BREAKING NEWS: Ex Manhattan Beach cop transferred to face murder charge
Just got off the phone with the head of the parish jail in Natchitoches, La. 
Shawn Shelton, the former Manhattan Beach cop turned kidnapper and child molester, was transferred yesterday from his Nevada prison cell to the Natchitoches jail.
Shelton is charged with killing 19-year-old Justin James in October 2005. Prosecutors contend Shelton drugged James with a combination of Xanax,
morphine and cocaine in an effort to sexually assault him. The drugs killed him.
Shelton once accused his fellow officers and chief at Manhattan Beach of sexually harassing him with anti-gay slurs and comments. He was once a rising star there.
No matter what happens in Louisiana, Shelton, 41, will likely spend the rest of his life in prison. He already is serving 35 years to life for
kidnapping and sexually assaulting a 14-year-old boy in Las Vegas in 2006, about five months after James' death. He kidnapped the boy at a bus bench, drove him out
into the desert and assaulted him.
Calvin McFerrin, chief of the Natchitoches Parish jail, said that Shelton arrived about 11 p.m. Thursday. He will be housed in a special area of the jail because of his background.
Shelton is a convicted child assailant, a former cop, is gay, and is HIV positive.
James' mother, Lisa, who fought to get someone to investigate Shelton in her son's death, told me she is grateful he finally is in Louisiana. Shelton will be in court on Monday.
"After 3 years I can't believe it," she said in an email. "Me and my family will be there on Monday."
That's the gist of it. I'll have the rest in a story later.
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Yay!! Finally! I've been following this for I don't know how long. Fantastic.