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Dupnik: Raid stemmed from 20-mo. probe
Arizona Daily Star ^ | 6/1/2011 | Fernanda Echavarri

Posted on 06/01/2011 1:06:37 AM PDT by petitfour

The man killed in a SWAT team raid last month had been under investigation by the Pima County Sheriff's Department for 20 months as part of a major drug and homicide investigation, Sheriff Clarence Dupnik said Tuesday during an editorial meeting with the Star. But details of the investigation into Jose Guerena's activities won't be released because an informant for the Sheriff's Department could be in danger, Dupnik said. "There's a chance that our informant is going to get killed," he said. Guerena was killed when SWAT officers fired 71 rounds from the front door of his home in the 7100 block of South Redwater Drive, while serving a search warrant on May 5, department officials have said. Guerena was hit 22 times and died at the scene, according to a preliminary report by the Pima County Medical Examiner's Office. Two weeks after the shooting, officers were alerted to a storage room at Ajo Kinney Super Storage, 5175 W. Ajo Highway, rented to Jose Guerena's mother, Bertha, Dupnik said.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Arizona
KEYWORDS: banglist; democrats; donutwatch; dupnik; fucd; guerena; joseguerena; liberalfascism; murderbyswat; pimacounty; pimacountysheriff; swat; swatabuse; tucson; youlie
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To: petitfour

Isn’t it strange how suddenly all of this “new” evidence from the storage facility became available... especially after they have had a whole month to manufacture it?


21 posted on 06/01/2011 3:39:41 AM PDT by PalmettoMason (Blacks are not inferior, but it is racist to hold them to the same standards as everyone else.)
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To: petitfour
Send sheriff Joe to investigate.
He can then put him in pink underwear. . . . .
22 posted on 06/01/2011 3:50:06 AM PDT by DeaconRed (Everything I need to know in life, I learned in Kindergarten. . . .)
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To: Salamander

Thanks Sal for that interactive CATO map...it’s very informative.


23 posted on 06/01/2011 3:51:20 AM PDT by iopscusa (El Vaquero. (SC Lowcountry Cowboy))
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To: petitfour

Guerena worked a job in a mine. How hard would it have been for the sheriff to arrest him at work. I mean there are not exactly a lot of ways in and out of a mine. But, I guess that would have obviated the “fun” of having a SWAT raid by dufus Dupkik.


24 posted on 06/01/2011 3:58:13 AM PDT by 6SJ7 (atlasShruggedInd = TRUE)
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To: 21twelve

It’s not easy to put together a drug case over 20 months. I mean look Sheriff Dupnik himself forgot about the case it took so long. He just remembered in time for this meeting.


25 posted on 06/01/2011 4:07:27 AM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: petitfour
Sheriff Clarence Dupnik

This lunatic is still working on finishing his Yogi Bear coloring book.

26 posted on 06/01/2011 4:08:33 AM PDT by BerryDingle (I know how to deal with communists, I still wear their scars on my back from Hollywood-Ronald Reagan)
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To: 6SJ7

The sheriff is a murderous fascist.


27 posted on 06/01/2011 4:09:03 AM PDT by mike-zed
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To: iopscusa; Salamander

The most informative part of that map:

“If a widespread pattern of [knock-and-announce] violations were shown . . . there would be reason for grave concern.”

—Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, in Hudson v. Michigan, June 15, 2006.

OK, so when will SCOTUS act to curb “no knock” raids? (and don’t think you can count on Scalia to preserve your liberties)


28 posted on 06/01/2011 4:14:13 AM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: Voter#537

does arizona have a state police department? Why are they not investigating this? is this a case of politician covering up politician, or is this a case of the blue wall?


29 posted on 06/01/2011 4:19:52 AM PDT by joe fonebone (Project Gunwalker, this will make watergate look like the warm up band......)
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To: 21twelve

Problem was, they didn’t have an arrest warrant for him, only a search warrant for the houses. Supposedly, since they didn’t find anything illegal in his house, they say that if he’d only opened the door and let them in they wouldn’t have had any grounds to arrest him. Or kill him.

Whether that would preclude them from picking him up at work and escorting him home for the warrant execution, I don’t know.


30 posted on 06/01/2011 4:36:56 AM PDT by PLMerite (Shut the Beyotch Down!)
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To: petitfour

“Officers also found high-end military gear and advanced weather protective clothing inside the storage locker, Kastigar said.”

What, turnout gear? Which would make have the guys in the state suspects. Not to mention that they only found out about the storage unit after the raid. Some investigators they are, yessir.


31 posted on 06/01/2011 4:44:38 AM PDT by PLMerite (Shut the Beyotch Down!)
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To: petitfour

Spin, spin, spin. If the marks don’t buy one tale, tell another.


32 posted on 06/01/2011 4:52:12 AM PDT by Jack Hammer
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To: petitfour

So he deserved to die?

What a crock.


33 posted on 06/01/2011 4:52:52 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$ ("If I ever kill you, you'll be awake. You'll be facing me, and you'll be armed. " Mal Reynolds)
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To: Kenny Bunk

Amazing the wife and little boy did not get shot with all the bullets flying throughout that house? And to think this all started with a clumsy oaf falling?


34 posted on 06/01/2011 4:56:51 AM PDT by rawhide
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To: petitfour
When Jared Loughner killed 6 people and wounded Representative Giffords (and a bunch of others) Sheriff Dipnik tried to blame conservative talk radio.

Dupnik statement:
"When the rhetoric about hatred, about mistrust of government, about paranoia of how government operates, and to try to inflame the public on a daily basis, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, it has impact on people especially who are unbalanced personalities."

Dupnik blames Political Rhetoric

Dupnik is the primary "unbalanced personalities" and his staff faithfullly follows their unbalanced leader. But we are supposed to "trust government". I don't think so.

35 posted on 06/01/2011 5:10:17 AM PDT by Upstate NY Guy
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To: smokingfrog
The officers who shot at Guerena are members of Sahuarita police, Oro Valley police, Marana police and the Sheriff's Department.

I'd guess that that Sahuarita, Oro Valley and Marana are incorporated towns within Pima County, each with its own police department. I suppose there could be some sort of agreement between each department and the County Sheriff's Office to have officers with "certain talents" form the County SWAT team.

Looks like they were uniformly incompetent.

36 posted on 06/01/2011 5:12:10 AM PDT by Charles Martel (Endeavor to persevere...)
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To: wendy1946
Put me on the jury in a case like that and the homeowner walks.

.... if he's still breathing. The odds are very much against the homeowner when the SWAT team shows up.

37 posted on 06/01/2011 5:26:27 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: VeniVidiVici

That’s “articles of military clothing.”


38 posted on 06/01/2011 5:27:31 AM PDT by arthurus (Read Hazlitt's "Economics In One Lesson.")
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To: petitfour

>> The man killed in a SWAT team raid last month had been under investigation... as part of a major drug and homicide investigation

Well, I certainly believe the *homicide* part. We saw the tape.


39 posted on 06/01/2011 5:37:15 AM PDT by Nervous Tick (Trust in God, but row away from the rocks!)
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To: Kenny Bunk
This SWAT trend is in accordance with local, state and national pols' and bureaucrats' wishes. It is no disgrace for them. It is assembling and practice for The Terror. Look what Homeland Security is developing and instituting and the increasing frequency of cops shooting citizens in SWAT raids and various traffic stops and such. The alarming feature is not the shootings but the routine exoneration of all of the shooters and their planners. It has become so routine that police forces no longer feel it necessary to reward the perps with free time off(suspension with pay). The shooting of dogs and citizens is sufficient reward in itself.
40 posted on 06/01/2011 5:38:15 AM PDT by arthurus (Read Hazlitt's "Economics In One Lesson.")
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