By James Queally | Los Angeles Times
A Los Angeles County sheriff’s detective pleaded no contest Tuesday to filing a false report in connection with a 2018 drug raid in East L.A., more than two years after another investigator testified against him.
Pedro Guerrero-Gonzalez will receive probation and must permanently give up his status as a peace officer in California after pleading no contest to one misdemeanor count of filing a false police report, according to L.A. County Deputy Dist. Atty. Greg Apt.
Guerrero-Gonzalez and another gang detective, Noel Lopez, were indicted in 2021 in connection with the search of an East L.A. home that netted a haul of firearms including an assault rifle, a large amount of methamphetamine, black tar heroin and items used to bag and distribute drugs. Sheriff’s Det. Jason McGinty, who was also part of the raid, alleged Guerrero-Gonzalez asked him to say he’d seen one of the suspects holding the rifle when they entered the room, according to court records.
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