Warren’s lawsuit claims Houser has no supervisory authority over Seaside officers. But Veloz says he does, since Sakhrani was working on the investigation as a member of the sheriff’s multi-agency drug task force.
@SafeSeaside , a department @AbdulPridgen currently runs, runs around with a bunch of bad narcotics cops (or did in 2011) and ran political jobs masked as legitimate law enforcement work.
Archie Warren hung out with cocaine trafficker Mike Hackett (along with other narcs) at
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Casa Sorrento the pizza parlor @maryrduan, @bradlehzeve's managing editor of the @mcweekly calls her favorite place to eat in Oldtown.
That's quite an endorsement.
In fact, after Hackett's home was raided by San Benito County drug cops in 2017, I met Duan at Hackett's to
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listen to her on scene debriefing of what took place.
Duan called me that morning to tell me that Hackett had been raided.
She would later go on to try and quash news reporting on the bust.
Why?
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... talking points in a RW funded sleazy race that saw @RepJimmyPanetta's future consultant Plasha Will (Will was with Sam Farr at the time, Farr and his dad were both creeps in MoCo, beloved by a whacky bunch of "intellectuals" on the Peninsula) route
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DARK MONEY through a PAC hidden in San Benito County under the name "Californians for Law & Order" - to unseat a Sheriff who was firing dirty cops and taking material to the regional @FBI, and others.
Joey Banuelos, a commander with the @MCoSheriff department, was FIRED by Sheriff Scott Miller for lying on his time slips, when he put in for overtime.
His fellow deputies, who I will not name, snitched on him (that was a good thing boys).
Their reporting to me led to
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Banuelos being fired after I gave the information to then Sheriff Scott Miller, who I successfully ran to replace a corrupt Mike Kanalakis in 2010.
Banuelos was then rehired by @SheriffBernal (who is a criminal IMO) and promoted.
Gavin Kogan and Mike Bitar are also partners with Grupo Flor.
Kogan admitted under oath to lying on his cannabis applications in sworn testimony during a 2018 civil trial covered by @Calkins_Royal.
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.@RepJimmyPanetta's consultant Plasha Will has taken hundreds of thousands of dollars from Grupo Flor in cannabis consulting contracts while Jimmy Panetta Tweets about how great Grupo Flor is for our community.
"Its message and delivery are breathtakingly mean, delivered to a longtime parishioner and generous donor who, along with his family, is going through a difficult time of his own."
When the narcos are hero-worshipped, there is a larger scandal afoot. @bradleyzeve
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When the Mayor of the largest city in Monterey County writes a "reference letter" for the area drug dealer, there is a larger scandal afoot. #PlashaWill
Another great report from @Calkins_Royal. Fact about Brannon, he loaned $20,000 to the DA for her ..
"Assistant DA Berkley Brannon declined to respond to questions from Voices about the investigation Thursday except to say it was being withheld." voicesofmontereybay.org/2021/04/01/sec…
maiden voyage into the world of politics in 2018. The DA ran unopposed to replace a troubled Dean Flippo.
Berk Brannon is married to Santa Cruz judged Denine Guy. So it's a small universe in the world of politics.
Berk Brannon is the number two at the DA's office and was
the DA who worked on another overtime time sheet scandal and that involves a then sheriff's sgt. named Joey Banuelos.
Brannon was awoken to the Banuelos file (that was sitting on the shelf somewhere at the DA's office in 2011) by @MontereyHerald reporter @grlreporter, who asked