One of the undercover CHP officers involved in Pedro Villanueva's shooting identified

One of the officers involved in the shooting death of Pedro Villanueva is former
undercover investigator Brett A. Cochran from the Investigative Services Unit

We have a break in the case involving two undercover CHP officers in the police shooting death of an unarmed Latino, Pedro Villanueva.

Anonymous sources have come forward to us in identifying one of the two unidentified plain clothes CHP officers involved in the high speed chase from last July 3rd that ended in the shooting death of the teenage driver and injury to his 18-year-old passenger, Francisco Orozco, in a narrow dead-end residential cul-de-sac in Fullerton, California.

Our sources have identified one of the two undercover officers involved in the shooting as former Southern Division undercover investigator, Brett A. Cochran of Dublin, who was based out of the unlisted Investigative Services Unit on 437 North Vermont Avenue in Los Angeles, California at the time of the shooting incident.

 

Officer Cochran is a white male of medium height in his 30's to 40's with brown, short, curly hair. According to witnesses and our informants, he had a full beard at the time of the shooting, but has since shaved off his beard.

Commander of the CHP Moorpark area office, Lt. Ronald D. Cohan

We have learned that Cochran has since been quietly transferred and promoted to the position of acting sergeant over the summer to the Moorpark area CHP office in Ventura County shortly after the shooting incident, and has recently been promoted to sergeant in Dublin, California, where he currently resides.

Since Cochran is no longer working as an undercover officer in the CHP's "secret police unit" in Los Angeles, it is not an issue in publicly identifying him since he was already listed on state public employment records as a CHP officer.

The Southern Division CHP Investigative Services Unit was working in conjunction with the Santa Fe Springs area CHP office to crackdown on the underground street car "sideshow" event that took place in a swap meet parking lot in Santa Fe Springs, California on July 3, 2016, where about 80 trucks and off-road vehicles were performing adrenaline-fueled burnouts and doughnuts with their vehicles.

At the time, 19-year-old car enthusiast Pedro Villanueva of Chatsworth attended the event as a passive spectator; however, witnesses have said he was not taking part in any of the dangerous stunts performed by some of the participants.

As uniformed CHP officers from the Santa Fe Springs area office were closing in on the underground street car racing event to shut it down around 10:50 p.m., attendees and participants of the hot rod event scattered to the wind.

Villanueva left the event with a passenger, Francisco Orozco of Santa Fe Springs, in his 2015 red Chevy Silverado pickup truck.

The two were soon tailed by an ominous and unidentified unmarked black Ford Taurus sedan occupied by two men whose identities were never revealed to Villanueva. Villanueva and Orozco thought the suspicious men following them were robbers, so they tried to lose them on the freeway.

The unmarked car aggressive followed Villanueva and Orozco with their headlights off for nearly five miles on the freeway at speeds up to 90 m.p.h., but soon the teenagers became lost.

The two CHP undercover officers involved in the shooting claimed Villanueva
tried to ram them at 2-4 m.p.h.

The teens soon wandered into a dead-end residential cul-de-sac on the 100 block of North Pritchard Avenue and West Commonwealth in Fullerton, California, next to the Fullerton Municipal Airport at around 11:00 p.m.

As Villanueva made a u-turn to get out of the cul-de-sac, the occupants of the unmarked Ford Taurus got out of their vehicle and pulled out their guns, but still failed to identify themselves as police officers.

As Villanueva's truck tried to get past the unmarked car at a speed of only 2 to 4 m.p.h., the undercover officers opened fire without warning on the truck, killing Villanueva and injuring his passenger.

The officers later claimed Villanueva tried to use his vehicle as a deadly weapon to ram them on the narrow residential street, but at 2 to 4 m.p.h., that explanation does not seem to hold water. Besides that, it appears the real fault seems to lie with the CHP since they began brandishing their weapons without identifying themselves as law enforcement, and it appears Villanueva was merely trying to get by his unidentified assailants at slow speed of 4 m.p.h. on the narrow street, which is hardly a ramming speed, to save his own life.

The truck, now without a driver, then went out of control sideswiping a car at 4 m.p.h. until it came to stop hitting the unmarked CHP vehicle.

Clearly, the CHP has a lot of explaining to do in using excessive force in a situation that never should should have been escalated to such a level; however, in keeping with its policies to keep internal investigations secret from the public, they have said nothing to date, suggesting they have something to hide.

We're told Brett Cochran kind of looks like this douche-bag, but without the beard now

This is our tax-payer funded government law enforcement agency making sure they are never held accountable for their actions.