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Advisory board votes to decertify LAPD detective after POST finds attempted purchase of a silencer and related dishonesty
Summary
The advisory board voted July 16 to decertify Los Angeles Police Department detective Luke B. Walden after POST presented evidence staff said showed an attempted purchase of a firearm silencer from China and repeated denials to investigators.
The advisory board voted July 16 to decertify the POST certificate of Los Angeles Police Department detective Luke Baxter Walden after the division presented evidence that it said showed Walden attempted to purchase a firearm silencer, and then provided false or misleading statements during the administrative investigation.
POST law‑enforcement consultant William Emboden summarized an investigation stemming from a package intercepted at Los Angeles International Airport in April 2021 that contained an item the division and LAPD criminalists identified as a firearm silencer (also described in law‑enforcement bulletins as a device marketed in some online listings as an inline fuel filter). Emboden said LAPD forensic analysis described the item as a machined aluminum monocore baffle assembly with internal…
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