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A Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department deputy pleaded guilty Monday and a second LASD deputy agreed to plead guilty to federal charges for leveraging their law enforcement jobs during off-duty work as private security for clients including a now-jailed cryptocurrency businessman.

David Rodriguez, 43, of La Verne, pleaded guilty in downtown Los Angeles to one count of conspiracy against rights, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

In a related case, Christopher Cadman, 33, of Fullerton, agreed to plead guilty to federal charges of conspiracy against rights and subscribing to a false tax return. Cadman, who will face up to 13 years in federal prison after he pleads guilty, is expected to make his initial appearance in Los Angeles federal court in the coming days.

According to prosecutrors, Rodriguez and Cadman were employed by Adam Iza, 24, who lived in Beverly Hills and Newport Beach. The cryptocurrency businessman who proclaimed himself “The Godfather” pleaded guilty in January to one count of conspiracy against rights, one count of wire fraud, and one count of tax evasion. His sentencing hearing is scheduled for Dec. 15, court papers show.

According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, in August 2021, Cadman and another unidentified law enforcement officer threatened one of Iza’s adversaries, with the unnamed deputy pointing a gun at the victim during a meeting at Iza’s office inside his Bel Air mansion. Immediately after the encounter, the victim transferred nearly $25,000 to Iza’s account, prosecutors said.

The following month, Cadman and other law enforcement officers allegedly orchestrated a traffic stop in Paramount to arrest the same victim.

In his plea agreement, Cadman admitted helping to organize the arrest on Iza’s behalf, and said he received cash payments while working for Iza.

Cadman also allegedly failed to report at least $40,500 on his 2021 federal tax return, and he admitted to owing nearly $11,000 in federal taxes for that year, federal prosecutors said.

In a separate plea agreement, Rodriguez admitted using his law enforcement credentials in July 2022 to improperly obtain a court-authorized search warrant, lying to a judge that it was related to a robbery investigation, prosecutors said. He allegedly then obtained GPS location information associated with another victim’s cell phone on behalf of a client who hired him as a security guard.

Rodriguez shared the GPS data with co-conspirators, including Eric Chase Saavedra, 42, of Chino, an LASD deputy and former federal task force officer who ran a private security company. Saavedra pleaded guilty in February to one count of conspiracy against rights and one count of subscribing to a false tax return.

Saavedra, who is free on $50,000 bond, is expected to be sentenced in the coming months.

U.S. District Judge Percy Anderson scheduled a Nov. 10 sentencing hearing for Rodriguez, who faces up to 10 years in federal prison, prosecutors noted.

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  1. Well this wasn’t too long of the bullshit that they usually put in the paper about these deputies. How they’ve been always caught in California with heroin how they can’t get over their heroin addiction but yet we hire them on the fucking job right. 8.6 billion a year because they got a heroin addiction and a gang problem in the fucking sheriff and police department where do you figure they’re going to have any issue at when they’re a heroin junkie working for the police and Sheriff’s Department the state of California hell never been certified by anybody in the state of California to even do the job but they still drive the streets when it’s a federal violation under federal law for invading in public. But how none of you went to school right.

  2. SINCE MY WHOLE FAMILY DIED AT THE FBI OF ORLANDO IT GIVES ME GRANDFATHER CLAUSE!!!!

    THE EGG TELLING THE HUMAN WHAT HIS LAW IS!
    HATE GREED INCOMPETENCE STUPIDITY ARROGANTNESS
    You have the uniform code & the code of ethnics that everybody violates..
    Then I hear West Coast law group of California is paying these contractors to come out and do this stupid shit on a daily basis to me.
    GPS should prove every bit of them stalking me for the last 3 years from Ventura boulevard at Cane’s restaurant opening over there. The one that showed me his ideas the one that tried to get me for a concealed weapon when his cocksucker in the pickup truck was in a Land Rover talking about how he had virtual land on the property.
    These charges consist of FEDERAL AGGRAVATED HARASSMENT, FEDERAL AGGRAVATED STALKING, FEDERAL AGGRAVATED INTIMIDATION,  FEDERAL AGGRAVATED BRUTALITY, FEDERAL AGGRAVATED CORRUPTION, and FEDERAL AGGRAVATED GREED & FEDERAL AGGRAVATED HATATRED, EVENTUALLY AGGRAVATED TAKING A BRIBE !  IN EVERY OFFICER THERE’S AN OFFSHORE BANK ACCOUNT  FOR EVERYBODY IN THE WORLD.
    My perception says this is all due to Aryan brotherhood on the D block at San Mateo County Jail where all the murders and everything happened at. right under Christina Corpus deputy Lovejoy.
    It’s like every cock sucking coward in the nation had to come out and cause as much shit as they could because they got to suck the man’s dick when they get there.
    That’s the reason they have so many offshore bank accounts with everyone at that San Mateo County jail as well as the prison system as well and across the United States of America. Minimum 5 million to $500 billion and every offshore bank account cross the United States of America at every sheriff and police department fire department how everybody that was a celebrity is now dead and they paid every one of your corrupt trustees to go to work for you because how they were just to trainee.
    Then you have this arrogant cop over here. On Sunday he comes over here and starts all this shit and has somebody called in from Santa Cruz to come down for an outreach program with a loaded fucking handgun under his goddamn arm both of them had loaded guns on him but yet they’re standing on fucking public property telling me where the fucking go right but when the sheriff’s department gets here they just let the motherfuckers run away right what an incompetent fucking agency. And this chief of police is HARBORING  A  FUGITIVE FROM JUSTICE  ( WILLIAM MORRELL ) while working for the Department with him smoking His crack cocaine and drinking his whiskey. No clue about vehicular homicide as a drunk mother fucker driving his car with a loaded FIREARM as attempted murder right why your FEDUALLY AGGRAVATED BANK ARMED ROBBERY. Just to get to me on public land you have to go through a public Bank Shopping Center.

    Where at in the law does it state that law enforcement has a right to invade in the public business areas doing business with the public we’re at in the law does it state that you have a right to invade in the public?

    Then you have them go into Google and tell them that I can’t complain and can’t have a comment on any part of Google or anywhere on the fucking internet anymore because my public rights have been violated by this piece of shit. But this is the kind of education you give your law enforcement in the community right.

    In my intuitiveness leads me to believe that the Bakersfield Police Department send some Yahoo’s down here and had your Yahoo in this fucking Community Chase my dick around the whole time because how I caught the Bakersfield Police Department chief of police buying crack cocaine from someone in the fucking City and put it on a video for the Bakersfield Police Department of you and they’ve never done anything but yet they could send these jackasses down here though.

    There’s  $75 million in a offshore bank account
    There’s 75 million different reasons for him to come out here and do this stupid shit everyday

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