A lot more assertions, anyway.
Over 71 rounds and only 22 hit?
Trigger-happy AND poor shots. A bad combination.
No drugs or large amounts of cash were found inside Jose Guerena's home, but detectives seized a Colt .38-caliber handgun, paperwork, tax returns including one with Jose and Graciela Celaya's name, insurance papers, bank statements and a bank card, reports show. Another report said detectives found body armor in a hallway closet and a U.S. Border Patrol hat in the garage.
Yep. He clearly was a drug lord, who had finished a 12-hour shift in a mine.
If SWAT could spin any harder, then they would be SWATting themselves.
Based on what's out so far, this is just total BS and they're trying to cover their butts for making a bad call in a situation they should never have created in the first place. Damn, if he had a regular job they could have served him a warrant any time they wanted right at his job. Or, would they have needed a SWAT team to do that as well?
• 9:33 a.m., Jose and Graciela Celaya's house, 6200 block of West Oklahoma Street. Most of the cash and drugs that detectives seized were found here, where Alejandro Guerena's wife, Pauline, and child were found, along with Graciela Celaya, two unidentified women and another child.Pauline Guerena let detectives inside the home, where they found a large shoebox under a bed containing about $94,000, a bag of marijuana in the stove, ammunition, an AK-47 rifle, other guns and bulletproof vests. Seven vehicles were found at the residence and drug-sniffing dogs alerted officers to the smell of narcotics on most of the vehicles.
That's quite a bit of money but it's not illegal to own it AFAIK. So this is where they found "most of the drugs" and that is described as "a bag of marijuana in the stove." A trash bag full? A gallon baggie full? A quart ziplock? A snack-sized ziplock?
Of course the obligatory media report of an AK-47 with no mention of whether it's full-auto (legal with proper paperwork) or a semi-auto which is very common and legal with no special permit required.
The drug-sniffing dog alerted to "narcotics" in "most of the vehicles." Given that 90% of all paper currency has detectable amounts of cocaine on it that's not particularly notable. Do those dogs tell their handlers which "narcotic" they are alerting to? One bark for pot, two barks for crack, three for meth?
How do you square that statement with the accusation of drug distribution?
I think all this says is that Dupnik is a buffoon.
I'm glad they lead with that. Well, that convinces me. The police did the right thing.
> And while initial reports were that doctors told the
> Guerena family that Jose had been shot 60 times, the Pima
> County medical examiner’s preliminary report says he was
> shot 22 times.
Oh, that makes me feel a whole lot better.
/s
Actually that does not mean that he was only shot 22 times. It means that 22 of the rounds that hit him were considered to have been lethal. Perhaps he was only hit by 22 rounds. The statement does not say that, though.
I confess I have not been following this story closely. However, I had the impression this was another “oops, wrong house” SWAT raid. That apparently wasn’t the case.
Sounds like a huge success. At least they can use the money for MORE weapons and MORE assets to continue their war on drugs.
define “connection”
Oh, this explains why they had to murder the Iraq vet. Family members were involved in drugs! All family members of criminals should be executed by the cops./s/
Given his family members were into the drug trade explains why he freaked out with the house invasion. He, however, worked as a miner and could have been picked up at his job site at any time.
Glad to see he was only hit by 27 of the 70 bullets shot at him. That takes care of the claim it was overkill./s/
Jose had a clean record.
No evidence was found connected to any criminal activity.
He had some bad family elements.
Appears like this is one member of the family who tried to elevate himself from the crap he grew up in and was murdered for it.
D’oh.. he was only shot 22 times?
THIS is the "piece of a law enforcement uniform" they've been talking about?!?!? You can buy that at any Circle K in the state!
The only thing coming from them that would surprise me would be the truth.
In closing, I would say that life goes on, decent individuals still get sick when they hear or read about incidents and jackboot lickers will continue to have sexual orgasms as thet defend their masters between licks.
But, incidents of this type will be ocurring more frequently.