The scandals even involves , wait for it - the gay female Latina DEI hire that the department celebrated during g woman’s history month.
Appears they were stealing cars- Mercedes specifically from an Airport rental service . Hot riding them around for a while because who’s gonna pull them over ? And then selling them to the local chop shop for about 25% of market value .
They cut out the middle man and didn’t hire local thieves or entrap them into stealing 30 luxury cars - nope did their own leg work to ensure max profits.
Where they messed up- they could have just “suspected “ the cars came from the proceeds of crime and taken them under civil asset forfeiture and auctioned them for full market value .