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Metro Closes Probe Into leaked Shakur Photo By Ed Koch.
metro police have closed an internal investigation into who leaked a postmortem photo of Tupac Shakur to a SUN reporterwho used it in her book about the dead rapper/actor. Although at leastr nine employees of metro and the clark county coroners office were questioned there was no evidence to support who did it, so no one was charged with any crime. Metro Undersherif Richard Winget saidThursday.
'Out concern was that because the national Enquirer had offered $100,000 for a photo of Shakur (DEAD) that one of the employees used county property to take the picture (and profit from it;.
Winget said, 'Such a situation could have resulted in embezzlement charges;. Winget said 'County Coroner Ron Flud had requested the investigation shortly after the photo wound up in 'The killing of Tupac Shakur' by SUN reporter Cathy Scott. The book was released on Sept 7th, a year after Shakur was shot near the Las Vegas strip after attending a championship boxing match.
The investigation centered on two general assignment detectives, at least three coroner employees and as many as four other Metro employees.
Winget said 'It was learned that two general assignment detectives had taken Polaroid photos of Shakur at the morgue for use in a police training book'.
Winget said 'Those pictures were removed from the book and destroyed and the officers were cleared of any wrong doing'
'The potential for abuse was far greater than the value of the photos for training purposes'
Winget said he declined to release the names of the detectives or the other seven people who were questioned during the 1 and a half 2 month investigation.
Winget said they all denied giving a photo to Scott.
'Unless Further evidence comes to light, the case is closed', Winget said.
Scott was not interviewd by the police.
Flud has said the photo, which shows Shakur dissected on a table at the morgue, is not an official coroner or police photo.
Metro internal Affairs Bureau Lt. John Alamshaw also said it appears that it was not an official photo.
Neither of them however, denied that it was an authentic photo of Shakurs body.
Scott, who denied paying for the photo has declined to comment on the npolice investigation, referring all inquiries to the publisher of her book.
'I dont think people care whether the photo came from pluto,' said Anthony Curtis, owner of Las Vaga-based Huntington Press, which published the book.
'People just care that the photo exists' he said.
Curtis maintaines that the gruesome photo was not published just for shock value, but to stem then usual rumors following the untimely death of a famous person that he is still alive.
'We still get calls from people who read the book and say they still dont believe Shakur is dead'. Curtis said
'It's a rumour that just wont go away'.
Although Curtis maintains he does not know who gave Cathy Scott the photo, he is convinced that it was obtained by legal means.
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Metro Closes Probe Into leaked Shakur Photo By Ed Koch.
metro police have closed an internal investigation into who leaked a postmortem photo of Tupac Shakur to a SUN reporterwho used it in her book about the dead rapper/actor. Although at leastr nine employees of metro and the clark county coroners office were questioned there was no evidence to support who did it, so no one was charged with any crime. Metro Undersherif Richard Winget saidThursday.
'Out concern was that because the national Enquirer had offered $100,000 for a photo of Shakur (DEAD) that one of the employees used county property to take the picture (and profit from it;.
Winget said, 'Such a situation could have resulted in embezzlement charges;. Winget said 'County Coroner Ron Flud had requested the investigation shortly after the photo wound up in 'The killing of Tupac Shakur' by SUN reporter Cathy Scott. The book was released on Sept 7th, a year after Shakur was shot near the Las Vegas strip after attending a championship boxing match.
The investigation centered on two general assignment detectives, at least three coroner employees and as many as four other Metro employees.
Winget said 'It was learned that two general assignment detectives had taken Polaroid photos of Shakur at the morgue for use in a police training book'.
Winget said 'Those pictures were removed from the book and destroyed and the officers were cleared of any wrong doing'
'The potential for abuse was far greater than the value of the photos for training purposes'
Winget said he declined to release the names of the detectives or the other seven people who were questioned during the 1 and a half 2 month investigation.
Winget said they all denied giving a photo to Scott.
'Unless Further evidence comes to light, the case is closed', Winget said.
Scott was not interviewd by the police.
Flud has said the photo, which shows Shakur dissected on a table at the morgue, is not an official coroner or police photo.
Metro internal Affairs Bureau Lt. John Alamshaw also said it appears that it was not an official photo.
Neither of them however, denied that it was an authentic photo of Shakurs body.
Scott, who denied paying for the photo has declined to comment on the npolice investigation, referring all inquiries to the publisher of her book.
'I dont think people care whether the photo came from pluto,' said Anthony Curtis, owner of Las Vaga-based Huntington Press, which published the book.
'People just care that the photo exists' he said.
Curtis maintaines that the gruesome photo was not published just for shock value, but to stem then usual rumors following the untimely death of a famous person that he is still alive.
'We still get calls from people who read the book and say they still dont believe Shakur is dead'. Curtis said
'It's a rumour that just wont go away'.
Although Curtis maintains he does not know who gave Cathy Scott the photo, he is convinced that it was obtained by legal means.
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I got this article from my phone, its on Orange Network, its very interesting to read. Ehat are your thoughts on this .
btw, I have typed this out very quickly from my phone, so theres a lot of errors in spelling and grammar.
