I guess it's an interpretation of the phrase "there was a cell phone in the van". I took that to mean "when davilas got into the van". Just as he would say there was drugs in the van.
I would expect that if it was his cell phone, he would have said "I left my cell phone in the van".
From several things you have posted:
1. Sanchez had NO BUSINESS being involved in this case. He was a childhood friend of Davila. That he is STILL involved tells me volumes.
2. It is apparent to me that Sanchez is running Davila in an undercover operation. I'm HIGHLY suspicious that Sanchez is letting Davila get away with a lot of lawbrealing, just to hide his involvment.
3. I suspect Sanchez is a dirty BP agent. He is in a supervisory position in the ID office. He can spot trouble and warn off his childhood friend.
I can understand that, but given the parsing of words that we have seen from OIG and Sutton, I'm not making a conclusion one way or the other when I see wording like that. I'd like to see O.A.-D.'s exact words. All we have are C.Sanchez's words, and anyone else who wrote the November 2006 report.