Dr. Yolanda Cassidy says Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department officials fabricated and backdated a memo to cover up the 2020 death of a bomb-sniffing black Labrador named Spike who overheated in an unattended patrol car.
A veterinarian is suing several current and former Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department officials, saying they fabricated and backdated a memo to cover up the 2020 death of a bomb-sniffing black Labrador named Spike who overheated in an unattended patrol car.
The memo is also at odds with a veterinary report reviewed by The Times last year, which showed that the dog “most likely passed of heat stroke.”In the lawsuit filed Thursday, Cassidy accused the department of fabricating the memo two years after the fact in an alleged effort to cover up the real reason for the dog’s death once the incident finally came under public scrutiny in the fall of 2022.
The county, which typically does not speak publicly about pending litigation, did not immediately offer comment. Neither Villanueva nor any of the other current and former officials named as defendants responded to similar requests late Thursday. But when he returned just before 1 p.m., the memo said, the inside of the car was hot, and Spike was unconscious. The sergeant rushed the animal to the East L.A. Dog and Cat Hospital, where staff tried to revive him. Afterward, instead of leaving the dog’s body at the hospital for a necropsy, Tobin allegedly took it with him — which the suit says was “presumably to cover up evidence of Spike’s death.
Officials did, however, open an investigation into Garrido, who also had another strike against him: He’d allegedly irked higher-ups byThe investigation into him centered on claims that Garrido “stole gasoline” when he allegedly drove his work vehicle to Arizona — claims that could be easily disproved from the vehicle’s odometer. In response, Garrido filed suit iNot long after that case was filed, Cassidy alleges that then-Cmdr.
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