Yuma, Arizona – Supervisory Criminal Investigator JAY CREDE doesn’t get it. Not long ago, I reported the arrest of one of CREDE’s subordinate U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for DUI and also that CREDE almost got arrested himself for trying to release his subordinate from police custody. This is a new encounter between CREDE and the finest Yuma Police Department. This report also provides and update on the arrest, conviction and sentence of top retired ICE level officialS RICHARD PADILLA CRAMER, who worked for the drug cartel while stationed in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico as the top ICE official assigned to the U.S. American Consulate and also on the arrests and sentences of ICE's Office of Investigations top level officials GERARDO CHAVEZ and FRANK FIGUEROA. ICE as usual can deny and deny all they want but the facts speaks by themselves. If Secretary Janet Napolitano, U.S. Department of Homeland Security and other big federal departments and agencies such as the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) allows this culture of corruption and gross misconduct continue, the re-election of U.S. President Barack Obama is in peril. As clarification, the IRS is mentioned in this report only to identify an area where the U.S. Department of the Treasury, the Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) and IRS condones the unprofessional conduct by certain IRS tax examiners who discriminate, harass and retaliate taxpayers. This author is othe opinion that if the "good-boy-network' continues as "business as usual" our American taxpayers who read, listen and watch the news are fully aware where this country is heading.
On December 11, 2009, I obtained a copy of CREDE’s police arrest by the Yuma Police Department which took place on Friday the 13th, November, 2009 at 11:24 pm. For Jay CREDE it was a “real bad Friday 13th”…well he missed not getting caught on November 14, 2009 by 36 minutes.
Yuma Police Department Report Number 09-57105 indicates that JAY CREDE was arrested and charged with criminal DUI with BAC .08 or greater (28-1381A2); DUI Slightest Degree, criminal misdemeanor offenses under Arizona Revised Statute 28-1381.A1 and A2, and for a Civil offense of driving a motorcycle without the proper endorsement, Arizona Revised Statute 28-3151A.
I reviewed the entire report and basically this time CREDE behaved up to a point. He tried to fool the police officer since he was driving at approximately 52 miles per hour (MPH) on a 35 MPH zone and the reason for the stop was for speeding; CREDE possibly believed that he could get away from being arrested and charged for DUI.
Unfortunately for CREDE, after drinking for several hours, it is almost impossible to eliminate the odor of alcohol from his breath. As a former traffic cop myself, in any traffic stop such as CREDE’s, a police officer will try to get as closer as possible to the driver to notice any signs of alcohol consumption. CREDE this time was very honest. He cooperated and identified himself as a Supervisory Criminal Investigator with DHS-ICE and told the Yuma Police Officer that he was armed.
CREDE probably believed he was lucky when the police officer asked him if he needed glasses to see. CREDE answered that “he couldn’t see very well without them.” However, it turned out that the officer was an HGN Technician (Horizontal Gaze Nystagmus (HGN) test technician; a licensed Arizona law enforcement officer to perform certain field eye examination and tests to determine if the driver is intoxicated.
What follows is basically police procedure. The officer after CREDE told him that he was armed, the officer asked CREDE to remove his gun from his back area and secure it into a pouch on the handlebars of CREDE’s Harley Davidson. Now, since CREDE had not been officially arrested yet, the officer had all of the rights to immediately order CREDE to stand at easy, secure his body and the officer had the right to remove the gun himself. The officer had already back-up. I don’t want to pass judgment at this point but the officer placed his life, the life of his back-up officer (s) and CREDE’s life in danger by allowing CREDE himself to remove his gun himself. Regardless, once again, CREDE was treated with respect and dignity by the Yuma police officers involved.
The Yuma Police Arresting Officer (YPAO) continued performing his DUI tests. After completing the “One Leg Stand Test” CREDE failed the test. YPAO asked CREDE if he was willing to take the Portable Breath Test (PBT). OB wrote: “CREDE became defensive and asked what I was doing. CREDE stated that it seemed to him that I was trying to get a DUI case on him. I explained to CREDE that I had been conducting a DUI investigation because I had suspected that he might possibly be impaired.” CREDE asked if he had an option. He was told he had the right to refuse to take the PBT. CREDE refused to take the test, a right which he was entitled to take since he was not officially arrested yet.
JAY CREDE’s Arrest
YPAO then placed CREDE officially under arrest for suspicion of DUI. OB wrote on his police report:
“I approached CREDE and told him that he was under arrest for DUI. I told CREDE to stand up since he was leaning back on his motorcycle and place his hands behind his back. CREDE looked at me blankly and did not move for approximately five seconds. I again assertively told CREDE to please stand up and told him that he was under arrest for DUI. CREDE slowly stood up and turned around as I had instructed him too. I grabbed CREDE’s hands and placed them behind his back. CREDE was secured in handcuffs and arrested at 11:48 PM. I conducted a search incident to arrest and located CREDE’s credentials and DHS-ICE badge in his wallet.”
CREDE was placed on the back seat of the police car and secured. CREDE was asked if YPAO could contact a person of his own choosing to come and get all of his property. “CREDE requested that we contact Assistant Special Agent in Charge (ASAC) Victor GARCIA.” YPAO wrote.
The YPAO’ report contained the following:
“I returned to my police cruiser and upon entering I could smell the odor of an intoxicating beverage that was not there prior to placing CREDE in the back seat. I transported CREDE to the Yuma Police Department to continue with the DUI investigation.”
The Yuma Police Report written by the arresting officer, contained information regarding CREDE’s own version of series of events such as that only had “six beers” at “Crazy Earl’s” a bar is located at Crazy Earl's Cocktails & Pool,11274 S. Fortuna Rd, Yuma, Arizona 85367 and that he drank Michelob Ultra. Further that CREDE told the YPAO that he started drinking at 9:00 pm. This means that CREDE drank six beers from 9:00 pm until approximately 11:20 pm or 11:30 pm. I leave the reader asking a question: was CREDE candid with the YPAO by admitting that he only had six beers? Further alcohol test performed reveal a different story.
According to Google’s map the distance from Crazy Earl’s to where CREDE was stopped by our great and finest Yuma Police Department arresting officer was approximately 10.6 miles. The police report also indicates that CREDE’s breath test had 0.96% and 0.93% BAC.
CREDE at the Yuma Police Department was subjected to a blood alcohol test and a breath test. CREDE after getting his Arizona’s driver license suspended on November 14, 2009 at 1:15 am for 90 days.
The alleged ICE’s Assistant Special Agent in Charge VICTOR GARCIA, according to the police report showed up at the scene and took CREDE’s property; gun, credentials and motorcycle. The police report the VICTOR GARCIA refused to provide any biographical information of him but only provided ICE’s business address and both his residence and office’s telephone number. Under occupation he listed that he was an ICE agent.
Of importance to notice is that an arrest or an indictment doesn’t mean that the person charged with a crime is guilty. The person is guilty only when he/she pleads guilty or is found guilty beyond reasonable doubt by a jury trial. For all practical purpose CREDE is innocent until proven guilty.
The Yuma Police Department had every right to keep CREDE incarcerated for several hours, but they decided to “give him another break” and released him to the custody of his wife on November 14, 2009 at 1:35 am
The author of this story knows that CREDE could have been charged with additional criminal acts such carrying a firearm in a bar while getting intoxicated. CREDE needs professional help to deal with his drinking problem. However, he is the only one who will decide and admit that he has a drinking problem.
Other recent notable DHS-ICE arrests:
On September 4, 2009, retired DHS-ICE Supervisory Criminal Investigator RICHARD PADILLA CRAMER was arrested by special agents of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), Miami, FL. After his arrest, numerous mainstream media and liberal news media reports started circulating. Numerous retired ICE managers and supervisors were interviewed, some of which were already collecting money to cover CRAMER’s alleged “bogus” arrest legal defense fund. Some Legacy U.S. Customs did not believe that CRAMER was a dirty federal law enforcement officer. For years, the Legacy U.S. Customs Service and the Treasury’s Office of Inspector General believed that this author was a “mole” with the Mexican drug cartels. The Arizona Legacy U.S. Customs Service’s Offices of Investigations and Internal Affairs treated this author as if I was a “suspected crook and criminal” – Nothing was proven and the author allegedly “retired honorably” - Here is the latest on CRAMER:
News Release
FOR IMMDIATE RELEASE
December 10, 2009
Contact: Special Agent David Melenkevitz
Number: 954-660-4602
Former ICE Agent Pleads Guilty to Obstruction of Justice
DEC 10 -- MIAMI - Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), Miami Field Division, Jeffrey H. Sloman, Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Gene Morrison, Special Agent in Charge, Department of Justice, Office of the Inspector General, Washington Field Office, and Steven J. Mocsary, Special Agent in Charge, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Office of Professional Responsibility in Miami, announced that defendant Richard Padilla Cramer pled guilty today before U.S. District Judge Paul Huck to a Superseding Information charging him with conspiracy to obstruct justice. Sentencing has been scheduled for February 18, 2010. Cramer faces a possible maximum statutory sentence of twenty (20) years in prison.
According to the Information and statements made in open court during today’s plea, Cramer assisted Mexican drug traffickers and money launderers to obtain confidential information from U.S. law enforcement databases, including the National Criminal Information Center and the criminal information systems of the Drug Enforcement Administration and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). During the time at issue, Cramer was a Resident Agent in Charge with ICE and was stationed in Guadalajara, Mexico.
According to the one-count felony Information and the facts discussed in court during the guilty plea, in January 2006, a Mexican money launderer who was hiding in Miami wanted to return to Mexico, but needed to determine whether it was safe to do so. He arranged with criminal associates in Mexico to have his name and the name of his partner run in U.S. law enforcement databases to determine whether there were any arrest warrants or investigations pending, which would interfere with his ability to return to Mexico. Thereafter, the money launderer was advised by his Mexican associates that they had a U.S. law enforcement contact who could obtain that information for him. This individual turned out to be Cramer, who arranged to have the two men’s names run through U.S. law enforcement databases. Printouts of these criminal records checks were provided to the launderer in Miami, who used the information to safely return to Mexico after the records checks revealed no pending warrants or investigations.
Mr. Sloman commended the investigative efforts of the Special Agents of the Drug Enforcement Administration, DOJ’s Office of the Inspector General with the assistance of ICE’s Office of Professional Responsibility, and the City of North Miami Beach Police Department.
http://www.justice.gov/dea/pubs/states/newsrel/2009/mia121009a.html
I personally knew CRAMER and feel the same hurt and feeling of disappointment that numerous people who knew him and worked with him. DHS-ICE and the Legacy US Customs Service in their attempt to silence the employees who report misconduct and criminal activity are solely responsible for this lack of vetting and national security breach.
Since 1995 I started reporting possible criminal and gross administrative misconduct by the Legacy U.S. Customs Service's Offices of Investigations and Internal Affairs. Certain top ICE management officials who at one time were with the Customs' Office of Internal Affairs condoned corruption and gross misconduct. The House of Death chronicles who were first reported by my fellow Narco News co-publisher Bill Conroy did an outstanding job in exposing corruption at the ICE, SAC office, El Paso, Texas. For more information on the House of Death and the involvement of an ICE's controlled informant who became involved in the actual killings of people associated with narco trafficking activities and/or innocent people who simply were in the wrong place at the wrong time and got killed, follow Bill Conroys' House of Death's Narco News stories at: http://www.narconews.com/Issue33/article962.html
Also Bill Conroy authored and published in Narco News a book titled:
"Borderline Security: A chronicle of reprisal, cronyism and corruption in the U.S. Customs Service By Bill Conroy Prologue to a book published by Narco News - February 18, 2004" The reader can read this very interesting and outstanding piece of investigative journalism at http://www.narconews.com/Issue32/article893.html.
In February 2009, another top DHS-ICE level official was sentenced to 90 months in federal prison, GERARDO CHAVEZ, age 46. Here are the links to read about his arrest, conviction and sentence:
Like CRAMER, I personally knew GERARDO CHAVEZ. Like CRAMER the Legacy US Customs Service and later DHS-ICE protected them and gave them “special treatment” by sending them to foreign posts to work overseas. This author believed in the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity System (EEOC), the U.S. Merit Protection Board (MSPB), and the U.S. Office of Special Counsel (OSC). I am thankful to the EEOC and MSPB who always came to my rescue. As to the OSC, I filed numerous OSC complaints but not a single one was taken serious enough to require the opening of an investigation. The interesting thing is that when a former subordinate of mine filed an OSC complaint against me and my bosses, for sending him to Hawaii for a few days to only witness some interviews while working for the Office of Internal Affairs, Legacy US Customs Service. My subordinate's complaint with the OSC immediately was officially opened and soon I had an OSC investigaror in my office. The same fate experienced a group of Hispanic special agents assigned to the Office of Internal Affairs, Legacy US Customs Service, El Paso, Texas. One of the reasons their OSC complaints were never processed in accordance with Title U.S.C. 5 whistleblower laws was because the majority of them were also members of the EEOC class action complaint of discrimination I filed in 1995 against the Legacy U.S. Customs Service. The Customs-ICE Hispanic class action lawsuit of discrimination was covered and reported by my felow Narco News co-publisher Bill Conroy. On March 20, 2007, a U.S. District Court Judge from Washington, DC dismissed our federal class action lawsuit and granted the Defendant's (DHS-ICE) motion for summary judgment only on the Pattern and Practice Claims, and nothing else. However, DHS-ICE took the position that the court dismissed the whole complaint and lawsuit. This caused several members of the class to blame this author for losing this case and decided to stop communicating with him period. The truth of the matter is that we only lost one section of the entire lawsuit. A few members decided to proceed and file their complaints with the EEOC individually. I am one of the few who decided to file individually with the EEOC's Office of Federla Operations.
As to the RICHARD PADILLA CRAMER's criminal case, I decided not to contact DHS-ICE to get their opinion because it is a waste of time. They (DHS-ICE) use any means to stop any disclosure of information. The information that our American taxpayers demand to know. Instead, I decided to rely on direct documentary evidence I obtained from the Internet and the official FBI's webiste to base this report.
Arrest, Conviction and sentence of DHS-ICE FRANK FIGUEROA, a former SAC-ICE, Tampa, FL:
Other Narco News story related to Jay Crede:
http://narcosphere.narconews.com/notebook/miguel-contreras/2009/07/dhs-ices-drunken-supervisor-tries-release-subordinate-arrested-ice
Information regarding President Barack Obama’s popularity status in the USA:
Obama's 47 Percent Approval Lowest of Any President at This Point
By Bill Sammon - FOXNews.com - Updated December 08, 2009
President Obama's job approval rating has fallen to 47 percent in the latest Gallup poll, the lowest ever recorded for any president at this point in his term.
Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford and even Richard Nixon all had higher approval ratings 10-and-a-half months into their presidencies. Obama's immediate predecessor, President George W. Bush, had an approval rating of 86 percent, or 39 points higher than Obama at this stage.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/12/08/obamas-percent-approval-lowest-president-point/
BOCA RATON, Florida (Reuters) - Corruption, whether in the form of crooked officials, financial fraudsters or even philandering sports stars, is tearing at the fabric of U.S. society and is the country's No. 1 criminal threat, a senior FBI agent said on Tuesday.
Addressing businessmen in Florida, where financial fraud cases jumped by 42 percent in the last year, FBI Miami Division Special Agent in Charge John Gillies said failures in personal ethics and integrity sowed the initial poisonous seeds of corruption in a society.
Gillies said transgressions by high-profile public servants and even perceived social role models, like top golfer Tiger Woods, currently embroiled in allegations that he had extramarital affairs, sent the signal to young Americans that cheating and stealing were acceptable.
"Where do our children learn this? They see us, their elected officials, their sports stars, they see how they act and they figure, 'well it's OK,'" he said, citing the case of Woods, whose early morning car accident in Florida last month triggered a storm of media questioning of his clean-living reputation.
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE5B74AI20091208
FBI orders independent review after Fort Hood shooting
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - FBI Director Robert Mueller ordered an independent review on Tuesday of how the agency handled information that the military psychiatrist charged in the Fort Hood shooting had communicated with an anti-American cleric in Yemen.
Mueller asked William Webster, the former head of the FBI and CIA as well as a former judge, to conduct the review of the domestic law enforcement agency's actions and policies before the November 5 shooting that killed 13 people.
Questions have been raised about the handling of e-mails the accused shooter, Major Nidal Malik Hasan, sent to the cleric, Anwar al-Awlaki, who has been sympathetic to al Qaeda. They were intercepted by U.S. intelligence agencies and examined by U.S. joint terrorism task forces.
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE5B73MA20091208
Obama administration settles Indian trust account lawsuit
The $3.4-billion settlement ends a 13-year-old legal battle over allegations that the federal government mismanaged 300,000 trust accounts for more than a century.
Reporting from Denver - The Obama administration today announced it was settling an epic, 13-year-old class-action lawsuit which contended the federal government has mismanaged 300,000 Indian trust accounts for more than a century.
The $3.4-billion settlement ends a legal battle that led to 22 separate judicial decisions and 10 hearings before various courts of appeal.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nation-and-world/la-na-indian-settlement9-2009dec09,0,6296252.story
Since former U.S. Senator Barack Obama became U.S. President, we have seen an increase of arrest of current and former top federal law enforcement officials. One can assume that this increase in public corruption exposure is a result of our federal “watch dog” agencies such as the U.S. Offices of Inspector General or a particular federal agency’s own Office of Internal Affairs, Office of Professional Responsibility and any other name assigned to federal criminal investigators tasked with investigating employee’s criminal and gross administrative misconduct doing a superb job. The other assumption is that corruption and gross mismanagement in the workplace has escalated and increased after President Obama has been an office.
This story is not about pointing a political pragmatism or to blame our U.S. President, Barack Obama for the increase of federal public corruption while he took over the position of Commander-in-Chief. This story is not about pragmatism in an attempt to prove whether the Obama administration is serious about ferreting federal public corruption. This story is about some factual events that have taken place starting years ago. I will only report two incidents in this story. Narco News is an independent news media organization where co-publishers are free to write without the fear of being fired or our news censored because of our political pragmatism. Of course we still must follow certain rules and regulations.
For more information on the world-wide well known “House of Death” chronicles involving an informant while working for the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, please refer to my fellow co-publisher’s stories at
http://narcosphere.narconews.com/notebook/bill-conroy/2009/03/house-death-now-obama-administrations-court
Through the above link you can find other very interesting stories by Bill Conroy, including a book about the Legacy U.S. Customs Service’s questionable corruption activities. You can find this book at http://www.narconews.com/Issue32/article893.html
What this story is about a few selected cases dealing with federal public corruption and what the White House and the Hill are doing about it. I expect some reaction and possible retaliation by DHS-ICE, the Internal Revenue Service and may be some other federal agency.
I am very much pro-law enforcement since this is the profession and work I chose since I went to a junior college.
BOCA RATON, Florida (Reuters) - Corruption, whether in the form of crooked officials, financial fraudsters or even philandering sports stars, is tearing at the fabric of U.S. society and is the country's No. 1 criminal threat, a senior FBI agent said on Tuesday.
Addressing businessmen in Florida, where financial fraud cases jumped by 42 percent in the last year, FBI Miami Division Special Agent in Charge John Gillies said failures in personal ethics and integrity sowed the initial poisonous seeds of corruption in a society.
Gillies said transgressions by high-profile public servants and even perceived social role models, like top golfer Tiger Woods, currently embroiled in allegations that he had extramarital affairs, sent the signal to young Americans that cheating and stealing were acceptable.
"Where do our children learn this? They see us, their elected officials, their sports stars, they see how they act and they figure, 'well it's OK,'" he said, citing the case of Woods, whose early morning car accident in Florida last month triggered a storm of media questioning of his clean-living reputation.
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE5B74AI20091208
Epilogue
Since this author filed the federal class action lawsuit of discrimination in US District Court on May 10, 2002, for some unknown reason (s) my income tax returns started to be reviewed more closely every year. In 2006, I wnt through a full mail audit-examination by the Internal Revenue Service.
In September 2008, I received a letter from an IRS Revenue Agent who turned out to be a "rogue" IRS examiner who advised us to be ready for the examination and audit of our 2006 1040 tax return. After I complained to her supervisor and IRS Taxpayers Advocate, about her abusive and unprofessional conduct, she added an extra year, 2007. Later, I learned that her immediate supervisor was involved in an outside business activity and conflict of interest. He was running a small home-business financial consultant and advisory to small businesses and individuals. After I complained to the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA), the IRS supervisor and group manager deleted his website. Later on a TIGTA's Deputy for Investigations lied to my local U.S. Senator by telling him that all of my complaints were found to be unsubstantiated.
I reviewed the last TIGTA's Semiannual Reports and basically I was in shock after reviewing their statistics. When you review all of the complaints filed by different sources reported in the Internet and compared them with those reported by TIGTA, one can only conclude that "something is going terribly wrong" - Ti view the TIGTA's Semi-Annual Reports go to: http://www.ustreas.gov/tigta/
I cannot diclose more about my own IRS tax case because it is with the U.S. Tax Court.
Until later......
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