Posted on 06/01/2011 1:06:37 AM PDT by petitfour
The man killed in a SWAT team raid last month had been under investigation by the Pima County Sheriff's Department for 20 months as part of a major drug and homicide investigation, Sheriff Clarence Dupnik said Tuesday during an editorial meeting with the Star. But details of the investigation into Jose Guerena's activities won't be released because an informant for the Sheriff's Department could be in danger, Dupnik said. "There's a chance that our informant is going to get killed," he said. Guerena was killed when SWAT officers fired 71 rounds from the front door of his home in the 7100 block of South Redwater Drive, while serving a search warrant on May 5, department officials have said. Guerena was hit 22 times and died at the scene, according to a preliminary report by the Pima County Medical Examiner's Office. Two weeks after the shooting, officers were alerted to a storage room at Ajo Kinney Super Storage, 5175 W. Ajo Highway, rented to Jose Guerena's mother, Bertha, Dupnik said.
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But details of the investigation into Jose Guerena's activities won't be released because an informant for the Sheriff's Department could be in danger, Dupnik said. "There's a chance that our informant is going to get killed," he said.
Guerena was killed when SWAT officers fired 71 rounds from the front door of his home in the 7100 block of South Redwater Drive, while serving a search warrant on May 5, department officials have said.
Guerena was hit 22 times and died at the scene, according to a preliminary report by the Pima County Medical Examiner's Office.
Two weeks after the shooting, officers were alerted to a storage room at Ajo Kinney Super Storage, 5175 W. Ajo Highway, rented to Jose Guerena's mother, Bertha, Dupnik said.
Dupnik said there was "no reason for anybody to be suspicious of what happened."
Nothing to see here. Just move along now....
20 months. Almost two years. Have to have more than “was arrested as he left the mine where he worked” as a headline for your efforts I guess. Although I suppose, in those 20 months, the opportunity never presented itself.
Anything with Dupnik’s name associated with it, is supicious.
Sheesh!
‘Supicious’ should read ‘suspicious’.
Watched for 20-months and all they found was a Border Patrol hat.
After a 20-month investigation, the various department involved could have simply arrested everyone and then searched their homes and storage units immediately thereafter. Nowhere near dramatic enough. As it now stands no one has been charged!
Now it turns out that the SWAT wasn't even the Sheriff Department's? Local yokel Barney Fifes in their Halloween SWAT outfits?
What happened, Doll, is that Barney Fife 'A', the "Shield Man," tripped and fell as he entered the front door. The other ani clustered behind him thought he had been shot and opened up with their SWAT M 16's, or if they read the right SWAT Magazines and catalogs, their H&K carbines. Spraying 70 shots down the hall, hitting Guerena 22 times and leaving 50 rounds going through the house.. It is a miracle only one member in the family was killed.
This is a disgrace that will lead to more deaths of both wrongly targeted victims and police officers who one night will find their raid countered by accurate fire from homeowners who have no idea who thee invaders are. This SWAT Trend must be curbed.
Or perhaps worse all the way around, find their 'raid' countered by accurate fire from homeowners who know who they are, but no longer think of them as "the good guys", and not without cause...
the infowarrior
The only homicide that has been mentioned in relation to this case was that of Cynthia and Manuel Orozco, relatives of Vanessa Guerena's sister in law, killed in an apparent home invasion in March 2010 - Just 14 months ago
Apparently being distant relatives of future crime victims is suspicious in Pima County.
Sheriff Dumnik's informant 
I haven’t been following this very closely but if they could spend nearly TWO YEARS investigating how come they had to flash mob his house and shoot him dead in the end?
Surely they knew his patterns and could have detained him somewhere along the way before executing whatever warrant they had.
20 month investigation and they said they had no idea who would be in that house.
I'm not suspicious. I am absolutely positive that a SWAT dynamic entry was unnecessary and carried out with utter incompetence.
More BS and lies from Sheriff Dip$hit.
I cannot believe this man has not been removed from office after his irresponsible actions following the Congresswoman’s Gifford’s shootings. He shows on a national scale the disasterous consequences of what electing an incomptent egotistical individual can have.
Put me on the jury in a case like that and the homeowner walks. In fact that happened once in the late 1970s out in Western Maryland but that was before the internet age and you won't turn up anything about it on google.
The more this brainless thug says, the worse this whole tragic mess sounds.
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