LeFlore did not respond to multiple emails and phone messages. "Twice the sheriff's department has refused to do anything about LeFlore, so it makes no sense for the DA's office to wait for a Sheriff's Department investigation that is not going to do anything that damages LeFlore." "It has to be an independent investigation," Sanders told Eyewitness News.
Sanders said that's too little, too late. "If and when they do, we will review the evidence to determine if a crime has been committed." "The sheriff's department has not forwarded any additional investigations to us regarding this individual," OCDA spokesperson Kimberly Edds replied in an email. Sanders filed his Pitchess Motion laying out his evidence against LeFlore in the phone eavesdropping case in mid-April, so Eyewitness News asked the OCDA's office if they would start their own investigation. "I want the public to have confidence that I've insisted on a process that's absolutely fair," he said in January of 2020. Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer declined our request for an interview but told Eyewitness News in 2020 that he was cracking down on the OCSD over its mishandling of evidence. They kept silent about the 17 other times their own records show LeFlore mishandled evidence, including five in which he allegedly lied on the police reports. Sanders said that when the OCSD referred LeFlore to the DA's office, the department only included the boots, meth and ammunition case. they're talking about how terrible, how unethical this officer is."Įyewitness News asked the DA's office why LeFlore wasn't prosecuted back then, and a spokesperson would only say there was "insufficient evidence to prove beyond a reasonable doubt a crime occurred." "The lawyer and the client are pretty unbelievable on the phone calls. "I think it's absolutely retaliation," Sanders told Eyewitness News. "Anyone attempts to listen to this, especially that 5-foot tall, deceitful, lying Orange County Sheriff named LeFlore, we'll seek prosecution, guaranteed," said Andersen in one of the recorded calls.Īndersen suspected LeFlore might be listening in on what are supposed to be legally protected attorney-client calls because he'd already filed two complaints against LeFlore, accusing him of lying on a search warrant affidavit and targeting his client, Camu-Ferguson. In several of those recorded phone calls, LeFlore heard inmate Taylor Camu-Ferguson and his attorney John Andersen speak specifically about LeFlore. Sanders exposed the secretly recorded phone calls last month in a Pitchess Motion, a request for a judge to inspect and turn over confidential personnel records that may contain information defense attorneys can use to impeach an officer's credibility. It's illegal because there's an eavesdropping statute, and he violated it multiple times, and the question now is, will anything happened to him?" "It's illegal because it's a violation of the Sixth Amendment. "Absolutely illegal," said Orange County Assistant Public Defender Scott Sanders, who brought the Pitchess Motion on behalf of his client who was arrested in a separate case by LeFlore in 2021. LeFlore is accused of deliberately and illegally eavesdropping on confidential phone calls in 2017 between a jail inmate he'd arrested twice and the attorney fighting his case. Late Friday afternoon, Judge Elizabeth Macias ordered that portions of those typically-secret records be turned over to the defense in a case that's renewed focus on the eavesdropping scandal inside the Orange County Sheriff's Department. Matthew LeFlore - looking for evidence that may shed light on his credibility and truthfulness. (KABC) - An Orange County Superior Court judge spent three days over the last week sifting through confidential personnel files of OCSD Sgt. An Orange County sergeant that's been accused of eavesdropping on confidential attorney-client calls also mishandled evidence but was never charged by the district attorney's office.
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