Home searched in Oak Park

Peace officers from the city of Los Angeles Police Department conducted for the second time in several weeks a search warrant at a home in the 6600 block of Tamarind last Thursday.

According to a witness who asked to remain anonymous, officers in civilian clothes and driving unmarked cars appeared to be removing guns and ammunition from the home several weeks ago, before Christmas. Residents of the home included a man, a woman and a girl about 11 or 12, the source said. Furniture and other contents of the home were removed several days after the initial search was conducted and it appeared that the residents were relocating elsewhere. But despite the initial appearance of moving away, the three subjects continued to live there.

The adult male, possibly in his mid-30s, had a shaved head and drove a vehicle with a custom license plate that said "I4NI" (eye for an eye) that was later removed.

Capt. Pat Gannon, LAPD internal affairs group chief investigator, was contacted outside the home last week, but declined to comment. He would only confirm that the male resident is a police officer for LAPD.

The search warrant was conducted as part of an ongoing internal investigation, Gannon said.

He would neither confirm nor deny that anything was found during last week’s search of the home, but Gannon added that there’s nothing about the investigation that would imply any danger to neighborhood residents.

––Steven Holt