Macario M Duran

A Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy who two years ago was convicted of participating in a money-skimming scheme was found guilty again Thursday--this time on charges that he tried to set up a $6-million cocaine deal and flee the country before he could be jailed. Macario M. (Mack) Duran, who received a four-year sentence in 1991, was convicted this time on a broad range of charges, from tax evasion and theft to the attempted 30-kilogram cocaine deal. The U.S.

A former Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy who was convicted in a drug money-skimming scandal has been jailed after federal prosecutors accused him of trying to arrange several narcotics deals while free on bail. Macario M. Duran, a one-time member of an elite narcotics team, was arrested last weekend after he allegedly attempted to purchase and sell more than 40 pounds of cocaine while facing additional charges in the money-skimming case, authorities said Wednesday. Assistant U.S. Atty.

Two former Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies allegedly posed as police officers and searched an apartment for drug cash--even while still on trial with other deputies in a drug money-skimming scandal that ended in their convictions. The allegations against James R. Bauder and Daniel M.

On his way to court Wednesday, Reid Daub passed a San Fernando Valley motel that reminded him of how proud he had always been of his older brother, Ron. Ronald E. Daub had been a janitor at the Carriage Inn when he saved a baby from a fall. "I remember being so proud of him," said the younger Daub. "He was always a contributor to society. That's what I remember about him. Not what people think now, that he's just a bad cop."

Seven former Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies were sentenced Wednesday to prison terms ranging from two years to five years for participating in a massive money-skimming scheme that a federal judge portrayed as "unprecedented corruption" in local law enforcement. In sentencing the former narcotics officers, U.S.

Six Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies were convicted Monday of conspiring to steal cash seized from drug traffickers and money launderers, the first prosecutorial victory in a widening corruption investigation that has touched dozens of narcotics officers. The veteran deputies, who worked on an elite team investigating major drug cases, were found guilty by a federal court jury of 24 criminal charges, including conspiracy, theft, money-laundering, racketeering and tax evasion.

In the end, the key was the murky black-and-white images on an undercover videotape shot by FBI agents in the penthouse suite of a Sherman Oaks hotel. Jurors sitting in judgment on seven sheriff's deputies charged with stealing money seized in drug raids had been bombarded for seven weeks with testimony from more than 200 witnesses and more than 1,000 pieces of physical evidence.

A federal judge refused Monday to dismiss convictions of five Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies involved in a drug and money-skimming scandal with two other narcotics officers. U.S. District Judge Edward Rafeedie rejected defense claims that there was insufficient evidence to convict the deputies last month on 11 criminal counts ranging from conspiracy and theft to money laundering and tax evasion.

Folded in a plain envelope and postmarked from Long Beach, the typewritten letter arrived in October, 1988, on the desks of Los Angeles County Sheriff Sherman Block and several of his top aides. "I have come to the point where I have to tell someone what I know," the anonymous author began. "I am worried about my husband and my children and I am tired of living like a Mafia wife. The money doesn't make up for this living hell."

An IRS agent testified Friday that six sheriff's narcotics officers had thousands of dollars in unexplained income in the two-year period in which they are accused of stealing money from drug dealers and money launderers. Deputy Eufrasio G. Cortez had a minimum of $276,739 in unexplained income for the years 1988 and 1989, said James L.