3 Responses to “Does anyone know the name of the sheriff who was originally in charge of the Watergate burglary investigation? Is he still alive? Does anyone have the phone number of this sheriff, phone number of anyone on his team?”

1. Lady Patriot
   May 20th, 2013 @ 10:33 pm

   https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2002/05/31/AR2005111001227.html

   5 Held in Plot to Bug Democrats’ Office Here

   Network News
   By Alfred E. Lewis
   Washington Post Staff Writer
   Sunday, June 18, 1972

   Five men, one of whom said he is a former employee of the Central Intelligence Agency, were arrested at 2:30 a.m. yesterday in what authorities described as an elaborate plot to bug the offices of the Democratic National Committee here.

   Three of the men were native-born Cubans and another was said to have trained Cuban exiles for guerrilla activity after the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion.

   They were surprised at gunpoint by three plain-clothes officers of the metropolitan police department in a sixth floor office at the plush Watergate, 2600 Virginia Ave., NW, where the Democratic National Committee occupies the entire floor.

   The early morning arrests occurred about 40 minutes after a security guard at the Watergate noticed that a door connecting a stairwell with the hotel’s basement garage had been taped so it would not lock.

   The guard, 24-year old Frank Wills, removed the tape, but when he passed by about 10 minutes later a new piece had been put on. Wills then called police.
   [apparently Wash DC doesn’t have Sheriff,only Police]

   Three officers from the tactical squad responded and entered the stairwell.

   From the basement to the sixth floor, they found every door leading from the stairwell to a hallway of the building had been taped to prevent them from locking. At the sixth floor, where the stairwell door leads directly into the Democratic National Committee offices, they found the door had been jimmied.

   Led by Sgt. Paul Leper, the tactical force team, which also included Officers John Barret and Carl Shollfer, began searching the suite, which includes 29 offices and where approximately 70 persons work.

   Within hours after the arrests, the suite was sealed off and scores of metropolitan police officers directed by acting Chief Charles Wright. FBI agents and Secret Service men were assigned to the investigation.

   The operation was described in court by prosecutor Earl J. Silbert as “professional” and “clandestine.”
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   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_J._Silbert

   couldn’t find anything on anyone else

2. Rambo Ike
   May 21st, 2013 @ 6:07 am

   Don’t remember a sheriff, but that doesn’t mean there wasn’t one.

   Sergeant Paul W. Leeper with officers John B. Barrett & Carl M. Shoffler made the arrests on the 5 burglars on Saturday, June 17, 1972 @ 2:00 am after receiving a tip from a security guard working at Watergate.

   Leeper is still alive:

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6aGRtEmwTE

   Charles A. Nuzum was the FBI agent who was in charge of the investigation into the Watergate burglary. He died in 2008

3. Laura
   May 21st, 2013 @ 9:27 am

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