According to KRQE link
Lorraine Martinez is suing you (taxpayers).
The sheriff's department built a case against her for part in helping Michael Paul Astorga evade capture after the murder of BCSO Deputy McGrane.
According to KRQE;
"During the manhunt sheriff's deputies swarmed Martinez's Albuquerque house and the state Motor Vehicle Division office where she worked. Investigators said they found evidence that she provided Astorga with fake identification and other documents while he was on the run.
Martinez was charged with harboring or aiding a felon and was ordered by the court to stay away from her MVD, the scene of the alleged crime. She was eventually fired.
At the end of last year, the charges were dismissed because the case either was never taken to a grand jury or a preliminary hearing was not scheduled.
"They just simply filed the charges, arrested her, caused her to post bond, barred her from going to work and then neglected the case, dropped it," Martinez' lawyer Pennington said.
The sheriff's department didn't want to comment on a pending lawsuit but said stands by its allegations against Martinez.
On Wednesday the sheriff's department said it didn't know why the charges against Martinez were dismissed.
District Attorney Kari Brandenburg did not respond to a request for comment."
Neither will Brandenburg respond to questions about the evidence she is sitting on, of public corruption and criminal conspiracy in the leadership of the APS.
At some point those charges will be forfeit on shelf life issues as well.
Because public servants are permitted to refuse to answer
legitimate questions about their public service.
A privilege she and other senior public servants will enjoy
for as long as you continue to let them.
You have a opportunity next Wednesday to start the ball rolling,
by demanding that the leadership of the APS
present itself to the public for the purpose of responding
to legitimate questions
candidly, forthrightly, and honestly.
1 comment:
I am one of those guys that says some times, the ends do justify the means, when a fallen comrade was slain for no reason. A good man who took care of the Temple that the Lord gave him only to have Astorga (allegedly) kill him for no damn reason!
Hell and Brimstone and every resource the County can bring to bear to find that man, and sometimes the tactic used to bring in a killer has to be compensated in civil court to those the tactic was used on.
If they got the right man, then they may need to pay off the lady whose rights were trampled in the march toward the killer.
I went through and passed the BCSD regional academy in 1989. They graduate GOOD cops. I am but a former school security goon, but the guys I went to clsss with, and the chicks, were BADasses. Smart and fit and knowing the law.
If they screwed up on the path toward Astorga, I think it is understandable considering Deputy McGrane's blood had been spilled.
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