Ty Dolla $ign's Bodyguard Was Convicted of Grand Theft, Impersonating a Police Officer

On September 5, 2018 Tyrone William Griffin Jr., better known as rapper and singer Ty Dolla $ign, was arrested in Atlanta, Georgia after an officer on foot patrol walked by his tour van and smelled an overwhelming odor of marijuana. The officer, Che Milton, called a K9 unit to confirm, and - following an astonishingly strong hit on Mr. Dolla $ign's property - officers subsequently located 18.2 grams of marijuana, a quantity of cocaine, and thousands of dollars in cash. Problematic for responding officers, however, was the fact that none of the seven people in the van were willing to claim the drugs as their own. And so, Officer Milton - apparently in an arresty mood relative to his colleagues - rounded up all seven van occupants and brought them in. In this video you will hear plenty of talk and insinuation from Ty$'s security guard Dashawn Lamar Brown. Is he security? Former law enforcement? Just your average constitutional law scholar? Who knows! I do. So what's all the fuss about? Well, it all started during my otherwise-routine background research. I was looking into the entourage that was detained, trying to figure out who we had on our hands so I could pass that information along to you. That's when I discovered that Dashawn Lamar Brown had a security guard license out of California. More precisely, an expired security guard license out of California. But what really caught my attention was learning that Brown had, at one point, possessed a baton license as well as a firearms license. Also expired? Nope. Revoked since 2006 following a disciplinary hearing. Hmm... Curious to know more, I dug deeper. Much deeper. And my research ultimately revealed that Brown, who had once worked as a bounty hunter, had a criminal history that literally took up dozens of pages in some reports. And he was beginning to remind me of a west coast Jefrey Scott Schultz. How so? Easy: One of Brown's convictions - by a jury and sustained on appeal - was for grand theft and impersonating a police officer. Dashawn Lamar Brown was sentenced to two years in prison after he pulled someone over using a fake police car. Brown then approached the vehicle, dressed in a full sheriff's uniform - badge and all - and ordered the driver out so he could search the car for drugs. Brown didn't find any drugs, but he did steal $7,000 in cash from the driver. Unfortunately for him, Brown left something in exchange: his fingerprints. Which eventually sealed the deal in the case against him. I'll close this by sharing a mildly hilarious anecdote from Brown's trial. Ever the legal scholar, Brown offered a novel defense to the impersonation charges: he claimed that he could not have been impersonating a police officer because, and I quote, "Sheriffs are not police." The jury didn't buy it. See the end of this video for a selection of records from the nearly-100-page disciplinary case history for Dashawn Lamar Brown. The entire record (and more) is available to Patreon supporters. Enjoy! ~~~ Want to help make Real World Police happen AND get rewarded for it? Become a supporter on Patreon today!   / realworldpolice   ~~~ Curious to know how much it costs to obtain this channel's content? Want to know why it costs anything at all? Wonder no more, as there is a public post on Patreon that offers a transparent and comprehensive overview — including a link to nearly all of the channel's invoices paid between August 2018 and May 2019. Direct link: http://tiny.cc/dollaz. Short URL has no relation to this video series :) ~~~ Interested in understanding the mechanics of fighting for access to public records? Join me on a deep dive into one specific request. Direct link: http://tiny.cc/nyfoil