Sheriff Lee Baca says he wants to reopen Malibu Sheriff’s substation to deal with arrests in the area.
Sherffif Lee Baca announced today that the remains of Mitrice Richardson will be sent to a FBI lab in Quantico, Va., for further examination. He said this is being done at the request of Richardson’s family.
Richardson’s remains were found nearly a year after she went missing in September 2009 after been released from the Malibu/Lost Hills Sheriff’s Station where she was booked for not paying a restaurant bill in Malibu.
Her skeletal remains were found in a rugged area of Malibu Canyon in August last year. The cause of death is not known.
The Sheriff also said he would like to open another station in Malibu to serve that area, so people arrested in Malibu would not have to be taken all the way to the Lost Hills Station. He said he has been working with Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky on possibly reopening a station in the Malibu Civic Center.
“I have for years wanted to reopen the old Malibu station where people could come to the city of Malibu, get booked and not have that distance to go from Lost Hills,” Baca told the Los Angeles Times.
The Sheriff’s Department has been criticized for how they handled the Richardson case, by releasing her from the station in the middle of the night with no money, cell phone or transportation.
Two negligence lawsuits had been filed against the Sheriff’s Department.