08-0080 Seagraves 3rd IA 061311

MARICOPA COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE Internal Affairs Division IA # 08-0080 Interview with Lieutenant Seagraves, S1018 June 13,
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(Long pause) LICKING: Alrighty, uh, time is about, uh, about 8:59. Uh, today is June the 13 , 2011. Uh, for the transcript, um, Im Sergeant Brad Licking, 1122. Um, L-T, do you mind giving your name and serial number.
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Uh, Kim Seagraves, 1018. Okay, and? Sergeant Denise Thompson, 6183. Alright, perfect. Um, what I wanted to do just kinda real quick and, uh, what not I, for the sake of saving time, uh, the transcription Ive got just copy. Well, the actual original, uh, Garrity and the Notice of Investigation from before. This is, uh, IA case 08-0080. Um, did you want me to review these? No, you dont need to. Okay. Okay, great, so obviously, just uh, well be aware that Garrity is, uh, still in place and the NOI is, uh, still in place for this. If I could also say something, uh, in reference to the NOI. Sure.
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Investigator: Sgt. B. Licking S1122/Sgt. D. Thompson A6183 Reviewer: Capt. K. Holmes #0982 Typed by: A9998 Date/Time: June 13, 2011/1230 hours Page 1 of 57
MARICOPA COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE Internal Affairs Division IA # 08-0080 SEAGRAVES: LICKING: SEAGRAVES: LICKING: There are have been some people that I discussed that with. Okay. So if you need me to clarify. Um, sure, um, since you bring it up. Who, who was it that you, youve discussed? Um, I went to a counselor. Okay. And I went to my family doctor. Obviously, discussed it with my husband. Okay. Um, I also, um, spoke to a, a, an attorney. Not sure if I said that already. Um, during the course of a deposition with Michael Manning, um, he represented Sandra Dowling and the state, um, versus Sandra Dowling, the County or theyre suing, uh, civilly for money, um, for civil rights violations. And during that process, uh, the day before I spent with Lisa Lawling, who is a, an attorney that represents even Joe Arpaio. And so although I didnt go into specifics, I just acknowledged that there was a, um, investigation going on and I couldnt discuss it unless I was ordered to by a Judge Okay. and that during the process, uh, I wanted to know that the Babeu
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MARICOPA COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE Internal Affairs Division IA # 08-0080 investigation had just come out and that I had a feeling that Michael Manning was going to talk about that and I wanted her to be aware that I couldnt speak about it unless ordered to do so by a Judge. LICKING: SEAGRAVES: Okay. Um, Lisa Lawling was really unaware that the investigation had anything to do with me; however, Michael Manning was very aware of that. Okay. So. Okay, perfect, okay. Um, yeah, it sounds like everything kinda fits and, uh, and you and youve, obviously, uh, stuck with, um, what you, who you can and cant speak with about that. Um, heres, uh, todays, uh, Employee Observer Waiver. I noticed that you know we talked before you got here. You said you werent gonna bring one so if you dont mind just signing and dating that. (Pause) And today, basically, Im gonna, were gonna kinda rehash a little bit of the stuff that that we had talked about before. (Cough) Excuse me. Um, and what not. What I was kinda hopin to start off with, um, again, this case is obviously, uh, you know several years old and what not. And its been a little bit harder to kinda come up with, with an accurate timeline of who was in the SVU, um, for for what times and what not. If from the time you got there if you can just tell me, um, who obviously you were the Sergeant of Special Victims Unit. Um, who, who were the
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MARICOPA COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE Internal Affairs Division IA # 08-0080 Detectives there? Um, who was assigned, uh, as Sex Crimes Detectives? Who was assigned as, uh, the sex notification, uh, unit personnel? And then who was the Lieutenant, the Captain and the Chief, um, of that area? SEAGRAVES: LICKING: SEAGRAVES: Okay. Um, goin on my memory. Sure. Uh, when I got there, uh, Lieutenant Fred McCann was the Lieutenant. Um, and I am not sure if Bill Knight at the time was the Captain, because I know that this is what I remember but whether or not it was during my duration Im, Im not 100 percent sure. Um, Captain Beamish was there and then Captain Beamish was transferred to District I and, um, there was the break up of the TOU team which put Felbab there. But I think that was just briefly and. Would he, would he have been over SVU at the time? Um, all of GID which included SVU. Okay. And then at some point, uh, I think Bill Knight took over and then after he was promoted, um, within six months of him being a Captain then I think he went to the 19th floor. And then from there I got Whitney. Thats kinda what I remember. And so when I was there, um, my direct chain of command was Lieutenant McCann and then shortly after it was, um, Hank Brandimarte until, um, I wrote the memo of concern in reference to his behavior and then he was Investigator: Sgt. B. Licking S1122/Sgt. D. Thompson A6183 Reviewer: Capt. K. Holmes #0982 Typed by: A9998 Date/Time: June 13, 2011/1230 hours Page 4 of 57
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MARICOPA COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE Internal Affairs Division IA # 08-0080 replaced by, uh, Lieutenant Schoeninger. And the Captain during that duration was Whitney. LICKING: Okay. Um, Lieutenant Schoeninger, did he come in and just, uh, and again I, I understand its you know its, everybodys workin kinda off memory and what not. Was that around December of 07? Does that sound about right? Do you remember? Hum, no, I dont. I dont remember exactly when it was. I know he wasnt there long and then cause I think he left Training and he wasnt happy about it and he wanted to get back to Training. Okay. But I dont, specifically, remember how long he was there. Who, who took now he transferred out before you got promoted and transferred out, is that right? Did you get? Yeah. Who was the, the last Lieutenant that you had? Um, he was my last Lieutenant. Oh, he was your last Lieutenant, okay. And then at some point in there, Penny Babb came in. Right.
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And I, and I remember it was kind of like a spur of the moment thing because she was in the conference room and she didnt have an office. There was no office for her, so they kinda, it had two doors kind of like we use for a briefing area and they kinda lock one door. And she was kind of in this room and a little desk in this big room so I think she was just there during her time till she retired. Okay. Um, so she wasnt really my, my Captain cause at that they had split the duties in GID. But I dont remember what her duties were. I just remember my still my chain of command while I was there was Whitney. Okay. And then I know that after I left, um, there was a brief phone call that I had with Jim Weegee, who was unhappy with Lugo, so apparently Lugo had taken my spot. And his Lieutenant was, um, Riddle and they were unhappy with them and they called; they, Im saying I believed it was well, it was Jim that called me for sure but Im sure it was talking with the other people that were still in the unit at the time. Okay. And they were gonna go talk to Penny Babb. Okay. And from what I understood from Penny Babb that that did not go well.
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MARICOPA COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE Internal Affairs Division IA # 08-0080 She didnt like it. She felt it was an inappropriate kind of, um, I dont know, a coup against Lugo and, LICKING: SEAGRAVES: Sure. um, Riddle and so whatever happened with that I never spoke to Jim again about it. So it was your understanding that Riddle took Schoeningers place then? Does that sound right? Yeah. Okay. Who, who were the, uh, Sex Crimes Detectives when you got there? Um, lets see there were, um, the notification folks was Terry Lopez and I, I vaguely remember Terry working there cause I think her time was split between, um, Arson. But she also was out a lot because of medical issues and her son does, uh, modeling like he gets you know, um, gigs at you know for Kohls and so he does print media. So she always is having to leave. So I felt like although she was there, she really was never really there. So Terry Lopez and, um, Sherry Decker who did notification and Shannon Reed. And then at some point during the process while I was still there, um, Lopez left and we never got a replacement for her. Okay. So those were, um, those folks there.
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MARICOPA COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE Internal Affairs Division IA # 08-0080 LICKING: SEAGRAVES: LICKING: SEAGRAVES: LICKING: SEAGRAVES: Right. Okay. And Jon Felbab was there when I was there. Um, Jim Weegee, Mary Ward, Roy Rojas. Im sorry (unintel 14:29) you, you said it was Felbab? Felbab, um, Jim Weegee, Okay. Mary Ward Okay. and, um, You mentioned Rojas, too. Rojas was there. Okay. And that was just the notifica- Um hum. the sex offender notification section?
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And briefly Cockerham was there but then he ended up leaving. And I, I mean it was so it, it was in with weeks of me being there. So I, I dont know if that was a planned thing Okay. or if he was going somewhere else or. And then Im missing one person. Um, Haarala? Eric Haarala was there. Okay. Um, now for the most part while you were there, Im assuming that Felbab, Weegee, Ward and Rojas pretty much were the constants. W- were they still all there when, when you transferred out? Yes. Okay. And is it, am I correct in saying that, at least from what Ive seen, it looked like it was around June of 07 that Eric Haarala had transferred out? I dont remember. Okay. I, he was on my list to get out from the moment I observed his work and how he interacted with the squad and, um, his inability to be
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MARICOPA COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE Internal Affairs Division IA # 08-0080 confrontational during interviews. And he had a whole different thought process about, um, Im gonna say this word; its my word like the mojo of it. It was bad energy, didnt want tapes in his office. Um, didnt wanna look at you know any porno tapes that were required to do because. LICKING: SEAGRAVES: LICKING: SEAGRAVES: Right, and I remember that from the, the last one. Yeah, yeah. Just he just wasnt workin out. (Unintel 16:10). No, I think it was inappropriate place for him to be. It just didnt mesh with him. I think its inner turmoil with his religion I think really he couldnt do the job. And is it my understanding that, uh, Michael Brooks took his place? SEAGRAVES: LICKING: SEAGRAVES: LICKING: SEAGRAVES: LICKING: Um, Do you remember? yeah, I believe so. Okay. Um, so if Ive got this right you had at least to begin with you had three people for the notification section until Terry Lopez left and Yes. Okay. And did Brooks was Brooks there until you transferred out?
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MARICOPA COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE Internal Affairs Division IA # 08-0080 it just got, uh, knocked down to Sherry Decker and Shannon Reed? SEAGRAVES: LICKING: SEAGRAVES: Yeah, she left very early. Okay. I mean I dont even remember her being a significant part of the, the team at all. Okay. Um, how many months roughly do you think she was there? Oh, maybe a couple months by the time I was there. Okay. I mean Im just going by memory. Sure. Okay, um, and so we had just primarily five Detectives that were assigned to the Sex Crimes cases. Um, Felbab, Mary Ward, Jim Weegee, Roy Rojas and Michael Brooks, yes. Alright. Okay, um, that helps a little bit. And again, uh, that seems to be you know Um hum. everybodys workin off of memory
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MARICOPA COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE Internal Affairs Division IA # 08-0080 SEAGRAVES: LICKING: Um hum. and its hard to remember dates and all that. But, um, I just wanted to have the best timeline possible so we know who was there Okay. and when and what not. Um, one of the things that we had talked about, um, in a previous, um, interview was like training issues and what not. When I had, uh, Lieutenant McCann in here, um, he mentioned that he had, um, and and and the reason I bring this up is because one of the things that you had mentioned was that you really kinda had to do like a self taught thing when it had come to RMS. Um hum. Um, and that there really wasnt any like formalized training for you when you first got there. Um hum. Um, this is an email that Fred, um, said that he had sent to both you and to Matt Summers in regards to, uh, RMS the RMS training and what not. And as you can see that you know hes saying that really any of the Detectives that you have there in your section, I mean its the, the actually training is, is there for you... Um hum. um, and what not. Do you, did you ever participate in any formal
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MARICOPA COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE Internal Affairs Division IA # 08-0080 RMS training? SEAGRAVES: Um, I did but I dont remember when it was. Um, I do remember Travis Pierce giving, um, lessons so I do remember Okay. being somewhere where he was teaching. Okay. Um, and the reason this at least in particular happens to be an issue is because Lieutenant McCann mentioned that, um, he had asked both Harvey and Newton, um, and now it wasnt always up and runnin when Harvey was there but near the end when, when Don Harvey was the SVU Sergeant. And it was certainly up and running by the time Darrell was there. Um hum. But, um, he had asked that both of them use RMS as their case tracking system. And he said that at that time, um, he was under the impression that both of them were utilizing, um, RMS for their case tracking and that when you transferred in to the SVU as the Sergeant Um hum. that, um, he said he remembered specifically talking to you about RMS that the previous Sergeants had used it and that he, um, expected you to use RMS as for case tracking as well. Do you recall that? No, I dont.
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Okay. I dont. And I dont remember when I had a conversation with, uh, both of those former Sergeants that they mentioned RMS at all. But I do, I do remember going to a class and I do remember Travis Pierce being the instructor, whether or not it was this time frame or another time frame I dont know. Um. And just for the transcript, um, uh, McCann sent this particular one to you and Matt Summers on July 25th, 2006. So, um, but you, you said you did at least have a chance to do some formal RMS training, whether it was this one or not, you at least got some formalized training of RMS? Is that, is that? Well, I dont wanna say its in depth as, as Right. other than how to put things in. Okay. I mean thats and I, and I did do that you know. Right. I did use RMS for that. Okay.
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But RMS isnt always accurate. Things that come from the District that they dont put RMS in and its not coded correctly, then it doesnt matter if I pull RMS daily. If the information isnt accurate its not accurate. CAD would be more accurate than RMS. Okay. And, um, and clearly when I, we talked about the memo that I submitted through the chain of command that went to Freeman that had the sticky note on it that is exactly the type of you know case tracking, if you wanna call it that. I mean it really wasnt a case tracking system, but a comparison between CAD and RMS because some things would be in CAD. Some things would not be in RMS. Um, CAD was more accurate because thats the Dispatchers; however, if there was, um, nothing put in the system by the, uh, El Mirage officers then it goes into a void. And there may still be some that are in the void that have never been identified if victims dont call in. Sure. So, um, and I did utilize. And, and just from brief understanding of RMS Um hum. I mean theres like different initial face sheet pages that you can fill in. But if you dont go back in and update some of the back pages with the right codes, then things arent up to date and you cant pull things out
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MARICOPA COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE Internal Affairs Division IA # 08-0080 correctly. SEAGRAVES: LICKING: SEAGRAVES: Well, things change. Exactly. Yeah. Because sometimes, um, you can read CAD and itll say, um, something totally different, but the way it's coded would be an open garage as opposed to, uh, 262 which is a Sex Crime thing. Right, okay. And we also had an issue with that and, um, Newton who took over before me, um, my understanding is that he never did RMS but the RMS was done by, uh, Sherry, um, Sheryl Lawless, who put in RMS for him. So. Would she have been one of the Admin people? Shes an Admin person. She was the one who also assigned those cases to the investigator, which I made note in one of the documents that I sent you which was a supervisory person. Right, okay. Um, one of the next things, um, you had mentioned before that you know you never really got any type of, uh, discipline or anything in regards to, um, how things were run or operated. In fact, you guys had received, uh, numerous awards in the SVU and what not. Um hum. Um, Captain Whitney ended up sending me what he called his, uh,
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MARICOPA COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE Internal Affairs Division IA # 08-0080 Captains log. Um, and although it doesnt show up in any of, uh, uh, your, um, employee performance evaluations and what not SEAGRAVES: LICKING: Um hum. um, for the sake of the transcript, um, this is the General Investigations Divisions Captains Log, November 2007. Uh, the dates, uh, November the 19th of 07. Under the topic Person Involved, it just has Kim and then it says for the topic and stuff it says talked to Kim regarding El Mirage cases and importance of case management. Um, when I talked to Captain Whitney he said that on that particular date and time this was, um, when you all were still trying to compile cases there at the end and get him over to El Mirage and what not. He did talk to you about, uh, the El Mirage cases and you did, um, and it was brief but he did, um, stress the importance of case management and accurately tracking cases. Do you recall that conversation with him? SEAGRAVES: I do not. As a matter of fact, my conversations with Whitney were always extremely limited. I dont know if that would coincide with the time that I wrote the letter about, um, Hank Brandimarte. I dont know if those days coincide. But the only time that Whitney even sat down with me, oh, and it wasnt even sat down. It was you know standing at my door was that, uh, he was very disappointed in, uh, what SVU had given in reference to El Mirage. And I told him that I gave him everything that was asked of us by, um, Hank Brandimarte, which Hank Brandimarte said just a couple sentences. And then he said well, I really wanted you to give me a paragraph. And I said well, you should have said a paragraph. We gave you a couple of sentences. I thought I was gonna get with my counterpart. So there was nothing negative that the Captain ever relayed to me in reference
MARICOPA COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE Internal Affairs Division IA # 08-0080 that. He apologized to me for the misunderstanding and he felt it was on his end and Brandimartes end and that he was gonna go to each of the squad members to apologize. But it was never anything, um, of a Im disappointed in you sort of thing. It was, dont get me wrong, he was upset and embarrassed because he was having to call, um, uh, Frazier or he was told that he had to call Frazier. Its like thats what he told me. I assumed it was from somebody on a higher level than him, um, to try to make amends because Frazier was upset and had made some negative statements in the newspaper. But never once has Whitney sat down and given me anything that I thought was a counseling thing, never. LICKING: SEAGRAVES: LICKING: Okay, okay. So I cant explain that. Okay, alright. Um, (pause) when we talked the last time I had asked you to bring in, um, just different documentation and you, and you brought in quite a bit of, uh, emails and what not that showed, um, that the SVU during different times had been tasked with certain details and what not. And some of the issues that were raised for the SVU was that well, that was bodies that were being pulled from their normally assigned duties is, is you know the actual case, Um hum. uh, Sex Crimes cases, um, and so for those time periods when they were pulled for the Special Details, um, you know it became that much harder for you all to work your normal cases
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Um hum. because people Um hum. were off doing different things. Um, you know by and large the, at least the the documents that you brought showed that the like the Warrants detail was in September, um, of 07. Um, there was some, uh, meetings that, uh, Whitney had asked that you be a part of that were in, uh, the state capital in October of 07. Um, and then there were some other things that happened in November of 07. But, um, was there anything prior to that that we can actually put some dates to maybe time frames, which Detectives may have worked it?
SEAGRAVES: LICKING: Um, how long they may have worked those details prior to that, um, that would actually have direct impact on the? On the unit? Right. Um, you know what I provided you, uh, was just a, a sliver of what, what really goes on there. Um, I saved a lot of documentation. I provided a lot of documentation, uh, back, back when I spoke initially spoke with Brandon Luth. And then Im not sure if I gave Bruce Tucker any additional stuff like I gave you this time here. I turned over everything I have.
MARICOPA COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE Internal Affairs Division IA # 08-0080 Although, its not a complete picture you know at some point I got to realize that I should probably be saving some of this stuff because I had been complaining and letting my chain of command know that we cant keep up. And so there were a lot of things that happened you know prior to me starting to document it. I think I provided, I think, I could be wrong I mean sitting in your chair, maybe people do provide as much documentation. But I think I provided a voluminous amount of documentation to support some of the issues that I thought might be brewing on the horizon that might come back to hit me personally or to affect my squad or to some how, um, that I might need to just save for whatever reason save them. So there were a lot of things that that I participated in as my squad did that I dont have documentation. Um, the, Ill tell you some things I remember but I could not tell you the dates. I, um, all I know is that, um, I was asked to go to a place and I, I dont even know the name of it. It was near the zoo. Its all with a bunch of rocks and its where Homeland Security people go, and its like a, um, its, its a set up of if there was a mass disaster. SEAGRAVES: LICKING: SEAGRAVES: LICKING: SEAGRAVES: Right. Do you know what Im talkin about? Its like the state disaster prepares. Yeah, something, something like that. Its based over there by the National Guard.
MARICOPA COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE Internal Affairs Division IA # 08-0080 LICKING: SEAGRAVES: Right, right. And I was hooked up with, uh, Lieutenant, uh, John Bailey to be part of that so he might know more about that. I attended four meetings which were I was giving a lot of information that I had to read. I mean like binders of stuff, how to prepared if theres an evacuation. And Im just reading this stuff and I told my supervisor I said, this based on what Im reading, this is like via my chain. I mean this is not for a line level supervisor to go. And eventually, I sat through the meeting and then for meetings I had to go numerous times and I, I think I went at least five times and it was like a whole week of preparation that I had to do myself because it was reading that was given to me by John Bailey saying you need to know this stuff. So when finally during the meeting they actually asked me what my position was I told them I was a supervisor and I was still on probation cause I remember that cause I was laughing. Im a Sergeant on probation. And theyre saying, why are you here? And I said because I was ordered to be here and Ive read all this stuff and I understand the importance of it. And they go no offense, but you, you have no business being here. We need someone who we is not gonna pick up a phone and make a phone call. Were looking for that person that can make the phone call saying evacuate the jail. LICKING: SEAGRAVES: Okay. You know so I mean they were asking for somebody that was like a Munnell level to, to really make a call for things. And then after that point, I was kind of just dropped out of the meeting.
MARICOPA COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE Internal Affairs Division IA # 08-0080 LICKING: SEAGRAVES: Would that have been kinda mid 06? It was brand new when I got there, so I cannot tell you exactly. I just know that I was on probation. Do you remember who ordered you to be there? Um, (pause) I do not. Someone in my chain of command and, specifically, I dont know if it was, I dont know. Okay. I could just guess on that. You said you went about five times. How many, how many hours were you gone at a time roughly? I was gone all day long. Okay. And, um, in addition to me, excuse me, being gone all day long the information that I got from Lieutenant Bailey were books and books of how to prepare. I mean it was you know roadways leading out of, I mean it was, Sure. I mean it was fascinating but it was.
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MARICOPA COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE Internal Affairs Division IA # 08-0080 LICKING: SEAGRAVES: Right Ive done the Palo Verde stuff... Yeah. I mean it was something that I should have never been involved in. I mean it was just (snaps fingers). Okay. Um, besides that what, what were you and your, um, unit tasked with? Well, we were always tasked to do things. You know. And, Im sorry, I didnt mean to interrupt. I, I forgot to ask. So what impact would that have had directly on the SVU you being gone? Well, I wasnt there. I mean I wasnt there to oversee calls. I wasnt over there to see if things were going on. I wasnt over to see if there was issues that were happening, um, search warrants, how do we deal with this? Just anything as a supervisor. I rarely went to lunch outside of the Office. I brought my lunch. Normally, we would all sit together as a squad with the exception of Eric Haarala and we would sit in the big break room and we would talk about our cases. What could we do? Could we do a confrontational call? Would that work? Is this guy too sly? You know should we follow him? Do you think we should get SI involved to do you know put a tail underneath his, um, (unintel 32:10)? I mean we roundtabled things. We talked about how we could get some of the worst of our offenders that were very savvy that had been arrested before, women who were, uh, you know, um, I support my man sorta thing and trying to work with CPS, work with the County Attorney. We had lunches with the County Attorney, Rachel Mitchell. So right, so just channel. I mean its obvious you just werent there
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MARICOPA COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE Internal Affairs Division IA # 08-0080 to supervise. SEAGRAVES: I wasnt there to supervise. I wasnt there to, to know what was happening. Right. And I had to divert my attention because the stuff that I was dealing with was way over my head as far as, um, a supervisory. You know I mean it was just very complex. Um, is and I know a lot of this is just off the top of your head. What else, what other kinda details were you guys being pulled for? Well, you know I, I, Im guessing because Im sitting here telling you something that happened in 2006. I, I dont wanna mislead. I, Im just trying to go from memory. We were always tasked with the fact that, um, Roy Rojas spoke Spanish and so he was used a lot. Um, he was called to assist for the, uh, HSU, the Human Smuggling. Um, you know Mary was very well liked. How, how long would Roy be gone at a, at a time? It depends on, on different things. There was one time and Im going from memory. It had to do with, um, a horse, a horse detail like, um, Hispanics would gather in the middle of the desert and it would always be somewhere different. And they would do horse racing. And Roy looks like he could if youve seen Roy, he totally could fit in with that group. I mean he can morph into you know a bad ass Cowboy kinda guy or Mexican guy and I dont think anyone would question him. Hes older. Hes got the dress.
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MARICOPA COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE Internal Affairs Division IA # 08-0080 interviews that were not you know close enough to an arrest that he couldnt do it himself I had to give away. LICKING: SEAGRAVES: LICKING: SEAGRAVES: LICKING: THOMPSON: Yes. Okay. So on the Academy, how, how often did you have to do that help out with the Academy? Um, that was, there was Academies goin on and it was, um, we had to, we were asked to, this is what we never did. We were asked to participate in, uh, wet alcohol labs for the HGN folks and the phlebotomy folks and we just didnt do that. Um, but Brandimarte did say we had to do, um, the, uh, play acting Right. for the Academys. And that was depends on what they did, so maybe I dont know. I dont know, Id just be guessing but we were told we had to do that. How many people would typically give up, uh, a time for that? Okay. And he participated. And that went to other SVU Detectives then?
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MARICOPA COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE Internal Affairs Division IA # 08-0080 could we recruit to work the Sex Crimes and some of the folks didnt really. Like I remember Mary sayin, I think Im, I would like to stick with adults as opposed to children because she had a harder time dealing with little kids. And even though shes very good at it, she kind of you know we were just all just round table. It was kind of an exciting sort of thing. And that kind of dissipated once we were told to, I was told to give those tuff books that were assigned to the child abuse squad to our current investigators that were involved in sex crimes. And Im thinkin well, why would I do that? Because and well, were not gonna, were not gonna get this squad. (Sigh) Why? Were just, people went elsewhere. They went elsewhere. So they were the people that were approved to come here, although I, I never saw that document before until later, so I didnt know. Well, maybe they only gave us the equipment but they didnt give us the manpower or the, the full time employees that were assigned to it. So I gave the new computers, I was told to, I didnt do this on my own. I was told to disburse them and I collected them back and my memory is that they went to, um, the, uh, HSU squad you know the, um, what does that stand for? LICKING: SEAGRAVES: Human Smuggling. Human Smuggling, thank you. They went there so our old ones went there. And then I thought okay, well, what happens if we get a new squad of the child abuse and these were slated for them? How we, how are we gonna justify that? Never got an answer for that. So then in, in light of. And who, who did you ask that to? Uh, Brandimarte.
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Okay. I dont think he had an answer. It was just like well, I, I dont really know. Its just what we were told to do. And the cars one at a time started disappearing and I had no idea where they went. And then thinking back after my interview and, obviously, I sent you an email trying to think of some other things that could assist me that, obviously, Im, I feel like Im in serious trouble here. I feel like that you know I could be gettin time off. Im possibly could be facing losing my, my bars and so Im trying to think of anything to give you that might help me. And so I remembered that and I remember going through stuff. This came about. There was no signatures on it, who it went to the chain of command. Um, as I wrote to you, I highly doubt that it just went from the author, which I assumed was McCann because McCann was such a good person at writing. That it went to McCann. I, never once in my mind would I think it would just go to McCann to Finance to be approved. My thought was I would provide that document to you. Im not showing it to anybody and it would go up through the chain of command. And then I called about the cars and, apparently, McCann had already called about the cars a week before I had called to find out where they had been disbursed. I had no way of knowing whether or not the funding was done, so I started to go online and I found out that there was funding. That we had been approved. And that had we been approved, and Im just rough estimating in my mind, you would know better than I would by looking at you know going through all of the 261s and 262s involving children to have an accurate. But in my memory it would have been 50 percent of my case load that would have been taken off of the current investigators on to a new set of investigators. And although 65 cases or 50 cases are
MARICOPA COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE Internal Affairs Division IA # 08-0080 unmanageable in any place that you are at, I figure 25 is better than 50 is better than 60. Fifteen (15) would be great but we have to do with what we can you know do the very best that we can do. LICKING: SEAGRAVES: LICKING: SEAGRAVES: LICKING: Sure. You know. Perfect, okay. Did an- did it answer your question? Sure, absolutely, thank you. Um, I dont have anything else right now. Do you have anything? No, I dont. Okay, um, weve been here right at an hour. Why dont we just take a quick break? Okay. Um, need any more water? Im good. Ill just step out. Alright, alright. Time out is, uh, right at 10:00. (Long pause)
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MARICOPA COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE Internal Affairs Division IA # 08-0080 (Faint voices in background) LICKING: Oh, okay, time back in is about, uh, 10:10. Uh, for the sake of the transcript, while we were out did anybody talk to you about the case? No. Okay. Um, alright, pretty much the last, uh, question that I have for you is are you aware, uh, of any of the Command staff, um, at least at that time, uh, Chief Hendershott, uh, Chief Knight, Chief Freeman, Captain Whitney, uh, or anyone else, uh, that was in that SVU chain of command, are you aware of any of those people having any specific knowledge of SVU personnel shortages? (Pause) Um, (pause) you mean is your question like did they specifically come to me and? Right. Did, did you ever have a chance to speak with any of them directly? Um, did, are you aware of Lieutenant Brandimarte or Captain Whitney ever sending anything out to Command staff? We mentioned before are you aware of any of them ever coming to like say Captain Whitney or Lieutenant Brandimarte and asking them if their staffing levels were appropriate for the number of cases that they had, any, anything like that? Um, I would have to say other than me relaying that to my chain of command, which would have been specifically to Hank Brandimarte, I never went beyond Hank Brandimarte to let them know. But, um, the fact that the cars came in and, uh, and you know the funding was available I, I, if this may be so but you know this is my opinion, I feel when the vehicles
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MARICOPA COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE Internal Affairs Division IA # 08-0080 were coming in and the equipments coming in and the funding is coming in. I think it would be a reasonable assumption to assume that all within the chain of command would be aware of it. I mean I, I find it hard to believe that Chief Freeman or Bill Knight would, would go oh, were getting these cars and not know anything about it. Um, that would be an assumption on my part. But, specifically, did anybody ever come to me? Um, you know there, we, there may have been times casually that you know how you doin? And were swamped. But its not specifically lets talk about this, Kim. I mean it never was anything. LICKING: SEAGRAVES: Sure. But just the fact that you know, um, the OMB request was written. It was, um, my assumption it would be signed because Ive never known anything in my 18 years that went directly from a Lieutenant directly to, um, Barkell or Hendershott. But not to say that it didnt happen, I dont, I dont know that. But my assumption would be that they would be aware as the chain of command and, specifically, as things got dispersed, um, the cars, the money and the fact that we were told that we were getting these people and then not told that were getting them. Somebody beyond me, beyond Hank Brandimarte and I would even assume beyond the Captain would have made those decisions. Okay. Um, and I dont wanna put any words in your mouth but you did mention that the paperwork that was submitted through OMB and what not, so at least to your knowledge, at least everyone that would have been involved in that the chain of command for that budget request for the abuse squad, is that what youre sayin should have been aware? The chain, should have been aware.
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Okay. One, one would assume. Right. But I dont have any specific knowledge of that. Okay. I dont have any signatures. I mean I would imagine that you as an investigator would be able to get those signatures. I mean I know that we got the cars and I know that, um, its public information when you look up the Board of Supervisors and our guys, um, you know just Google cars, Google whatever and it, it is there so. Sure, okay, perfect. Um, I dont have anything else. Do you have anything? No. Okay. Um, youre entitled to five minutes, um, just like last time. Obviously, its not like a question and answer time. Right. but youre entitled to, uh, make any clarification statements, uh, anything you want within those five minutes.
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MARICOPA COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE Internal Affairs Division IA # 08-0080 SEAGRAVES: Okay. You had asked me a question, um, before break in reference of and I, I dont think I really answered it specifically, whether or not while I was there if we ever got any additional manpower. Um, we did not. I never saw a unit come about, the child crimes unit come about. And had that happened, I think that, um, this is just a rough estimation. Um, you could know by looking at all the, the case, uh, case tracking, uh, through RMS or CAD to know exactly specifically how many cases involved, um, individuals under the age of 18, how that would have affected the unit. There is no question that would have affected the unit and, um, I sent you some documents throughout the course of our last conversation and you know I didnt become a principal in this until April of this year. Um, I, I wish that would have been talked to about this in 2008. I may have had more information. Um, I turned over blindly all of my stuff to Brandon Luth when I was told that this was a fact finding mission about what was going on, um, early on. And I know that, uh, I had a concern about what was written in the Babeu report, um, only what was publicly. I dont, I dont have any access to anything other than what is on the, um, in the newspaper. And I know that during the interview with Michael Manning, um, specific things came up about that and I just wanna make it perfectly clear for the IA record that when this all came about and, um, this investigation started to roll, um, it is like a layered onion. I mean its, the core of it was Hank Brandimarte making inappropriate comments. And I would hate to think that anybody on the 19th floor or any- anybody in this Office thinks that I knew I was being called on the carpet for something and that I said time out, Im gonna do this sex abuse or this, um, harassment case on you, Hank Brandimarte. I think the only surprise that should come from the Office is why this hasnt been done sooner. Why somebody hasnt come forward on Hank Brandimarte sooner. So that kind of stands on its own. I welcome the Investigator: Sgt. B. Licking S1122/Sgt. D. Thompson A6183 Reviewer: Capt. K. Holmes #0982 Typed by: A9998 Date/Time: June 13, 2011/1230 hours Page 54 of 57
MARICOPA COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE Internal Affairs Division IA # 08-0080 investigation, although I, I dont welcome it you know happily, but I know its something that has to be done. I, I get that. But for them to mesh it together the way my feeling was when I read the Babeu investigation that there are people on the 19th floor that clearly think that this was a roos of some sort. And to think it was a roos of some sort that it was investigated full and separately, which resulted in Hank Brandimarte getting 40 hours of, of time off as a result of his inappropriate behavior should not fall on me. I mean should, should not follow me. And shame on anyone who thinks that this had anything as a part of it. It only was a part of it because he said he was gonna fuck me with incompetence or make it a training issue. And when all of this resulted as him ordering the code red, so to speak, telling me to close cases so he looks better. And then the fact that you know nothing was redacted from the Babeu report in reference to me, although it was to Fox, it was not to me and resulted in news media going after me saying that I intentionally closed cases for the sole purpose of to lessen my case load, which would be contrary to everything that I was trying to get, which is more people and more manpower. And I, my feeling is that I feel no matter what I provide, I am like using my fingers to hold, hold water from coming out. And the more I provide, its like well, and heres another thing and heres another thing, which makes me feel that the Office is trying to separate itself from any liability about this. The fact that we received all this funding, over half a million dollar of funding, full staffing and, um, additional, uh, $200,000 to, uh, just have you know for incidentals. I think to blame me for any of it or for me to acknowledge any Policy violations that I did initially that were mi- miniscule really so to speak, um, its like giving me a big gulp cup and telling me at the day to go empty Lake Pleasant. And I worked my ass off to do as I did and when I was working in Sex Crimes and at the end of the day you come back and you say, but clearly youre in violation of Investigator: Sgt. B. Licking S1122/Sgt. D. Thompson A6183 Reviewer: Capt. K. Holmes #0982 Typed by: A9998 Date/Time: June 13, 2011/1230 hours Page 55 of 57
MARICOPA COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE Internal Affairs Division IA # 08-0080 insubordination. Take in consideration the totality of all this. It was a no win situation from the very get go. I didnt break it. It was that way before hand and I know that a reasonable person not sitting, Im not saying youre not reasonable, but Im saying should it go to an appeal if I receive major discipline, which, which I, which I will you know appeal it is the fact that the Sheriffs Office knew. That they knew that there was an issue and whether they choose to acknowledge it, in my opinion, a reasonable person is gonna look at it and, and, and say first of all, 2006. Why, if you were trying to give her discipline or, or make it more relevant to improve her performance, then certainly why didnt you do it earlier on you know? And I dont know if the Office was surprised by that 2006 that it took them off guard, maybe they remembered it, maybe they didnt. I, I dont know. But I think its very unfair. I think its unfair. I feel like Im a scape goat in this. And I, personally think I was, um, made to look like an absolute idiot two years out before I retire, which its gonna totally affect anything I wanna do by my retirement by having Incompetency laid upon me, Dereliction of Duty and then Im just you know just not taking care of business, which is not what Im about. You can ask anybody that you know that works with me. And this is, this is just not me. And I feel Im, personally being attacked, personally. And the reason I feel that way is because no where in this agency did they come out and you know provide information that would have softened the blow. And frankly, had the Pinal interview had not had peoples opinion from the 19th floor to include Bruce Tucker, I wouldnt have been drug through the mud like that. People waiting outside my house until this day, people calling me, lawyers wanting to represent me. People wanting to interview me and just calling on my personal phone I feel like is unnecessary. And I am very disappointed in our agency. Ive been very loyal for 18 years and it, it just, it saddens me and breaks my heart. And Im gonna do whatever I can to make the Investigator: Sgt. B. Licking S1122/Sgt. D. Thompson A6183 Reviewer: Capt. K. Holmes #0982 Typed by: A9998 Date/Time: June 13, 2011/1230 hours Page 56 of 57
MARICOPA COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE Internal Affairs Division IA # 08-0080 outcome I, I, its, its not me. This, this isnt, this is not on me. And to distance themselves, shame on them. LICKING: Okay. Okay, uh, that concludes the interview and it is about 10:22. Alright. Thank you. You bet.
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