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Breaking News!
November 29, 2009
Reaping What You Sow!
A gunman burst into the coffee house Sunday morning, November 29, 2009 and opened fire on four officers as they sat working on their laptops, killing the three men and one woman in what Pierce County sheriff's spokesman Ed Troyer described as a targeted ambush. Troyer said the attack was clearly targeted at the officers, not a robbery gone bad. "This was more of an execution. Walk in with the specific mindset to shoot police officers," he said. Troyer said the officers — all from the Lakewood Police Department — were catching up on paperwork at the beginning of their shifts when they were attacked at 8:15 a.m. Sunday. "There were marked patrol cars outside and they were all in uniform," Troyer said.Troyer said investigators determined that a hoax call from a person in nearby Tacoma led officers to believe the gunman was on foot and still near the coffee shop. A number of officers spent part of the afternoon carefully searching buildings close by. Troyer said the Lakewood officers were two blocks outside their jurisdiction, and the coffee shop was a popular place for officers from surrounding jurisdictions to meet and share information.
Lakewood Mayor Douglas Richardson said the names of the victims would be released as soon as extended family members were notified. In a statement, Richardson said the officers, part of the city's 100-member police force, had been with the department since it was organized five years ago. He called the crime "our most tragic event in Lakewood's 14 years as a city."
Last month, Seattle police officer Timothy Brenton was shot and killed Halloween night as he was sitting in a cruiser with trainee Britt Sweeney. Sweeney was grazed in the neck. Authorities say the man charged with that shooting also firebombed four police vehicles in October as part of a "one-man war" against law enforcement. Christopher Monfort, 41, was arrested after being wounded in a firefight with police days after the Seattle shooting. He remains hospitalized in stable condition, the hospital said Sunday.
Cops with Multiple Shootings or Homicides!
• PA State Trooper Samuel J. Hassan, Murderous(March 15, 2009 Murder of Unarmed motorist. Previously shot and killed 12 year old African-American boy!!)
• Officer Pat Gonzales: Racist, Murderous Oakland Police Officer - 3 Killings; 1 Shooting!
• Officer Hector Jimenez: Racist, Murderous Oakland Police Officer - 2 Killings!(As of October 2009, Officer terminated w/1 yr. pay; City of Oakland has settled civil suits.)
• Homicide from OPD to LASD!
• Miami Beach Police Department - Murderous!(Officer Adam Tavss kills two citizens in 1 week!!)
• Brian Smith, Killer Cop!(Killed four (4) unarmed civilians during homicide spree; committed suicide upon arrest!!)
Murderous Police Officers
• B.A.R.T.+L.A.P.D.=187(P.C.)(LAPD Detective arrested for cold case homicide; and B.A.R.T. Transit Killer-Cop!)
• Cops or Killers?
• Five - "O" Homicide(White Cop kills black cop after "mistaking" black cop for criminal!)
• NYPD - A History of Homicidal Cops(A history of NYPD Officers committing murder!)
• Arthur Tessler, Jason R. Smith & Gregg Junnier(Alanta Police Officers lie to obtain search warrant; murder 90-year old woman; and then plant drugs to cover-up murder)
• PA State Trooper Kevin Foley, Murderous(Convicted March 18, 2009 of First-Degree Murder. Killed girlfriend's ex-hubby (Dentist)!!)
• Homer Police Department(February 20, 2009 Murder of Unarmed Black Man, 73 year old black man by two white police officers in Homer, Louisiana!!)
• Taser Deaths by the Police!
• New Orleans Police Department(January 1, 2009 Murder of Unarmed Black Man, shot nine (9) times in the back!!)
Richmond High School
November 26, 2009
"This case has stirred up a shit storm, [a]nd the Contra Costa [commonly referred to as "CoCo" County] District Attorney's Office is right in the middle of it."
--Daniel Russo, Michael Gressett's lead attorney.
Since the 1960s, the Contra Costa County district attorney has been perhaps the most powerful person in Contra Costa County. The office has been run by a line of Republicans who have always been favored by the county's power structure, which is largely funded by the county's five oil refineries. When John Nejedly, the county's first full-time DA, retired in 1969, the job went to William O'Malley. In 1984, O'Malley handed it to Gary Yancey, who handed it to Robert Kochly (pictured above left), who is now hoping to hand it to William O'Malley's son, Dan O'Malley. O'Malley is not only the son of former District Attorney William O'Malley, he is the brother of Alameda County District Attorney Nancy O'Malley. He is a former Superior Court judge and is married to the current presiding judge of the Contra Costa County Superior Court, Mary Ann O'Malley. And his connections run deep in Kochly's administration. The district attorney has officially endorsed O'Malley as his replacement in next year's election and O'Malley regularly plays golf with Assistant Chief District Attorney Paul Sequeira."She was raped, beaten, robbed and dehumanized by several suspects who were obviously OK enough with it to behave that way in each other's presence[.] What makes it even more disturbing is the presence of others. People came by, saw what was happening, and failed to report it."
--November 11, 2009, Lt. Mark Gagan, Patrol supervisor, City of Richmond Northern Policing District.
(Pictured left, Michael Gressett is a 51-year-old (fired) deputy district attorney who worked for the Contra Costa County's District Attorney's office sexual assault unit and stands accused of brutally raping a female colleague.) A 15-year-old Richmond girl who had left the homecoming dance was hospitalized in stable condition after being assaulted and allegedly raped by several men on the Richmond High School grounds, police said. Police received several reports shortly before midnight Saturday and when officers arrived at the high school several men ran away. One was caught.Police say the victim left the [homecoming dance] alone about 9:30 p.m. and walked north on 23rd Street, expecting to catch a ride from her father. Instead, a schoolmate caught her attention from behind a cyclone fence on the north end of campus. He invited her to join a group drinking and hanging out in a secluded courtyard behind the fence, Gagan said, and escorted her down Emeric Avenue to a short gate from which they made their way back to the group. The assault began after the girl quickly drank a large amount of hard alcohol and fell over, Gagan said.
Police say they believe they've arrested all the main participants in the rape. Defense attorneys received an amended complaint, which now includes charges for all six defendants. Prosecutor handed over 685 pages of documents and 28 DVDs containing evidence to defense attorneys for the six defendants in the case. "In most average felony cases you're talking less than 100 pages," prosecutor Dara Cashman said after the defendants identified their attorneys in a Richmond courtroom. Prosecutors said the brutality of the crime led them to charge the juvenile suspects as adults. Cody Ray Smith, 15, of San Pablo; Ari Morales, 16, of San Pablo; Marcelles Peter, 17, of Pinole; Jose Carlos Montano, 18, of Richmond; Manuel Ortega, 19, of Richmond; and Elvis Josue Torrentes, 21, of Richmond. Smith withdrew his previous not guilty plea so his attorney could review the prosecution's case.
CoCo County D.A.'s Office
"In court these are the same people who act like sanctimonious prudes about the people they are trying to convict," he said. "They all ought to be incredibly ashamed of themselves."
--Unnamed Attorney
Administrators in the Contra Costa District Attorney's Office have long been known for hiring female prosecuting attorneys based partly on their appearance. The DA's reputation for hiring a particular type of attractive woman is so widespread that at a recent retirement dinner for an Attorney, one speaker quipped that "someone should tell the DA that diversity doesn't mean different types of blonds," according to several people who attended the dinner. During Robert Kochly's reign, sexual banter was commonplace. And it was not always men who initiated the conversations. According to notes from the investigation and interviews conducted by this newspaper, women participated equally in tales of rough sex, bondage, extramarital affairs, and sexual encounters involving multiple partners.
"One of Ours!"
"It's a sad day for our office for anything like this to occur. Anything of this nature is devastating to the office. It's antithetical to what we're about."
--Robert Kochly, Contra Costa District Attorney
A 21-year veteran prosecutor with the reputation as an office iconoclast, Michael Gressett has run for the position of Contra Costa County District Attorney three separate times. The high-profile rape charges against Deputy District Attorney Michael Gressett of the Contra Costa County's District Attorney's office are replete with headlines similar to those of the Richmond High School Rape saga. Once he was released from jail on a $1 million bond, he was promptly fired. He now faces a possible life sentence for thirteen felony counts including rape, forced sodomy, forced oral copulation, and making death threats.
On May 12, 2008, four days after the alleged assault, Assistant Chief District Attorney Sequeira was notified of the accusations. Two days later, according to investigation notes, he sent Kochly a memo. But neither Kochly nor Sequeira took any more action for four and a half months, which is highly unusual given the serious nature of the allegations.
Michael Gressett is a 51-year-old (fired) deputy district attorney who worked for the sexual assault unit. His alleged victim was a 29-year-old co-worker who said Gressett violently assaulted her during a lunch break in May 2008. The Martinez Police Department's September 2008 press release alleged charges which include "sodomy," "forced oral copulation," and "penetration with a foreign object." The alleged weapons used — include a gun, handcuffs, steak knife, ice cubes, and an ice pick. Both Gressett and his alleged victim, who is referred to in court filings as "Jane Doe," provide a remarkably similar account of the acts that occurred during their kinky sexual encounter. The critical difference in their stories is whether the sex was consensual. Gresset openly refers to the sexual encounter as a "nooner." After District Attorney Kochly was made aware of the allegations, he took no action for four and a half months — a period during which Gressett was allowed to continue working alongside female deputy district attorneys and sex-crime victims.
Jane Doe (her father, a retired Alameda County public defender) was at the time a 29-year-old deputy district attorney who had worked for the office for slightly less than three years when the alleged rape occurred. She was considered smart, ambitious, and aggressive. In her November 5, 2008 statement to investigators, she admitted having a difficult working relationship with at least four female co-workers whom she regarded as sexual rivals for the attention of a male deputy district attorney who was not Gressett. Indeed, the workplace environment in which Gressett and Jane Doe began their office flirtation was sexually charged. The sex conversations that took place in the district attorney's office were freewheeling and seemed to know few bounds. Although last year the office moved into a new $26 million building, its culture seemed firmly locked in the 1970s.
In Contra Costa County, the D.A.'s office proved to be fertile ground for sexual banter, one DA said. "You could hear the same types of conversations on the fourth floor of the courthouse in the offices, hallways, and conference room where many of the attorneys gather for lunch." Anal sex was the hot topic among one group. According to one deputy DA, the topic became such a regular part of conversation that, about five years ago, two female deputy DAs founded the "Anal Club" at a wedding reception for two of their co-workers. Prospective club members had to state that they had participated in and enjoyed anal sex. The club was more talk than action, but its existence became well known. In fact, deputy DAs who didn't meet the club's membership requirements felt so left out that they started their own "Butt Pucker Club," according to interviews conducted by investigators.
The Rape
"It is the responsibility of a district attorney to immediately report any serious incident of workplace violence to law enforcement."
--W. Scott Thorpe, the chief executive officer of the California District Attorney's Association.
Jane Doe said Gressett invited her to lunch on May 8, 2008, and took her to his Martinez condominium. After giving her a tour, she later said, he produced a steak knife and began poking the end of the knife at her sweater and running it along her arms, breast, and neck. The two apparently began kissing, and Gressett led Doe to his bedroom where they both removed their clothes prior to engaging in what she said she thought was going to be consensual sex. But Gressett suddenly became aggressive, she said. He turned her over and began forcibly sodomizing her, she said, despite her repeated pleas for him to stop.Gressett then removed a handgun from a bedside drawer, pressed the muzzle to the back of her head, and continued to sodomize her, Jane Doe said. Gressett reached into the same nightstand for a set of handcuffs, which he used to cuff her ankle to her wrist. Leaving her on the bed, Jane Doe said Gressett left the bedroom and returned with a glass filled with ice cubes and an ice pick. Gressett then used the ice pick's handle to insert the ice into her vagina and anus before sodomizing her again. At one point, Doe said, she heard a garage door open and called out for help, but Gressett told her to "shut the fuck up."
In her statement, Jane Doe said the rape was so violent that there were significant smears of blood and feces on the sheets. Gressett eventually led her to the shower, she claimed, where he forced her to orally copulate him, raped her again, and ejaculated on her face, chest and neck. During the ride back to the office, Doe said, Gressett talked about killing her with the ice pick and then having sex with her still-warm corpse.
Jane Doe said in her statements that when she returned to work after the assault she was limping, disheveled, and bleeding from her rectum. But she did not seek medical attention or notify either the police or her bosses. For his part, Gressett denies there was any blood or feces on his bed sheets or that he ever talked about killing Doe with the ice pick and abusing her dead corpse. But he doesn't deny the sex acts occurred, except in one critical detail. He claims that every act that took place during that lunch break in his condominium was consensual.
A forensics team recovered Jane Doe's DNA from the handle of an ice pick in Gressett's condominium and on handcuffs in his bedside table. Authorities confiscated about 200 tablets of Viagra, a small amount of marijuana, and several guns that Gressett kept in his condominium, most of which belonged to his father.
The DA's office didn't notify the Martinez police of the allegations until September 25, 2008 more than four and a half months after the assault, and Gressett wasn't arrested until October 2, 2008, nearly five months after the alleged assault. Last week, a 19-member grand jury indicted Gressett on thirteen felony counts after hearing from 33 witnesses. He was indicted on four counts of forced sodomy, four counts of forced sexual penetration, two counts of rape, and one count each of forced oral copulation, criminal threats, and false imprisonment. There also are criminal enhancements for use of weapons. If convicted, Gressett could spend the rest of his life in prison.
Jane Doe is now working as a deputy district attorney in another county. She was contacted for this story but declined to comment. Neither Kochly nor Sequeira returned calls to discuss their handling of the investigation. Nor did Flores from the attorney general's office respond to calls asking for comment. Supervising Deputy Attorney General Joyce Blair said she does not comment on any of her cases, but noted that prosecutors are confident in taking the case to trial.
Jane Doe II
"We will be making arrests continually as we develop probable cause. With this number of people implicated in the incident we're going to be making arrests on an ongoing basis."
--Richmond Police Lt. Mark Gagan.
Police say the girl was attacked by as many as 10 young men, while twice that stood around and watched. Investigators say as many as 20 people were involved in or stood and watched the gang rape of a 15-year-old girl outside a California high school homecoming dance. Police posted a $20,000 reward for anyone who comes to them with information that helps arrest and convict those involved in what authorities describe as a 2½-hour assault on the Richmond High School campus in suburban San Francisco.
Two teenage suspects have been jailed, but more arrests, as many as 20 total, are expected, according to a police detective. As many as 10 people were involved in the assault in a dimly lighted back alley at the school, while another 10 people watched without calling 911 to report it, police said. "There is one individual in custody who has made some spontaneous statements that have led me to believe that he is culpable for what happened," Richmond police Lt. Johan Simon said. Nineteen-year-old Manuel Ortega (pictured left) described as a former student at the school, was arrested soon after he fled the scene and will face charges of rape, robbery and kidnapping, police said.A 15-year-old was later arrested and charged with one count of felony sexual assault.
Cops & Domestic Violence
• Wife Killing Cops! - Part I
• Wife Killing Cops! - Part II
• Blue Spousal Abuse! - Part III
• Deputy Paul R. Kovacich, Wife Killer
Cops & Crime!
• Criminal Cops! - Part I
• Criminal Cops! - Part II
Oakland, California Police Department
• Captain Edward Poulson, OPD(Beating Death of Suspect (2000) Promoted in 2008)
• Investigator interfered in police probes of former bakery CEO
• Oakland Police Department, Corrupt, I
• Oakland, California Police Department, Corruption, II
• Oakland Police Department, III
• Oakland Police Department, IV
• Oakland Police Department, V - Major Corruption
• Jeff Loman, Deputy Chief, OPD(Updated: Re-instated as a (demoted) Lieutenant)
• Deborah Edgerly, Corrupt former Oakland City Administrator
Oakland, CA Transit Cop Shooting
• Mehserle Makes Bail!!!(Updated October 16, 2009) January 1, 2009 Murder of Unarmed Black Man, shot once (1) in the back!!)
• Tony Pirone, B.P.D.(Mehserle Accomplice - Jan. 1, 2009 Homicide)
• Johannes Mehserle, Killer Cop(Oakland's New Year's (2009) Transit Killer Cop)
• The B.A.R.T. Shooting Investigation(The Investigation of Oakland's New Year's (2009) Transit Killer Cop)
• The B.A.R.T. Aftermath (The Oakland Riots New (2009))
• B.A.R.T. Police, Racism, Homicide(Video of The Oakland New Year's Day (2009) Transit Shooting )
Santa Rita
Sexually Offensive Judges
• Perverted Judges! - Part I
• Judge Jack Gifford, Retired, Solicitation
• Judge Ronald C. Kline, Child Pornography
• Chief U.S. District Judge Edward Nottingham, Solicitation
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