Los Angeles Deputy Who Faked Sniper-Style Attack Could Face Charges
Source: New York Times
A young Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy was standing outside his station in Lancaster, Calif., last week when, he said, two gunshots erupted from a nearby apartment building, one of the bullets grazing him in the shoulder.
He was rushed to a hospital, and hundreds of law enforcement personnel embarked on a day long manhunt that diverted traffic, caused the local passenger rail system to shut down and displaced residents of the apartment building.
But it turned out that the deputy made it all up.
“There was no sniper,” Capt. Kent Wegener said at a news conference on Saturday. “No shots fired and no gunshot injury sustained to his shoulder. Completely fabricated.”
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