Any CA police reading this.....Your boy Mr. Erikson was the driver not the passenger!!!!!!!
It is a misdemeanor. Can't make an arrest unless it was observed by the police. He could say he was on the moon or in the back seat too, the point is nobody can place him behind the wheel. There is some exceptions on DUI driving/crashing, but the police obviously decided to leave it to a later filing. (a prudent move, hopefully they grabbed his passport though).
Honestly, this crash a big NOTHING. No real victim, no witnesses and a well protected potential defendant. He has enough resources that he can bankrupt the police department by opposing their every step.
He is a convicted organized crime boss from Sweden, he knows what he is doing...however silly he acts at times.
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Here is where it gets interesting, the "police" agency in question:
http://sgvta.gov/
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-030206ferrari_lat,0,1020964.story?coll=la-home-headlines
From the Los Angeles Times
Ferrari Story Takes Another Bizarre Turn
By Richard Winton and David Pierson
Times Staff Writers
3:08 PM PST, March 2, 2006
Sheriff's investigators are trying to find two men claiming to be
"homeland security" officers from a small San Gabriel Valley transit
authority who showed up at the site of the crash last week of the
$1-million Ferrari Enzo.
The two men spoke with the owner of the car, Stefan Eriksson, who told
investigators that he, too, was a commissioner of the transit
authority.
Eriksson refused to be interviewed Wednesday by investigators from the
Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, which is looking into the
puzzling case. He did comply with the request for a sample of his
blood, a sheriff's spokesman said.
Eriksson survived the crash of the Ferrari, which was traveling at
more than 160 mph, investigators said. When emergency workers arrived
at the scene, Eriksson produced a card identifying him as "deputy
commissioner" of the San Gabriel Valley Transit Authority police
department's antiterrorism unit, according to the Sheriff's
Department.
A few minutes later, two unidentified men arrived at the crash site on
Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu and flashed cards and said they were
from "homeland security," according to a Sheriff's Department report.
The men were allowed by deputies onto the crime scene, where they
spoke to Eriksson before leaving, according to Los Angeles County
Sheriff's Department Sgt. Phil Brooks.
Brooks appealed to the public for help in identifying the two men.
As sheriff's detectives try to unravel the mystery of the crash, their
attention is turning to the obscure nonprofit organization that
provides disabled people with transportation in cities such as
Monrovia and Arcadia.
Eriksson, a former video game executive who, according to Swedish
newspapers, was convicted of counterfeiting a decade ago in Sweden,
has volunteered his time with the agency's antiterrorism unit, helping
them with camera technology for the paratransit vehicles, said an
agency official who asked not to be identified.
Eriksson's civil attorney, Ashley Posner, is the chairman of the
agency. He declined comment today.
Officials in cities where the agency does business said they were
mystified over why a small transit authority needs its own police
department.
"We do not see the need for a ground transportation system for
handicapped and disabled folks to have a police agency," said Monrovia
City Manager Scott Ochoa. "We warned them that if the police agency
operated with them in the city Monrovia, it would jeopardize their
[transit] agreement with us."
According to the transit authority's website, the department has a
chief, detectives, marked police cruisers and an "antiterrorism"
division.
Monrovia Police Department Chief Roger Johnson said he checked out the
department recently and found it is less than meets the eye.
"My impression at the time was that they were trying to get a police
agency off the ground to go with their transit business," Johnson
said. "I don't know if they have a police department to go with the
website."
Eriksson has insisted he was a passenger in the Ferrari when it
crashed. He said the driver was a man named "Dietrich" who fled from
the scene. Officials are skeptical of that explanation, mainly because
Eriksson had a bloody lip and there was only blood found on the
driver's side airbag.
Sheriff's officials said they took the blood sample from Eriksson to
determine whether it was his blood on the airbag.
