PRESS RELEASE: Phoenix Police Are Unsuccessful in Indicting Outspoken Critic and Blogger on Charges Related to March 2009 Search Warrant

This Press Release was launched this morning along the national newswire by PR WEB.   The real story...  Here's the link:

http://www.prweb.com/releases/2010/02/prweb3520994.htm

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

An Arizona State Grand Jury Finds Harassment, Computer Fraud, Computer Tampering and Identity Theft Charges Unjustifiable Against the Website BadPhoenixCops.com

Phoenix, Arizona (PRWEB) February 1, 2010 -- An Arizona State Grand Jury refused to indict an outspoken critic and blogger on charges of harassment, identity theft, petty theft and computer fraud as a March search warrant had alleged.

The March search warrant issued from the Arizona Criminal Court (SW2009-003089) and its associated affidavit made the claim that the blogger and a website had harassed Mike and Heather Polombo who are married, Phoenix Police officers. The search warrant claimed computer fraud, harassment, theft of property and alluded to identity theft. An Arizona state Grand Jury simply did not agree.

“We have known all along, what the Grand Jury swiftly discovered,” noted the owner of the website BadPhoenixCops.com. “The Phoenix Police conducted a raid on one of our bloggers, including taking all his computer equipment and even non-warranted, personal items. It really raises some eyebrows when the police who we blog about are allowed to enter an outspoken critic’s home, based on allegations from fellow police officers. If they really thought a crime was committed a better approach would have been to engage an outside impartial agency, like the FBI. Our First Amendment rights to accentuate depraved acts within the Phoenix Police Department and publish them in a public forum, has prevailed.”

The vague warrant was issued by the presiding criminal court judge in Phoenix, Arizona, judge Gary Donahoe. The site owner added, “What’s even more frightening is that Gary Donahoe was recently indicted on charges of his own; for racketeering - including, bribery, obstructing a criminal investigation, and hindering prosecution (Arizona criminal court case CR 2009-008332-001). When the issuance of unclear warrants, based on ambiguous evidence by a Police Department is allowed by an indicted judge, then we should have someone at the federal level come in and investigate these recent events. This story may be shocking to legal scholars in the United States and others in law enforcement, but in Arizona we call this the daily operating procedure of our criminal justice system; and their misunderstanding and misinterpretation of citizens’ rights under the 1st, 4th and 14th Amendment.”

The Phoenix Police have also ignored repeated requests to return all seized items obtained from the search, a clear infringement of the 14th Amendment and the blogger’s right to Due Process. “The Phoenix Police are continuing their persecution campaign against our blogger and will undoubtedly continue to issues charges in an attempt to silence him, including recent charges of perjury on a completely unrelated divorce case (Arizona Criminal Court CR 2010- 005328-002). Even after a Grand Jury refused to issue indictments on the search warrant, the Phoenix Police have refused all requests to return the owner’s property. It has been over 10 months. It’s truly a potato-head move on their part,” added the website’s owner. “It would behoove them to read United States Court of Appeals, 9th Circuit opinion, United States of America vs. Comprehensive Drug Testing (CV-04-02887-FMC), to comply with the rules of seized property.”

The officer heading up the criminal investigation, Detective Theron Quass could not convince the Grand Jury or prove any of the harassment or computer fraud claims from the website upon the Polombos – a case that was already turned down by the Maricopa County prosecutor’s office for not meeting the elements for prosecution. The blogger and his attorney Jess Lorona did present to the Grand Jury and while neither party is allowed to discuss their Grand Jury testimony, they were pleased the Grand Jury saw through the ruse. They vow to continue fighting all future charges the Phoenix Police try to volley against him.

"Our public safety manager Jack Harris wants everyone to think that criticism, scrutiny and accountability are now euphemisms for 'harassment', when he forgets he works for all citizens in Phoenix and is abusing the public trust we granted to him, " noted the website owner. "Jack Harris feels accountable to no one, not even his own Police Union, which is why the site exists. If people disagree with the website or its content, then they shouldn’t read it,” they added.

Contact: BadPhoenixCops(at)gmail(dot)com
Or
BadPhoenixCops(at)hushmail(dot)com
(Based outside the United States and won’t honor US based subpoenas or search warrants

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Q: How Many Bad Phoenix Cops Does it Take to Indict a Blogger on Made-Up Charges of Harassment, Theft, Computer Fraud and Identity Theft? A: An Entire 4th Floor of Idiots in the Phoenix PD - And They Still Couldn't Pull It Off!

Chalk one in the "win" column for the First Amendment!

That’s really how the headline should have read…No?

What we find quite funny is how the Phoenix PD did a press release and completely avoided the most important topics in this drama. They tried to do their own Jedi mind trick on everyone, but here are the facts omitted from the release/story:

All the charges related to the unlawful search of our blogger’s home were unfounded. There was no indictment on any of the bullshit allegations, including:
computer fraud, computer tampering, identity theft, petty theft of office supplies, harassment, or any other allegations that Theron Quass and Mike Polombo made up - in the search warrant issued by (the now indicted for racketeering), judge Donahoe. 

Looks like Mike and Heather Polombo need a new strategy and another plan of attack on the blog. Boy, if those two were claiming distress before and took a leave of absense, I wonder what they will try to claim now? That they're both just raging Assholes?  Here's a funny Xmas card that was sent to Blogger Jeff by one of his many supporters:

Rereading the Search warrant it states “Heather can be seen crying at times for no reason and doesn’t want to be at her desk”

Awwww.

Who wouldn’t be crying knowing their spouse is Potato Head Polombo - just spend 5 minutes with Mike's Ex, Suzanne. Did you guys hear Mike didn't even acknowledge his own daughter's sweet sixteen?  What a fucking creep.
Heather, being at your desk doesn't help anyway, since you just suck at your job (pun). Why don’t you try and solve Danny Ramirez’s murder and sit down with Rose Mead to reinvigorate the case. It might make you feel better.


It has now been over 11 months and these lying dirty corrupt shitbags have not returned any of our stuff. 

Our friends in PPD tell us that the chain of custody on all the illegally seized equipment is dated April of 09 and the computers guys were forced onto this assignment against their will. Theron Quass couldn’t convince the Grand Jury to issue an indictment on any of his trumped up charges and the Phoenix PD has still refused to return the stolen equipment. It is also pretty clear that if the best they have is phone calls and emails via Google – why on Earth would they need to have siezed routers, CDs and laptops? And if these new alleged indictments are on something said in court, why the need to keep the equipment?

Any charges of false swearing or perjury are related to our Bloggers divorce case and have nothing to do with Dave Barnes or a blog. It appears somewhere in Jeff’s divorce he said something (or not) about a website? Jeff’s divorce is a story unto itself, and being married to a "918" was punishment enough for him. They can’t get Jeff on computer tampering and harassment, so they next try false swearing and perjury from a contested divorce?

We all know his ex wife has been working with (and probably more) with the Phoenix PD from the beginning and the lies she has told (including an entire trial that was dismissed with prejudice) should tell you a little about how far crazy will go. What’s next an indictment on Jeff for jay walking?

$100’s of thousands of dollars of your tax dollars, across two states for the great nameplate caper, and the best that Theron Quass can do, is perjury from an unrelated divorce case?
Theron Quass is a fucking moron. This man should have been a blowjob or his dad should have pulled out.

What many people don’t know is that both Theron Quass and our Blogger Jeff presented to the Grand Jury.

Surprised?  So what does this tell you?

While neither may discuss their testimony or give any details on what happened (but when we get a hold of the transcript and get the go-ahead, we will have Jeff tell all here!), it is quite clear that Theron Quass was out of his league and couldn’t “sell” the Grand Jury against the likes of BadPhoenixCops. We clearly know “computers” and the law, the 1st,4th and the 14th Amendment far above little Theron Quass. Maybe Chief Jack Ass and the Phoenix PD should hire Jeff for all Grand Jury testimonies.  At least it will ensure integrity, impartiality and a sure win. Rumor has it that when little Theron saw Jeff and his attorney Jess Lorona at the Grand Jury, he almost shit himself.

A big "thank you" to the Grand Jury for seeing through the ruse.
This story is far from over and renewed claims of harassment and malicious prosecutions will be filed soon. We’ll be sure to post them all here