So I finished the article I was reading and then went on to review the public comments. I swear this is the truth the second comment I read questioned madam D.A Dudley’s facts. You see in her report under “Evidence at the Scene” page 14 Dudley reports that Officer Covarrubias’s duty weapon was a Glock model 15 9mm hand gun.Well the comment I
read stated that no such weapon exists and that he even went to the Glock web
page and verified this fact. Well you know me always dotting my I’s and
crossing my T’s when it comes to verifying facts. So. I to go to the Glock web
page and found his statement was true (http://us.glock.com/products/all). How could D.A. Dudley make such a huge
mistake about officer Covarrubias’s weapon? Of course now I have to read
the 18 page report that the District Attorney based her decision on. Then
decide for myself if it warrants more time by me, sadly it does.
So what I did after I read Dudley ’s
report was to find a media source that reported on the shooting from the very
beginning. I reviewed one story after another keeping track of the facts,
looking for changes or contradictions. Once again I am here to report I cannot
accept the facts as presented by District Attorney Dudley
So after all that I have one question for Santa Barbara
District Attorney Joyce Dudley. Is that
really the version you want to go with in your Report on the Officer
Involved Shooting? In the past I could easily produce four or five postings a
week to share and now I try and find almost any excuse not to report my observations,
I feel like I am beating on a dead horse. I mean how many different ways can I
try and expose corruption and abuse of powers by our elected County Officials
Now I am really pushing myself to get my concerns out right
away this morning for one reason only. In hopes that the public will start asking
their own questions to District Attorney Dudley and anyone else they see fit. Please keep in mind that everything I am presenting here
was found in one night with minimal effort by me.
So I am just going to share my
observations and leave it up to you how important they are. As I read D.A.
Dudley’s report certain things jumped out at me, than as I went through all the
Medias stories my concerns were validated.
1-
The time of the
shooting was different between the media and the D.A.’s why. The D.A. made a
point of stating very clearly the shooting happen after 1:27 am and not 1:10 as
reported most times by the media
2- From the very
beginning the media reported that only one
shot was fired by Officer Kline hitting Officer Covarrubias in the chest
and killing him. Once again I refer to page 14 that states officer Kline fired
3 shots .at officer Covarrubias all hits.
3- What really bothers me is that time and time again the Santa Maria
4- I keep wondering how officer Kline did not shot the
officer who was on top of officer Covarrubias as reported in the D.A.’s
report on page 13
5- If you review the officer’s actions immediately after the
shooting you will find that no one attempted to save Officer Covarrubias, there
were over 9 officers present at that time.
I could easily give you 20 more
contradictions but do I really have to, the man was shot face down 3 times. But
wait there is more did you know that former officers disclosed some details to
the Associated Press only on condition of anonymity? The officers, who hade
more than six decades of experience between them, independently described what,
happened that night. Police at the scene told the retired officers that Covarrubias fired four times, but not
at anything or anyone. Here is the link where I found that statement. http://m.lawofficer.com/article/news/troubling-details-emerge-shoot
So right off the bat the statement made by former officers contradicts
page 14 of D.A. Dudley’s report where she states that Officer Covarrubias’s
Glcok 15(no such weapon exist)had only fired one round. Then if you look at
page 13 on her report officer Guerra also heard 4 shots before the 3 tangled
officers fell to the ground, big problems here.Like I just said I could break
down why District Attorney Dudley’s report and justification on the shooting
should be thrown out. But the only thing that really matters is what you think.
If you find any value with my concerns here please share it
with as many people as possible.
Larry Mendoza
www.santabarbaracriminalcourtcorruption.blogspot.com
Web sites that I reviewed while making this
posting.
Officer Covarrubias
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Once Santa Maria
As officers attempted to affect the arrest, the
officer struggled with the arresting officers, drew his weapon, and fired. In
response, one officer on scene fired at the suspect officer hitting him once.
When they made the decision to arrest the
officer, additional supervisors were brought in to help with the
arrest. At the time, the suspect resisted arrest, fought with officers,
pulled his gun and fired. Another officer at the scene was forced to fire his
weapon.
Around 1:10 a.m., officers attempted to arrest him while he was on
duty when gunfire was exchanged.
"This is a very tragic and unfortunate situation that
unfolded very rapidly and the results are something we are going to have to
deal with," said Chief Dan Macagni of the Santa Maria Police Department.
Santa Maria Police said the officer pulled out a gun and shot at
them when they tried to arrest him.
One officer responded by shooting him once.
Macagni also would not say how the dead officer found out he was
being investigated for having what's been described as an explicit sexual
relationship with a 17 year old girl.
Macagni says the allegations against the officer, if proven true,
would have sent him to prison.
"There is some witness intimidation involved", Macagni
says, "the information that we had in hand demanded that we not let him
leave that scene, get in a car, drive somewhere, it would put the public at
risk, if he did, we just did not know what was going to happen, we did not
expect him to react the way that he did."
Macagni says the officer who fired the fatal shot is at least an
eight year veteran of the department and is now on paid administrative
leave.
The Santa Maria Police Department had been
conducting an internal criminal Investigation against one of their own members
of the department, a police officer, for allegations of sexual misconduct
against a minor. That investigation became apparent to the officer being
investigated while he was on-duty and it was necessary to make an arrest of the
officer. As officers attempted to affect the arrest, the officer struggled with
the arresting officers, drew his weapon, and fired. In response, one officer on
scene fired at the suspect officer hitting him once.
The shootout happened around 1:19 a.m. near McElhaney and Broadway
when Santa Maria
Santa Maria Police said Covarrubias pulled out a gun and shot at
them when they tried to arrest him.
Kline responded by shooting Covarrubias once in the chest.
"I learned that he wasn't shot in the chest, they said
he was shot in the neck", Covarrubias Sr. says, "I also learned that
nobody gave him any first aid until the paramedics showed up, but it that was
the case, what was going on out there, what was really going on out
there?"
http://www.kcoy.com/story/17196537/teenage-girl-linked-to-dead-smpd-officer-files-claim-against-city
It also seeks psychological damages including loss of
reputation since Jane Doe was the only female Police Explorer Scout at the time
which Goldberg says subjected her to ridicule, contempt and hatred forcing
her to leave school.
According to the DA's report, there was a struggle between two
sergeants and Covarrubias who was resisting arrest and had also fired several
rounds from his gun.
The DA's report quotes Sgt. Chris Nartatez, who happened to be
Covarrubias's cousin, shouting for help from other officers on the scene.
"They were attempting to get his gun away from him",
says Santa Barbara County District Attorney Joyce Dudley, "there was what
Officer Kline described as a "fight for life", there were people
yelling "gun, gun, he has a gun", Officer Covarrubias wouldn't let go
of his gun and everyone feared that he was going to fire off yet another shot
and then Officer Kline shot Officer Covarrubias.
Kline, who happened to be Covarrubias's best friend on the police
force, fired three rounds at Covarrubias, according to the DA's report, two of
the bullets hitting Covarrubias in the neck which proved to be deadly.
S.B.C.C.C. The place where COMMON SENSE never goes out of style!
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