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Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times
National
Keri Blakinger

Deputies outlined veiled threat to county watchdog on defaced poster. Nothing happened

LOS ANGELES — Last fall, investigators with the Office of Inspector General — the county's watchdog — paid a visit to the troubled East Los Angeles sheriff's station, home of the notorious Banditos deputy gang.

While walking through the station, one of the investigators spotted something shocking: a poster featuring her boss, with words that seemed like a death threat.

Someone had inserted a defaced picture of Inspector General Max Huntsman onto a fake hair loss ad, along with a quote attributed to John Wayne: "A man's gotta do what a man's gotta do."

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