Interpol May Block Orange County Sheriff" Access
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Interpol May Block Orange County Sheriff" Access
by
Michael Webster Investigative Reporter- 9:45 AM 11-5-07
Interpol's secure global police
communications system may be denied to Orange County Sheriff's Department due to
the recent indictment of Sheriff Michael Carona.
Interpol's
information about terrorism,
and other major crime and criminals is currently being shared with
the Sheriff’s Dept along with nominal data, such as fingerprints
and other important identity documents that can be verified in seconds.
According to a high level
INTERPOL
representative that privilege may be modified or even suspended.
Since January 2007, Orange
County Sheriff’s Department and Jail Deputies have had official designation from
the US’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency to interview foreign
nationals taken into custody. Enabling access to
Interpol’s international databases
which would further assist the sheriff to identify international wanted persons
arrested in California and else where.
According to
INTERPOL Sheriff Carona met with Secretary General
Ronald K. Noble at the
INTERPOL headquarters in Lyon to identify ways in which vital international
police information could be accessed by his deputies even on the street.
Side Bar:
The Board of
Supervisors approved the Sheriff-Coroner to travel to Great Britain and
France to meet with law enforcement, private sector and government officials
on international terrorism and law enforcement issues. Sheriff Carona was to
travel to Lyon, France, to meet with Secretary General Ronald Noble of
Interpol for a series of classified briefings on intelligence, drug and
human trafficking, money laundering and terrorism. According to Carona
establishing a direct relationship with Interpol will provide he and his
deputies with direct access to timely intelligence. The Sheriff was to also
travel to London to meet with Great Britain’s top metropolitan police
agency, Scotland Yard, to be briefed by its commissioners on security
operations at London-Heathrow Airport and on the London Underground public
transportation system. He was to be given a briefing on the Closed Circuit
Television system utilized for security in the greater London area. Upon his
return, Sheriff Carona was to provide the Board of Supervisors with a
complete report on findings and public safety goals developed from the
comprehensive briefings. Its been reported that the Sheriff may not have
actually met with those agencies. See
www.ocweekly.com The Journal contacted
INTERPOL
and was told they have no record of Sheriff Carona meeting with Secretary
General Ronald Noble of
INTERPOL.
'With thousands of overseas
visitors each year, it is clear that the best way to keep the people and
businesses of Orange County safe from international criminals is the creation of
links with international agencies such as INTERPOL,' said Secretary General
Noble.
'Sheriff Corona’s recognition of
this fact is something I hope that other police chiefs, both throughout America
and the rest of the world will also come to realize, and his foresight should be
applauded.
'Creating a link between INTERPOL
and national police to make sure that the right information reaches the right
people as quickly and efficiently as possible should be the goal of all law
enforcement.'
The world’s largest police
organization, each of Interpol’s
186 member countries has
an INTERPOL National Central Bureau (NCB) which is controlled and staffed by the
national authorities of that country.
Located in Washington DC, the US
NCB includes police representatives from a number of federal and state law
enforcement agencies, and has been working with the General Secretariat to
extend INTERPOL services to officers in the field.
During his visit Carona said 'If
Orange County Sheriff’s Deputies were given direct access to Interpol’s tools
such as the Stolen and Lost Travel Documents database, this would have a major
impact on our ability to carry out our job of protecting all residents and
visitors.'
'I have committed my department to
working with the US NCB and INTERPOL to see how fast we can get these tools into
the hands of my deputies in the field. Those of us in law enforcement have a
duty to explore every avenue and opportunity which can help us carry out our
jobs to the best of our abilities.'
INTERPOL has made it one of its
highest priorities to ensure that member countries possess the most effective
tools available to combat international crime and terrorism.
Serous questions are being asked
about Corona’s trust worthiness wondering if Carona and his deputies should have
access to such vital information.
Earlier this year, a
well-respected international police organization voted to block access by Carona
and the Orange County Sheriff's Department to its organized-crime databases. The
reason?
Corona’s documented ties to
mobsters and other criminals
like Las Vegas strip club owner
and known to have under world connections Rick Rizzolo (pictured with his arm
around a smiling Carona inside a Newport Beach bar) That bar turns out to be the
Ritz in Newport Beach owned by Fred Glusman pictured below.
Fred Glusman
Glusman also owns
Pieros
in Las Vegas. Its rumored that Rick Rizzolo and some of his mobster friends
frequent the restaurant and may have hidden interests in the enterprise.
Also reported at that meeting con artist Joseph Medawar—two other men Carona
made associates—are now serving federal prison sentences. Indeed, Rizzolo--whom
FBI agents have recorded dining with La Cosa Nostra hitmen and bosses--was a
campaign contributor to our sheriff until the local media exposed the tie.
According to Steve Miller a former Las Vegas City Counclemen and now
writes internationally syndicated columns on organized crime and
political corruption for
Rick Porrello's
AmericanMafia.com:
writes "It’s long been suspected that Carona, a close friend of
Rick Rizzolo and other Vegas luminaries, was providing Vegas and Orange
County Mafia associates with classified information only available to
law enforcement agencies.Vegas expatriates who have second homes in
Newport Beach and Laghuna Beach include Mayor Oscar Goodman, Joey Cusumano, Gary Primm,
Frank Fertitta Jr., Bruce Becker, Michael Galardi, Blake Sartini, Jan
Jones, Terry Lanni, and others.
Observed in Newport and Laguna freeloading on the above Vegas to OC
transplants include former LV councilman Michael McDonald, ex-Clark
Commissioners Lance Malone, Erin Kenny, and Dario Herrera in exchange
for their granting of political favors.
Last year the Orange County Sheriff’s Office was taken off the list
of agencies linked to a national law enforcement information base
because it was suspected that Carona was sharing confidential
information with Rizzolo and his Vegas Mob friends.
Carona was the sheriff who gave LV restaurant owner Freddy Glusman a
badge that he later had to revoke after Glusman tried using it to
intimidate a Newport Beach shop owner.
Don Mehr Santa Ana Bail Bondsmen and others had
complained to the sheriff for years that someone teamed up with jail deputies
inside the Orange County Sheriff’s Department and was running a bail-bonds scam
in his jails. The OC weekly reported that Carona did nothing and, when pressed,
claimed he’d checked but didn’t find any evidence of a scam.
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