Guerena Analysis - Final Analysis

Via Redleg

LANGUAGE

"........for those of you calling me a cop hater or a traitor - remember this fact - I have more time patrolling the streets of a city consistently ranked among the nation's top twenty most violent than you poorly educated college f---- have had free of your mama's teat."

The rest here.

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Guerena Analysis - Search Warrant Affidavit

I was about to toddle off to bed when I found a link to a .pdf version of the probable cause affidavit used to justify the SWAT raids at the four Guerena/Celaya homes on 5 May, 2011.

I scanned the seventeen pages and I believe most of the Guerena family may be pretty well hosed. None, other than Jose Guerena, have any documented income, some are on welfare, yet they own a lot of property and thirty-two vehicles. Six of those are in Jose's name, although there was only one parked in his driveway and the affidavit alleges Alejandro sometimes drove that one. No, it doesn't look good for the family, but allow me to sum up what they have on Jose.

1) He was arrested, but not indicted, on a trafficking charge when ICE agents observed some suspicious guys dropping off packages at a house. Some of the agents got a search warrant and found one-hundred pounds of marijuana. Some of the agents followed the suspects to another house where they arrested everyone inside. Jose was inside, but it is not alleged he was present during the drop-off of the drugs.

Once again - no indictment, no trial. The arrest still shows on his rap sheet for some reason. I assume Arizona doesn't have a law that says if your charges are dropped your rap sheet gets wiped. And seriously, do you folks have any idea just how easy it is get an indictment from a grand jury? Hell, it's just the officer and the grand jury hanging out, telling tales. No defense presentation is allowed. I would have to say a grand jury was actually doing it's job when it wouldn't hand down an indictment based on those tenuous facts.

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