15 Students of Vista Del Lago High School Arrested on drug-dealing charges: The principal denies knowing of plain clothes Deputies on her campus. Administration stated drugs are no more a problem (at Vista Del Lago) than at other district schools.

Parents of many fearful students lined up this week to dis-enroll their students from Vista Del Lago High School in Moreno Valley after undercover officers posing as students spent four months there and at another Inland high school gathering evidence that led to Thursday’s (12/09/2011) arrest of 24 teenagers on drug-dealing charges.

Armed with arrest warrants, officers descended on Vista del Lago High School in Moreno Valley and Elsinore High School in Wildomar on Thursday, plucking students from class to arrest them, officials said.

At Vista del Lago, a Riverside County sheriff’s deputy began attending on Aug. 10, the first day of school, court records say. He pretended he was a student while trying to ferret out drug dealing on campus, court records say.

Chief Deputy Boris Robinson confirmed that undercover officers were used in the investigations at both schools but declined to say how many were at each campus. Authorities targeted the schools because the local sheriff’s station captains had received complaints about drugs there, Robinson said.

Other than a similar undercover sting last year at Palm Desert High School, Robinson said he wasn’t aware of other recent undercover drug investigations at Riverside County high schools.

In 2006, the Riverside Police Department conducted a sting in which a youthful-looking officer trained to dress and talk like a teenager enrolled at Ramona High School for a few months in search of students selling drugs. That investigation resulted in the arrest of 13 students, most of whom were caught with small amounts of marijuana. The Los Angeles Police Department pioneered undercover drug busts in high schools decades ago. But the department discontinued its program in 2005 after Los Angeles Unified School District officials noticed an increasing number of students arrested were in special education and that police typically found very small amounts of marijuana. District officials feared the program was failing to catch the serious drug dealers.

Judy White, superintendent of the Moreno Valley Unified School District, said sheriff’s officials approached her about doing an undercover operation, but she declined to say whether she knew which school was targeted. She said Vista del Lago’s principal was not aware of the investigation and that drugs are no more a problem there than at other district schools.

While she initially had concerns about an undercover drug investigation in the schools, such as the risk of entrapment, White said sheriff’s officials reassured her that the probe would be carefully planned and executed and would make the schools safer. The purpose, she said, “is to send a strong message to the youth that they need to think about decisions they are making.” She said that, on Thursday, the officers were on campus for fewer than 15 minutes and the arrests were made without incident.

Lake Elsinore Unified School District Superintendent Frank Passarella, through a spokesman, said he and one other administrator were aware of the investigation, but he declined to discuss potential safety or fairness issues with undercover drug busts in schools. Spokesman Mark Dennis said the superintendent did not want to second-guess the police. Both districts said the busts underscore their “zero-tolerance” policies toward drugs on campus.

“It is important that we show we’re proactive,” Dennis said. The teens charged in the sting range from 15 to 19 years old, Riverside County district attorney’s office spokesman John Hall said. The only adult arrested, former Vista del Lago student Cory Granthum Brown, is charged with two counts of selling marijuana, Hall said.

According to an investigator’s statement in support of an arrest warrant, an undercover deputy began talking with Brown about marijuana in mid-October and bought from Brown on campus twice that month, court records say. The second buy was a $20 transaction, the investigator wrote.

Robinson said Brown was not at the school Thursday but turned himself in later in the day. He was being held at the Southwest Detention Center in French Valley and is scheduled to appear in court Monday, jail records show. Family members did not respond Friday to requests for comment.

Among the 23 minors arrested, 20 were charged with marijuana sales, Hall said. A 17-year-old girl at Elsinore High School was charged with selling cocaine. Three boys at Vista del Lago were charged with selling cocaine, ecstasy or both, Hall said. Sheriff’s officials said deputies seized marijuana, cocaine, methamphetamine, ecstasy and prescription drugs during the investigation. Robinson would not disclose the amounts of drugs seized because he said the investigation is continuing.

Not mentioned was the reports that a fully functioning “drug trafficking ring” suspected of operating from inside the Moreno Valley campus.

MVGordie.com: The First to Break the Story about School Board Trustee Mike Rios and his horrendous Secret. AND STILL THE ONLY SOURCE TO PUT IT ALL OUT FOR THE BENEFIT OF YOU THE PARENTS.


The ONLY honest investigative News of Moreno Valley, California. It is with Great Pride that I Occasionally Plagerize His Hard Work.

A Man I am Proud to Call Friend (When no one else is around...) Gordie of MVGORDIE.COM.
Thanks,
I,Praetorian

When Moreno Valley Mayor Richard Stewart Is Asked To Tell The Truth, His Response Is Silence.

 •December 14, 2011 • Leave a Comment

Mayor Stewart had told the public that it is the responsibility of the City Staff and City Council to clarify any miss information made by the public during the publics portion of speaking during City Council meetings, however that doesn’t seem to be the case when that misinformation or outright lies are the making of the Council or the City Staff themselves.

mvgordie.com had made an email request to seek answers in a truthful nature from Mayor Richard Stewart in regards to public comments and statements made on the record during numerous city council meetings, however no response to the questions asked has been made by the Mayor.

Well I guess if you can’t answer truthfully, or the truth will go to prove that prior statements were in fact incorrect and or misleading, the best answer would be no answer at all.

Although the questions asked were problematic for the City, the public has a right to know the answers, after all the questions were $75 million questions.

Here are the questions which were asked:

Dear Mayor, 

With your last council statements of the need for City Staff and Council to keep the public informed of the truth, by correcting misstatements of facts etc. made by members of the public, maybe you could clarify a few points of interest to me as to some of the falsehoods, misleading statements and so on made by you and members of the City Staff.

Here are just a few which need addressing: 

1.       With the Mayor and City Manager publicly announcing a joint venture between The City of Moreno Valley and Highland Fairview for a mixed use medical complex along Nason Street, can you please tell the public where they can obtain a copy of this publicly announced agreement which we are moving forward through the spending of $75 million in roadway improvements? 

2.       It seems to have slipped my mind but the public hearing on this joint public private project was held when? 

3.       Why is it that the term medical corridor is being misused as to what actions were taken by the City Council on September 26^th, 2006. When that action only limited development in that area to developments which would be compatible with existing medical facilities in the area, and not that development in that area was to be for medical use only? 

4.       Why is it that the Mayor continues to rain down praise upon the City Manager for actions which were not of his making, but were directly out of the playbook of Highland Fairview, and merely appeased their (Highland Fairview’s) desires? Such as designating the eastern edge of Moreno Valley as Industrial (Distribution and Warehousing) Zone, which was the desire of Highland Fairview, and was plainly stated out within their EIR for the Highland Fairview Corporate Park Project, in a letter submitted on their behalf by CB Richard Ellis, as well as converting the use of a portion of the Aqua Bella Specific Plan, to a mixed use medical complex, as stated by Iddo Benzeevi in a letter to the City of Moreno Valley in 2010 regarding Highland Fairview’s desire to keep its development agreement for Aqua Bella active during its annual review. 

5.       Why would the City enter into an agreement to the tune of 75 million dollars with Highland Fairview, when it wasn’t able to finance its Corporate Park Project, and needed to create several joint venture corporation with Skechers, in order for Skechers to seek the funding for the projects construction, with Highland Fairview only supplying the land for which the project sits? 

6.       Has the City even taken the time to see how and whom is paying off the sub-contractors for the Highland Fairview Corporate Park Project, to see if Highland Fairview is even a financially solvent company?

Now did those questions seem to hard to address?

Here is a copy of the exact email sent:Click Image to Enlarge

What was interesting however was how the all references to the “Medical Complex” was avoided until the City Manager mentioned it, Mayor Stewart only referred to it a “The Thing.”






STEAL THIS BLOG PLEASE! I, Praetorian

This is Just One Example of Why We 

Must Always Stand Up For Those Who Can Not Stand For Themselves! Even If It Means Risking Our Jobs. "a man of valor can die only one death, a coward will die a thousand!" 


A COWARD MAKES OR SAVES BOTH AGENCIES A LOT OF MONEY! This is why the CTA can never be truly effective in helping us to achieve the things we want and need.  Almost no teacher or educator will stand on their hind legs when confronted with the most spurious of lies which is the new tactic of choice in California public schools HR Departments and too many times the CTA local is all too happy to advise them to run thereby saving the local thousands on CTA attorneys fees  and ingratiating them with administration to grease the all pervasive contract negotiations. Your district's HR department or insurance carrier has an actuarial table that shows the profitability of lieing versus taking an employee through the department of educations prescribed due process for 2011. If their is any potential for litigation against the district, you can bet that the truth is their loss. So, they bet you,ll run if faced with dismissal over a complete lie made up about you the employee.

 I, Praetorian

HARRISBURG, Pa.  According to the AP.,  A Penn State assistant football coach testified Friday that he believes he saw former assistant coach Jerry Sandusky molesting a boy and that he fully conveyed what he had seen to two Penn State administrators.

Mike McQueary, speaking for the first time in public about the 2002 encounter in a Penn State locker room, said he believes that Sandusky was attacking the child with his hands around the boy’s waist but said he wasn’t 100 percent sure it was intercourse.

McQueary took the stand Friday morning in a Pennsylvania courtroom during a preliminary hearing for Tim Curley and Gary Schultz, two university officials who are accused of lying to a grand jury about what McQueary told them. The hearing was expected to last most of the day.

Jerry Sandusky

McQueary’s story is central to the case against Curley and Schultz. They testified to the grand jury that McQueary never relayed the seriousness of what he saw. The officials, and Penn State coach Joe Paterno, have been criticized for never telling police about the 2002 allegation. Prosecutors say Sandusky continued to abuse boys for six more years.

McQueary said he had stopped by a campus football locker room to drop off a pair of sneakers in the spring of 2002 when he happened upon Sandusky and the boy in a shower.

He said Sandusky was behind the boy he estimated to be 10 or 12 years old, with his hands wrapped around the boy’s waist. He said the boy was facing a wall, with his hands on it.

McQueary said he has never described what he saw as anal rape or anal intercourse and couldn’t see Sandusky’s genitals, but that “it was very clear that it looked like there was intercourse going on.”

Under cross examination by an attorney for Curley, McQueary reiterated that he had not seen Sandusky penetrating or fondling the boy but was nearly certain he knew an assault happened in part because the two were standing so close and Sandusky’s arms were wrapped around the youth.

He said he peeked into the shower several times and that the last time he looked in, Sandusky and the boy had separated. He said he didn’t say anything, but “I know they saw me. They looked directly in my eye, both of them.”

McQueary said he reported what he saw to Paterno but never went to police.

He said he did not give Paterno explicit details of what he believed he’d seen, saying he wouldn’t have used terms like sodomy or anal intercourse out of respect for the longtime coach.

He said Paterno told him he’d “done the right thing” by reporting what he saw. The head coach appeared shocked and saddened and slumped back in his chair, McQueary said.

Paterno told McQueary he would talk to others about what he’d reported.

Nine or 10 days later, McQueary said he met with Curley and Shultz and told them he’d seen Sandusky and a boy, both naked, in the shower after hearing skin on skin slapping sounds.

“I told them that I saw Jerry in the showers with a young boy and that what I had seen was extremely sexual and over the lines and it was wrong,” McQueary said. “I would have described that it was extremely sexual and I thought that some kind of intercourse was going on.”

McQueary said he was left with the impression both men took his report seriously. When asked why he didn’t go to police, he referenced Shultz’s position as a vice president at the university who had overseen the campus police

“I thought I was talking to the head of the police, to be frank with you,” he said. “In my mind it was like speaking to a (district attorney). It was someone who police reported to and would know what to do with it.”

Under cross-examination, McQueary said he considered what he saw a crime but didn’t call police because “it was delicate in nature.”

“I tried to use my best judgment,” he said. “I was sure the act was over.” He said he never tried to find the boy.

Curley and Schultz are charged with lying to a grand jury and failing to properly report what McQueary allegedly told them.

Their lawyers say the men are innocent and contest McQueary’s statements.

Later, Thomas Harmon, the former chief of the Penn State police department, said Schultz didn’t tell him about the shower allegation.

District Judge William C. Wenner was hearing testimony Friday to help him decide whether state prosecutors have enough evidence against the pair to send their cases to trial.

Sandusky says he is innocent of more than 50 charges stemming from what authorities say were sexual assaults over 12 years on 10 boys in his home, on Penn State property and elsewhere. The scandal has provoked strong criticism that Penn State officials didn’t do enough to stop Sandusky, and prompted the departures of Hall of Fame football coach Joe Paterno and the school’s longtime president, Graham Spanier.

Curley, 57, Penn State’s athletic director, was placed on leave by the university after his arrest. Schultz, 62, returned to retirement after spending about four decades at the school, most recently as senior vice president for business and finance, and treasurer.