Officer Frederick Turentine, three months suspension from duty without pay, transferred to East Valley Division.
Lieutenant James Frieling, six months suspension from duty without pay, transferred to the LAPD Academy Instruction Bureau.
Officer John Heineke, four months suspension from duty without pay, transferred to Venice Division.
Sergeant Elmer Lentz, nine months suspension from duty without pay, transferred to Hollywood Division.
Officer Wendell White, no suspension, transferred to the Homicide Adjunct Surveillance Detail.
Sergeant John Vincennes, no suspension, transferred to Administrative Vice.
EXTRACT: L.A. _Times_, May 3:
POLICE SCANDAL DEFENDANT
RECEIVES SUSPENDED SENTENCE
Officer John Brownell, 38, the first Los Angeles policeman involved in the “Bloody Christmas” scandal to face public trial, pleaded guilty at arraignment today and asked Judge Arthur J. Fitzhugh to sentence him immediately on the First Degree Assault and Aggravated Assault charges he was facing.
Brownell is the older brother of LAPD patrolman Frank D. Brownell, one of two officers injured in a bar brawl with six young men last Christmas Eve. Judge Fitzhugh, taking into account the facts that Officer Brownell was under psychological duress over the injury of his brother and that he had been discharged from the Los Angeles Police Department without pension, read the County Probation Department’s report, which recommended formal probation and no jail time. He then gave Brownell a year in the County Jail, sentence suspended, and ordered him to report to the county’s chief probation officer, Randall Milteer.
EXTRACT: L.A. _Examiner_, May 29:
STENSLAND CONVICTED–JAIL
FOR L.A. POLICEMAN
. . . the eight-man, four-woman jury found Stensland guilty on four counts: First Degree Assault, Aggravated Assault, First Degree Battery and Mayhem, the charges stemming from the former police detective’s alleged maltreatment of Central Jail prisoners during last year’s “Bloody Christmas” scandal. In biting testimony, Sergeant E. J. Exley of the LAPD described Stensland’s “rampage against unarmed men.” Stensland’s attorney, Jacob Kellerman, attacked Exley’s credibility, stating that he was locked in a storeroom throughout most of the morning the events took place. In the end, the jurors believed Sergeant Exley, and Kellerman, citing the suspended sentence received by Bloody Christmas defendant John Brownell, asked Judge Arthur Fitzhugh to take mercy on his client. The judge did not oblige. He sentenced Stensland, already dismissed from the LAPD, to a year in the County Jail and remanded him to the custody of the Sheriff’s deputies who would escort him to Wayside Honor Rancho. As he was led away, Stensland shouted obscenities regarding Sergeant Exley, who could not be reached for comment.
FEATURE: Cavalcade Weekend Magazine, L.A. _Mirror_, July 3:
TWO EXLEY GENERATIONS SERVE THE
SOUTHLAND
The first thing that strikes you about Preston Exley and his son Edmund is that they don’t talk like cops, even though Preston served with the Los Angeles Police Department for fourteen years and Ed has been with the LAPD since 1943, shortly before he went off to war and won himself the Distinguished Service Cross in the Pacific Theater. In fact, before the Exley clan emigrated to America, their family tree spawned generations of Scotland Yard detectives. So police work is in the clan’s blood, but even more so is a thirst for advancement.
Item: Preston Exley took an engineering degree at USC, studying by night while he pounded a dangerous downtown beat by day.
Item: The late Thomas Exley, Preston’s eldest son, achieved the highest scholastic average in the history of the LAPD Academy, and a plaque commemorating him is hung in the Academy’s administration building. Tragically, Thomas was killed in the line of duty soon after his graduation. Further item: The second highest average was earned by Ed Exley himself, a summa cum laude UCLA graduate–at nineteen!–in 1941. Evidence going back generations: the Exleys don’t talk like cops because they are not typical policemen.
Both men have been in the news lately. Preston, 58, has teamed up with world-renowned cartoonist/moviemaker/TV show host Raymond Dieterling to build Dream-a-Dreamland, the monumental amusement park that broke ground six months ago, with completion and opening scheduled for late April of next year. Exley Senior began his career in the construction business after he left the LAPD in 1936, taking his chief aide, Lieutenant Arthur De Spain, with him. At his spacious Hancock Park mansion, Preston Exley spoke with _Mirror_ correspondent Dick St. Germain.