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Article: Alleged plot involved use of CHP Academy.
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- Record (Stockton, CA)
- Article date:
- June 6, 2007
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Byline: Ellen Thompson
Jun. 6--STOCKTON -- An alleged plot among 10 men to overthrow the communist government of Laos involved a scheme to use the California Highway Patrol Academy to train the future regime's police force.
California Highway Patrol spokeswoman Fran Clader said the CHP was contacted by federal investigators who suspect the plot's organizers -- one of them from Stockton -- were planning to help the CHP recruit Hmong officers.
According to court documents, organizers hoped to call on those officers to "abandon" the CHP after they completed their state-funded training and to provide law enforcement for a new regime.
The ...