Video exhibits LA DA George Gascon’s right-hand man arrested in DUI cease: ‘You’ve got pulled over the flawed particular person’

Harris Marley

International Courant

FIRST ON FOX: Newly launched video exhibits Los Angeles District Lawyer George Gascon’s prime aide arrested after interrupting police who pulled over his then-fiance throughout a site visitors cease on their manner house from a marriage in 2021.

Joseph Iniguez, the present No. 2 prosecutor in Los Angeles, was using shotgun when police pulled the couple over for a suspected site visitors violation.

Iniguez was Gascon’s chief of employees on the time, and final 12 months he acquired a $10,000 settlement from Azusa after he sued over the incident, alleging a federal civil rights violation.  He has since been promoted to chief deputy district lawyer.

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Iniguez was accused of repeatedly interrupting an Azusa police officer who was making an attempt to query his then-fiance after a site visitors cease. (Azusa Police Division)

Iniguez additionally urged the officers to verify his license plates, which may have revealed to them that he labored for the Los Angeles County District Lawyer’s Workplace.

“Run our plates, and see what you discover,” he mentioned. “Truthfully. I am not saying something, simply see what you discover.”

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