Ex-LAPD Detective Waives Extradition : Crime: The retired officer is a suspect in a series of armed robberies in the Southland. He will return to California to face charges.

A retired Los Angeles Police Department detective waived extradition Friday to return to California and face charges in a series of armed robberies.

Michael Douglas Brambles agreed to return to California during a brief appearance before District Judge Nancy Becker. It was not known how soon Los Angeles authorities would come to get Brambles.

Brambles was arrested Tuesday on a fugitive warrant charging him with nine felony counts.

The former detective, who handled some of the department’s most sensitive organized crime cases in a 23-year career that ended in March, is a suspect in a two-month string of armed robberies in Southern California.

The robberies occurred in various Los Angeles locations, starting with the armed robbery of a suburban Woodland Hills bicycle shop March 3.

During his career, Brambles headed the Los Angeles Police Department’s investigation into the ZZZZ Best carpet cleaning service, and he was the LAPD’s contact with Elizabeth Adams, a Beverly Hills madam who passed on the pillow talk gleaned from her clientele.

In March, 1992, Brambles was reprimanded by a department disciplinary panel for giving false testimony in a criminal case about his transfer out of the LAPD’s organized crime intelligence division.

The police Board of Rights concluded that Brambles misstated his relationship with a woman. He testified that the relationship was “strictly business” when in fact it was personal.

Officials said Brambles was identified as a suspect by a security guard who works near a motel in Inglewood. The guard also worked at a dry cleaners targeted in a holdup.