Orange County Register

From Steven Greenhut:

At the Board of Supervisors meeting on March 20, Assistant Sheriff Steve Bishop  asked the board to fund a trip with him, Sheriff Mike Carona and Assistant Sheriff Galisky to England to look at the British DNA forensic lab, among other stops. Various OC officials have visited that high-security government-run facility to gain help with regard to DNA issues in OC. Bishop promised that sheriff’s department officials would come back to the board and report on its findings.

On August 21, Supervisor John Moorlach said this to Sheriff Carona: “And then we approved the trip for you to go to London and you mentioned the UK and I believe that firm is the forensic science service that you visited?”

Carona: “Correct.”

Moorlach: “How was that trip? How was that?”

Carona: “It was a very enlightening trip one about what they are doing with DNA technology in the UK …”

The sheriff went on about DNA and the trip. The problem is the sheriff apparently never went to the DNA lab as part of his England trip. County official Rob Richardson last month asked the British lab to list the OC officials who have visited. Because everyone has to sign into the high-security facility, this list should be accurate. It lists five DA officials plus Dean Gialamas and Mario Mainero, but nothing about Carona, Galisky or Bishop. Moorlach told me Bishop admitted that three of them didn’t go to the DNA lab as part of this county-paid trip.

This seems to fit a pattern of behavior, doesn’t it?

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