Undercover SMPD officer helps in arrest of cop’s son
By Daily Press staff
LOS ANGELES — An off-duty Santa Monica police officer helped nab the son of a Los Angeles police captain who was charged on Thursday with robbery and other counts following his arrest earlier this week near a Westchester boutique, the District Attorney’s Office announced.
Kyle Bernard Jackson, 20, and two others were charged in the case, and he was scheduled to be arraigned on Thursday. Jackson, being held on $180,000 bail, is the son LAPD Capt. Kyle Jackson, com- Police captain’s son gets busted manding officer of the department’s robbery homicide division.
Jackson and a second man, John Richard Rebeiro, 21, allegedly robbed the Jennifer Jeanne Boutique in the 8300 block of Lincoln Boulevard on Tuesday afternoon. As they were running away, they were seen by an off-duty SMPD officer who followed them after they sped away in a vehicle. Police stopped the car about two miles from the boutique and arrested Jackson, Rebeiro and Mallory Eddy, 20. All three are from Los Angeles.
Jackson and Rebeiro are charged with one count each of second-degree robbery and receiving stolen property. Both are charged with the special allegation of personally using a handgun. In addition, Jackson is charged with one count of dissuading a witness from reporting a crime. Eddy is charged with one count of receiving stolen property.
If convicted, Jackson faces up to 15 years, eight months in state prison.
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on June 9, 2006. Read the original PDF.