Has Metro Learned Nothing?

Posted by Myrna the Minx on December 29, 2006 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

Seriously, does Metro understand what the words “complete” and “investigation” mean? From the LVSun:

A top Metro Police official acknowledged Thursday that detectives did not subpoena cell phone records of several people who could have been involved in an alleged plot to persuade Chrissy Mazzeo to keep silent about her late-night encounter with Gov.-elect Jim Gibbons.

And District Attorney David Roger - who announced Wednesday he would not prosecute Gibbons on assault charges stemming from the Oct. 13 incident - said he may have spoken too soon in declaring that Gibbons had not participated in the efforts to influence Mazzeo.

“There is a possibility that he was involved in this activity,” Roger said after acknowledging that he did not have all of the relevant cell phone records to rule out Gibbons as having a role. “But it does not seem probable that he participated in these actions.”

Roger’s top investigator, Mike Karstedt, said in a report made public Wednesday that he had recently subpoenaed cell phone records from several people - including Gibbons political consultant Sig Rogich, a high-powered public relations executive. Rogich was one of the people whose phone records Deputy Chief Greg McCurdy said were not subpoenaed by police.

The other two people were attorney Georganne Bradley and legal secretary Michelle Diegel, who work at a law firm that shares office space with Rogich in the Hughes Center. All three were drinking with Mazzeo and Gibbons at McCormick & Schmick’s on Oct. 13, just before the encounter between the pair.

McCurdy said detectives “did not find it necessary” to subpoena the phone records for Rogich, Diegel and Bradley.

The reason Metro detectives provided for not subpoenaing the cell phone records of several notable people involved in the initial case–because they were only investigating the alleged assault/battery charges and not the well publicized possibility of interference in the investigation from Puhek and others.

Are you kidding me?! From day two or three of this investigation, Metro has known that they would be under the microscope thanks to their preferential treatment of Gibbons, and it was pretty clear already that interference in the investigation might be an issue. Mazzeo’s attorney Wright made sure he emphasized the possible interference during both of his press conferences. If Metro didn’t think it was important for them to cover all their bases after Wright’s second press conference that rightly pointed out many of their investigative shortcomings, well then, perhaps some of them should be rethinking their careers about now. If nothing else, do it to cover your own asses! I find their lack of foresight and self preservation really, amazing. I guess the joke of an investigation continues.