Arrest warrant issued for Michael Jackson
 

http://www.cnn.com/2003/SHOWBIZ/Musi...nch/index.html

Source: Arrest warrant issued for Jackson

LOS OLIVOS, California (CNN) --Authorities have issued an arrest warrant for Michael Jackson, a knowledgeable source close to the investigation told CNN.

The warrant accompanies a search of Jackson's Neverland Ranch in Santa Barbara, California, for several hours on Tuesday.

There was no official word on what prompted what one official called an "ongoing criminal investigation" or what as many as 70 officials from the Santa Barbara Sheriff's Department and district attorney's office were searching for or may have found.

"We cannot comment on law enforcement's investigation because we do not yet know what it is about," a spokesman for the entertainer said.

But a source with knowledge of the investigation said it involved allegations of child molestation -- nearly a decade after Jackson, now 45, settled a lawsuit filed on behalf of a boy who had slept over at Neverland Ranch while he was 13 and accused Jackson of molesting him. No criminal charges were filed in that case.

Stuart Backerman, a spokesman for Jackson, said the singer has been in Las Vegas, Nevada, for the past two-and-a-half weeks, shooting a video for the song "One More Chance." That single is on his "Number Ones" album, a greatest-hits collection released Tuesday by Epic Records.

Later this month, a special on Jackson is set to be broadcast on CBS.

According to Backerman's statement, Jackson said: "I've seen lawyers who do not represent me and spokespeople who do not know me speaking for me. These characters always seem to surface with a dreadful allegation just as another project, an album, a video, is being released."

The search warrant was served at 8:30 a.m. (11:30 a.m. EST), said Chris Pappas, a spokesman for the sheriff's department. Investigators were still on the scene at 6 p.m. (9 p.m. EST).

The Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Department and the district attorney will hold a news conference Wednesday at 11 a.m. (2 p.m. EST).

Attorney Larry R. Feldman, who represented the alleged victim in the 1994 child molestation lawsuit against Jackson, told CNN on Tuesday that he would "not confirm or deny" that he is representing anyone in a civil or criminal investigation pertaining to Jackson because of possible "violation of attorney-client privilege."

Brian Oxman, an attorney for the Jackson family, said on CNN's "Larry King Live" that he believes the investigation stems from someone else seeking financial gain from Jackson.

"It is a case of excitement and hysteria because we have the same accusations that we had 10 years ago," he said. "It's like playing the playoffs all over again."

Johnnie Cochran, Jackson's attorney in the case 10 years ago, said it's odd the search warrant was served the day the singer's latest album was released.

"I think it's more than coincidence. I think it was planned," he said on "Larry King Live."

Cochran said he's tried to counsel Jackson "not to ever put yourself in that position" of being alone with young children.

"But that's who Michael Jackson is, he's a very, very naive person in many respects, and there's no question about that. Yeah, he does wear a bull's eye," Cochran said.

Backerman criticized what he called "the malignant horde of media hounds claiming to speak for Michael on this and many other issues.

"A rogues' gallery of hucksters and self-styled 'inside sources' have dominated the airwaves since reports of a search of Neverland broke, speculating, guessing and fabricating information about an investigation they couldn't possibly know about," he said.

Backerman said Jackson will "cooperate fully with authorities in any investigation even as it is conducted, yet again, while he is not home."

Terms of the 1994 lawsuit settlement were confidential, though the boy's attorney -- Feldman -- said at the time they were happy to resolve the matter.

Cochran said at the time that Jackson maintained his innocence and that the settlement was in no way an admission of guilt.

Criminal investigators stopped pursuing their case after the lawsuit was settled and the young boy -- by then 14 -- made clear he did not want to participate in any prosecution of the singer.

He should have "just beat it"

bout fucking time they nicked that pedo

He is toast , this will put him away

A civil suit is probably not that far behind. I wonder how MJ will fare in prison. I can hear him now talking smack..."The only bitch in this cell is you, punk!" LOL:1orglaugh

he'll be bailed out in 5 minutes, and he'll never do a day in jail

come on people

It was only a matter of time...

Michael Jackson will never be put away. Come on.

If they can put away that rich Revlon Cosmetics fortune heir Andrew Lester, they can put MJP away as well

Sicko. He's going down. They've been watching him for years. They already know he's guilty.

Hell, he will probably get 10 yrs home arrest at the NeverNeverland Ranch...

with weekly pedo congical visits...


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In 1993 did they also have a warrant?

no

Not again !:glugglug

I feel sorry for him. But I would bet my deathgripped kitty on him being a guilty child molesting wierdo.

But I think he'll get shot or kill himself rather than do time in jail.

And he hasn't got any money left to pay everyone off now, does he?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/images/3...jackson150.jpg

YEEEECH!

confirmed warrant is for one count of child molestation

pedo :BangBang: :ak47:

let me know when his dead. post some pictures here!
i hope they can proved his case this time and lock him in
jail.

maybe that's why he opened his ranch to the public so that
he can sneak and lure some young kids as his sex slaves.

ever heard of OJ...that motherfucker violently killed two people with a help of a friend and he got off scott free...

sex slaves......please

If he is guilty FRY HIM !! I was wondering what kind of parents would let their kid go hang out with that guy ?
I can see it now..........Civil suit right out of the gate. Almost seems like those parents are serving up their kids to him looking for a payday.
What type of logic did they use deciding it was a good idea for their kid to go ? "We let little Johnny swim with the great whites but we had no clue what so ever they may bite him "
GIVE ME A FUCKIN BREAK !!
Investigate the parents as well. Fuckin dumbasses setting their child up like that.

what ever i want to call it and i hope he burns in hell!

I think the entire world has had enough of turning the other way with this fucking kook.

There was a time when his music was the backdrop of pop culture now.......the guy is a creepy mentally ill middle aged man who dresses lie a fucking gay super hero and sexually abuses young boys.

Mom and Dad dropping off jr. to neverland ranch is like dropping off a frat boy to Rykers Island. What kind of parent would drop off a kid to ride the roller coaster, pet the animals, and have that mutilated freak play with your kids balls.

I hope this mother fucker goes down hard....how many times does someone have to yell fire before help comes.

you are in for one ass reeming in prison fudge packo Jacko

Lmao....in America you can buy your Freedom.
look at OJ

:glugglug

Douche bags looking for their piece of a $20,000,000 out of court settlement.

Agreed!

I do think Jacko needs some help though. I dont think he is a molester by a long shot, but I do think he has some serious mental health issues that need addressing.

100% agreed...

I agree!! He will probably kill himself as soon as it sinks into his stupid head. The man is so ate up he actually thinks he is fooling everyone. I mean when you sit on TV with a face like that and say I have only had one no two surgeries, you are fucked in the head!! I hope we get to hear the whole story about him.

The stupidity of adult webmasters never ceases to amaze me.

I dont really know what he is. I think you have to look at him differently than other people though - this guy NEVER had a childhood. When he was 5 years old he was playing clubs at 3am, and that's how he grew up. I saw in an interview that the only thing he wanted was to play with the other kids his age, but he was never allowed.

I think he's more of a child now in his old age, and truly enjoys seeing children being happy. I think that we're all cynical and jaded in this age, and seeing a grown man with such a childlike nature, and having such a strong connection with children is automatically considered a pedophile - but I think it stems back to his own childhood.

Nothing has ever been proven against him, and its easy to see WHY people accuse him of these things - they are fucking greedy. They think they can get a fat settlment out of him, just by accusations, and they're probably right. Just the mention of Michael Jackson sets most people off, as we've already seen by some of the previous posters.

Meh. Who knows, maybe Im the naive one here.

yeah he's hurting.. I dont think any defence attorney will touch that case w/ a 10 foot pole :helpme

Of course they would. Most of them would do it just to get their name out there, which would be pretty much guaranteed. But he'll probably just hire Cochran again. *shrug*

I heard on the radio this morning Cochran turned him down

I'd say he's in deep shit this time around...second offence

MJ wont goto prison, he'd be dead in a week. Child molestors (even accused child molestors) dont do very well in prison, they tend to get shanked.. :2 cents: