LAPD Officer Charged in Vandalism Case Is Sued in 2nd Search : Police: A Lake View Terrace family says a defendant in the ‘39th and Dalton’ raid entered their home without a warrant and ransacked it. He denies the charge.

The Los Angeles policeman accused of extensively damaging property in the “39th and Dalton” police misconduct case participated in another search last month in which a Lake View Terrace family claims that officers ransacked their home in a futile hunt for a handgun.

Officer Todd Parrick, who prosecutors say swung an ax at walls and household fixtures in an apartment near 39th Street and Dalton Avenue two years ago, was one of several officers who allegedly overturned beds and mattresses, emptied dresser drawers and closets and struck a dining room chair against an attic door during last month’s incident.

The officers entered the residence Jan. 18 without search or arrest warrants and falsely arrested two young black men for threatening a group of white youths with a firearm, according to a federal lawsuit filed Wednesday by the family.

In the suit, Bobby Everett Sr. said that when he found his house “turned upside down” and did not know of the police search, his first thought was of burglary. The postal clerk’s anger flared when he later was told that Parrick is facing misdemeanor vandalism charges in the 39th and Dalton raid.

Parrick, who has worked out of the LAPD’s Foothill Division, could not be reached for comment Wednesday. But he wrote in police reports that he entered the Everett home only after he identified himself as a policeman and one of the residents stepped outside to speak to the officers.

Peter J. Ferguson, his attorney in the 39th and Dalton case, denied that Parrick acted improperly at the Everett home. “It’s not true and this is nothing more than a facade,” he said of the family’s allegations.

Unlike the earlier case, there was no structural or property damage to the Everett home. But Everett, his wife, Pamela, and their two sons remain incensed that police officials continued to allow Parrick to participate in police searches after he was arrested in the 39th and Dalton incident.

“His police superiors should have known better than to unleash him on the public again,” Bobby Everett Sr. said. “They just keep turning him loose on law abiding citizens.”

Cmdr. William Booth, the LAPD’s chief spokesman, said the department is investigating a citizen’s complaint against Parrick that was filed after the latest incident.

He also said that Parrick has been ordered to a disciplinary hearing on April 9 in connection with a third episode, in which the officer could be suspended or fired for an alleged altercation last August in Pacoima.

In that case, Parrick is accused of improper tactics, unnecessarily “head-butting,” kicking and punching a citizen, inappropriately removing his flashlight and baton, submitting arrest and use-of-force reports that included inaccurate information and releasing two persons wanted on arrest warrants, Booth said.

Parrick, a tall, well-built officer, had been a member of the LAPD for about a year when he and a large group of officers raided the 39th and Dalton apartments in August, 1988.

Several of the officers, who were looking for evidence of gang activity, later told investigators that Parrick tore through one of the apartments, “pretty well busting up the place” with an ax. They said he gouged walls, smashed furniture, struck a toilet and dislodged a bathroom sink. Some of them said he was swinging the ax so wildly that they feared for their own safety.

Along with another officer, a police captain and a sergeant, Parrick is scheduled to stand trial March 18 in Municipal Court on criminal vandalism charges. They also are defendants in a $10-million federal civil lawsuit brought by owners of the apartments. They have pleaded not guilty in the criminal case and also deny any wrongdoing in the civil matter.

The lawsuit was filed by attorney Stephen Yagman, who on Wednesday again sued Parrick and the city for $10 million on behalf of the Everett family in the more recent case. In his new lawsuit, Yagman contended that when Parrick entered the Everett residence, he “Daltonized (trashed) their home.”

“If the Police Department is going to behave like this, no one is going to open the door for them,” the lawyer said in an interview. “Nobody’s going to answer when the Big Bad Wolf is at the door.”

The Everett’s two sons, Brian and Bobby Jr., said in an interview at their home that they were at a neighborhood party Jan. 12 when a group of “white Skinheads” arrived. “There was a little verbal argument and we left,” said Bobby Everett Jr., 22. “That was it. We left.”

But Parrick wrote in his reports that he obtained statements from several white youths who said Brian Everett, 20, pulled a small, silver handgun, pointed the weapon at them and threatened to fire.

The Everett brothers said that six days later they were sitting at home when Parrick and other officers arrived.

“He was banging violently on the door with his gun,” Bobby Everett Jr. said. “The gun was in his hand and he was yelling ‘Police!’ I had nothing to hide, so I opened the door and he just snatched me out.”

The brothers said they were handcuffed outside while the officers went through the home. The brothers said they asked to see a search or arrest warrant, but none were presented. They both were arrested on two felony counts of assault with a firearm. They said they spent six days in jail before posting a combined $20,000 bail.

Parrick’s police reports do not indicate that the Everett brothers objected to the house being searched.

“I knocked on (the) suspects’ residence door,” Parrick wrote. “Bobby opened the door. I ID’d myself as an LAPD officer. I asked him if he would please step outside to speak to myself and (another officer). The suspect did so.”

The Everett family said they do not keep a gun at home and that the brothers told the officers the search would be fruitless. The parents also said it took several hours to clean up the mess.

“I felt violated,” said Pamela Everett, who works for a video distributorship. “I don’t want people going through my things. This is my house, and they had no right to do that.”