What happened? A candid talk with Sergeant Downey

  • Frazier Park substation Sergeant Dustin. Downey and The Mountain Enterprise Editor Patric Hedlund debriefed this week about how the Nussbaum family's home was broken into, taken over and vandalized with no investigation to support two arrests. [photo by Gary Meyer, The Mountain Enterprise]

    Frazier Park substation Sergeant Dustin. Downey and The Mountain Enterprise Editor Patric Hedlund debriefed this week about how the Nussbaum family's home was broken into, taken over and vandalized with no investigation to support two arrests. [photo by Gary Meyer, The Mountain Enterprise]

By Patric Hedlund, TME

It stung, and you could see it on Sergeant Dustin Downey’s face. Events we reported two weeks ago at the Nussbaum home in Frazier Park on March 10-11 outraged the family and the community.
Last week residents wrote letters saying the event showed the Kern County Sheriff’s substation in a poor light. Downey met with The Mountain Enterprise on Friday, March 25 to debrief about what occurred.

“Deputies shouldn’t have left those things [in the home] for the victims to deal with,” Downey said. He wrote a letter to the…(please see below to view full stories and photographs)

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Sgt. Downey and Editor Patric Hedlund debriefed this week.

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