A veterinarian is suing several current and former Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department officials, saying they fabricated and backdated a memo to cover up the 2020 death of a bomb-sniffing black Labrador named Spike who overheated in an unattended patrol car.
Dated from late 2020, the memo claimed that Dr. Yolanda Cassidy told officials she had examined the dog and couldn't tell what killed him. But in her lawsuit filed Thursday, Cassidy said none of that was true, and she called the Sheriff's Department memo "fraudulent."
She said she never examined the dog, never spoke to officials about what killed him and wasn't even at work that day.
