Poppa: Las Vegas Police compromised crime scene by leaking photos
Doug authored over 135 articles on the October 1, 2017, Las Vegas Massacre, more than any other single journalist in the country. He investigates stories on corruption, law enforcement, and crime. Doug is a US Army Military Police Veteran, former police officer, deputy sheriff, and criminal investigator. Doug spent 20 years in the hotel/casino industry as an investigator and then as Director of Security and Surveillance. He also spent a short time with the US Dept. of Homeland Security, Transportation Security Administration. In 1986 Doug was awarded Criminal Investigator of the Year by the Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office in Virginia for his undercover work in narcotics enforcement. In 1991 and 1992 Doug testified in court that a sheriff’s office official and the county prosecutor withheld exculpatory evidence during the 1988 trial of a man accused of the attempted murder of his wife. Doug’s testimony led to a judge’s decision to order the release of the man from prison in 1992 and awarded him a new trial, in which he was later acquitted. As a result of Doug breaking the police “blue wall of silence,” he was fired by the county sheriff. His story was featured on Inside Edition, Current Affair and CBS News’ “Street Stories with Ed Bradley”. In 1992 after losing his job, at the request of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Doug infiltrated a group of men who were plotting the kidnapping of a Dupont fortune heir and his wife. Doug has been a guest on national television and radio programs speaking on the stories he now writes as an investigative journalist. Catch Doug’s Podcast: @dougpoppa1
Doug you’ve got to put yourself in that leakers position as a cop who confronted corruption and lies as you did when you were in the force. Now that cop you are complaining about has given you and the public the evidence to question the sheriff’s verdict which was made public before any forensic investigation could take place. If those pics had never been seen by the public nobody could question Lombardo’s verdict. I think the guy who took the pics and passed them on deserves great credit and I doubt if he asked for any cash for them because he knew that Paddock had two bullet holes, one in his heart and another through his mouth probably leaving the bullet fragments in the floor under his head. You think Lombardo waited long enough to check that out? Perhaps that cop tried to tell the boss that Paddock was murdered. You know they wouldn’t listen to him if they had already made their minds up what to say in public.