Cece Woods

As first reported by The Current Report, a powerful blast rocked the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department’s Biscailuz Training Center on June 5, rattling buildings – and nerves – across the complex. Thankfully, this time, no one was killed. The incident, however, has immediately reignited questions about safety, supervision, and leadership inside one of the Sheriff’s Department’s most dangerous specialized units. For many who were on the property when the blast occurred, the explosion immediately brought back memories of July 18, 2025, when a grenade believed to be inert detonated, killing Detectives Joshua Eklund, Victor Lemus, and William Osborn. The

To understand why so many Americans have lost confidence in the federal justice system, look no further than the StarClub fraud case. On its face, the case appears straightforward. Bernhard Eugen Fritsch, the founder of StarClub, was convicted in federal court and sentenced to 20 years in prison for orchestrating a multimillion-dollar fraud scheme that funded an extravagant lifestyle. Yet today, Fritsch remains in Germany, beyond the reach of the sentence imposed by a U.S. court. Ordinarily, that would be where the story ends. Instead, court filings, documentary evidence, emails, and a remarkable sequence of events are raising new questions

THE 10TH FLOOR SHIELD, TAXPAYER MILLIONS, AND THE ILLUSION OF REFORM What was supposed to be a routine bomb squad detonation on 27th Street turned into a neighborhood catastrophe. The LAPD assured the public they had everything under control—until a massive, miscalculated explosion tore through a South L.A. block, shattering homes and trust alike. But the blast itself was only the beginning. While the “protected class” at 100 West 1st Street immediately pivoted to optics, deflection, and personal survival, the rank-and-file at Newton Area and leadership within Central Bureau were left on the ground, absorbing the raw fury of a

One year after three Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department detectives were killed in the deadliest incident in the agency’s history since 1857, the investigation is revealing a far more troubling picture than the public was initially led to believe. The aftermath of the tragic accident has devolved into a sprawling cover-up designed to protect the image of Sheriff Robert Luna as he seeks re-election. Multiple credible sources have identified the individual they allege removed the second grenade from one of the detectives’ homes, and later illegally disposed of the military ordnance at a public recreational facility close by. The “Missing”

Part I: Critical event planning trips or Taxpayer funded Vacations abroad? The Personnel Staffing Panic and Executive Sightseeing Although this investigation centers on the glaring lost preparation opportunities in the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) major event planning and the desperate, attritional measures proposed to support staffing—such as shutting down the recruit academy—it is equally critical to address the severe missed opportunities regarding vital planning lessons from other agencies that were instead co-opted into tourism, luxury sightseeing escapades, and personal convenience details for Chief Michel Moore’s loyal inner circle. A prime illustration of this administrative excess is why former

Last year, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department suffered one of the darkest days in its history when Detectives Joshua Kelley Ecklund, Victor Lemus, and William Osborn were killed in a catastrophic explosion at the Biscailuz Center. Perhaps the greatest tragedy is that the evidence shows these detectives weren’t killed by bad luck. They were killed in an explosion that state investigators concluded was preventable. Cal/OSHA ultimately cited the department for multiple serious and willful safety violations, issuing approximately $350,000 in fines after determining LASD had failed to maintain a safe work environment. Over the past year, The Current Report has uncovered evidence suggesting the failures

This September 16th will mark three years since the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department experienced one of its darkest moments in the agency’s more than 150-year history. The devastating murder of Deputy Ryan Clinkunbroomer. On Monday, August 17th, that painful wound was revisited as opening statements began in the murder trial of Kevin Cataneo Salazar, the man accused of pulling alongside the unsuspecting deputy at a traffic light and shooting him at point-blank range. Clinkunbroomer was discovered mortally wounded in his patrol car by a passerby on September 16, 2023, near the Palmdale Station. He was transported to Antelope Valley

The federal investigation surrounding the missing grenade from the July 18, 2025 explosion that killed three Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department detectives has moved deeper into LASD’s executive ranks. Multiple sources tell The Current Report that an LASD executive was interviewed by federal investigators on Monday regarding the circumstances surrounding the missing second grenade and events that unfolded after the fatal explosion at the Biscailuz Training Center. Another LASD executive is scheduled to be interviewed next week, according to sources with direct knowledge of the investigation. The latest development is significant because it indicates federal investigators are continuing to examine

Despite Sheriff Robert Luna’s repeated public condemnation of deputy gangs, station cliques and the tattoos associated with them, another reported tattooed member of a Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department station subgroup has been elevated to the rank of captain, this time at the very station associated with the tattoo he is reported to carry. Omar Camacho now serves as Acting Captain of LASD’s Norwalk Station, an assignment confirmed by official department records. Multiple department sources tell The Current Report that Camacho carries the Norwalk Station subgroup tattoo: a white skull with blood-red eyes superimposed on a red numeral 4, pierced

Seven days after investigative journalist William B. Scott published an investigation into recurring $400 million and $1.7 billion financial claims involving Russian and American energy interests, federal agents raided StarClub, arrested its founder and seized servers containing approximately 50 emails tracking the same financial pattern. When federal agents raided StarClub on August 2, 2017, they did more than arrest founder and CEO Bernhard Fritsch. They seized the company’s servers and, with them, an extraordinary archive of contemporaneous correspondence documenting a financial pattern that has never been publicly accounted for in the government’s prosecution. That distinction is important because the government