Ferrari Crash Probe Leads To Yacht In Marina Del Rey
Police Say OC Deputy's Weapon Tied To Swedish Businessman
POSTED: 9:50 am PDT April 26, 2006
UPDATED: 5:10 pm PDT April 26, 2006
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LOS ANGELES -- Sheriff's deputies searched a yacht Wednesday as part of their investigation into the mysterious crash of a Ferrari Enzo in Malibu.The rare million-dollar car was totaled on Pacific Coast Highway in February 2006.
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March 3: Investigation Into Ferrari Crash On PCH Delivers Twists, TurnsThe car was in the possession of a Swedish national named Bo Stefan Eriksson, who used to be an executive at a now-bankrupt video game company. Prosecutors said he had no right to bring the Enzo into the United States and no right to two other exotic cars either, because they belonged to British financial institutions. <table class="storyAd" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"> <tbody><tr><td class="storyAdObj">
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</td></tr></tbody> </table> After the crash, Eriksson told deputies examining the wreckage that he had been a passenger in the Ferrari and there was a street race with a Mercedes. Sgt. Philip Brooks, of the Malibu/Lost Hills Station traffic detail, said in March that Eriksson had told deputies that a friend named "Trevor" was a passenger in the Merdeces SLR."Based on the evidence, we don't believe there was a Mercedes or any race. There was a sole vehicle driving too fast on Pacific Coast Highway," Brooks said in March.He said that Trevor -- he has a last name but authorities did not release it -- said he was a friend of Eriksson and gave as his home address a boat slip in Marina del Rey. The boat in that slip was a $14 million yacht, maybe the largest in the harbor.Investigators did not comment on what, if anything, was confiscated from the boat.The name of the boat's registered owner is Carl Freer, who was taken into custody Wednesday. Authorities raided a home owned by Freer Wednesday and confiscated 16 weapons, according to the sheriff's department.Authorities said Freer allegedly used phony police credentials to purchase weapons.Eriksson's name was linked by several European newspapers, including the Guardian of London, to Freer for their involvement in the collapse of a prominent video game company in Sweden in which investors lost millions of dollars. Eriksson was reportedly sentenced to a long prison sentence in that case.The investigation revealed that, in September, Eriksson brought two Ferrari Enzos into the country in San Diego -- one a red one and the other a black one. He also brought in a Mercedes SLR, a $600,000 vehicle, according to authorities.Investigators said the initial down payment on them was allegedly a fraudulent one through a company owned by Freer.Federal authorities said Freer and Eriksson have connections to the Swedish mafia.
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Authorities had previously said they found a weapon when they searched Eriksson's Bel-Air Mansion. Now, they say the weapon belongs to a reserve Orange County sheriff's deputy, and detectives are trying to figure out how it came into Eriksson's possession.