Posted on 06/06/2011 7:54:02 AM PDT by Mr.Unique
TUCSON, AZ (KOLD) - Unsealed court records allege that two former Pima County Sheriffs deputies worked together to pull over known drug traffickers to steal their money.
In the "superseding indictment" that was unsealed Thursday, prosecutors allege that then-Deputies Miguel Arvizu and Francisco Jimenez arranged to also provide "security" while others stole drugs and money from a storage facility in Green Valley.
Arvizu was a deputy for nearly seven years, from June 8, 2003, to when he resigned April 28, 2010. Jimenez was hired June 23, 2006, and resigned March 17, 2011.
The charges paint a picture of two allegedly corrupt deputies who ran drugs and stole the profits, according to the indictment.
In all, Arvizu is charged with eight counts that include theft of government money and attempted distribution of 3 kilograms of cocaine. Jimenez faces similar charges.
“As a matter of fact, the only ones profiting are drug dealers, cops and politicians.”
And some would say lawyers. But they are sort of a specialist subspecies of politician. Those three legs though, law enforcement, politicians and dealers make a very sturdy platform, and one we will have around for a very long time.
“Perhaps Pima county SWAT killed the young marine because he knew too much.”
He crossed someone. He was murdered intentionally. That much is sure.
LOL!
“Is such overwhelming incompetence possible?”
The shooting, yes, although rare. The deliberate wait for the victim to die ... That gives the game away.
Quite right! I am shamed that I neglected to mention lawyers as profiteers in the war on drugs, which of course, many are.
Ran drugs and stole profits. In Pima County, people like these two usually make the news when their bodies are found in a car at the end of some dirt road.
Heh. Well, to me they are a subset within the category of ‘politician’. They just have a niche specialty, and charge by the task or hour instead of the term of office or the current (or next) generation.
Gross incompetence for just wounding him, murder with malice aforethought for letting him die.
Stupid comments, incompetent SWAT out of control, corrupt officers involved in theft and the drug trade.
These two should head south, They would make excellent officers suoth of the border.
(at the North Pole on Dec. 21)
bttt
We need to send a SWAT team over there to find out!
Oh yeah, the Guerna autopsy showed no of drugs in his system.
The bootlickers have about as much credibility as Anthony Weiner, at this point.
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