According to a report, the FBI is investigating whether the kidnapping of Lady Gaga’s dogs was politically motivated since she sang at President Joe Biden’s inauguration.
The FBI is working on the case with Los Angeles detectives, The Sun reported.
“Lady Gaga is of course highly regarded, but she sang at President Biden’s inauguration, which takes this matter to another level,” a source told the outlet. “The FBI wants to know exactly what triggered this incident.”
An FBI spokesman referred The Sun to the LAPD, which is leading the investigation into the dognapping, in which the singer’s dog walker was shot in the chest.
The representative noted that “the agency will make resources available to our local partners as / when requested,” said The Sun, who said it has contacted the LAPD.
The paper said that although the FBI is involved, investigators believe the gun-toting crook – who took off with two of the pop megastar’s beloved French bulldogs – was a straightforward armed robbery.
Lady Gaga has offered a $ 500,000 reward for the return of her puppies.
The popular breed’s small dogs can fetch between $ 1,500 and $ 5,000 in some quarters, Brandi Hunter, the American Kennel Club’s vice president of Public Relations told The Post.
The dog walker, Ryan Fischer, was walking down North Sierra Bonita Avenue on Wednesday at around 9:40 PM with Gaga’s dogs – Gustav, Koji and Miss Asia – when a four-door sedan pulled up and attacked two men, police said.
When Fischer argued, one of the men shot him once with a semi-automatic pistol, and the duo rushed off with Gustav and Koji.
Fortunately, Fischer “is recovering well” at a local hospital, a source familiar with the incident told The Post.
Neighboring resident Buck Angel, who called the emergency number, told The Sun that “where the attack took place cannot be just a coincidence,” adding that the area where the attack took place “has no witnesses living there” and “has been empty. for five years. “
“They must have chosen that place to carry out the attack, and those dogs were the target of ransom, it had to be,” he told the outlet. “They must have wanted to blackmail Lady Gaga for money.”
Angel added that he thought Fischer was dead.
“When they [police] I came out and saw my neighbor across the street helping the man who had been shot, ”he said. He squeezed his chest to stop the bleeding. He was saving his life.
‘I actually thought he was dead. I believe he was shot once, even though there were two gunshots, ”Angel added. The injured man told our neighbor as he was compressing the wound, ‘Those were Lady Gaga’s dogs – so that’s how we found out’.
The Post has contacted the FBI.