Reports Reveal Chief of Staff for LA County DA Gascon had been arrested for public intoxication

California Globe: Reports from the Azusa Police Department released this week revealed that the Chief of Staff for Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascon had been arrested for public intoxication in early December.

According to the Azusa Police, a car containing LA DA Chief of Staff Joseph Iniguez and his fiancée was pulled over during a simple traffic stop on December 11th. Police observed their Tesla making an illegal U-turn and proceeded to follow them until they turned off the road, where they subsequently pulled them over. Reports noted that Iniguez and his fiancée were coming back from a wedding and were at a fast food restaurant when officers confronted the fiancée, who was driving, and ordered her out of the car under suspicion of drunk driving. Seeing the situation unfolding, Iniguez began filming the incident with his phone,

The situation escalated between the officers and Iniguez, which eventually resulted in Iniguez telling an officer “you f— up” and threatened to put “put him in the Brady system.” The Brady List is a list of police officers who have been involved in incidents involving untruthfulness, being convicted as a criminal, and other offenses that generally deem them unfit for police duty. Being added to the list can often derail an officers career due to those officers no longer being seemed as credible in subsequent court cases for which they are involved in.

While his fiancée was only held for a short time and released at the scene, Iniguez was arrested for public intoxication. After being booked that day, Iniguez was then released, and then quickly filed an internal affairs complaint against the arresting officer for arresting him in retaliation for filming the traffic stop. more here