This guy is 30 years old. He has worked for a small town PD for five years. His SAVINGS would have to be $200,000 per year to account for the cash he was carrying. Then he says he found the cash, $1,000,000, behind a Hooters restaurant and no-one has reported losing a cool 1 Mill. Well, well, he drove all the way from a small border town to Georgia to get lucky with an amnesiac billionaire! Sure, the bare facts do not make him a criminal but if you guys will buy the statements I will be putting my guns for sale on on GB. Patton's revolvers, Ike's 45 and Teddy Rosevelt's double. With more fantastic items to come.
The point is he has committed no crime back home, at least, not one that anyone is going to investigate. He has only got a driving infraction in Georgia. Unless another offence is proved he could reclaim the cash - it's worth an attorney for $1,000,000.
How would you suggest the law follows up on this case? Or are you going to shrug your shoulders and let him go ahead with what any half way sane person would consider an immoral, not to mention illegal, activity? My concern is that here, really, is a man potentially doing harm to other people for his own profit. Do you feel good about that? Does it not occur to you that if this fellow is bent he could be producing those dozens of gang-banging drug-pushers, discussing defence against whom seems to be the main reason for many to visit this site.
As far as the Sheriff is concerned:
Hidalgo County Sheriff Lupe Treviño said Friday he has ordered an inquiry to determine if others in his department knew of or were involved in any wrongdoing in connection with the money found with Sanchez.
"I have not been told that anyone else in my department is involved in this," Treviño said.
Citing the confidentiality of personnel files, Treviño would not say if any complaints have previously been made against Sanchez, a patrol deputy who joined the department in 2001.
"We’re going to interview his close friends, if he has any," Treviño said. "We’ll look into prior rumors, if there’s any."
Treviño, who has talked several times to federal and Georgia authorities, said he could not investigate Sanchez because there have been no allegations that he committed a crime in Hidalgo County. Sanchez, a patrol deputy, was not assigned to any special units.
"This guy was not arrested. There’s no criminal allegations against him," Treviño said. "So I’m in a pickle."
Sanchez did not give a reason for leaving and declined an exit interview when he resigned Tuesday, Treviño said. Had Sanchez not resigned, Treviño said he could have conducted an investigation into the former deputy’s conduct.
If an investigation found evidence of improper conduct, "I was going to fire him," Treviño said. "He just beat me to the punch."
Since Treviño took office in January 2005, at least five sheriff’s office employees have been under criminal investigation.
In August, detention officer Pedro Longoria was arrested and fired after a Louisiana state trooper allegedly found 66 pounds of cocaine in his vehicle’s gas tank.
Sure, he's really pulling out every stop to get to the bottom of this. "if he has any", "if there’s any", "I was going to fire him,", "He just beat me to the punch."
The question to be asked of the Sheriff is "Who gave Sanchez time off from work?". Wouldn't it be interesting to find out that Sanchez was driving East, in his own pick-up, on company time. Perhaps he was repeating the journey of Officer Pedro Longoria.
