Media investigation of APS Police incomplete

The local media is finally covering the public corruption in the leadership of the APS Police.  But they have stopped short in their coverage, either by their own choice or because APS just won't give them any more truth to publish.

Point in fact; the media is reporting that two people from the APS police department went to a certification training in use of the AR15 assault rifle, Steve Tellez being one of them.  Why won't they report who the other person is? It should be easy for the media to find out who else was certified, and maybe had an interest in acquiring a bunch of very expensive ammo to burn through.

APS and the media are being particularly secretive on who signed off 2010 on the order four cases of ammo worth nearly two grand, that fit weapons the APS police don't use.

KOB TV claims to have investigated the purchase of the ammo in 2010 but I couldn't find a link to their coverage.  They report now that "APS sources" say two APS officers were trained and certified on the AR15; one of them was Tellez, the other unnamed. 

My information is that the other person was then Chief of APS Police Bill Reed.  I'm told that he and his Deputy Chief went together to a training in Las Vegas Nevada.

The four cases of .223 ammo, two of which are missing, one of which Tellez admitted taking, were actually purchased when Reed was Chief.  This is all single source information, as APS won't cooperate in corroboration.


APS and their cohorts in the leadership of the local media would like this story to be over.  Releasing the story on a Friday is part of that plan.

But the whole story is yet to be told.  When it finally is, maybe we'll find out who stole the other case of ammo.




photos Mark Bralley