Here is a blast from the past, and a @SalinasPD fail.
1. Who was the drug dealer arrested because of Montes' testimony?
2. Who was the man "with a flat top haircut" where the claim is this man was with or arguing with Montes and a passenger in Montes' 1987 pickup?
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The least reassuring part is Robin Stuart and Joe Gunter worked on the case.
Fast forward to 2018 and @CityofSalinas Mayor Joe Gunter (now deceased) was writing letters of support for narco trafficker Mike Hackett (friend of @bradleyzeve's managing editor at the Weekly)
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#Salinas in 2010, where a handful of corrupt cops and a local judge wrote letters of support for a major player in drug dealing during the same period as Brian Montes - Dave Drew - the guy @JerryBrownGov pardoned in 2018.
tick tock.
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Edwards and Drew are still alive - maybe they know additional details of the Brian Montes murder from 1992.
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For now we will end this thread with a few words from former & corrupt Sheriff Mike Kanalakis on cops hanging out with felons.
... the do as I say, not as I do leadership that is the disrupted, low morale, low integrity, corrupt department - the @MCoSheriff.
Let's not kid ourselves, @FelixKSBW - we both know, and we both can prove that the City of Salinas City Attorney is acting as a defacto "board member" of the city council via his advice that is above their competency and while breaching duties to remain counsel for the entity.
And the same can be said for Les Girard, and prior to that Charles McKee, because of the manner in which they insert themselves in decision making while hiding behind attorney-client privilege, illegally, attempting to claim public record memorandums they issue our elected are
advices. Their advice, when they breach the (Entity Client >< Attorney ) bubble and give advise illegally, thereby making the work product a public record.
The records will show that Les Girard knew of the Conflict @AdamsSupervisor had by employing Det. Archie Warren's sister
Here is an @latimes article that was Public Relations driven. Mike Kanalakis was sheriff (and a corrupt one at that) and he was in the election fight of his life. Or as Kano saw it, life and death, because Kano LOVED glad-handing and freebies.
I had just put Scott Miller into
the 2010 @MCoSheriff's race and Kano, as Sheriff Kanalakis was called, was punishing everyone. Kano was afraid of my truths and what I knew about his past conduct so he largely kept his Miller attacks to political ads making Miller look bizarre. (notice I do that here on Twitter
now as an Ode to Brandon "Thailand" Gesicki's style of politicking. (The one thing Joe Livernois over at @VoicesofBay got wrong is, its Gesicki and Plasha Fielding Will who don't want their names mentioned ever - and Livernois and others cater to them, I don't give a shit)
@B1968Big@TajhaLanier@stevemcshane@kimbleycraig@reym12 Jim Pia is scared. He told me so. We met at the sign installation with all the politicos wanted to take credit. Pretty sure this was long before Kelly McMillin was sued twice for sexual thuggery. We walked back to city hall together and I told him, it’s bad and I told him I had
@B1968Big@TajhaLanier@stevemcshane@kimbleycraig@reym12 gone to the FBI in 2021 after a host of people who were credible in the past, came to me to ask for help in laying out some details. One of them being award winning journalist Royal Calkins.
Jim just said “oh man, I’m a short timer” - meaning he is retiring in a few years. He
@B1968Big@TajhaLanier@stevemcshane@kimbleycraig@reym12 doesn’t want to hear that level of bad news because he is so close to being done. Gunter was corrupt. There is no 1/4 corrupt or 1/2 corrupt. Gunter was provably corrupt. And I liked Joe. We always got along but in his last two years he grew more secretive - then dies on me.
It’s shocking the lack of ethics that exists within @SalinasPD.
When I say this I’m talking about leadership and that begins and ends with a Chief.
Kim Craig, @CityofSalinas’ right wing Mayor is outted by her neighbor (quite innocently) as residing in “her” home with
Bobby Richardson, who fits the textbook definition of common law partner under California and federal law on Willow Street in South Salinas.
Craig was so alarmed that this truth was revealed she sent me a threatening letter on City letterhead to no longer speak about her South
Salinas residence. The panic of Craig was inspired by the fact that Craig had just run for Supervisor against Glenn Church and Regina Gage and lost spectacularly BUT Craig used her North Salinas condo to qualify as her domicile for legal purposes even though she was living on