Nine prominent perps are finally in jail for a high conspiracy to kill in 2012 that steadily unraveled in the years since they committed it.
Among those arrested this week are three California Highway Patrol officers and the powerful defense attorney they aided and abetted in the premeditated murder of a 26-year-old man whom the latter suspected of pilfering his collectibles.
The defendants now join their previously arraigned cohort, Robert Woody, the suspected snitch whose arrest on suspicion of murder in 2014 undoubtedly helped authorities crack the unsolved disappearance and homicide of Korey Kauffman.
Prosecutors say the eight taken into custody now either participated in slaying the antiques thief or actively covered up his killing -- done allegedly to “send a message” to anyone else who might view wealthy California lawyer Frank Carson as an easy target.
The jailed former defense attorney is accused of orchestrating “scrapper” Kauffman’s murder in the spring of 2012, and enlisting former and current members of the CHP and two prominent business owners to do his bidding in the brutal execution and subsequent cover up.
Key conspirators dumped the victim’s corpse in a remote area bordering Yosemite Park, where it wasn’t discovered until well over a year later when a group of hunters stumbled upon skeletal remains in the forest.
According to the 325-page criminal complaint, that’s when a high conspiracy to kill and conceal extended into obstruction of justice, perjury, and a coordinated effort to mislead investigators within the very police department trying to solve Kauffman’s murder.
For that, CHP officers Scott McFarlane, Eduardo Quintanar and Walter Wells have been jailed alongside their malevolent mastermind Frank Carson Esq., Carson’s wife Georgia, his daughter Christina, and two liquor merchants, Baljit and Daljit Singh Atwal.
Their collective crimes illustrate just how easy it is for corrupt police, public officials and prominent citizens to break the law together, and should cast new light on several cold cases around the nation with strikingly similar aspects to them.
Eponymous Rox
