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Deputy accused of being in 'Executioners' gang reveals tattoo in court, names names

Larry Waldie, shown here in May 2022, filed suit in a case that went to trial this month over claims he’ d been retaliated against for reporting gang activity at Compton station.

When he stepped up to the witness stand last week, Los Angeles County Sheriff's Deputy Jaime Juarez told the court about his first inking party — the day he got his Compton station tattoo. The intimate gathering was at a home somewhere in Pomona, and most of the people there were strangers.

But he knew the man who invited him, and knew that man sported the same ink Juarez was about to get — a design commonly linked to a suspected deputy gang known as the Executioners.

On Thursday afternoon, while testifying in a civil trial, Juarez pushed up a pant leg to reveal that tattoo: a helmet-wearing skeleton and

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