LF: Police Chief Leaves Gun in Bathroom, Cops Blame Innocent Man for Stealing it

Title: Police Chief Leaves Gun in Bathroom, Cops Blame Innocent Man for Stealing it
Source: News Maven
URL Source: https://newsmaven.io/pinacnews/cops ... ing-it-Dd1ep0Jj80SIbe4W3tgP2Q/
Published: Jul 25, 2019
Author: Carlos Miller
Post Date: 2019-07-28 09:33:54 by Deckard
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Views: 1215
Comments: 11

An innocent man was arrested and his children seized by the government after he was falsely accused of stealing the gun.

A California police chief who left a loaded gun inside a bathroom stall of a fast food restaurant ordered police to search the home of a man who not only did not have the gun, he was nowhere near the El Pollo Loco where she had left it.

But he was arrested anyway along with his wife on unrelated charges after San Luis Obispo police searched his home without a warrant and determined his house was messy. His kids were also seized by the county.

San Luis Obispo Police Chief Deanna Cantrell also violated city policy by waiting two hours to report her gun stolen, resulting in her having to pay a $1,600 fine.

Nevertheless, San Luis Obispo City Manager Derek Johnson praised Cantrell for her "integrity throughout the incident," according to Cal Coast Times.

But the facts reveal incompetency more than anything.

San Luis Obispo Police Chief Deanna Cantrell

Chief Cantrell left the loaded Glock in the bathroom of the El Pollo Loco around noon on July 10. When she realized had left the gun behind, she returned to the restaurant and reviewed surveillance video, determining three people had entered the bathroom after her.

The chief said two of people were still in the restaurant and did not have the gun so apparently they were unlawfully searched.

That left the third man who was obviously clean-shaven in the video which somehow led police to the home of a man with a full beard and mustache.

According to the Cal Coast Times:

The last person, who was the first to enter the restroom after Cantrell left, was not in the restaurant when the chief returned to look for her firearm. The man, later identified as 30-year-old Skeeter Carlos Mangan of Los Osos, was shown in the video – clean-shaven, balding and wearing a black jacket and shorts.

Shortly before 7 p.m., a group of five detectives were dispatched to a home on O’Connor Way after an officer said a man who lived in the home resembled the man in the video. Even so, the dispatch log shows the officer were sent to El Pollo Loco on Los Osos Valley Road for a lost property report.

The group of police drew the attention of a man living in the house with his wife and two children.

The man, who is not being identified by CalCoastNews, came out to ask the officers what was going on. The man had a full beard and mustache.

Even so, detectives Jason Dickel and Suzie Walsh told the man that they knew he had stolen the chief’s pistol and ordered him to tell them where it was, the man said. He told the officers he had been in Atascadero with his wife and two children at a medical appointment and that he had not been at El Pollo Loco in SLO.

Police asked the man for consent to search his home but he asked for a warrant. Police then informed him he was on probation so they didn't need a warrant. The man told them it was not him but a relative who was on probation. He even had the documentation to prove it.

But police refused to see the court documents.

"You have the gun and we are going in to get it," San Luis Obispo police officer Jason Dickel told him, according to his interview with the Cal Coast Times.

The cops entered the home and kicked his bedroom down and after finding no gun, they arrested the couple on child neglect charges, taking the kids into county custody because the "house was unclean."

A county social worker named Carrie Bailey voiced her agreement with the decision to remove the kids from the home, telling the Cal Coast Times that a photograph taken by the deputies proves the parents were allowing drug paraphernalia in the children's bedroom but that turned out to be a lie.

In support of removing the children from their parents’ custody Carrie Bailey, a county social worker, claimed a photograph taken in the parents’ bedroom of paraphernalia was taken in the children’s bedroom. When asked about the misstatement, Debra Barriger, a deputy county counsel, said the county is not permitted to disclose child custody issues.

Seven hours after she had left the gun in the bathroom, police received a call from the brother-in-law of the clean-shaven man in the video who told them to swing by and pick up the gun. The Cal Coast Times did not identify the couple who were arrested.

Check out the chief's explanation below.

No, that is pure bullshit. This is what happens when you use third-hand sources who rehash and plagiarize less than stellar second-hand sources.

Carlos Miller may as well have written that a man was arrested after he ate bacon and eggs for breakfast. He was not arrested for stealing a gun. Being innocent of stealing the gun in question does not make him an innocent man, innocent of what he was arrested for.

Note that the arrest was on unrelated charges. Carlos Miller can't keep his shit straight from one paragraph to the next.

The two hour reporting period refers to service issued weapons. Cantrell did not leave her service weapon in the bathroom. She left her personal six-shooter Glock in the bathroom.

It appears Carlos Miller took an article by Karen Velie at the Cal Coast News and rehashed it, and published the poor rehash as his own. It appears he did not go back to check for corrections or clarifications, so he did not get the correction by the Cal Coast News, styled as a clarification.

The article reveals the incompetency of its “author” Carlos Miller. Douchebag Miller rehashed an article by Karen Velie, and he embellished in places and also got significant facts just wrong.

Carlos Miller’s “facts” appear to come from the Cal Coast News here. Compare the Cal Coast News version.

There is nothing which infers Cantrell left the restaurant and returned. She left the bathroom and returned to the bathroom.

The part about a lie was a Carlos Miller embellishment. "Miller's" paragraph relating the misstatement is cut and pasted word for word, comma for comma, from the Velie article.

Clarification: The chief left her personal weapon, a Glock 42 which holds six rounds, in the restroom and not her department issued gun. Sean Greenwood called the SLO Police Department at 7 p.m. on July 11 to report he had the chief’s gun.

The search for the pistol that San Luis Obispo Police Chief Deanna Cantrell lost in a bathroom stall resulted in an apparently illegal search of a home without a warrant and the arrest of a couple on charges of child neglect for having a messy house. And, new information points to Cantrell’s efforts to keep the news of her loss quiet despite her claim that she immediately reported the stolen gun.

Cantrell left her pistol, a Glock with a 6-round magazine, in the bathroom of an El Pollo Loco restaurant about noon on July 10. A short time later, Cantrell realized she did not have her weapon and returned to the restaurant bathroom. The pistol was not there.

In contrast to San Luis Obispo Chief Deanna Cantrell’s claim that she immediately reported her gun stolen, several officers said her attempt to cover-up the theft of her gun risked officer safety and led to the search of the home of a man incorrectly identified as the person suspected of taking the chief’s gun.

Typically, after a loaded police firearm is stolen, a be on the lookout (BOLO) is put out to area law enforcement not only to help quickly recover the stolen weapon, but also to protect officer and public safety.

However, for the first two hours, Cantrell conducted the investigation into her stolen gun without reporting the theft. Cantrell checked surveillance footage at the restaurant and saw that three people had entered the restroom after her, two of whom were still in the restaurant and did not have her gun, Cantrell said.

Two hours after Cantrell discovered her gun was missing, she called police dispatch and asked police department employee Christine Steeb to call her back, cell phone to cell phone, in an apparent attempt to keep the call from being recorded, said a SLO police officer, who asked to remain anonymous to protect his employment. Steeb said the chief provided information about her lost gun on a non-recorded line because of issues with the city’s phone system.

The last person, who was the first to enter the restroom after Cantrell left, was not in the restaurant when the chief returned to look for her firearm. The man, later identified as 30-year-old Skeeter Carlos Mangan of Los Osos, was shown in the video – clean-shaven, balding and wearing a black jacket and shorts.

Shortly before 7 p.m., a group of five detectives were dispatched to a home on O’Connor Way after an officer said a man who lived in the home resembled the man in the video. Even so, the dispatch log shows the officer were sent to El Pollo Loco on Los Osos Valley Road for a lost property report.

The group of police drew the attention of a man living in the house with his wife and two children.

The man, who is not being identified by CalCoastNews, came out to ask the officers what was going on. The man had a full beard and mustache.

Even so, detectives Jason Dickel and Suzie Walsh told the man that they knew he had stolen the chief’s pistol and ordered him to tell them where it was, the man said. He told the officers he had been in Atascadero with his wife and two children at a medical appointment and that he had not been at El Pollo Loco in SLO.

The man’s wife and the couple’s two daughters also came out of the house and spoke with officers. The wife said she offered to call the doctor so he could confirm they were in Atascadero at the time the gun was stolen, but the detectives said no. The wife said she heard several officers noting her husband clearly was not the clean-shaven man seen in the video.

Walsh then asked the man if she could search his home. He asked if she had a warrant.

“Jason Dickel said I was on probation and he did not need a warrant,” the man said. “I told him I had court documents showing it was another family member who was on probation, but he did not want to see the documents. He said ‘you have the gun and we are going in to get it.’ ”

After the officers entered the house and kicked down the parents’ bedroom door, they arrested the man and his wife on charges of child neglect. The house was unclean, officers said, and they took the children into county custody. The girls, 7 and 9, remained in the police station until after 2 a.m. the next day, the man’s wife said.

In support of removing the children from their parents’ custody Carrie Bailey, a county social worker, claimed a photograph taken in the parents’ bedroom of paraphernalia was taken in the children’s bedroom. When asked about the misstatement, Debra Barriger, a deputy county counsel, said the county is not permitted to disclose child custody issues.

At 7:30 p.m., more than seven hours after the chief’s gun was stolen. SLO police patrol officers were notified for the first time that the chief had lost her gun, a patrol officer said.

In contrast with Cantrell’s timeline, SLO County Sheriff Chief Deputy Aaron Nix said that between 8 p.m. and 9 p.m. on July 10, SLO Police Department employees requested the sheriff’s department assist them in finding the gun. A sheriff watch commander then asked why they had not informed area law enforcement through a BOLO alert, and gave SLO police dispatch a 30 minute window to send out an officer safety BOLO alert to area law enforcement.

“We inquired as to whether they intended to put out an Officer Safety BOLO,” Nix said. “SLOPD Dispatch advised they did intend to send out a BOLO and we offered to assist them in that regard. We told them we would re-contact them in about a half an hour to check on their progress, and we later confirmed they had in fact put out the BOLO.”

At approximately 7 p.m. on July 11, Mangan’s brother-in-law Sean Greenwood called the SLO Police Department to report he and Mangan had the chief’s gun, Greenwood said. Cantrell then sent officers to Los Osos to retrieve the firearm.

Following a two day investigation, SLO City Manager Derek Johnson fined Cantrell $1,600 for violating city policy regarding keeping weapons concealed at all times. Johnson praised Cantrell for her “integrity throughout the incident.”

SLOPD chief responds to allegations of “coverup” after leaving gun in restroom

San Luis Obispo Police Chief Deanna Cantrell is responding to allegations that she did not immediately report that someone walked off with her gun after she left it in a restaurant earlier this month.

Local publication Cal Coast News cites anonymous police officers accusing the chief, among other things, of taking too long to report the missing weapon to dispatch.

Cantrell reportedly arrived at noon at El Pollo Loco for lunch. After using the restaurant’s restroom, she realized she had left her gun inside.

She asked an El Pollo Loco employee to check surveillance video to see who went into the bathroom after her. It’s then she notified her captain about what happened.

Cantrell says within a half-hour, she determined one of the customers, later identified by police as Skeeter Mangan, took the weapon but he was gone.

Around 1:07 p.m., the chief says she called dispatch and asked to be connected to the supervisor on duty.

Chief Cantrell says the call was dropped and she called back on her cell phone, but Cal Coast News asserts Cantrell used her cell so the call would not be recorded.

Later that evening, the chief said the department got a tip a Morro Bay man, who’s on probation, might have her gun.

Contrary to the Cal Coast News report, Chief Cantrell says officers performed a lawful search of his home.

Officers say the home was filthy and the children were put in protective custody as a result.

She denies Cal Coast News’ report that a door was kicked in and the children were kept overnight at the police department.

The next day, detectives say Skeeter Mangan was found to be in possession of the gun.

Chief Cantrell says there was a delay in issuing a “be on the lookout alert” to law enforcement, as stated in the article, because of a miscommunication. She also said it is not a requirement.

Cantrell said she believes it’s a former police officer who “takes issue with her” who is questioning her actions that day.

The City of San Luis Obispo released the following statement Friday in response to KSBY’s inquiries:

No, you twisted propagandist dickhead. There is usually cleanup requiried after just about any piece of trash that you drag back from the depths of the net and post here.

Actually, you quoted what KSBY6 wrote. They quoted what the chief said, as news. In addition to KSBY6 contradicting the partly fictionalized and partly plagiarized article you posted, other sources I quoted were, Cal Coast News (the plagiarized article), CBS, and the San Luis Obispo Tribune.

You and your loon source have no problem with taking the creative mutterings of an unnamed doper caught with his paraphernalia out in plain sight.

What sort of document proves that one is not on probation? A Monoply Get Out Of Jail Free card? Hypothetically, what is this incredible "court document?" It seems a Probation Department rep was there.

As documented at my #2, the partly fictional and partly plagiarized article you posted from a third rate source, claimed falsely:

Your loon source missed altogether the later disclaimer which now prefaces the original article he plagiarized:

Keep on keeping on. You posted a partly fictionalized, partly plagiarized load of crap. Again.

Of course you do, and I believe you. And of course shit happens, what do you think rest rooms are for?

The partly fictionalized, partly plagiarized, third rate article had to get something right. A gun was left in the rest room.

Did they find your stash or paraphernalia? Was it your service issued rocket launcher or your personally owned rocket launcher? Did tey give you a citation for not keeping it concealed? Did they just think it was your johnson? Wait. Maybe it was your johnson. Did you ever get it back?