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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Isn’t it strange how suddenly all of this “new” evidence from the storage facility became available... especially after they have had a whole month to manufacture it?
Thanks Sal for that interactive CATO map...it’s very informative.
Guerena worked a job in a mine. How hard would it have been for the sheriff to arrest him at work. I mean there are not exactly a lot of ways in and out of a mine. But, I guess that would have obviated the “fun” of having a SWAT raid by dufus Dupkik.
It’s not easy to put together a drug case over 20 months. I mean look Sheriff Dupnik himself forgot about the case it took so long. He just remembered in time for this meeting.
This lunatic is still working on finishing his Yogi Bear coloring book.
The sheriff is a murderous fascist.
The most informative part of that map:
“If a widespread pattern of [knock-and-announce] violations were shown . . . there would be reason for grave concern.”
—Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, in Hudson v. Michigan, June 15, 2006.
OK, so when will SCOTUS act to curb “no knock” raids? (and don’t think you can count on Scalia to preserve your liberties)
does arizona have a state police department? Why are they not investigating this? is this a case of politician covering up politician, or is this a case of the blue wall?
Problem was, they didn’t have an arrest warrant for him, only a search warrant for the houses. Supposedly, since they didn’t find anything illegal in his house, they say that if he’d only opened the door and let them in they wouldn’t have had any grounds to arrest him. Or kill him.
Whether that would preclude them from picking him up at work and escorting him home for the warrant execution, I don’t know.
“Officers also found high-end military gear and advanced weather protective clothing inside the storage locker, Kastigar said.”
What, turnout gear? Which would make have the guys in the state suspects. Not to mention that they only found out about the storage unit after the raid. Some investigators they are, yessir.
Spin, spin, spin. If the marks don’t buy one tale, tell another.
So he deserved to die?
What a crock.
Amazing the wife and little boy did not get shot with all the bullets flying throughout that house? And to think this all started with a clumsy oaf falling?
Dupnik statement:
"When the rhetoric about hatred, about mistrust of government, about paranoia of how government operates, and to try to inflame the public on a daily basis, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, it has impact on people especially who are unbalanced personalities."
Dupnik blames Political Rhetoric
Dupnik is the primary "unbalanced personalities" and his staff faithfullly follows their unbalanced leader. But we are supposed to "trust government". I don't think so.
I'd guess that that Sahuarita, Oro Valley and Marana are incorporated towns within Pima County, each with its own police department. I suppose there could be some sort of agreement between each department and the County Sheriff's Office to have officers with "certain talents" form the County SWAT team.
Looks like they were uniformly incompetent.
.... if he's still breathing. The odds are very much against the homeowner when the SWAT team shows up.
That’s “articles of military clothing.”
>> The man killed in a SWAT team raid last month had been under investigation... as part of a major drug and homicide investigation
Well, I certainly believe the *homicide* part. We saw the tape.
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