[Lurker]

They suspected his brother was dealing drugs, so it makes perfect sense to shoot the guy who wasn’t suspected of dealing drugs 20 some times.

Yep, that Sheriff Dipstick sure can run a department...

[PENANCE]

Superior Court Judge Deborah Bernini filed a ruling Thursday unsealing the documents. About time.

[EternalVigilance]

I guess the message is, get your brother in line, upon pain of death.

[Fido969]

Several people appeared to have no source of income - except for monthly welfare checks several people named in the reports received - to account for their expensive cars and properties,

These people aren't criminals in Dupnik's eyes - they're his CONSTITUENTS.

Now, a guy working the night shift at a mine, making a pinata with his wife to save a few bucks for a birthday party... a guy like that might turn out to be a Republican.

Better gun him down before spreads!

[Bringbackthedraft]

officials found body armor, guns, a rifle, a dozen cellphones and “a hat with the U.S. Border Patrol logo”. ........................Hmmmmmm? The plot thickens? Further investigation is needed.

[jospehm20]

So, what I get out of the article is if one of my brothers was involved in criminal activity, it would be OK for the police to break into my house and kill me. I guess we really are our brother’s keepers.

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

At the link;

“Attorneys representing Jose Guerena’s widow, Vanessa, filed a motion Thursday asking that the Pima County Sheriff’s Department return some of the property seized in the court-ordered raid last month.
Those items include her wedding ring, Jose Guerena’s military medals, the couple’s vehicle, a laptop computer, and legal documents including passports, driver’s licenses and immigration papers, according to court documents.”

[petitfour]

It’s remarkable that the one family member with a steady job and not receiving government benefits is the one who was shot at 72 times while officers couldn’t even see him. But the detective(s) on the case never observed him going to and from work or wearing a uniform nor did they have info that he was receiving welfare benefits. Therefore, he must be guilty. Never mind that they only attempted to observe his house once prior to listing it on a search warrant. And then the SWAT guy observed it once a few days prior to raiding it.

This explains something I read in the Vanessa Guerena questioning prior to her being read her rights. (I think it was before even though they were detaining her.) I just got this feeling that mother-in-law was about to lose it emotionally because her good son was killed and the bad son was still ticking. Mothers tend to not cut off their bad children at the expense of the good ones. It is too painful to admit that one is bad. So Bertha went to work every day. Jose went to work every day. Jose was teaching his wife English and helping her get a GED so she could get a job, too.

I’m convinced somebody wanted Jose Guerena dead. And what is the bit about the Guerena’s being linked to a home invasion?

[NormsRevenge]

To the Feds and locals, Jose was just so much Collateral Damage.. the march of the tin badge soldiers and the WoD continues.. to his kid and wife, I don’t know what he is.. other than dead.. a memory.. and for what?

[allmendream]

The great irony of this - is that they supposedly suspected that they were dressing as LEO’s and raiding people and stealing from them.

So to combat people posing as police doing breaking and entering into a potential firefight - they do a little breaking and entering into a potential firefight.

When is the assumption questioned for the need to do this sort of thing?

Raid the house while the guy is at work - pick him up at work - and her at 3 am in her jammies- by knocking on the door unobtrusively with a couple officers.

But then that wouldn't justify a SWAT raid - would it? And they need to do them to show that Tuscon NEEDS a SWAT team.

[John S Mosby]

The younger brother who was killed worked in a local mine.
A miner- a source of real work and real income. Please explain sherf dipstick.

[PalmettoMason]

Bfl

[Mr.Unique]

Jose Guerena's contact with law enforcement began in late 2009 when he was a passenger in a vehicle carrying large, commercial- sized rolls of plastic wrap that deputies believed was used to wrap large loads of drugs, but no drugs were found inside, the document said.

Outlaw plastic wrap!

Can you always get a search warrant on such flimsy premises?

[dragnet2]

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