LA deputies bring Mohammed movie producer in for "voluntary" interview

Sheriff’s officials could not be reached by The Times, but department spokesman Steve Whitmore told NBC4 that deputies assisting the federal probation department took [the filmmaker] to the sheriff’s substation in Cerritos for interviewing.

[Updated at 1:40 a.m. Saturday: Whitmore told the Times that [the filmmaker] was taken in for a voluntary interview with probation officials and has not been arrested or detained.]

Authorities waited until most media had left for the day.

Earlier Friday, sheriff’s deputies had to escort attorneys through a scrum of news cameras into [the filmmaker’s] home. This time, authorities only had to avoid a lone photographer for The Times and a few other lingering reporters.