People v. Siu

Jacob E. Siu, defendant in this ease, was a sheriff’s deputy in Los Angeles County assigned as bailiff to one of the criminal courts. He proposed to a fellow deputy, who was in the sheriff’s narcotic detail, that that deputy supply him with narcotics for sale. Defendant said, “Do you have any connections for narcotics? I want something big. I have a connection that could handle any big quantity we could get.”

The sheriff’s narcotics deputy reported the conversation to his superiors, and was instructed to go along with defendant. So the next time he saw defendant he said to him, “Were you…