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Marijuana activities of the victims in the murder case on Kings Rd. may not have been entirely legal, according to new reports based on conversations with Lt. Pat Nelson of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department Homicide Bureau.
Nelson said the victims were allegedly involved in illegal marijuana sales, according to a report by Park La Brea News.
Kings Road Murder Suspect Harold Yong Park
First to report that marijuana could be involved in the crime was WeHo News, whch elaborates in their latest report. They say that one possible scenario recounted by Nelson was that the victims may have been reselling medical marijuana for street use and the suspect possibly stole the products that they planned to sell him.
That report also notes that authorities have not ruled out the theft of a medical marijuana harvest meant for distribution through legal dispensaries.
The Los Angeles Times reports that investigators said they found drug packaging materials inside the apartment, and at this stage of the investigation believe the victims bought the marijuana from collectives and then tried to resell it on the streets.
“If you are doing it legitimately, obviously you don’t sell it after dark out of a West Hollywood apartment,” Nelson said to the Times. “It was a drug deal that didn’t go well. He came for the drugs and decided he didn’t want to pay for them and took them by killing these three men.”
Crime Scene on Kings Road near Melrose
Nelson said to Park La Brea News, “It’s certainly illustrative of the type of violence that is going in relation to drug dealing. With medical marijuana, it seems like a lot of it is done in the shade, so to speak, and there is a lot of money changing hands.”
“I wholeheartedly believe the presence of large quantities of controlled substances leads to this type of violence,” he added.
The Park La Brea News report includes a number of other details, including that the Moussazadeh brothers lived at the apartment with their elderly parents for the past few years, but the parents were not home at the time of the murders. It also states that the suspect was identified through witnesses, interviews of people who knew the victims, and physical evidence.
The Los Angeles Times also says that witnesses saw the suspect and his car near the scene, according to Nelson.
Beverly Hills Patch attributes a MySpace page under the name “GoT kUsH” to victim Bernard Khalili.
Read the full reports at Park La Brea News, WeHo News, and the Los Angles Times
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End the drug wars, stop the murders: Just legalize and regulate marijuana, like tobacco and alcohol–and let those who want to use it responsibly do so.
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