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Monday, November 22, 2010

More About Sergeant Drenth’s Death. Was it Murder? Was it Suicide? or Was it Something Else at the Hands of Jack Harris and the 4th Floor?

In Pinal County recently a county employee with Animal Care and Control who mistakenly euthanized a war hero dog, was fired.  So what should we do when a wannabe chief of police/public safety manager and all around jackass is responsible for the suicide of one of his own cops?

We get so many calls and so many details surrounding the suicide of Sergeant Sean Drenth - whoops - we mean murder.....self murder....more so than any other story these days.  The cover-ups and corruption on this one are pretty bad. A meeting in the Phoenix PD had everyone being threatened with their jobs.  Members of Phoenix Homicide were told, “Don’t talk to the media or you will be fired.”  Thanks to our good loyal sources, we still have information on Sergeant Drenth’s murder mystery leaked to us and it's driving Jack Ass Harris crazy!

The latest news has 4 officers indicted on charges of pocketing $1000s of dollars in an off duty scam that they didn’t work. We hear another 30+ are in the queue to be investigated.   We should note that this news was published here first, before any mainstream media got a hold of it.   Jack Ass Harris claims it’s not his fault and how is he to know everything (!!!) going on with his police force.  Pill poppin mayor Phil Gordon declares we still have the best police department on the planet.


In our last blog about Phoenix police officer Sean Drenth, we wrote:

So each of you are asking…why?  Why the cover up by the Phoenix PD and why would a distinguished officer kill himself?

For the later question we may never know.  Officer Drenth recently bought a Camaro. Could it have been financial problems?  Problems at home?  Problems at work?  That is now with officer Drenth and God to discuss. Whatever the reason, we will bet you all a set of Polombo nameplates that his wife and the mother know the reason or have a very good idea.

We may have found our motive for a Suicide. 

We are also learning about Jack Harris’ “cleaning house” of the South Mountain precinct all in an effort to show the community how tough he is and how he “cleans up his own,” when nothing could be further from the truth. 

Jack Harris and PSB have reinvigorated this old claim about officers in South Mountain working overtime, but never showing up for the job. Officer George Contreras already lost his job over this and it looks like more were coming.  This investigation is over 3 years old, yet it comes up now.  How convenient for Jack Harris; but yet how unfortunate for Sean Drenth.

What the Phoenix PD do is sit on investigations against cops and save them; opting not to investigate. Only when they feel the time to grand stand is right, or to screw over a good officer who turned on chief Jackass will the investigation start.  It was all part of Jack Harris’ propaganda campaign to make himself look good.  Unfortunately, it looks like it back-fired, because Drenth was found dead, most definitely a suicide.


So what’s the connection?

It appears that Sergeant Sean Drenth was part of this investigation into filing false overtime claims and not working.  To what extent, we do not know.  This was not solely isolated to Drenth but included some 30+ officers from the South Mountain precinct at all levels and all degrees.  The only reason this investigation “popped up” was because of what happened with officer Richard Chrisman killing an unarmed citizen.  

Jack needed to save face and show everyone that he is not soft on his own.  What better way to do this then throw some 30+ patrol officers under the bus and blame everything in South Mountain on “them” rather then taking the blame himself on his own corrupt administration? Jack Ass Harris even put Chris Crockett as the commander of South Mountain, only to have a domestic violence call to his home 2 days later.  Crockett is the wrong leader for South Mountain.  Chris Crockett just doesn't know how to act around women and being stupid is no way to go through life, but he is an FOJ and got the gig because of his skin color and his loyalty to a worthless, stupid jackass.

If Drenth was part of this investigation by Jack Harris, maybe he got scared?  Maybe he saw the beginning of the end?  Maybe he was more involved then we all believe and more then just a participant? Maybe he met another “overtime cop” in that vacant lot and got into a fight with the cop and lost his life?  There is still no rational explanation why Drenth was there, why he was out of his car with his shotgun, why his GPS was off and why he never called for backup.  The only thing we do know for sure is officer Drenth didn’t want anyone knowing he was near Jackson and 19th Avenue.

We do know this:  The Phoenix PD know and aren’t speaking (...well they're speaking to us ;)

Now our sources are being threatened with their jobs for speaking, something so typical in the administration of chief Jack Ass Harris. 

Pill-Popping Mayor Gordon has shut his whore smooching mouth and it seems everyone has gone silent.  Jack Harris may yet again have blood on his hands if this was a suicide and he started a grand standing investigation to increase his popularity and to divert attention.

Want to know what’s really odd about this cop killing?  Think about it. 

No car washes.  No charities.  No news at all on Sean Drenth’s death. Zero follow up.  One would think there would be alerts for some roaming cop killer, but there’s nothing - because they know. The reason there’s nothing is the Phoenix PD and Jack Harris don’t need the bad publicity of a suicide, a cop-on-cop murder or a former cop-on-cop murder.   Sean Drenth’s widow will be getting a nice death benefit, but only if this isn’t ruled a suicide.  Jack Harris and the PPD need to distance Sean Drenth’s suicide and the fact that he was under investigation, as far as possible!

The claim of the Phoenix police is this:

The police department wasn't aware that he was being investigated by the Attorney General's Office until the week of his death…

That’s a pretty wild claim since our sources knew it, we knew and it was published last week in another blog entry!
 In our last blog we also stated:

His shotgun was found on his chest with his head nearly blown off from under his chin.  His service revolver on the other side of a fence with his uniform covered in dirt to show signs of a struggle, or so says our sources in Phoenix Homicide.  His GPS turned off.  There was no reason for officer Drench to be outside of his car and standard operating procedure (SOP) is to always call for backup at the first hint of trouble – not to turn off your GPSHe was neither writing a report in his vehicle nor responding to an emergency call.  Every cop and everyone with a police scanner are telling us this was called in as a 901X – that’s cop code for suicide.  There is going to be some explaining to do when his service pistol comes back, absent of DNA.  Then what will Jack and the 4th floor tell us?  That is was Mark Goudeau or we have some bizarre cop killer in Phoenix who has no DNA?

New information we have gleaned from our sources in PHX Homicide is Drenth’s shotgun was still slung around his body.  Cops shotguns are in the trunk and come with a strap, leading more to believe this was a suicide.  How can someone be murdered with a gun strapped or “slung” around their body?  It is possible he was racking his shotgun when it went off?  Then why would he be doing this with his GPS off in an isolated part of town with no backup, still slung to his body?  Was he at a secret meeting with another officer that went afoul?  Was he meeting George Contreras, officer(s) Peck, Lentz, or Sywarungsymun?  

Maybe.  

Was it a staged suicide for Sean Drenth to save face and give his wife a healthy pension and a death benefit?  That’s definitely a possibility, knowing he was facing a Felony indictment with his fellow guitar buddy and former cop George Contreras. 

Has Phoenix PD Homicide checked his cell phone, subpoenaed his computer or asked his wife?   Not to our knowledge.

Our homicide sources are also telling us there was a “shoe mark” on officer Drenth.  In reality no one knows for sure what it was. We think it’s a red herring leaked to the media to let us all think someone killed him, but they don’t know.  It is a scuff.  It could have come from Drenth himself. If it is a shoe, we surmise it came from some homeless vagrant who heard a loud bang, came over to see what happened, prodded officer Drenth with their foot to see if he was still alive, then ran away.  Or it could have been the other cop who murdered him. 

Jack Harris and his cronies know something and are hoping we will all forget and move on. 

HA!  Fat chance.

Jack Harris is a lying cocksucker and an arrogant motherfucker.  Jack thinks he is the Phoenix police department.  He has no support and everyone under him hates him or fears him.  After all we read in the news; when is PHX City Council, the city manager or our mayor going to do something?   

As citizens we have lost our confidence in the Phoenix PD.  If you trust or believe in the Phoenix Police, then you are a hopeless fool.  If you call them to report a crime or need their help, you are equally a fool and put your life and your family's life in jeopardy.

Sean Drenth most definitely killed himself or at best, he was killed by another cop involved in this off duty work scam.  There’s no doubt about that.  Either way, it’s bad news for a jack ass of the 5th largest city in the US.

So we’ll ask the question again:

So what should we do when a wannabe chief of police/public safety manager and all around jackass kills one of his own cops? 

Funny - When it's an employee of Animal Care and Control who kills the wrong dog, he at least loses his job and apologizes for his error.  With the city of Phoenix police chief all we hear are excuses on how he can't know everything going on in his department. 

25 comments:

Anonymous said...

"Every cop and everyone with a police scanner are telling us this was called in as a 901X – that’s cop code for suicide."

It was called in by a Capital police officer who didn't look at all of the evidence at the scene. The officer made a quick assessment of the scene and was quick to make a judgement. There were a lot of officers who arrived on scene afterwards who can tell you it would be impossible for this to be a suicide. Think about it, Sgt Drenth was not a large man, how would he be able to pull the trigger on his own shotgun to kill himself? The suicide theory doesn't make sense.

Another cop killed him? I thought that from day one because things didn't add up. Why was the gps off? Why didn't he call for back up? Etc. Something is wrong. In my opinion, he knew the person he was with.

Anonymous said...

I know you have blogged your comments here before and while I respect your opinion, I don't buy your SEAN DRENTH WAS A T-REX WITH SHORT ARMS theory. Lot's of people kill themselves and have short arms or are of small stature. Sorry, I think it was a suicide.

Anonymous said...

http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Article/057110-2009-09-08-phoenix-police-brass-let-serial-killer-rampage-to-protect-turf.htm

I was just googling some of the information I have read here on this blog and OMG!! Why hasn't there been a public outcry over the handling of the Baseline Killer and the handling of the investigation? I know this is a different case, but wow! Why are any of these people still working for the police department? Where is the media outcry and the public outcry over this incident? They purposely held onto the DNA evidence? This should all be front page news RIGHT NOW!

Anonymous said...

T-REX? Anyway, let's just say there is information that has never been released to the media/public regarding the scene of Sgt. Drenth's death. It's just a shame that blogger Jeff hasn't been as responsible in his reporting of this incident has he has about other incidents within the police department.

I want to revisit the Baseline killer and why the hell any of the people at the lab are still working at the department and why there hasn't been a huge outcry over the botched investigation.

Anonymous said...

So if you know so much of this so called information that hasn't been released, then why aren't you telling us? At least this blog is taking a stance. chicken.

Sent Via Hushmail said...

Huh....Mark Hafkey a snitch and giving leaks to the media.
Interesting concept.

I have always wondered the same about Vince Piano. He has certainly
lost his credibility with his people and heads of other agencies he
works with.

Mark Hafkey and Dave Adams, where is the survey? I am a lieutenant
and want to voice my no confidence vote on Jack Harris. His entire
executive staff as wel except Kevin Robinson. Kevin is the only
chief with the balls to make necessary changes, and swift changes
at that, to right the ship. Kevin also has a fantastic relationship
with ALL community groups.

I am espcially disappointed in Dave Adams.It wasnt that long ago
that he sat at home for years waiting to be fired for a bogus
domestic violence. Dave knows the psyological and emotional affects
of a bullshit investigation being held over his head.

Supervisors, you need to start calling Hafkey and Adams and demand
the survey they promised. Words are cheap, action earns
credibility!

Anonymous said...

BPC: kEEP UP THE GOOD WORK BRO!

Heywood JaBlowme said...

DEB was a great place to work for years. Things went in the toilet
when Cmd Garner was there then came that idiot Cmd Parra. When
Parra came Lt Vermerr, Sgt Burget, Sgt Deltenre, Lt Robinson, and
Sgt Thompson ran to get away from him. These sgts and lts had
respect credibility and allowed people to do their jobs. Never had
any scandals or morale complaints when they were in charge. None of
them raped the overtime system. Those goofballs Lt Collins and
Lt/Sgt/Lt Haines fucked it all up along with Lt Piano. Piano has
been in DEB for at least 7 years. He needs to go. Maybe Piano could
be Jacks driver but he would need some phone books to sit on to see
over the dashboard.

Sent Via Hushmail said...

J Jack is a dickhead!
A Asshole Jack
C Chief Anderson sucks!
K Kiss my ass Jack!

H Heston Silbert is going to take you down!
A Asshole Pina
R Rob Handy is a cock
R Rob Handy may have a E Violation very soon!
I Is Joe Yahner going to be a chief when Jack leaves?
S Shit, the entire department has turned to shit!

Sent Via Hushmail said...

Does anyone know for a fact if the Off-Duty Work indictments
resurfaced only after Officer Crismann's shooting of an unarmed
man? I mean the adminstrative investigation was conducted over
three years ago and nothing has been heard or said until soon after
the Crisman shooting. Was it resurected since management knew
Crisman was involved in the Off Duty Work investigation and
reinitiating the Off Duty investigation would discredit Crisman? If
this is true, doesn't it make sense that the death of Sgt. Drenth
may well be the responsibility of the chief/s who decided to
resurect the Off Duty Work investugation only after the Crisman
shooting?

Is someone in the media getting answers to these questions since
Harris has threatened all the homicide detectives to keep there
mouths shut or lose there job?

Why wont Jack just leave so everthing can come backinto order? I
was in the store the other day in uniform and five different people
started jumping on my ass for all of the issues the deoartment is
facing right now. They cannot figure out why Harris has not been
fired. If these city council people dont start speaking out and
holding Harris accountable, we are going to have a whole new bunch
of councilmen at the elections. This may not be a bad thing so we
can get rid of that fat, transit looking, loud mouthed, ass kisser
Claude Maddox out of office. The guy repulses me.

Sent Via Hushmail said...

Speaking of Lt Vince Piano and Little Man Syndrome.

Studies have shown that many smaller men have this syndrome when
they are 5'6" or less. They often compensate their bad feelings of
themselevs by working out and becoming body builders. They also
frequently treat women, especially their spouses, poorly by
bullying them. They react to this by feeling dominant over women
who are usually submissive.

They also frequently wear clothes that are too tight or too small
for their structure. I have noticed that Vince Piano pays to have
the sleeves of his police uniforms taken in to make the appearance
that his arms are large. Many of us tease him behind his back when
he wears shirts that appear to be styled for women,not men. Maybe
this is all that is available in the little boys section at J.C.
Pennys or K-mart.

Next time you see Vince, look at his shoes. He must have a size 5
or 6 shoe size.

Sound famaliar with Vince? You be the judge! Personally I feel
sorry for him. He has always been difficult to work around.

Now if what I have read on here is true, that Vince has taken
advantage of overtime on drug investigations, he will probably be
okay if he has actually been taking in $175,000.00 a year. My
question is who is signing these overtime slips? They obviously
have not been taking a close enough look to see if the work is
actually being performed.

It is time to move Vince out of DEB Commander Vermeer. We really
respect you but also know you and Vince didn't get along so well
when you were a liutenant in DEB with him. Move him before you get
aught up in the mess I hear may be coming his way over his
overtime.

Anonymous said...

Former Assistant City Manager,and now very successful San Antonio
City Manager, Sheryl Scully faced a similar situtation with
incompetence on the 4th floor several years ago. She went to Chiefs
Brewster, Kurtenback and Woodward and offerred them $100,000 to
retire immediately. This allowed them to save face by telling
everyone this deal was too good to pass upsp they retired. The
truth of the matter was they were also told if they didn't take the
compensation package, they would be demoted back to commander.

All three chiefs took the money and ran. They saved face by blaming
the money for their reaon to leave.

David Cavasoz, Eddie Zuecher, Mayor Oxygordon and the rest of the
City Council, learn what this very competent Assistant City Manager
did to remove the corruption and good ol' boyz system on the fourth
floor and do the same with Chiefs Harris, Pina, Montgomery. Offer
them $100,000 and allow them to accept this to save face. The
$300,000 total is far less than the city is going to pay from all
of the lawsuits going on right now. It would also immeditately
boost morale throughout the ranks and restore community confidence.

Promote Chiefs Robinson or McClelland and get things started in the
right direction.

Don't offer Chief Anderson anything. His DROP is up soon. Don't
offer Yahner anything becasue something tells me he will be a
commander once the new chief comes in. Paying them a stipend is
unecessary!

Sent Via Hushmail said...

BREAKING NEWS, the Office of Inspector General has begun employee interviews for criminal violations of abuse of funds for the kidnapping grant and whistleblower violations. Something like $1.5 million dollar grant the city received. This was the letter that BPC sent in a blog posted September 12th.


I know the employees who have been interviewed were ordered not to tell their superiors they
have been interviewed so the investigation is not compromised.

The best part is IT IS A CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION, not civil. I wonder
if Jack could wear his stars on his jail jumpsuit? Probably not
because he might be able to use them to commit suicide.

Anonymous said...

I made a comment yesterday that there were car washes for Drenth, but I don't see my comment or link.

Anonymous said...

Check out ABC15.COM They have the affidavit for DNA samples, authored by Det. Potato Head.........

Heywood JaBlowme said...

I meant to say things in DEB were great, morale was high and the
superviosrs were held in high regards when Cmr Glen Gardner was
bureau commander. Everything went to hell once Gardner left and
Parra came in.

Anonymous said...

Heather Polombo did the SW for the officers' DNA.

If they want to find the DNA of 25-30 officers, why aren't they swabbing the inside of Heather Polombo's cheek?

Are they afraid what they will find?

Anonymous said...

For the two posters who think heads should role over the botched DNA in the Baseline case, take note.
This supposed DNA evidence is garbage. Goudeau matches less than 20% of the required DNA markers. That’s a big leap to say it’s his DNA. The prosecutors can’t even refer to the DNA as a match. Here’s the situation: Under enormous local and national pressure to make an arrest, an inexperienced DNA analyst went to the task team with hyped likelihood ratio calculations stating the chances of it being anyone else’s DNA other than Goudeau’s was 300 trillion to one, or something like that. A couple of weeks into it, after Goudeau’s arrest, Alex Femenia, Mike MIeslish, Potato Head and others learned of the realty and tenuous nature of the DNA. Far, far, far from a match. Never a database hit. Never happened. Seriously, if there was a database hit he would have been arrested in 2005. Back to dics Femenia, Mieslish, Polombo et al - the DNA evidence is junk, no database hit, nothing is found in Goudeau’s small home after several searches - these three and others needed to do some damage control after all the media grandstanding, awards, blah, blah, blah – so a month later a victim’s ring, ABSENT OF ANY DNA, is “found?” Really? Cops know what’s up with this Walmart ring. A Walmart ring easily purchased by anyone – What Femenia, Mieslish and Polombo did was in complete desperation. Do I need to spell it out for you?

Sent Via Hushmail said...

Word is Assistant Chief Tracy Montgoemry was doing the same exact
thing as these 25 officers back in 2000.

Chief Montgomery left her
off duty job every day about 45 minutes before the end of her
shift. Even though she had left the off duty job site early, she
was paid right up until the end.

Seems Chief Montgomery had to
leave early everyday to begin her regular on duty shift. Chief
Montgomery was investigated by PSB but only received a written
reprimand. She was promoted to lieutenant soon after. She was then
promoted to Commander and then to Assistant Police Chief.

How come she was not indicted or even investigated by the Attorney Generals Office? Because she is a lesbian? Because she is a predator of young female officers? Because she has the body of a college
softball player? Because she was a FOJ? Why isn'nt anyone screaming
foul about this?

Can someone close to this investigation comment to ensure the
accuracy? Might help the 25 officers currently under investigation for the same exact thing!

Tracy, still wearing those comfortbale shoes while rug munching?

Anonymous said...

Retired dick head Jack Ballentine, another dirty cop, who got so many accolades and awards for solving a murder of a Phx FireFighter, who is now also double dipping with the City of Phoenix Fire Dept at over $100K per year on top of his Phx PD pension and DROP money, just got his big award thrown in his face with a hung jury. Serves you right Ballentine, you SWINE!!

http://www.azcentral.com/community/phoenix/articles/2010/11/24/20101124phoenix-murder-trial-firefighter-death-mistrial-brk24-ON.html

Anonymous said...

So Drenth was married for 13 years and had no kids. He played and taught guitar. Rumor is he loved children and used to have children over his house for guitar lessons.

If you are a cop, you know right now your spidey senses are tingling about what I just wrote and maybe its worth investigating.

Anonymous said...

Anonymous about the guitar lessons. Why don't you quit playing games and just have the guts to spell it out.

Anonymous said...

i'm just sayin...the difference between citizens and cops. If this were a citizen, they would subpeona the dead man's computer or if you read this blog, this broken in and stole it and would be doing more work to find some resolution. The PPD would also be posting theories.

It's really odd to anyone when some is married for such a long time and is without kids, but spends their time around kids and possibly invites them into their home. just sayin...

Anonymous said...

People I have talked to who work for PPD have said that they have gotten 12 officers DNA in regards to Sgt. Drenth's death. They also stated that 24 officers have been indicted for the false overtime records. I do believe the officer was killed by another officer cause there is a secret way to unlock the rifle and only cops know it. I also thought Sgt. Drenth was found in his car slumped over and his rifle was sitting on his lap and his other pieces were no where in site. It just does not add up, I am ruling he was killed by a fellow officer that is so sad.

Anonymous said...

I have from day one beleived this was commited by a person known to officer Drenth.I beleive he was going to come clean about the overtime scandal and was silenced.I beleive this was done by a person not yet mentioned by the press to cover up their role and not done by any of the officers or exofficer named by the press under investigation.They new they were being investigated already so this would not benefit them. However it would benefit someone not mentioned yet in the investigation.May Seargent Drenth rest in peace.