The former Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputy was sentenced to seven years in prison on Monday, according to the Los Angeles Times.
What We Know:
- Marc Antrim orchestrated a fake raid for half a ton of marijuana and an estimated $600,000 in cash in October 2018. Antrim was assigned to the Temple City Sheriff’s station at the time. He pleaded guilty to this incident and a string of other crimes back in March 2019. His other crimes include brandishing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime. United States District Judge, Virginia A. Phillips commented that Antrim’s crimes “eroded the public’s trust” in regards to law enforcement.
- Antrim was working as a patrol deputy at the time of the incident. He used a phony search warrant and flashed his badge to enter a legal marijuana distribution business. It was there that he and three accomplices, dressed as deputies, detained three warehouse security guards. When real Los Angeles police arrived on the scene of the incident, Antrim put them on the phone with a fake supervisor who told them to leave. An attorney for the business called the Sheriff’s Department and provided security footage to authorities.
- Six other people have been convicted in the case and were sentenced to six to 14 years in federal prison. Authorities subsequently found two pounds of marijuana at one of the accomplices’, Kevin McBride, home. Additionally, they found law enforcement ammunition and a Beretta handgun registered to Antrim.
- Mcbride and another accomplice, James Perez assisted Antrim in detaining the warehouse security guards. The third accomplice, Daniel Aguilera, arrived later on with a rental truck to take the cannabis. GPS attached to the moving truck was what lead authorities to track the vehicle back to McBride’s home. A man named Christopher Myung Kim, who is described as a disgruntled employee at the cannabis establishment, will be serving 14 years for planning the heist.
There isn’t currently a motive made known to the public as to why this large group of individuals would commit such an act.
