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Check Mate For Sheriff's in Gibson Case

Posted Jul 29th 2006 1:54PM by TMZ Staff

Let me borrow a line from Mel Gibson's play book -- The L.A. County Sheriff's Department is f****d."

The Department has been caught in a huge lie that they now can't undo. My sources say the Sheriff's officials are scrambling at this very moment, trying to figure out what to do and the Sheriff himself, Lee Baca, has been involved from the outset (I'll explain more about this on Monday).

Here's the problem. The deputy who arrested Mel Gibson wrote an eight page report detailing Gibson's rants and aggressive conduct, but officials ordered the arresting deputy to sanitize his report, eliminating the four pages TMZ has posted on the web site. The sanitized report was signed and became the party line that the arrest occurred "without incident." That is a blatant lie -- a lie the Sheriff's department never thought would be exposed.

When I first called a Sheriff's spokesman to comment on the story we were about to publish, he told me I was "wrong" and the story was "erroneous." When he said that, I had plenty of information but I was not in physical possession of the four phantom pages.

When I finally got the documents and called the spokesman back, his response changed. He said when the case is presented to the D.A. it will have all the information about the case. Do you see how that begs the question? Of course, now it will have all the information because we exposed the Sheriff and Mel Gibson.

This was a cover up and there's no way of getting around it. The Sheriff said it happened "without incident" and that's just a blatant lie. Now there's an official, signed report that does not have the information TMZ has published, so something's rotten in Denmark.

As far as I know, the arresting deputy has not even re-written the information in this new "supplemental report" that for some reason was supposed to be locked in the watch commander's safe.

The Sheriff didn't get this sloppy overnight. Clearly many celebrities must have gone where Mel Gibson did on Friday. We have more information that we will publish on Monday, but The L.A. County Sheriff's Department must be investigated.

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1. I want to hear the tapes

Posted at 2:23PM on Jul 29th 2006 by Johny Cash Jr.

2. This is just a negative spin campaign against Gibson, just look at the images that are used on this site of the guy. C'mon!!! he's just saying what many are thinking but too full of crap to say out loud. So what?

Posted at 2:23PM on Jul 29th 2006 by Louie

3. So now you are happy? Is your mission in life to degrade celebrities every chance you get. Do you think they are not human? Are you human? What exactly do you gain by smearing person's name, whther they are right or wrong? How would you feel if some did that to you? Idiots!!!

Posted at 2:27PM on Jul 29th 2006 by Ed lucas

4. WAY TO GO MEL GIBSON! I WISH I WAS AS COOL AS YOU! ARE YOU GETTIN TASERED IN THAT PICTURE!?...LMAO

Posted at 2:31PM on Jul 29th 2006 by Chris

5. Ed, shut up please. He is doing his JOB by posting news about celebrities. If you are unhappy reading this, I suggest you not even bother visiting this site. Also, I hardly see what he is doing wrong, he's bringing those (THAT DESERVE IT) to justice. And what does he get by doing this? Praise and a paycheck. :)

Now go crawl back under a rock.

Posted at 2:31PM on Jul 29th 2006 by Andrew

6. It's just the owner of Malibu's campaign to get even with them. He did, after all, promise to "f*** them up."

Posted at 2:31PM on Jul 29th 2006 by Lagmeister

7. I don't think anyone is happy about smearing names, but for an influential actor in both Hollywood and church communities screaming about how the Jews are responsible for everything, well come on. And then for an officer of the law to help cover this up in the hopes that he would protect such a terror, seriously. If someone smeared my name after something like this, I would say, So Be It. It would be my fault and I would take responsibility for it. Mel should be man enough to do the same.

Posted at 2:35PM on Jul 29th 2006 by J.B.

8. I am truly disappointed if what is being written here about Mel Gibson is true. The anti-semitic accusations are especially disturbing. If Mel Gibson has given his life to Christ then he should know that the Lord Jesus Christ still loves the Jews although their eyes, generally speaking, have not been opened as of yet. He should read romans chapter 11. I will pray for him. The passion of the Christ really spoke to many and showed how Christ suffered. He suffered for all of us and Mel as well. None of us are without sin including Mel Gibson, but he needs to humble himself before God if these accusations are true.If he is born again, then he should be on his knees in repentance beofre God.

Posted at 2:54PM on Jul 29th 2006 by J.Q.

9. I am truly disappointed if what is being written here about Mel Gibson is true. The anti-semitic accusations are especially disturbing. If Mel Gibson has given his life to Christ then he should know that the Lord Jesus Christ still loves the Jews although their eyes, generally speaking, have not been opened as of yet. He should read romans chapter 11. I will pray for him. The passion of the Christ really spoke to many and showed how Christ suffered. He suffered for all of us and Mel as well. None of us are without sin including Mel Gibson, but he needs to humble himself before God if these accusations are true.If he is born again, then he should be on his knees in repentance before God.

Posted at 2:54PM on Jul 29th 2006 by J.Q.

10. I have no problem with celebrities being given some latitude when it comes to press coverage as anyone can make a mistake. However, I think Mr. Gibson should be encouraged to get some professional help and is seems to be losing control of himself. The "powers tha be" are not doing him a favor by sweeping this behavior under the carpet. You cannot fix a problem if you won't acknowledge its existance.

Mr. Gibson certainly has a right to his opion and if he really thinks the Jews are the problem with the world let him say so soberly, publicly and take the consequences instead of having his "people" make nice to protect Mel's image and bank accounts. MJB

Posted at 2:55PM on Jul 29th 2006 by M. J. Boettcher

11. One thing I hope people will understand or at least consider. Let's not allow a Jewish controled media turn the remarks a drunk dumb fool in to something it's not.

Lot's of people are angry at the Jews and not because we are bigot's. Over 1,000 innocent people have been killed by the Jews in the last week.

If not for the occuapation of Palestine by the Jews we would not have had the World Trade Center disaster, and perhaps we would have never found ourselves in Iraq.

Tensions in the middle east are a direct result of the "choosen ones" occupation of Palestine. Mercy what did the Brittish expect when they carved up the most holy ground in the world and forced "oil & water" to mix????

A lot of Americans are dying because we support Isreal, and that makes me angry.



Posted at 2:56PM on Jul 29th 2006 by Dave Sanders

12. Wow. The LA County Sheriff's Department has singlehandedly smeared Mel Gibson.

They almost make him sound as crazy as Alec Baldwin!

LA County better be very careful as I predict a $10M settlement for Gibson.

Posted at 2:59PM on Jul 29th 2006 by SpinDoctor

13. Congratulations on first-class investigative journalism! Your speed and courage are praiseworthy. This is not a petty story about an aging actor getting drunk. This is a very important story about the crude anti-semitism of the producer/director of the world's most widely-seen film about Jesus! Bad guys come to bad ends. The police should be ashamed of themselves for trying to help this pig to hide his shame. And other media likewise, that have whitewashed the story. Thank you for printing the truth.

Posted at 3:00PM on Jul 29th 2006 by Arthur Fisher

14. I've got no problem with a public announcement that the arrest occurred "without incident." Trying someone in the court of public opinion is not a function of the Sheriff's Dept. no matter who the offender is or how offensive they are. I do have very serious concerns about an officer being ordered to falsify a legal document, him doing it, and then producing a "sanitized" legal document. The arrest report will be the basis of the prosecution. Now, there is considerable question about what happened. Which document is the truth? Believe me, the defense attorney will be all over that. If the arrest report was falsified, how do we know that the sobriety test wasn't? Maybe the whole thing never happened.

Posted at 3:04PM on Jul 29th 2006 by Hank

15. Dave - despite your apparent difficulty with spelling and punctuation, I can't believe you're that stupid. This isn't about the war in Iraq. This is about a wacko hypocrite, who made an anti-Semitic propaganda piece (by implicating Jews in the death of Jesus). It is made all the more interesting that he goes both meglomaniacal and anti-Semitic while awaiting the clink.

This is priceless comedy. I only wish comeuppance like this happened more often, and in such neat little packages. Where's your Messiah now, Mel?

Posted at 3:10PM on Jul 29th 2006 by rocco

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