Dorner's truck found near associate's property, court records show

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http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2013/02/dorner-truck-found-near-associates-property-court-records.html

Dorner's truck found near associate's property, court records show
February 12, 2013 | 6:07 am

Christopher Dorner's burning truck was found near an associate's property in the San Bernardino Mountains last week, court records showed, suggesting that the fugitive former police officer may have received help evading authorities.

Dorner, 33, a former Los Angeles Police Department officer and Navy Reserve veteran, is wanted in connection with the deaths of an Irvine couple and a Riverside police officer. Multiple law enforcement agencies are involved in the ongoing search, which triggered statewide alerts in California and Nevada and reaches down to Mexico.

A criminal complaint filed in federal court raises the possibility that Dorner may have been assisted by "a known associate," identified only as "J.Y."

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1. Guilty by association now?

Good grief - why even say this if there's no certainty the associate did anything? Does the LAPD even know for sure this person aided Dorner?

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2. Ordinarily, I'd say they have more than that.

Phone records, ATM records, etc. But this is the LAPD...who mistake petite latinas and skinny white surfer dudes for a 300 lb black man, so there's no telling. I imagine anyone who ever met the guy is an associate, and anyone living in SB mountains lives "nearby" where his truck broke down.