D.A. Says Papers Back His Charges : Shooting: Prosecutor offers land appraisal and map to bolster allegations that deputies hoped to seize ranch of suspect killed in raid.

Ventura County Dist. Atty. Michael D. Bradbury released evidence Wednesday supporting his contention that a drug raid that left a Malibu millionaire dead last fall was prompted partly by the desire of Los Angeles sheriff’s deputies to seize the man’s $5-million ranch.

Donald P. Scott, a 61-year-old recluse, was killed when he allegedly pointed a pistol at a Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy during the Oct. 2 raid on his ranch across the Ventura County line from Malibu. No drugs were found, and Bradbury concluded earlier this week that the raid was not legally justified.

Bradbury released two documents Wednesday that he said help show that a principal reason that Los Angeles sheriff’s deputies conducted the raid was to confiscate the 200-acre property under federal forfeiture laws.

The documents, originally given to a federal drug agent at a pre-raid briefing by the Sheriff’s Department, consist of a property appraisal statement and a parcel map onto which a federal agent scribbled a note about the $800,000 sale price of a nearby 80-acre ranch, Bradbury said.

“Those documents and the other evidence that we have offered show clearly that forfeiture was a major goal of the (Los Angeles County) Sheriff’s Department,” Bradbury said in an interview.

“We find no reason why law enforcement officers who were investigating suspected narcotics violations would have any interest in the value of the (Scott) ranch or the value of property sold in the same area other than if they had a motive to forfeit that property,” he added in a news release.

The documents supplement a 64-page report by Bradbury that was released Tuesday after a five-month inquiry into Scott’s shooting and the circumstances surrounding the raid.

A key finding of the report was that Deputy Gary R. Spencer used false information to secure the Scott search warrant, then led a multi-agency task force to the isolated ranch in hopes of finding drugs and seizing the property for the government.

Under federal forfeiture laws, police agencies may seize real estate when a judge rules that the property was used to grow or manufacture drugs or that the property was purchased with the proceeds of drug sales.

A Sheriff’s Department spokesman said Wednesday that the department will not comment on any of Bradbury’s findings until next week, after Sheriff Sherman Block has reviewed five volumes of supporting documents that Bradbury forwarded to him.

However, Capt. Larry Waldie, head of the sheriff’s Narcotics Bureau, said Tuesday that the raid was not prompted by a desire to seize Scott’s scenic 200-acre mountainside ranch.