2 Sheriff’s Deputies File Suit Over Search of Home
Two Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies charged in a Los Angeles federal court suit filed Wednesday that investigators probing charges of money-skimming of drug funds had illegally searched their home.
The civil rights action, brought by Deputies J.C. Miller and Elizzie Mary Anderson, said that while deputies and federal agents had a warrant to conduct a search on Oct. 3, 1989, there was insufficient probable cause to indicate that Miller had done anything wrong.
Miller was suspended with pay during the probe but has never been charged. The investigation has resulted in the indictment of 10 deputies. Anderson has not been suspended.
The lawsuit, which names Los Angeles County Sheriff Sherman Block and several investigators, seeks unspecified damages for alleged civil rights violations, false imprisonment, invasion of privacy and emotional distress.
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