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Former Los Angeles sheriff's officials charged in jail probe | 15 May 2015 | The case of the vanishing inmate at the Los Angeles County jail nearly went all the way to the top. The former second-in-command of the nation's largest sheriff's department and a high-ranking official who was supposed to investigate crimes by deputies surrendered Thursday on charges they hid an FBI jailhouse informant to hinder a federal investigation into abuse by guards. “The scheme to obstruct justice rose to the executive level of the Sheriff's Department,” Acting U.S. Attorney Stephanie Yonekura said. “Both men were aware that there was rampant abuse at the jail, and both men were aware that the internal investigations of that abuse were insufficient.”