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Chris Walsh RIP
2003-09-15 14:18:34
From
the February 3, 2004 LAPD news release:
On January 29, 2003, at about 1:30 p.m., an off-duty Los Angeles County
Sheriff’s Deputy was fired at by a gunman at a condominium complex located
in the 9900 block of Topanga Boulevard in Chatsworth. The Deputy was
unharmed by the gunfire and the gunman ran away. Christopher Walsh,
an associate of the suspected gunman, lived at the complex and witnessed
the unprovoked attack. He was detained for questioning and released.
Following an extensive investigation by members of the Devonshire
Homicide Unit, the gunman was identified as David Michael Steinberg.
Arrest warrants charging Steinberg with assault and Walsh for accessory
were issued on June 24, 2003. In the course of attempting to locate
and arrest these suspects, the investigators became aware that Walsh
had been reported as a missing person by family members on June 30,
2003.
On the same day the detectives located Steinberg in a North Hollywood
apartment and arrested him for assaulting the Deputy, evidence recovered
pursuant to a search warrant at Steinberg’s apartment suggested foul
play had transpired inside the apartment.
On July 2, 2003, human remains were discovered concealed in a container
in a public storage unit located at 15460 Erwin Street in Van Nuys.
The remains were identified as those of Christopher Walsh. The autopsy
revealed Walsh had been shot to death. Devonshire Homicide retained
investigative responsibility for the collateral murder of Walsh based
on the likely connection to the prior assault on the deputy.
An exhaustive investigation has resulted in the issuance of a murder
arrest warrant for David Steinberg, as well as for his accomplice, Jeffrey
Lawrence Weaver. Additionally, an accessory to murder allegation was
charged on two other associates identified as Tony Shane Wilson and
George Jassick. Steinberg has been in custody on the prior charge and
is to be arraigned for the murder of Christopher Walsh on February 4,
2004, in San Fernando Court.
Homicide detectives and field agents from the California Department
of Corrections Parole located and arrested Tony Shane Wilson on February
3, 2004, at a residence located in the 11200 block of Blix Street in
Toluca Lake. One hour later George Jassick was arrested at his work
location in the Hollywood area. Both Wilson and Jassick remain in custody
pending arraignment on February 4, 2004, for the accessory to murder
charges. Suspect
Jeffrey Weaver is still at large. He is believed to be in the Southern
California area. Weaver is also wanted in connection with an armed business
robbery that occurred on January 11, 2004, in the 18400 block of Burbank
Boulevard in Reseda.
Weaver is a career criminal and should be considered armed and dangerous.
Weaver is 34 years old Caucasian, 6’ 00, 250 lbs., blond hairs and blue
eyes. A photograph of Weaver will be release during the news conference
to alert the community and to ask for the public’s help in locating
this extremely dangerous felon.
Anyone with information is asked to contact Devonshire Area Homicide
Unit, at 818-756-8291.
Michael Gougis writes for the Los Angeles Daily News August
25, 2003:
In the upper middle-class neighborhood around Tupper Street in Granada
Hills, David Michael Steinberg, Christopher Walsh and their friends
stood out as teenagers, running wild and headed for trouble. And they
found it often enough. But while the others eventually straightened
out their lives, Steinberg and Walsh kept on going toward lives of crime
that belied their backgrounds as products of affluence with professional
parents and good families.
Today Steinberg, 36, is behind bars - again - awaiting trial on charges
of assault with a deadly weapon for shooting at a deputy sheriff on
a street in Chatsworth earlier this year. Walsh was charged in the incident
also, but earlier this summer his bullet-riddled body was found stuffed
into a garbage container, locked in a ministorage unit in Van Nuys.
Acquaintances and court records painted Walsh and Steinberg as two
kids who had a lifetime of opportunities but started down the wrong
road and, unlike several of their fellow troublemakers, never found
the off-ramp back.
``There was a whole group of youngsters around there who were up to
a whole bunch of mischief,'' said attorney Ronald S. Miller, who represented
Steinberg in one of his earlier scrapes with the law. ``It was a bizarre
group.
``I used to call them kiddy gangsters, wannabe wise guys. Most of them,
I haven't heard from in years. David is a nice kid, but he was always
working an angle - he always had some scam going - but never getting
anywhere.''
...Both were in their late teens when Miller first began representing
Steinberg. He said they were part of a group of kids that called themselves
the ``Tupper Street Gang,'' and that he represented several of them
in small-drug cases and minor crimes. Miller first heard the name, he
recalled, when one of the members was involved in an argument in a doughnut
shop and clouted someone across the face with a removable car stereo.
``They hung around together in the 1980s,'' Miller said. ``They all
were from very good families. Their parents were educated, hard-working
people. They weren't gang-bangers raising gang members.''
Steinberg's criminal history, authorities said, included a misdemeanor
battery case in the 1980s and a kidnapping charge in 1989 that was reduced
to a misdemeanor. Somewhere along the line, court records show, he developed
drug- and steroid-abuse problems. In 1992, he was charged in federal
court with conspiracy, carrying and using a firearm during a drug trafficking
crime, and possession and transfer of counterfeit currency. He was convicted
and sent to federal prison but appealed and won a new trial. He eventually
reached a plea agreement for time served and was released. In 2001,
he was convicted of grand theft auto and possession of brass knuckles
and sentenced to 16 months in state prison. He was released in 2002
but served a few more days in prison on a parole violation earlier this
year before being arrested on the assault with a deadly weapon charge.
Prosecutors said Walsh, a salesman who never married, harbored and
concealed Steinberg from police after the shooting in January. In addition,
prosecutors said that in January, Walsh unlawfully owned a .40-caliber
Glock pistol, a .22-caliber rifle and a shotgun. It was illegal for
Walsh to own them, court records show, because he had a misdemeanor
spousal abuse conviction in 2001; two people had restraining orders
pending against him.
Steinberg and Walsh were charged in early June. A month later, neighbors
near a ministorage facility on Erwin Street in Van Nuys alerted authorities
to a foul odor emanating from one of the units. When investigators arrived,
they found a plastic trash bin within; inside that was the badly decomposed
body of Walsh.
I must look into the Monkey Boys, an
Israeli gang of ex-cops connected with The Chamelon Group, a putative
private investigation company in Chatsworth under investigation for Ecstasy
smuggling. The Monkey Boys (connected with the West Valley Guys) work
in Ecstasy smuggling and the pornography business. One member of the Boys,
Chris Walsh (who used to work for the pioneering porn company Arrow owned
by Butchie Peraino), was murdered in late June 2003 (he was 37yo). He
was allegedly killed by hitman and Walsh roommate David Steinberg, who
had connections to the Chameleon
Group. The hit was over a drug deal gone bad.
Chris Walsh's body was found in a trash can in Chatsworth. About eight
bullets were pumped into him.
Chris Walsh was a thug and a loan shark. When he went to
visit one of the borrowers, he stabbed the guy in bright daylight on the
street. Another time, Chris and his entourage paid a guy a visit, cleaned
out his place, and beat him so he ended up having plastic surgery.
Walsh spent time in prison, then got
into porn and drug trafficking. He worked as an enforcer and collector
for various companies, including Lynton (and Chaim's) porn company VIP,
around Chatsworth.
"It doesn't surprise me that he was killed," says a porner who knew
and liked Walsh.
Chris Walsh lived a dangerous life. His father is in prison for life
for contract murder. I've heard that his brother is in prison for
contract murder.
Chris Walsh's father (and Dion Giarusso's father Raymond
Giarusso) are in the 1981 book The last Mafioso: the treacherous world
of Jimmy Fratianno.
Peter Kinsler, circa 2000, referred
to Chris Walsh as his bodyguard.
Walsh was estranged from his kids.
CSI - Cum Scene Investigation
A couple of years ago, a Hollywood producer had a bright idea. His Hollywood
career wasn't going anywhere. He decided he'd make some pornos ripping
off the TV series CSI (Crime Scene Investigation). His angle was Cum Scene
Investigation.
The Hollywood producer was a big gambler. He knew ex-pornographer Peter
Kinsler from Las Vegas. Peter hooked up the producer with Lynton Appleson
(Linton Applegate) of VIP.
Lynton, who has a long ponytail and looks like he has hair transplants,
is just the front man for VIP. The owner is the Israeli Chaim. What's
Chaim's last name? And the name of his other company down the street from
VIP?
Lynton doesn't have many friends in the industry. A lot of people say
he ripped them off.
The producer paid Lynton $16,000 to make two porn movies. Lynton spent
$4200, hiring a big black guy (Stefon Morris, now goes by "Dirk"
on Harlemwhores.com) to shoot one movie at Randy DeTroit's house.
Then Lynton the producer that he'd already spent over $16,000 and couldn't
afford to make another movie. The one movie he did make was the worst
porn movie ever, according to the producer.
One day a couple of hulking African-American gentlemen show up to Lynton's
VIP office and threaten to kill him. They have a gun. They throw him around
the office.
The Hollywood producer goes soft and decides not to kill Linton.
Still, everything has been captured on security video. The secretary
calls the LAPD who show up quickly.
The LAPD calls the Hollywood producer. Things get ugly until Linton agrees
to drop charges.
The next day, Chris Walsh,
calls the Hollywood producer. "What are you doing sending two niggers
into my home?"
The producer agrees to meet with Walsh, who calls himself the protector
of Chatsworth.
Walsh acts on behalf of Lynton.
The producer and Walsh reach a settlement.
A few weeks later, Chris Walsh ended up dismembered in a Chatsworth trash
can.
Chris Walsh hung around porn and Chatsworth for many years. He used to
work for Arrow. Chris has brothers who frighten the daylights out of porners
who know them.
The man responsible for Walsh's murder was caught by the police and jailed.
It wasn't the producer or his African-American gentlemen.
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