Update: I've now listened to this. General summary is that sheriff doesn't have evidence but is skeptical and believes that the story has been embellished.
This is a weird thing for a sheriff to say in public into an Internet mad for conspiracies. As plenty well evidenced by the LATimes article below which is almost entirely sourced from a thread on the website that has read it
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Genesis 49:16-17
"Well, well!" said Holmes, impatiently. "A good cyclist does not need a high road. The moor is intersected with paths and the moon is at the full."