Retired Sheriff Lieutenant Reginald Wright Arrested on Drug Trafficking Charges

Retired Sheriff Lieutenant Reginald Wright Sr. Arrested on Drug Trafficking Charges along with his son, Former Officer Reggie Wright Jr. from the Compton Police that also once served as the CEO of Death Row Records.

Two very high-profile operators were arrested last week from an indictment out of Tennessee that accuses them and 20 others of Drug Trafficking and Money Laundering. Many innocent people are breathing a sigh of relief that these two are now behind bars. But if history repeats itself the pair will game the system once again.

In the final days of Suge Knight running Death Row Records, he made a prophetic statement, "This is now the new and untouchable Death Row Records.” At the time there was a task force that included the D.A’s office investigating Death Row Records for drug trafficking and money laundering. Days after Tupac’s death Suge Knight is arrested on a probation violation. All of the investigations cease when Reggie Wright Jr. takes the helm as CEO of the record label and former Mayor Omar Bradley says there was no difference between Death Row Records and the Compton Police from that time on, "they functioned as one entity.”

Reggie Wright Jr. was accused previously of beating Dwayne H. Baudy, Death Row Records paid Baudy $162,000 and the criminal charges disappeared. Both of the Wrights were accused of being a part of missing cocaine from the evidence locker as detailed in the Compton Police Corruption Report. Junior’s name was in a drug dealer’s pay/owe book and Senior was fingered for always wanting to know where warrants were being executed ahead of time so he could organize pre-raids. The Compton Police Corruption Report details almost 200 kilos of missing cocaine that flowed through the evidence locker and was lost through a loophole in their system that involved the Los Angeles District Attorney’s Office. As cases were rejected, tracking on the evidence ceased. Eric Perrodin was Reggie Wright Jr.’s patrol partner who became an Assistant District Attorney. Perrodin served as Compton Mayor while simultaneously serving as Assistant District Attorney – which is a severe conflict of interest.

The evidence found during the investigation of the Corrupt Compton Police was sufficient to disband the department. When that evidence was presented to the DA’s Office there were no prosecutions. Two kilos of cocaine were found in the Police Chief’s personal locker but that crime also was never pursued. Instead, the man that ordered the investigation, Omar Bradley, was pursued over corruption charges that resulted in a conviction and three-year prison term, but that conviction was overturned on appeal. The DA continues to pursue Bradley to this day.

Bradley ordered the investigation into the Corrupt Compton Police Department when a gun that was booked into evidence and was supposed to be locked away in the evidence locker, was used to shoot Long Beach Police Officer Brian Watt. That gun flowed through Death Row Records while Reggie Wright Jr. was the CEO of the record label and while Suge Knight was in prison on a probation violation. Both Reggie Wright Jr. and Reggie Wright Sr. were deposed in that case.

One of Suge Knight’s close associates was murdered at a gas station while driving Reggie Junior’s vehicle. Wright Sr. was inside paying for gas. Senior emerged but failed to return fire. There are also very suspicious circumstances regarding other murders in Compton that seem to tie to the Wrights. Kevin Hackie tells LAPD investigators in a sworn statement that the murder of Bobby Finch, the brother of a Compton School Police Officer happens and a minute later he is talking to Wright Jr. who already knows about the murder. When Omar Bradley was battling the Compton Police, the principal of Lynwood High School who is his look-alike is murdered and Wright phones Bradley a minute after this happens to make sure they got the right man, but is shocked that Bradley answers the phone.

Reggie Wright Jr. is a suspect in both the Tupac and Biggie murders. In spite of that he has repeatedly been covered for by disgraced LAPD Detective Greg Kading who also investigated the murders. Wright Jr. is rumored to have attended the meeting at the Sheriff’s where former LAPD Detective Russell Poole laid out his evidence why those cases should be reopened. Mysteriously, Russell Poole dies in that meeting and Sheriffs have stonewalled any investigation as to the participants in the room at the time. Wright releases a YouTube interview less than two hours after Russell’s death gloating and revealing salient details of the meeting.

A key piece of evidence in the Tupac murder is a confession letter that claims Wright met with gangs to organize the murder of rapper Tupac Shakur. That letter was given by Poole to the Los Angeles Police Department’s Detective Daryn Dupree, the former partner of Greg Kading. On a radio show, Kading admitted to receiving the evidence from Dupree and leaking the confession letter to protect Wright. An internal affairs investigation (IA:CF NO. 14-001995) at LAPD was conducted and buried because of the reach of Reggie Wright Jr.

The Wright's political ties makes us wonder if these arrests will stick. According to Pacer the Wrights were arrested on the 29^th of June and have yet to be arraigned.

What will happen? There is no doubt that these are two very big fish that have ties into the DA’s Office, City Hall, LAPD, the Sheriff’s, and many other power structures in Los Angeles. What do they know that constantly gets them out of trouble? We don’t know but it must be big enough to keep them on the streets where they can terrify innocent people. Compton residents can enjoy a brief respite but soon the reign of fear may commence anew.