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PCSO CORRUPTION

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Baltimore’s surveillance plane potentially infringes on rights, audit finds, even though police mostly followed the rules

December 13, 2020 | This is the EXACT make and model that Sheriff Gualtieri secretly bought in 2019 without County Commissioner funding or approval. He then asked for another $450,000 to upgrade the “cameras” on his helicopters. What a coincidence.

PART 2 - FLORIDA SHERIFF TAMPERS WITH AND TAINTS 500,000 BALLOTS

November 10, 2020 | This is how Sheriff Gualtieri rigged the election to eliminate me in the primary. This is how he ensures his own election year after year. Only in corrupt Pinellas County will a candidate for Sheriff be permitted to pick up all of the ballots in Pinellas and have unsupervised control of them for hours.
Was it a coincidence that Julie Marcus allowed him unsupervised access to YOUR ballots and she won also?

PART 1 - FLORIDA SHERIFF TAMPERS WITH AND TAINTS 500,000 BALLOTS

November 7, 2020 | ONLY IN PINELLAS COUNTY IS IT POSSIBLE FOR A SHERIFF RUNNING FOR REELECTION TO PHYSICALLY TAKE SOLE UNSUPERVISED POSSESSION OF 80% OF THE BALLOTS IN PINELLAS COUNTY WITHOUT ANY SUPERVISOR OF ELECTION OVERSIGHT OR MONITORING.
PINELLAS POLITICAL CORRUPTION UNVEILED.

HOW BAD IS THE CORRUPTION IN PINELLAS COUNTY?

THIS is how bad… when the candidate for sheriff trespasses people for documenting that he himself took illegal sole possession of 85% of the ballots without any Supervisor of Elections oversight.
We live in a county where the corrupt Sheriff had HIS deputies go collect all of the ballots and an actual candidate for Sheriff had them in his sole possession to tamper with them, stuff the ballot box, add ballots, remove ballots, alter ballots and rig the election.
Welcome to the epicenter of political corruption and Sheriff Bob Gualtieri is at the center of it all.
McLynas for Sheriff 2024

ANOTHER DEADLY, ABUSIVE, CORRUPT, ALCOHOLIC, DRUG ADDICTED, VIOLENT CHILD ABUSING PINELLAS COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPUTY BEING PROTECTED BY SHERIFF ROBERT GUALTIERI

August 2, 2020 | This deputy’s name is Pinellas County Sheriff’s Deputy Timothy Crane.

“Hi there! I am the wife of a pinellas county deputy who is currently under investigation for felony child abuse, terroristic threats against my family and drug addiction.

SHERIFF GUALTIERI HATES FREE SPEECH

July 26, 2020 | Over at the Pinellas County Courthouse where Gualtieri is in charge of security and violating people’s legal and Constitutional rights, they refuse to acknowledge that the United States Constitution prohibits the government from blocking free speech, the right to protest and the right to redress our government.

119 CONSECUTIVE PUBLIC RECORDS REQUESTS AND SHERIFF GUALTIERI HAS NOT PROVIDED ONE SINGLE RECORD

July 20, 2020 | In each and every case, Sheriff Gualtieri refused to produce ANY records unless he was paid. There was my request for ONE email he wanted $4,634 to produce. I asked for one page from a police report, $18.85. Or in the case posted, I asked for whatever video they had that “shows any use of force used by Levi Blake, #59881, from the incident detailed in AI -19- 027” Gualtieri wants $45.89 claiming it would take 1.62 hours for him to “prepare” the video for my inspection.

Pinellas deputy under review for posting that most killed by cops ‘deserved it'

July 13, 2020 | It has now been over two months since a local pastor provided screen shots showing that Deputy Jay Dugmore stated that “MOST die at the hands of cops because they deserve it”.
Sheriff Gualtieri claimed he was investigating. So what takes so long? I read the post. It is clearly inappropriate. It clearly brings into question the fitness of Dugore to carry a gun and patrol the streets of Pinellas. The liability of him killing someone after making this statements is enough to terminate in my opinion.
So what takes so long Sheriff Bob? What can’t you figure out? Waiting to see if people forget so you can sweep this one under the rug like all the rest?
If you think it should not take over two months to look at a simple post and take some action, let Sheriff Bob know at rgualtieri@pcsonet.com

TONE DEAF PINELLAS DEPUTIES VIOLENT ARREST BLACK CHILDREN FOR DARING TO ASSERT THEIR RIGHTS

July 11, 2020 | “Sheriff’s officials say the girls set off the confrontation by ignoring deputies’ commands to stop and answer questions”
Interesting that the Tampa Bay Times article does not explain that THESE GIRLS ARE NOT REQUIRED TO ANSWER QUESTIONS! Nobody is. No person is required to ever answer any officer’s questions and that is NOT obstruction.

Sheriff Gualtieri even acknowledges that these girls asserted their fifth Amendment rights PREVIOUS to their being assaulted and arrested.
“Two of the females stated they were juveniles and did not have to speak with law enforcement, referencing George Floyd and Black Lives Matter,” said sheriff’s spokeswoman Jessica Mackesy. ”
“My oldest daughter was telling them: we don’t have to talk to you without my dad here, because we didn’t do anything wrong,” Robinson said. “That’s when the cops started getting really, really aggressive with them.” And she is 100% CORRECT! The fact that these Pinellas deputies violently detained and arrested these CHILDREN for merely asserting her constitutional rights is disgusting.
Often PCSO deputies get angry, hostile and violent when citizens asset their rights. They don’t like it and will initiate violence and trumped up charges (like these) to “teach them a lesson”. They even have a saying for it; “You may be the rap, but you won’t beat the ride”, meaning you may never be convicted because you really didn’t do anything wrong, but I still get to assault you, kidnap you and cage you and put you through hell for daring to question my authority. It is also very common for Pinellas County deputies to literally flat out LIE about what these people being falsely arrested did on their reports to gain a conviction for a crime that never occured. This is NOT what we need in policing.
This is also another perfect example of why Sheriff Gualtieri does NOT want body cams.
THIS is why having a CONSTITUTIONAL Sheriff that follows the Sheriff’s oath to protect and defend the constitution is SO important. Our current sheriff violates the constitution every single day. This is what constitutional rights being violated looks like in action, against Black children no less. This is what these protests all across America are about.
These kids were accused of trespassing because they were Black kids swimming at their friend’s pool. They then were videotaped by older White men in their swimsuits (which is pretty creepy) demanding that they leave. These White men then call the police and this is how they are treated by the police. This is what is wrong with America and our local police.
Sheriff Gualtieri also uses “FIR’s” or Field Interview Reports and has an illegal quota for his officers to conduct at least two of these per day. An FIR is where a deputy stops someone that is not violating any law to do an “interview” with someone they feel is “suspicious”. Most often these stops will be made on minorities in minority communities. The deputy will illegally demand ID (we are not an ID upon demand state and require probable cause of a crime before ID can be demanded). Then starts the questions “where are you going, where are you coming from, do you have anything on you I should know about, do you mind if I search you for my own safety”. The object of the game is to create an arrest where no crime has been observed or committed. People are NOT required to speak with the deputy during an FIR, but if they refuse to ID or assert their rights not to have the consensual contact, false charges like these will be pressed and they often get arrested.
Something similar was happening to these girls.
Sheriff’s deputies must be trained to understand that people don’t have to stop and talk to them. That unless a person is being lawfully detained (which these girls were NOT) then a contact with officers such as this is VOLUNTARY and the citizen, or in this case the CHILDREN have every right to not take part in the “voluntary” conversation and have every legal right to walk away. Children should not be risking assault, kidnapping, chaining, caging and baker acting because they assert their constitutional right to NOT speak with officers.
Shame on you Sheriff Gualtieri and shame on you TBT for writing an article that perpetuates the myth that people are required to speak with officers EVER.
Vote James McLynas for Sheriff of Pinellas County and FREE PINELLAS from our UNCONSTITUTIONAL Sheriff Bob Gualtieri and rights violating army.

Pinellas County Sheriff's Deputy Brutally Arrests 14 Year Old Black Girl and Her Four Friends

As long as we have a racist Sheriff and an agency that condones racism, we will keep having videos like these.
I don’t know if anyone has been paying attention lately, but America is in crisis and at a crossroads that we cannot come back from.

MEGA JAILS!

Out of the 3,147 counties in America, Pinellas County has the 15th largest jail. After that sinks in a little bit, ask yourself why? When you can’t figure out a good reason why, ask yourself who is responsible for this.

SHERIFF GUALTIERI SAYS IT WILL TAKE $4,634 TO SEE JUST THE FIRST EMAIL WHERE HE DISCUSSES HIS NEW AIRPLANE PURCHASE

He also claims it will take over 60 hours just to prepare the ONE email for inspection and copying.

All I wanted to do was document when was the first time Sheriff Gualtieri started to discuss his new secret airplane purchase. Was it BEFORE his May of 2019 budget presentation, meaning he LIED to the people of Pinellas and the Board of County Commissioners?

PINELLAS COUNTY SHERIFF BECOMES MILLIONAIRE PUBLIC SERVANT WHILE CLOSING DOWN "NON-ESSENTIAL" BUSINESSES

Make no mistake about it. Sheriff Gualtieri is personally responsible for the covid-19 lock down that destroyed the Pinellas economy. It was his decision which businesses would be deemed “essential” and which ones were non-essential. Those business owners that Sheriff Gualtieri decided would be economically ruined and whose employees would be unemployed.

SHERIFF GUALTIERI GIVES RACIST DEPUTY PAID VACATION

And of course that Kathryn Varn left out the part where Gualtieri said, in the sheriff’s debate, that he hadn’t decided to make it a “formal complaint yet” from the debate.

THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE OF THE PEOPLE OF PINELLAS COUNTY FROM THE TYRANNY OF THE PINELLAS COUNTY SHERIFF

July 4, 2020 | When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for THE PEOPLE OF PINELLAS COUNTY to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.–That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, –That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.–Such has been the patient sufferance of these PEOPLE OF PINELLAS; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present SHERIFF OF PINELLAS COUNTY is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these PEOPLE OF PINELLAS. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.

GUALTIERI has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.

GUALTIERI has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.

GUALTIERI has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.

GUALTIERI has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.

GUALTIERI has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.

GUALTIERI has endeavoured to prevent the population of these PEOPLE OF PINELLAS; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.

GUALTIERI has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.

GUALTIERI has made Judges LIKE RONDALINO dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.

GUALTIERI has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.

GUALTIERI has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.

GUALTIERI has affected to render HIS Military POLICE independent of and superior to the Civil power.

GUALTIERI has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences
For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these PEOPLE OF PINELLAS:
For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.

GUALTIERI has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.

GUALTIERI is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.

GUALTIERI has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.

GUALTIERI has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. FLASH BANG GRENADES AND FALSE ARREST AND DENIAL OF BOND. A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.

We have warned GUALTIERI TROOPS from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded GUALTIERI TROOPS of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to GUALTIERI’S TROOP’S native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.

We, therefore, the Representatives of the PEOPLE OF PINELLAS COUNTY America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these PEOPLE OF PINELLAS are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent PEOPLE; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to SHERIFF GUALTIERI, and that all political connection between them and the PINELLAS COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent PEOPLE OF PINELLAS, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do, DESPITE SHERIFF GUALTIERI’S UNCONSTITUTIONAL COVID-19 LOCKDOWNS. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.

Signed, the Second Continental Congress of the Free People of Pinellas County

THIS IS HOW SHERIFF GUALTIERI COVERS FOR DIRTY DEPUTIES

June 13, 2020 | Pinellas County Sheriff’s Deputy Christopher Amatruda was not a good cop by any measure. Always in trouble for doing something wrong with several suspensions under his belt (most of which were never enforced by Gualtieri).

However, on April 13, 2020, Deputy Amatruda quickly resigned while under yet another investigation. This one must have been much worse than the rest. When a deputy resigns under investigation, it ENDS the investigation. This is one more way that dirty cops get recycled to other police agencies so they do not lose their police jobs.

DID SHERIFF GUALTIERI INTENTIONALLY TRY AND INFECT PROTESTERS WITH COVID-19?

6-13-20 | Sheriff Gualtieri knew that Covid-19 was spreading through the Pinellas County jail LONG before he called Judge Robalino and conspired with him to deny bail.

Gualtieri claims that most of those infected in the jail are staff members. He also stated that the “trustees” housing unit was also on lockdown quarantine. Trustees are basically inmate slaves that Sheriff Gualtieri makes do all of the dirty work at the jail, including food service. So if the trustees have Covid-19, EVERYBODY has Covid-19.

Gualtieri has been denying inmates Covid-19 testing. He does not want to do widespread testing, most likely because it would force him to admit he is running the largest Covid-19 factory in Pinellas County and infecting, then releasing numerous Covid-19 infected inmates into Pinellas County.

“Gualtieri said Thursday there is no evidence to show the virus is connected to the jailed protesters. Rather, his guess is that a staff member brought the virus into the facility. The first cases were discovered among inmate records specialists, who don’t have contact with inmates but who do interact with jail staff.”

However, Melissa Antink who worked for 7 years at the PCSO jail in the Inmates Records division stated;

“This statement from the Sheriff is 100% WRONG. After working in Inmate Records first as a Records Clerk, Inmate Records Specialist 3, and a Shift Supervisor, we DO have contact with inmate in the Release room. We have contact with Bondsman and Walk-Thru’s (people taking care of warrants without having to go in back and be processed, quicker process). There is contact with the Press and people from the courthouse. We have contact with police, troopers, and deputies along with G4S prisoner transport at the Affidavit desk. I am sure some of my former co-workers would agree w me. They won’t say so on here for fear of retaliation for speaking the truth.”

Pinellas County Sheriff Robert Gualtieri knew he had cases of Covid-19 inside the jail BEFORE he denied bond to the St. Pete protesters. He also knew that HIS staff and trustees had been infected.

Gualtieri himself stated that he wanted ALL police agencies in Pinellas to use their “best judgement and discretion” when deciding if someone should be arrested and booked into the PCSO jail in order to reduce the number of inmates to prevent the Covid-19 spread. He also clearly stated that every agency should use “notices to appear that carry the same weight and effect as an arrest, but without the jail stay.”

So WHY even arrest peaceful protesters? But more importantly, WHY intentionally deny them bond to intentionally create the potential for infection to be transferred to these protesters? Gualtieri’s own statements show he clearly understands the danger of infection by booking people into the jail and he had measures in place (like using Notices to Appear instead of arrests), and he STILL intentionally exposed these protesters to Covid-19 at the jail.

Yes, Sheriff Gualtieri is THAT corrupt.

It is a criminal violation of Florida Campaign law to make a false statement about a political opponent. Come on Sheriff Bob, file a complaint if I am lying.

Sheriff Gualtieri locks you up, then you are raped by your probation officer.

Sheriff Gualtieri locks you up, then you are raped by your probabtion officer. A complaint is made to the Pinellas County Sheriff’s office in october of 2019, and they do NOTHING!
THIS is what the Pinellas County “Just-Us” system looks like and THIS is what I will be dismantling.

Double Dip D.R.O.P. Scheme

Another scam perpetrated by Sheriff Gualtieri against the people of Pinellas County is the “double dipping” Scheme. Sheriff Gualtieri uses to make PCSO deputies millionaires at taxpayer expense, and also buy off their loyalty to prevent them from running against him for Sheriff.

HOW PINELLAS COUNTY SHERIFF BOB GUALTIERI LIES TO COVER FOR DIRTY DEPUTIES

NO POLICE ACCOUNTABILITY

Deputy tries to 'poison fellow officer by putting hand sanitizer in coffee thermos after row over vacation days'

Gualtieri’s coronavirus arrest of “jerk” biz owner results in no prosecution

LAND OF THE FREE?

Sheriff Gualtieri is the leader of Mass Incarceration in Florida.

We have the 15th largest jail in the entire United States and YOU paying a minimum of $124 per DAY for every single inmate at the PCSO Jail.

MORE DEADLY PINELLAS COUNTY SHERIFF GUALTIERI CORRUPTION

11-14-20 | The corrupt Pinellas County Sheriff’s office has a secret chase policy where they instruct their deputies to turn OFF their emergency lights during high speed pursuits to lower liability by claiming “we were no chasing”.

PART 1 - FLORIDA SHERIFF TAMPERS WITH AND TAINTS 500,000 BALLOTS

SHERIFF GUALTIERI VIOLATES FLORIDA STATUE AND FLORIDA CAMPAIGN LAW BY HAVING HIS STAFF DESTROY BOTH FREE SPEECH AND CAMPAIGN SPEECH

July 26, 2020 | So, now we file multiple campaign violations against Sheriff Gualtieri. It is a violation of campaign law for a candidate to destroy the campaign actions of another candidate. It is another violation to use county resources to do so. This was on a county owned sewer easement, which Gualtieri had zero legal authority to touch.
I also have two lawyers working on filing the Federal 1st Amendment 1983 Violation against him.
I knew Gualtieri would play dirty. He always does.

PINELLAS COUNTY SHERIFF ROBERT GUALTIERI ADMITS HE IS NOT DOING ANY COVID-19 TESTING AT THE JAIL

July 23, 2020 | I have been asking for over two months for any records that show Covid-19 testing at the Pinellas County Sheriff’s office. Gualtieri is trying to hide his refusal to test inmates by refusing to even answer my public records request for a month.

PINELLAS COUNTY SHERIFFS REFUSE TO TESTIFY AGAINST THEIR DEPUTY COWORKER TO PROTECT HIM FROM DUI CHARGE

July 17, 2020 | This is how it works in crooked Pinellas County. Detective George Moffett Jr. showed up at an investigation one evening drunk as hell and reeking of booze. He was arrested and fired by PCSO, but during his court case, none of the Pinellas Deputies that saw him trashed that night would testify that they
Now his DUI charge has been reduced to “reckless driving”, meaning it paves the way for him to come back to work at the PCSO. See how “accountability” works at the PCSO?

NATIONAL SHERIFF'S ASSOCIATION REMOVES SHERIFF BOB GUALTIERI FROM THEIR WEBPAGE AS SHERIFF OF THE YEAR

July 12, 2020 | Last year I wrote a story about how the National Sheriff’s Association rigged their own internal process in order to name Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri as “Sheriff of the Year”.
Two weeks ago, I sent out a Press Release detailing Sheriff Gualtieri’s massive racist policies which includes hyperlinks to numerous stories, videos and even the police report where Sheriff Bob himself ripped the hair out of a Black woman’s head during a traffic stop while trying to pull her out of her car by her hair.

100 "CRIMES AGAINST CHILDREN" REPORTS NOT COMPLETED

BREAKING NEWS: OVER 100 “CRIMES AGAINST CHILDREN” REPORTS NOT COMPLETED FOR UP TO TWO YEARS AT THE PINELLAS COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE

Another breaking story that you will hear first from me, and maybe only from me due to TBT Bias.

Recently Sheriff Robert Gualtieri transferred one sergeant and two detectives out of the “Crimes Against Children” (CAC) unit at the Pinellas County Sheriff’s office for failing to complete reports on crimes against children in Pinellas County. The majority of these reports were also crimes against minority children which appear to take even less priority for Gualtieri.
According to records, there were over 100 cases at the PCSO where reports were not completed or “missing” and some of these reports were over two years old. In other words, crimes against our most defenseless citizens, children, were not properly investigated and reports were never even completed. Clearly, when investigations are not properly conducted and reports not completed, no action will be taken to protect these children. There is no way to know how many of these children were re-victimized by Gualtieri’s inaction.
Even though Sheriff Gualtieri has a measure on place called the “Missing Report List” to prevent these things from occurring, Gualtieri allowed reports for crimes against children to be kept off of that list.
In March of 2018, Sheriff Gualtieri made a VERY public spectacle of arresting former Child Investigation Deputy Steve Urban for failing to complete reports. Gualtieri even arranged a 1960’s style “perp walk” to trot Urban out in front of the Sheriff’s headquarters in cuffs, which was all a publicity stunt for Gualtieri to make it look like he cared about crimes against children. At that time, Gualtieri claimed he had put new measures in place to prevent this from reoccurring. Yet, that must not have happened since many of these 100 plus missing reports occurred before this ineffective “new measure” was supposedly put in place.
“Urban committed what is really the most egregious act that somebody in his position can commit” said Gualtieri. Yet, at the exact same time he was saying this, he was covering for a sergeant and two other detectives that also were not completing and filing reports on crimes against children that were assigned to them.When Gualtieri finally decided to do something about these missing reports two years later, there are no arrests, no perp walk, no press conference and no information released. In fact Sheriff Gualtieri has gone through great lengths to keep this story from the public and pressure the media to not report it.

Who one of the detectives may be related to at the PCSO may have something to do with that. Why the cover up Bob? Why did it not matter that THESE children were put at risk Bob? Why were the crimes that were committed against THEM not important Bob?

As politician Sheriff Robert Gualtieri tours the state pushing his armed teacher “guardian program” in an attempt to gain statewide name recognition to run for higher office (all while on the Pinellas County payroll), kids here are at risk thanks to Bob.

If you would like to ask Sheriff Gualtieri why he is burying this story and protecting this sergeant and two detectives, he can be reached at rgualtieri@pcsonet.com

Vote James McLynas for Sheriff of Pinellas County Florida in 2020 and I will make crimes against our children the highest priority, not an afterthought like Gualtieri.

IN CASE YOU WERE WONDERING WHERE ALL OF YOUR PINELLAS COUNTY TAX MONEY IS DISAPPEARING TO....

This is Sheriff Bob Gualtieri’s military beach outpost in Indian Shores. Sheriff Bob thinks that you can fight a virus using military equipment and 300 armed deputies with bullet proof vests on at the beach. This fiasco cost YOU the taxpayer over $250,000 PER DAY.

GREAT QUESTION!

I have been cleaning up the toxic police industry here for ten years. I exposed Shawn Pappas as the racists, homophobic trainer of new recruits personally appointed by Gualtieri to train all new recruits. I filed an amicus brief to prevent the PCSO from ending the 1988 Federal Consent Decree that demanded they end their racist hiring and training practices, BECAUSE THEY STILL HAVE NOT ENDED THEIR RACIST HIRING AND TRAINING PRACTICES IN 30 YEARS.

I was able to get dangerous Lt. Richard Crean fired from the Clearwater police department because he was using the confidential driver’s license database to look up and harass women and had filed numerous false reports and caused three people to be falsely arrested.
I was instrumental in taking taking down Pinellas deputy Paul Martin, a drug using, lying, psychopath child predator that Sheriff Gualtieri protected for years.
I have been exposing Pinellas County police corruption and financial waste for a decade. Now I want to finish the job I started. I know more about police corruption in Pinellas County than anybody else on the planet. I have researched and investigated dozens of dangerous dirty cops and I already know who is going to be fired, who is going to be investigated and who is going to be arrested when I am in office.
I have already investigated three murders that Sheriff Gualtieri covered up and I will be reopening those investigations and bringing them to an arrest.
I also know where over $100,000,000 is being wasted each and every year and I will cut that fat from the budget to ease the tax burden on the hard working people of Pinellas County as soon as I am elected, starting with a 25% cut to my own paycheck. I know what is wrong with the PCSO and I know how to fix it and that’s exactly what I intend to do.
I would LOVE to do a real LIVE debate. I don’t know whether you have heard or not, but Sheriff Gualtieri is REFUSING to debate ME because he is a coward that doesn’t want the people to hear exactly what you are asking to hear. Let HIM know you want a debate.
If you personally want to set up a time and place for your community to ask ME questions, I WILL be there to answer them. I can’t speak for any other candidates if they will come or not, but I will. I would love to answer anyone’s questions.
Here is Sheriff Gualtieri’s email if you want to ask him why he is too much of a coward to debate me. rgualtieri@pcsonet.com Ask Chris Tisch of the Tampa Bay Times why he cancelled the Sheriff’s debate in 2016 when I ran to not allow the people to hear what I had to offer the people of Pinellas and if he plans to try and pull that same stunt this year. ctisch@tampabay.com
I ask that ANY church or civil organization that wants a debate go ahead and set up a debate and invite the candidates and I WILL be there!

Sheriff Galtierri Orchestrated ZERO Bond (no bond allowed) For Peaceful Protesters

Sheriff Bob Gualtieri now has to explain to the Florida BAR why it was not a violation of BAR rules for him to make an Exparte’ contact with a judge in a case he is involved with that would be a clear conflict of interest, why he lied to the judge and why he himself orchestrated ZERO bond for peaceful protesters. He has until July 6, 2020 to tender his response to the BAR and Democratic candidate for Sheriff James McLynas that had filed the BAR complaint.

Elect McLynas for Sheriff and I will clean up this cesspool of massive corruption and political cronyism here in Pinellas, and I will start by removing one of the key puppet masters, Bob Gualtieri from his position as dirty Sheriff.

THIS is our corrupt, lying, racist Pinellas County Sheriff in action. Watch the video, and know him for who he really is.

June 17, 2020

SHERIFF BOB GUALTIERI KEEPS ADOPTING MORE OF MY CAMPAIGN PLATFORM

June 13, 2020 |INTERESTING, THAT AS TIME GOES BY, PINELLAS COUNTY SHERIFF BOB GUALTIERI KEEPS ADOPTING MORE OF MY CAMPAIGN PLATFORM

I have been calling for an END to Sheriff Gualtieri’s practice of over-using arrest here in Pinellas county. The policy of putting people in cages over minor, non-violent offenses with zero victims is a massive waste of taxpayer resources and a cancer that eats away at the community. It is also the exact type of racist policies that are the focus of Global protests.

However, no matter how many token changes Gualtieri tries to make between now and the election, it is still a tyrant trying to change his stripes.

Vote James McLynas for Sheriff for REAL change and FREE PINELLAS!

ACLU OF FLORIDA LETTER TO SHERIFF GUALTIERI RE: NO BOND FOR UNLAWFUL ASSEMBLY ARRESTS

June 11, 2020 | IT DOESN’T TAKE A ROCKET SCIENTIST TO SEE THAT PINELLAS COUNTY SHERIFF BOB GUALTIERI HATES THE CONSTITUTION, HATES FREEDOM AND HATES THE PEOPLE OF PINELLAS COUNTY

So why not vote for a Sheriff like James McLynas who loves the Constitution, loves freedom and loves the people of Pinellas County?

It is a simple choice.

I WONDER IF THEY CAUGHT IT CORRALLING AND ARRESTING PEACEFUL PROTESTERS??

June 10, 2020 | Sheriff Gualtieri has been rounding up and arresting peaceful protesters conducting constitutionally protected activities like assembling, protesting, free speech and freedom of travel. Those are all crimes according to Sheriff Bob.

Then Sheriff Bob illegally contacted a judge in an ex-parte’ unethical contact and talked the judge into rejecting bond so that would have to STAY in his infected jail.

NOW there is a new Covid-19 outbreak in the jail. Could it have come from all of those protesters you falsely charged and arrested Bob? THAT’S WHY YOU DON’T ARREST PEOPLE FOR NOT BREAKING THE LAW BOB!

The massive mismanagement and civil rights violations just keep on coming when you have Fuhrer Gualtieri in charge.

Vote McLynas and FREE PINELLAS!!

Pinellas County Sheriff's Office plane purchase raises questions

Narc Scandal Front and Center in Florida Sheriff Race [FEATURE]

They would have gotten away with it if not for tenacious defense attorneys. But things began to unravel last year, when the attorney for Allen Underwood, who had been arrested in a grow-op bust, filed a complaint saying that Underwood’s surveillance cameras had recorded one of the detectives hopping over his fence. The detective ordered the surveillance video deleted, and the sheriff’s office found no evidence of wrongdoing by its man.

FOR ALL OF YOU LABORING UNDER THE FALSE IMPRESSION THAT SHERIFF GUALTIERI WAS UNDER SOME OBLIGATION TO ENFORCE THE PINELLAS COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONER'S ORDERS

Here is Bob himself flat out stating that he most definitely does NOT take orders from the Pinellas County Board of Commissioners. He was telling the people (lying) that he works for THEM, is a “constitutional” officer and is bound by the United States Constitution. This was back when he had been “appointed” Sheriff and was campaigning to win his first actual election as sheriff. He was just telling the people what they wanted to hear like the slick politician he is.

THE LAW IS FOR THEE, BUT NOT FOR ME

Sheriff Robert Gualtieri attends a party being held at the massive military style “Social Distancing” command post he has set up at Indian Shores city hall.

Gualtieri has assigned over 250 deputies and over $1,500,000 in equipment to enforce social distancing at the beach. Roaming around and barking orders at people, darting with their ATV’s in and out of beachgoers and even having an officer working this very command center run over a 66 year old man who was laying on the beach crushing his pelvis.

MAKE NO MISTAKE, THIS WAS SHERIFF GUALTIERI'S FAULT A TOURIST WAS RUN OVER BY A PATROL CAR WHILE LAYING ON THE BEACH

So many people dismissed this horrific event as an unfortunate accident, but it could have easily been avoided. If it were not for Sheriff Gualtieri’s unconstitutional and draconian beach rules, there would have been no patrol cars driving down crowded beaches. If it were not for his closing of the beaches, businesses and forcing everyone indoors with his unconstitutional orders, there would not have been any big rush to the beach. This would have been just another beach weekend in Pinellas, where officers don’t drive between people paying on towels.

June 18, 2020 | Is there anything you can do for someone who is being harassed, threatened, and child alienated for coming up on 6 months now (two years old), false arrest, false injunction, multiple CPS complaints that have been cleared, ect.,all from a Pinellas deputy (Christopher Cenofanti).

June 18, 2020 |…to educate yourself. And for those who think weii, I do not break the law so I have nothing to worry. Let me leave you with this story of my experience with the PCSO a few years ago. I was living in East Lealman and one morning my son gets up and encounters a burglar in our home.

Lisa Wiggins: I was pulled over a few years ago for bad tags on a Monday at 4:30 in the afternoon and it ended up being 2 cop cars and 3 officers who decided to seach my car and I still don’t know why. They were being verbally aggressive to both me and my 17 year old daughter to the point it made my daughter cry. That was my daughters first real interaction with the police and it has left a really bad taste in her mouth and she really doesn’t have much respect for them now and it’s all their own fault for acting like bullies to a woman and her 17 yr old daughter smh.

Stephanie Mazzola: My mother passed away. She had a list of medical issues that the Pinellas county jail knew about and the Judge. She didn’t seek any medical attention until 3 days of her passing. They didn’t bring my mom to the hospital until there was not other choice. She was on life support and that’s the last time I got to see my mom and made that difficult decision of taking her off of it.

Karen J Combs: I want to share my experience yesterday with you. The police presence at the Fred Howard Park beach yesterday was crazy. Every five minutes police in a gator drove in front of us. No one was misbehaving. They pushed little kids out of the way who were playing.

Richie Augat: While going through this, I went and drank on my birthday in St. Pete beach. I left the Grand and was tackled by St. Pete Beach police and had the shit beat out of me on the beach for no reason, then was dragged in a cruiser and had handcuffs so tight my hand literally turned purple. The deputy sat in the cruiser smoking a cigar as I screamed as I lost feeling in my hand. Only after I about blasted out fo the cruser in shear pain did he see it an loosen the cuffs. I went to the ER afterwards and have nerve damage through my right arm and scar marks to this day, two years later of those cuffs. I’m not anti police or anti system, I am anti bad apples. I know people who serve, who are police, and I have talked to so many lawyers know its sick. Our system, especially Pasco and Pinellas are ripe with corruption, and a drunk on power mentality that, over time, is a complete and utter detriment to our community.

Ashley Jo: I am not 33 but when I was younger in middle school, I got caught with cigarettes and got a ticket for being in possession of tobacco as a minor. I was like 12 or 13 but back then my ticket was only $35. I too had to take one of those tobacco classes, it was really pointless. They taught me nothing that I didn’t already know. Made us breath through little coffee straws and told us that was what it was like with Emphysema. Anyways, fast forward to today. I had to go get a background check from the Sheriffs office for a job. I was shocked that it still showed up on my record after 20 some years and I was a minor then. I had to explain that to the job which was stupid.

Laurie Chism Meagher: Sadly my family knows this truth all too well. I have a veteran family member, who had such traumatic PTSD that he began hearing voices and was diagnosed with schizophrenia. He is now off the streets but was homeless for sometime and went through Pinellas counties revolving door for trespass charges many times. He is no longer homeless but was picked up 3 months ago for riding his bike on the trail at dusk. He had a warrent out for one a loitering charge and was arrested, fined $1500 and released. That’s how we treat our mentally ill veterans in case you did not know. Thankfully he has family resources so he was able to pay the fines but there will be a next time it’s how the system is set up. Everything is working exactly as it is designed. Makes me sick!

MANY MORE VICTIMS

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