initially deferring to local authorities, a spokesperson for the California attorney general confirmed Thursday that the Sheriff’s Department did not hand off the case to that office.
Three months later, Del Real and Robles filed a lawsuit in state court, alleging that they’d been sexually harassed at work as early as 2020 and that they’d only been put under criminal investigation in retaliation for reporting the harassment.“the sheriff should not, and cannot investigate himself.”
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