LA Sheriff recruit arrested for alleged gun assault – NBC Los Angeles
A former Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Division recruit, who was about 14 weeks by way of academy coaching to turn into a deputy, was arrested on suspicion of threatening a person with a handgun in Lynwood.
Kiwan Newbell, 36, was arrested March 10 by the LASD’s Inner Prison Investigation Bureau on suspicion of assault with a firearm, a felony.
Newbell posted a $30,000 bond and was launched from custody.
He was attending the Academy and was employed by LA County on the time of the alleged assault.
He was fired the day after the arrest, the Sheriff’s Division stated.
As of Tuesday, no felony costs appeared in LA County Superior Court docket beneath Newbell’s identify, and a protection legal professional might be recognized.
In response to the division, deputies assigned to the Lynwood Station took an assault report March 2.
“After additional investigation, detectives obtained info that led to a recruit within the Sheriff’s Division Academy,” the division stated.
A number of regulation enforcement sources informed NBC Los Angeles the sufferer of the assault captured the license plate of the automobile the one who threatened them was driving, and detectives have been in a position to join the automobile with the motive force, then info they gathered allegedly positioned the motive force on the Academy throughout coaching hours.
“The Sheriff’s Division holds all personnel, together with trainees, to the best requirements of conduct and professionalism,” the LASD stated in a written assertion Tuesday.
“This incident doesn’t replicate the values that our personnel uphold, and we is not going to permit the actions of 1 particular person to tarnish the repute or undermine the nice work being carried out every single day by the devoted women and men of this Division,” the assertion stated.
It was not clear if the gun allegedly used within the assault was a department-issued firearm.
In 2018 an LASD recruit was arrested on suspicion of stealing about $120,000 in what was described as a, “refined,” housebreaking in Newhall.
Julio Cesar Jimenez, then 35, later pleaded responsible to grand theft and arson costs and was sentenced to six months in jail and 5 years probation.
