sheriff’s station to report the incident. The deputy patted the man down for weapons, put him in the back of his patrol cruiser and searched his vehicle before letting him go with a warning.Īfterward, the man said, he realized that $500 in white Commerce Casino poker chips had gone missing from his backpack, so he called the East L.A. and was immediately pulled over for an expired registration. 2, 2020, a professional gambler - whose name was redacted - left the Commerce Casino around 3 a.m. “Any employee that violates the public’s trust and engages in misconduct will be investigated and held accountable.”Īccording to the memo, on the morning of Jan. “The Sheriff’s Department holds each of its members to the highest standards and expects them to act with integrity and professionalism,” the department said. The case is still the subject of an internal investigation, the department said. On Friday, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said Robledo been put on administrative leave but declined to explain what that entailed, claiming that it was legally barred from saying whether he was still receiving pay.

It was only after a sergeant reviewed surveillance video and the patrol cruiser’s logs that authorities figured out who’d made the stop, according to a memo from the district attorney’s office. When he was first questioned about the missing chips, prosecutors said, Deputy Braulio Robledo denied having pulled over the professional poker player at all.

deputy accused of stealing $500 in poker chips during a traffic stop after the driver who sparked the investigation said he feared retaliation from “deputy gangs.”

The district attorney’s office has decided not to prosecute an East L.A.

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