Since the inception of this Blog.

Since the inception of this Blog, several events have taken place  which confirm that the individual and agencies involved in the scandal are not only aware of the Blog, but have also throughly reviewed it. They are now making attempts to cover their tracks and conceal their involvement. 

One of the more bizarre events was an Order of Dismissal entered by Martin County Circuit Court Judge F. Shields McManus on August 13, 2012. The Order of Dismissal retains to a motion filed by William and his family almost two (2) years earlier. The motion had stated that the M.C.S.O.had refused to comply with repeated requests to turn over the complete video surveillance footage which would have depicted two attempted attacks by D/S Josheph Kukuvka against William in the Martin County Florida Jail. A court order was sought compelling the M.C.S.O. to produce the video footage. 

The Motion was originally filed on November 1, 2010, and for several months the Martin County Courts and Clerks Office gave William and his family at the runaround before finally refusing to respond any further. 

For twenty-one (21)months this  motion was ignored by the Court and Clerk of the Courts. Yet, ironically, three (3) weeks after the posting of the Blog, the court made a decision to rule on the motion and stated in was done “on the Court’s own initiative.”

The Court further stated that the reason for dismissal was the lack of information pertains to the “Affidavit of Indigence.” This is the identical response recently given by Martin County Circuit Court Judge James W. McCann when the Fourth District Court of Appeals confronted him with the question as to why he has ignored the multiple fillings over the past year regarding he civil suit currently pending against Sheriff Robert Crowder and the M.C.S. O. .

It seems the appalling attitude in lack of diligence and justice in the Martin County judicial system shows no sign of ending. It is obvious these individuals, upon viewing the Blog, began examine the files and are making effort to clean up the neglected motion. 

The Order of Dismissal was created for the sole purpose of justifying and closing an intentionally neglected case. It  also clearly demonstrates the Court’s and Clerk’s involvement to continue to “making the myriad of mistakes”. Denying William and his family access to the Courts and volating their Due Process Rights, as they were effectively able to conceal the criminal and civil violations perpetuated by Sheriff Rober Crowder and the M.C. S. O. . 

 As demonstrated by documents and testimony  throughout this case beginning in 2006, The Martin County Justice System continues to stupefy this blogger with incompetence and/or unwarranted  work product. 

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Sheriff Robert Crowder hires law firm for Civil Suit

Martin County Sheriff Offices hire Purdy, Jolly, Giuffreda & Barranco, P.A.  of Fort Lauderdale to represent Sheriff Robert Crowder,  D/S Joseph Kukuvka, D/S Dennis Fritchie,head of Internal Affairs Division, D/S Brian Gervias in Blacked out video civil suit. 

The tax payers of Martin County will have to pick up the cost of a high priced law firm out of Fort Lauderdale for the alleged coverup of a D/S threatening an inmate in Martin County Jail,  then blacking out the requested video. 

Over two years have passed and many attempts,  via FS 119 requests, email, telephone calls and letters by William Westervelt and family members  to the  Martin County Sheriffs Offices to discuss and resolve this unfortunate event with no avail. 

This incident has now escalated to a level were a  civil suit was filed and attorneys that must be hired to protect these civil servants of possible wrong doing of infringing on a person (inmates) rights.   As this agency hires these high price attorneys and circle the wagons to protect their own the saying goes who has the most resources wins or do they?

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Video File of Aggression Threat Caught on Video

Here is the actual video of Deputy Sheriff Kukuvka verbally abusing William Westervelt. 

Please make sure to check out the original blog posts:

Aggressive Threat Caught on Tape

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Breaking News! Sheriff Crowder Named and Served for Civil suit for blacked out Video.

Part II of the Aggressive Threat caught on Tape.

SUMMONS ISSUED TO ROBERT L CROWDER,TODD NEIL,DENNIS FRITCHIE,BRIAN GERVAIS,SUSAN CLONAN,JOSEPH KUKUVKA HAND TO MARTIN COUNTY SHERIFF.

Received in December 2009, was a forty two (42) page investigation report pertaining to the two attempted attacks on William by D/S Joseph Kukuvka while in the Martin County Jail. This sham investigation and report contained falsified witness statements by numerous M.C.S.O. personnel, and a typed written version on what occurred on the video surveillance footage.

The report concluded with the M C.S.O. claiming that William had lied about the incidents and finding D/S Joseph Kukuvka not guilty of any wrongdoing. Although, the CD containing video surveillance footage was provided many months later and with many FS 119 requests. PLEASE SEE ATTACHED VIDEO.

However, the CD of the jail’s servalliaence video not contain the complete time frame in which the incidents took place, and had been repeatedly requested in the many FS 119 requests. 

Why? Because the deputy explained to a family member that Internal Affairs(LT. Fritchie) only requested a specific time frame which was different from William Westervelt’s original and the many FS 119 request’s to follow. 

Why? When the 2nd aggressive incident was initiated against William by D/S Kukuvka which was more egreejus and could be devastating to the M.C.S. O/Martin County Jail if exposed.  What to do? Send the family a blacked out CD  during the second allegation time frame. Which Martin County Sheriff’s Department did. 

The family immediately contacted the M.C.S.O. and demanded the complete time frame requested. They were then given the runaround for the next eight months.

Finally, a court order was sought and in November 2010, the M C.S.O. turned over a second video. Upon reviewing, it became apparent that the M C.S.O. had criminally deleted nineteen (19) minutes of the video footage in which the incidents took place. Since then the M.C.S.O. has refused to cooperate any further.

 Currently there is a civil suit pending against Sheriff Robert Crowder, and several members of the M.C.S.O. in comlection with the criminally deleted video footage. The Martin County Courts have, and continue to hinder this civil suit at every step of the way.

 

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Mediocracy or Corruption?

This information is only a fraction of the unbelievable journey that continues to unfold for William Westervelt and the family. Despite the the numerous incriminating document, reports and evidence Sheriff Crowder and State Attorney Bruce Colton repudiate the family’s many attempts to speak with them.

As stated in the beginning, Law Enforcement Agencies, Local and State officials( William Snyder,Bruce Colton, Diamond Liddy, Nita Denton, Marsha Ewing ) as well as departments within the Governors office(Office of Open Government, Carolyn Timmann have all been made aware of the Martin County injustice. Yet, all  have refused to investigate or assist.    

This blog is designed to spotlight the past and current events of the Agencies of Martin County Florida and the inner workings through just one persons experiences.  One can only assume that there are many more experiences that are somewhat similar.   

This blog should invoke one to become more aware of what is being told or written to them by these local agencies to start  questioning not to retreat or become complacent. The average person is afraid to become involved or confrontational and that is where the trouble begins. 

Mediocracy  and/or corruption breeds when civil servants are in power too long. Sheriff Crowder are Marsha Ewing are two very good examples.  

This blog will continue magnifying the past and current mismanagement of Martin County Florida so  the citizens can be more aware of how their taxes dollars are are being utilized.

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How could they get it so wrong?

In March of 2010, the family obtained a series of M.C.S.O. dispatch call logs. (Dispatch call logs are typewritten records of actual radio transmissions.)

During Williams’s original prosecution, ASA Vickie Nichols released dispatch call logs, which she planned to use as evidence. Upon comparing ASA Vickie Nichols call logs to the recently obtained M.C.S.O. call logs, it became apparent that ASA Vickie Nichols (or somebody)had manufactured and forged a different set of call logs, deleting pertinent information and destroying evidence.

One of the withheld call logs was discovered refuting Marie Becker Smith’s version of the Armed Burglary.

As is now clear, is this series of events was a overblown domestic squabble. The battle between Marie Becker and her new boyfriend Al Skillman and recent boyfriend William, continued throughout the day. William went to Marie Beckers home to pick up his computer and belongings as it was his place of residence for several months which was legally notated. He asked to pick up his items. Becker refused him. He did force his way in to collect his belongings .

Marie, Al Skillman and Marie’s brother all jumped William and hit him with a base ball bat and he fled.

An attempted murder with a knife count was added to the charge against William. The result was, a picture of the knife fully intact in Marie’s home was taken by MCSO. It was sent to the crime lab. The report stated, the knives’ handles were separated from the knife and there was absolutely no DNA matching William Westervelt. How did that happen? Who is lying?

More outrageous, was that upon further review of the actual M.C.S.O. call logs, was the presence of a never released call log pertaining to A “Throwing Deadly Missile into a Vehicle charge.”

This call log revealed that Marie Becker Smith was not on State Road 707 when she called 911 to report that William had “just jumped from behind a tree on 707 and put a brick through the windshield of her vehicle.”

S/A John Heatherington, questioned Marie Becker’s deposition testimony several times as noted in the transcripts. As he found her tale far-fetched and unconvincing.

It was hard to imagine after the unbelievable events of the previous hours, that William would be waiting on the side of 707 at dusk poised and ready to throw one brick at the passing car of Marie Becker and actually hit the windshield.

In reality Marie Becker was at her residence with D/S Joseph Kukuvka and D/S Albert Biaselli with the windshield only slightly damaged, How?

The windshield was damaged by the brick because Marie, Al Skillman and Maries’ brother all arrived at the home of William’s Mother located in a mobil home park a distance off of 707. William noticed all three walking on to his mothers private property. As William came out the door, all three started to approach William with a baseball bat. Threatening they were going to “take care” of him and his mother. William immediately grabbed a couple bricks from the landscaping and threw one which did hit the car windshield. He threatened to throw another if they did not leave. They all jumped back into the car and headed home. They called D/S Kukuvka. Once at home they made up this concocted story with the help of D/S Kukuvka.

So Marie, Al and brother were trespassing and threatening William and his mother. Who is at fault here? Although, this Aggravated battery was also added to the list of charges, it could never have been a viable charge.

As the overblown domestic squabble continued throughout the day. In one of the call logs it quotes Marie Becker stating she is going to “Kill William” herself. However, D/S put out a call that William is on the run and is armed and dangerous?

These call logs were all known to ASA Vickie Nichols, but she choose to conceal at they would not match her original Information. How could they ever prosecute William? Make up call logs and reports through the Sheriff’s Department.

Due to the corruption within the Martin County Legal System, the family had encountered through the years, it is now evident within the stacks of documents that ASA Vickie Nichols was creative to suppress, ,conceal, manufacture and forge documents to substantiate any of the charges filed against William Westervelt. They began to investigate the department that handles dispatches and it was discovered that D/S Joseph Kukuvka`s wife, Tammi Kukuvka, is in the dispatch call division of the M.C.S.O. which has direct contact with all call log information? Is this purely a coincidence?


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Twitter shuts down “Whydotheylie” account

It took all of 10 minutes to shut down the new twitter account, right after we asked Sheriff  Crowder to explain where the vehicle storage report was. Why?

Did the Sherif complain to Twitter? Is he still trying to hide evidence? While we may never know, we were able to get the account reinstated. Score one for the light of truth.

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Florida State Notary Reprimaded

 On July 8th 2012,  Notary, Ms. Melanie Coons – Notary Public Commission # DD226350 was formally reprimanded for notary misconduct  by the Office of the Governor, Notary Section Tallahassee Florida.

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Ms. Coon’s whom is now a Judicial Assistant for the  Honorable Judge Darren Steele of the 19th Circuit Court in Stuart Florida was reprimanded for Notary misconduct due to a document she incorrectly notarized in 2006.(Second Amended Information crafted by State Attorney Vicki Nichols) To date, Ms. Melanie Coons still refuses to comply with the Governors Office request. 

Why is this important?   The relevance and validity of this document in question ( Second Amended Information) is paramount, as it is tied to a series of surreptitious acts of errors and omissions of the Martin County State Attorney Office, in which Ms. Melanie L. Coons was an employee at  the time of this paperwork scandal. 

The Second Amended information Document, is crucial as it is the document that reveals Ct. 3 and Ct. 4 were illegally added by the SA Vickie Nichols.  The document is not correctly date and time stamped according the Martin County Clerk of the Courts procedures, the document was incorrectly notarized(now proven) and the document never was brought before the court the morning the document indicates. At best the document is fuliginous. 

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Where is the Vehicle Storage Report?

On July 24, 2009, the third and final day of hearings, immediately after the last witness had testified, Judge Sherwood Bauer opened a folder and read from a pre-written order denying William’s post-conviction hearing. Thereby concealing the crimes committed by ASA Vickie
Nichols and D/ S Joseph Kukuvka.

After denial of the hearing, William was returned to prison where he and his family continued their efforts. After years of dealing with the corruption ridden departments, headed by Sheriff Robert Crowder within the M.C.S.O., the family made contact with Ms. Gloria Bush, the secretary for the M.C.S.O. Vehicle Impound Yard. It was only due to this woman and her honesty that on December 10, 2009, some six months after the hearings, that the family came into possession of the most incriminating evidence, consisting of photographs of William’s
Volvo, and impound documents and lack of documents and released evidence further solidified the criminal acts of ASA Vickie Nichols, D/S Joseph Kukuvka, and M.C.S.O. Clerk of Records, Susan Clonan.

To date and eventually admitted to by Susan Clonan(head of records for MCSO) 4 years later after the family’s exhaustive requests, the Vehicle Storage Reciept was never located. According to MCSO Legal Adviser, the procedure that must be followed and the primary document utilized for the standard operating procedure the Vehicle Storage Reciept to impound and tow all vehicles by the MCSO. Why is the Vehicle Storage Report so crucial? This document has a schematic of a vehicle. The D/S must “x” off and notate damage of the vehicle before it is towed into the MCSO impound yard so they can not be blamed for any damage to the vehicle due to impound. The Vehicle Storage Receipt was never even filled out because D/S would have to notate that the side of William’s drivers door was damaged due to Marie Becker and Al Skillman T-boning the car with the front of their blue mustang.

Marie Becker and Al Skillman were the ones that perpetrated the Aggravated Battery” on William. As noted in the Original D/S Lori Kandill report. Why no pictures of their car? Why no arrests for aggravated battery on William? D/S Kukuvka knows the answer to that question.

For years the M.C.S.O. and the State Attorney’s Office claimed no photographs or impound documents of the vehicle existed. ASA Vickie Nichols testified, at the hearing, there”were no photographs of the vehicle” and later testified she “didn’t even know what type of cars
they were”. Yet, dated notations, written by M.C.S.O. Crime Scene Unit Secretary Michelle Holcomb, reveals that the photographs were taken on direct orders from ASA Vickie Nichols.Review of the photographs clearly depict damage to the drivers side of William’s Volvo. This was also testified to by D/S Lori Kandill and is irrefutable evidence that was intentionally withheld.

Even more disturbing was that these intentionally withheld photographs and documents all bared the D/S Lori Kandill case numbers. The dated notations reveal that ASAVickie Nichols, working with D/S Joseph Kukuvka, used the D/S Randall case number to place ahold on the Volvo days after D/S Joseph Kukuvka criminally took possession of the vehicle.

This action justified the Volvo’s presence in the M.C.S.O. impound yard. In fact, the D/S Lori Kandill case number was painted on the rear windshield of the Volvo in ten-inch numbers at the direction of ASA Vickie Nichols. This is the case. number to the report that ASA Vickie
Nichols swore under oath that she “had never seen” and “never got that report”. Most importantly it is the report that has William listed as the victim of the Aggravated Battery he is currently in prison for.

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Aggressive Threat Caught on Tape

During the hearings, William was returned from prison and incarcerated in the Martin County Jail. On July 17, 2009, (day two of the hearings)

William was brought down to the holding area of the jail to await transportation to court. D/S Joseph Kukuvka happened to be present booking a prisoner. Upon seeing William, D/S Kukuvka went berserk. D/S left his post of booking a criminal and walked through the doorway leading to the hallway. He aggressively approached William, who was walking within a group of inmates ready to enter a holding cell. D/S Kukuvka started ranting and raving, he located a vacant cell next to the holding cell and motioned for William to enter the vacant cell while yelling, “I’m gonna finish you for good this time”. William began pleading with the several other officers not to let this happen. Officer Kelly, who was nearby, realizing the magnitude of the situation, intervened and had William put back in the original holding cell, thereby preventing the attack. The unprovoked and aggressive actions toward William of D/S Kukuvka were caught on the continuous surveillance video within the Martin County Jail.

Around 20 minutes later, the holding door cell was opened and there in the doorway was D/S Joseph Kukuvka began punching him self in the face screaming, “I’m gonna get you” Officers, were again forced to intervene to control D/S Joseph Kukuvka . The continuous video that would have illuminated this act was sent to the family to view over a year later due to their attorneys insistence and was blacked out when received.

William was transported to court and immediately apprised his attorney of the attempted attacks.

H
e Immediately contacted William’s family, and later explained the incidents to Judge Sherwood Bauer on court record.

The family contacted the M.C.S.O. Internal Affairs Division, headed by the inept and inconsistent Lt. Dennis Fritche, and requested an investigation be conducted.They further requested a copy of the video surveillance footage.

This was immediately followed by a written request. Later that day the family personally spoke with Lt. Dennis Fritche who assured them that an investigation would be immediately conducted and the video footage would be obtained and sent to the family as requested.

To date, the second blacked out video illuminated the second aggressive threatening act of D/S Kukuvka perpetrated on William, has not been addressed by Sheriff Crowder. Sheriff Crowder refuses to address the issue even after several 119 requests and discussions with his Legal Counsel Terrence Noland.

William has filed a Civil Suit against the Sheriff Robert Crowder and D/S Kukuvka for the copy of the second video that was blacked out. FDLE is working on the case at this time.

A civil summons was serviced for the second video that was never produced , blacked out video, Sheriff Crowder never respond to several 119 requests and a FDLE report is in progress and forthcoming. 

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Post Release Update:

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