Town Square

Post a New Topic

ACTORS committee submits formal letter to Supervisors,re: the DA's mistreatment of Juan Lopez and the Greg Munks incident

Original post made by Activism, Atherton: other, on Mar 23, 2015

The Ayres blog has the link to the document that was submitted by ActForUS last week to all of the Board of Supervisors and the press that requests an investigation into the San Mateo DA's actions in the Juan Lopez case and the Las Vegas Operation Dollhouse incident involving Sheriff Greg Munks.

You can see it here: Web Link

Among the items:

- A recent incident where the Sheriff's office demanded that Deputy Lopez meet officers at a shooting range

- An incident where Sheriff's deputies showed up at the hospital where Lopez was being treated for heart problems

- the failure of the Board of Supervisors to take action after Munks was caught in Operation Dollhouse.

Comments (12)

Posted by Activism
a resident of Atherton: other
on Mar 23, 2015 at 9:18 am

The correct name of the committee should read "ACTFORUS", not "ACTORS." Darn these computers that change names.


Posted by Actors
a resident of Menlo Park: other
on Mar 23, 2015 at 9:37 am

One of these things was a decade ago, and the sheriff has been reelected by San Mateo County twice in that decade. Another is a known gang member that had drugs and a contraband cell phone smuggled in by deputies.

Actors.


Posted by Actors
a resident of Menlo Park: other
on Mar 23, 2015 at 9:38 am

Actors, or political actors? Supporting a politician who couldn't even file his papers in time to get on the ballot.


Posted by Factually Correct
a resident of Woodside: other
on Mar 23, 2015 at 9:48 am

Actors:

The Munks incident was not a decade ago. It occurred in 2007, which makes it 8 years ago. I don't care how long ago this shameful and disturbing incident took place. It was never dealt with by the Supervisors and Mr. Munks was Never held accountable. As I recall, newspaper editorials urged voters to write in Mr. Lopez's name last year. Editorial boards still care.
A television station cared enough to bring up the Munks incident again just a few weeks ago.

I'd rather have a sheriff who filed his papers late than one who enters a brothel with underaged trafficked girls and then refuses to answer questions about his behavior.

[Portion removed; stick to the topic. And please use one name only in the same thread.]


Posted by Michael G. Stogner
a resident of another community
on Mar 23, 2015 at 11:17 am

7/22/2008 One year and 3 months after Sheriff Munks and Undersheriff Bolanos were caught and detained as customers of Human Trafficked Sext Slaves, I asked the Board of Supervisors to simply join me as Citizens and sign a copy of the letter I mailed 5/14/2007 to the Sheriff requesting him to resign or retire.

Web Link


Posted by Mark De Paula
a resident of another community
on Mar 23, 2015 at 12:05 pm

Just to give Actors a heads up, I filed my papers to seek the office of District 2 Supervisor in the last week of the 2014 election cycle.
The person who handles the paperwork gave me wrong information on all of the requirements.
This also happened to Deputy Juan Lopez! The difference between my situation, I had the time to get all of the paperwork.
Deputy Lopez' work schedule was 12 hours a day 7 days a week.


Posted by working half days
a resident of Menlo Park: Belle Haven
on Mar 23, 2015 at 10:57 pm

Dude worked 84 hours a week every week?


Posted by Mark De Paula
a resident of another community
on Mar 24, 2015 at 12:10 pm

"working half days","Dude", I believe is Deputy Juan Lopez. Call the Sheriff's office and ask them direct.


Posted by Actors
a resident of Menlo Park: other
on Mar 24, 2015 at 12:31 pm

The Actors were given a "heads up", by Mr. DePaula. It looks like Mr. DePaula also gave us a "heads up" on how he rolls.

Apparently one of the actors, Mark DePaula, makes a claim above about the hours worked by the accused, and then says DePaula won't offer any evidence to back up his own claim, that to check DePaula's claim, everyone should call the sheriff's office to verify DePaula's claim.

Mr. DePaula, you are running for District 2 Supervisor; when you make other claims, will they also require every voter to chase down the facts on your claims, or will you offer evidence to back up your random claims?

Big fan of "doveryai, no proveryai" it appears.

No trust from this voter.You can't just throw stuff out there against the wall and see if it sticks, and then expect to be elected by the public.


Posted by Michael G. Stogner
a resident of another community
on Mar 24, 2015 at 2:32 pm

Actors said

"Another is a known gang member that had drugs and a contraband cell phone smuggled in by deputies."

That is not true, there is no evidence that any Sheriff Deputy was involved in the smuggling. By the way there were 2 cell phones one is missing.

Correctional Officers not Sheriff Deputy


Posted by vr
a resident of another community
on Mar 24, 2015 at 4:43 pm

The DA is dirty, but the cop isn't? Can't wait to see the trial.


Posted by Menlo Voter
a resident of Menlo Park: other
on Mar 24, 2015 at 7:38 pm

Menlo Voter is a registered user.

vr:

don't hold your breath. I'm betting this never sees a jury. This is just the SMC establishment punishing someone for challenging them. and yeah, our DA is dirty. Or are you new to San Mateo County?


Don't miss out on the discussion!
Sign up to be notified of new comments on this topic.

Email:


Post a comment

On Wednesday, we'll be launching a new website. To prepare and make sure all our content is available on the new platform, commenting on stories and in TownSquare has been disabled. When the new site is online, past comments will be available to be seen and we'll reinstate the ability to comment. We appreciate your patience while we make this transition..

Stay informed.

Get the day's top headlines from Almanac Online sent to your inbox in the Express newsletter.