The Retired Cop

In the early 1980s, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department had a different evidence storage system than they have had since the early 1980s.  Up until the early 1980s, the detectives handling a case were responsible for storage, disposition and tracking of evidence in their cases.  Each detective had a bin in the evidence storage room that they kept their evidence in and a ledger that they logged the evidence in and out in and put the disposition of in.  Carson Sheriff's station's Detective Jerry Kaono aka "Da Big Kahuna" aka "Da Flyin Hawaiian" had one such bin. In the early 1980s, the department decided to do an audit of the evidence being held at the various sheriff's stations.  One of the first stations to be audited was Lakewood station.  Quite a bit of evidence was unaccounted for. Heads rolled.  Detectives were fired.  Detective sgts were fired. Detective lieutenants were fired.  Same thing happened at another station.  Carson station'