Check Mate For Sheriff's in Gibson Case

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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211. I've never read such biased and BS stories in my life. Can you say personal agenda? The f***ing idiot even expresses that he himself is Jewish. Don't be upset because you're still waiting for your savior. (Looks around) Is he here yet?

Posted at 1:42PM on Jul 31st 2006 by TMZ is So gay

212. Dave Sanders is a complete idiot. You have no idea about the situation in Israel. The Jews were in Israel FIRST! Palestine has been the problem and as of now, radical groups in Lebanon are the problem. Israel didn't just bomb a building full of women and children. NO. Hesballah did. Think about who is killing who now.

Posted at 1:48PM on Jul 31st 2006 by Mel Cabot

213. Harvey Levin sounds like an angry person that hates.
This is America not Israel, where people can live freely with out any WALLS.
Mel Gibson only has to answer to the law and no one else.
Do you have anything good to say about Muslims?
DO YOU WANT TO HEAR THE TRUTH
Muslims are only seen in the media as crazy barbaric people, that’s media for you.
You would seem crazy too, if your homes and lives were taken away from you. Why because the Jewish government destroyed and kicked out many Muslims from there homes for Jewish settlements and I'm not talking just one Jewish settlement, I'm talking hundreds. Too eventually to control and take all of Palestine from the Muslims, to make Israel a bigger state.
Israel would even take Lebanon if they could, even Egypt...history says it all...I learned a lot not by the media by reading and seeing the maps and talking to Jews that know what Israel is trying to do, talking to Muslims to hear their side. It's funny how there are two sides to Jewish people some are very companionate towards the Muslims understanding what’s going on, but you tell that to the other Jews and they will ridicule and hate there own Jewish people that try to get in the way of their Israel's plans...That tells you there is good and bad in every nationalty.

Posted at 1:52PM on Jul 31st 2006 by Lisa

214. By the way Harvey...why don't you pick on someone with the same brains as you like ..hum..maybe that dim wit Paris Hilton...she's only slightly above you...as far as the stupid shit that comes out of her mouth daily.................

Posted at 2:01PM on Jul 31st 2006 by Sue O

215. Comparing Mel's picture to Saddam is outrageous, there are more important things to report on besides someone's illness and weaknesses, like we all don't have some. Let this go, let him say sorry and move on. It's amazing how we can make light of the whole Saddam issue, I don't think what Mel did compares to the murder of Saddams own people !

Posted at 3:29PM on Jul 31st 2006 by pam mondloch

216. I've never seen so many bloggers eager to shoot the messenger. Of course, the bad news (Mel's blatant anti-Semitism) for which Mr. Levin was the much-maligned courier was already on display in The Passion of the Christ. Accordingly, Mr. Levin's report merely confirmed what most of us already knew.

Apart from the cretins who share Gibson's views on those Christ-killin' bastards, the people who accuse Mr. Levin of fabricating the report are, paradoxically, the same kind of people who bought the Bushies' fabrications about those WMD's in Iraq----people with a low tolerance for reality in its more unplesant forms. They're children who desperately need to believe that their heroes---those grown-ups in Washington or Hollywood or wherever---would never, ever do anything weally, weally naughty. It's sweet, actually---in a creepy kind of way.

Posted at 5:13PM on Jul 31st 2006 by Paul K.

217. Hey, Chris, find a way to think for yourself without bitching at the media, which you villify for doing for you what you don't wanna do for yourself. Idiot.

Posted at 7:10PM on Jul 31st 2006 by Mark

218. Mel Gibson is a MORON.....he deserves to be kicked out of Hollywood. If he has an issue with the Jews - he needs to review the history of Hollywood. All of the movie houses were founded by Jewish people back at the turn of the century. It was these movie houses that gave him his big break and all of his money.

Posted at 7:12PM on Jul 31st 2006 by ilm

219. Mel Gibson had the opportunity to say what ALL non-Jews feel about Jews.

Money, Money, Money is all Jews care about and aren't concerned by he means they take to accomodate wealth. They will lie, cheat and steal and sell their first born and mother for a DIME!!!
Hollywood can't stand that a non-Jew can make millions in Hollywood without Jew support (Have you heard of a small movie that begins with the word Pasion????)

Posted at 8:15PM on Jul 31st 2006 by Dash Riprock

220. How long do comments take to post???

Posted at 8:30PM on Jul 31st 2006 by Dash Riprock

221. First of all, I am a sort of fan of Harvey's and I hope he will take into consideration that in Mel Gibson's case that Mel was drunk and not in control of his actions or what he was saying. I think Mel should accept the Rabbi's invitation to speak at the event.

I do not believe that Mel Gibson is an anti-semite. I also read that he has done work for the County Sheriff's Department and knew that there was a video camera with sound in the jail. With this in mind, one can only imagine just how drunk Mel must have really been when he sounded off like that. This is what I thinking about when I pass judgment on his behavior.

My regards to Harvey. May he enjoy many coffee breaks in Burbank with Opal.

Constance

Posted at 10:58PM on Aug 1st 2006 by Constance Meadows

222. Everyone: Time to get REAL ~ (and get a life!)

If you haven't been drunk OR said a few things you regret...throw the first stone!

Ok...now that everyone's put down their stone(s), let's get to the REAL issue:

How did this story "that was NEVER written up" somehow "GET OUT"...and WHO handed it out...to (er, that lawyer gone Hollywood)...FYI: I think he has a brother...BIG BROTHER! ($$$)

The real question is: Why isn't someone investigating how this story that was "never written up" GET OUT?

And, isn't it amazing how EVERYONE can get on a ban' wagon once it's rollin'??? (Be careful, "Do unto others"...)

Tsk, Tsk TMZ: You hired that guy...what the hell is his name??? Oh, who cares! (We know who he's sold his soul to ~ NO! Not the Devil. Pleeeeease! Just Hollywood!)

No name: SHAME on you! ALL OF YOUR "CONNECTIONS" TO GET THESE STORIES (not just this one...ALL of them) makes you do SHAMEFUL things, (41 interviews on Monday, alone...and whatever else you have "to do")! For shame, for shame!!! Even your mother is ashamed! :O( (She told me.)

Posted at 11:25PM on Aug 1st 2006 by Laura

223. The LASD did a fine job on this case, and I've had my troubles with them on my bike up by The Rock Store.

Clarify what "lies" were told? How do you define an "incident", was their a struggle resulting in injury or property damage...no, was there any FACTUAL issue related to the way a speeding and drunken driving arrest was executed by the LASD, again no. Was there a rewrite of the case, maybe, why? BECAUSE THE ANTI SEMITIC COMMENTS ARE COMPLETELY IRRELEVANT!!!!

Will the judge, the defense, the prosecution, or the jury give a rats ass about any comments made, not if there focused on the FACTS. He blew a .12, he was belligerint, he was visibly drunk, no "INCIDENT" took place except that the attention deficit disorder ridden general public needs some "drama" thats irrelevant to chew on.

I have no association with law enforcement and I'm a one time DUI offender myself, which believe me is a huge headache in terms of legal expense and clearing your license.

I think the LASD did a fine job....now ignore me when I go by on my Honda Superbike at 100 on PCH

Cheers

Posted at 12:46AM on Aug 2nd 2006 by mike

224. why to go mel....dont sit down stand up for what you believe..damn a jew media

Posted at 12:32PM on Aug 2nd 2006 by jerry hauversburk

225. Wow! Baca did again! "covering up", which he does best! I wonder, if Mel Gibson, whether or not, the DUI, the words he said, and everthing else, included, what does any of that have to do, with a DUI case? "Baca" will cover up, lies, he will never acknowldge, when he has to deffend, his entire Sheriff's Department, for everything under the sun! "Hey" Spin Doctor, what will it take, or do you think I have a chance, for a settlement? I am a mother of 3 beautiful, healthy children, I kept them in sports, was home everyday so they would be able to come home, to do homework, and I would be there for them, inevery possible way, after school, I did this, and I know, as I would either listen, hear, or even at times, after the "abuse" a note, about how wonderful of a mother I am, and that he is very lucky, to have me, home with our children, and he praises me, when there is a fnction, or how every parent, loves to talk about their children. Their grades, sports, "but" add "abusive" behavior? That won't get out! "Baca" covers everything to save the reputation of S.E.B.! I know, I am living this horrible, corrupt, system, and the harrassing everyday, a miniumum, 2, per day, if not more! He's liquidated me. My mother's death, she left me, as well as my children, $500,000.00 cash, 3 rental properties, Edison stocks and bonds, for the 3 grandchildren, and myself. Not Him! It's gone, and the entire trust account. Now, he's removed my grandmother from her retirement home, and he will not tell me, or inform me, where she is. My children would like to see her. I have looked for her, her Dr. has tried, and funny that it seems, her entire files, from her retirement, alzeimers unit, are missing. "Cover up"? I wonder. Well, I will keep looking, "But" given the reason he won't tell me, or help, is MONEY! Again. Don't deputies make enough? I believe, my current, Ex-Swatty, makes about $12,500.00 per month! Does Baca defend his deputies, because of his reputaion, which could be on the line, during this election year? I don't think that would be it. Every deputy, good or bad, gains from, "the magic of the pencil"! Deputies, are above the law? I thought domestic violence, was against the law as well. Driving their patrol cars, when they could be intoxicated, or worse, while they drive patrol cars for their own pleasure, children, and babies, don't have car seats, they also don't wear, safety belts! So, are the laws, the same for us, or should we take the "Oath" and hide behind the "Gun and the Badge". Records, of our domestic violence case, stated in court, November 2003, and still goes on, and I was blamed. I am 5 ft. 1' max. I weigh in at, 115-120 lbs. He's 6 ft. 2 and weighs in at, about 189-195 or so. Did anyone know, he shot himself in the left thigh, during a very highly, "but" rehearsed, raid, and I don't think, I read any reports in the news. The mail from the Sheriff's Dept. "Get Well" soon, was it! Oh!! We are one big, extending "family" as "Baca" always says, when a officer either gets hurt, or even the worst. He will turn his back, once something else comes along, to get him, "Baca" out of the main stream. Children Services, is also included with my enitre case, which in the records, the "officials" were to look in to the facts, of the alledged, "abuse" being left alone, and everything else. I had to have tox screens, randomly, I had a Dui, as well. I went to class, and my first night at class, even though I didn't want to be there, was a great experience for me, to gain, my self esteem back, as I told them, I am married, ( at that time) to an officer, and I am standing here tonight, to say, Hi, I am Kimmer, and I was popped by officers, like in many of your cases, so I can say, it happens! I met many new freinds, and I still go by, a few times a month, to say hi, or to tell my story. So, I had a dui to! I wish you well, Mel!:) Take care of your self, and be carfull, if they use, (it's a saying) "The magis of the pencil"! Good luck and you have many fans, and the poles don't lie. Kimmer1

Posted at 8:08PM on Aug 3rd 2006 by Kimberly Corrigan

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