What the Media Didn’t Tell You

Read the PCSO Media Release!

In the days following Shawna Forde’s arrest, the Pima County Sheriff’s Office (PCSO) issued a 150 page Media Release about the case composed of officers’ reports.  It was disorganized but revealing.  We have reorganized it by topic and extracted the cogent parts.  The mainstream media managed to glean just a few paragraphs from it, leaving the most truthful parts untold.  (Just today, the Tucson Weekly reported that PCSO personnel are no longer allowed to talk about this case, and that this 150 pages of officers' reports is no longer available!)

Four defendants were arrested in this case: 3 males and 1 female.  Yet only one arrest was described; that of Hispanic Albert Gaxiola.  Jason Bush, the primary defendant, was not even mentioned.  Oin Oakstar, a suspect arrested for being a convicted felon in possession of firearms, was in the Pima County Jail for months, but has been since released and re-arrested twice. Shawna Forde was only mentioned in a few paragraphs.  No information was made available about what led to her arrest.  Were these omissions intentional?

Jason Bush was arrested in Meadview, AZ.  He had a bullet wound in his leg for 2 weeks that was likely infected and painful, considering he hadn't received proper treatment.  It can only be imagined how coercive and lengthy was the interrogation which added up to an 89 page transcript.  After the interrogation, Bush was taken to the hospital in Kingman for treatment.  We were not told if the bullet in his leg was extracted and kept for evidence, something which might be a crucial part of someone’s case.  A few media sources reported that Bush had been arrested AT the hospital!

The media falsely reported Shawna Forde was arrested in Sierra Vista.  She was in a rural area near the border known as Hereford at the time, and about a mile from Glenn Spencer’s American Border Patrol ranch. 

The PCSO reports on May 30, the night of the killings, a Mexican illegal alien, living at a mobile home on the Flores’ property was present.   He had a cut on his arm, a t-shirt covered with blood splatter, and a loaded .357 magnum in his bedroom.  Border Patrol agents on the scene questioned the alien and reported he gave conflicting information.  Detective Juan Carlos Navarro questioned him, took his t-shirt for DNA testing, and inexplicably let him go!  The following day, detectives canvassed the neighborhood, but despite over 16 shots being fired in the Flores’ mobile home, no one saw or heard anything.

The mainstream media mentioned nothing about the .357 magnum handgun which was conveniently found at the fence line of the property and which was traced back to Robert Rowden in Tucson, AZ.  But we are given all sorts of details about the arrest of Albert Gaxiola, including the restaurant at which he was captured.  Most of these details were not shared by the media.

There are details about the detectives’ contacts with Albert Gaxiola shortly after the killings, and paraphrases of the conversations they had with him.  Det. Svec went through Gaxiola’s cell phone and found the word “White” in his Contacts.  When asked who that was, Gaxiola answered that it was Shawna.  Svec asked him why he called Shawna that, and according to his report, Gaxiola responded that “she hates all ethnicity with the exception of whites.”  We strongly suspect that this is a misinterpretation of what Gaxiola said, and was publicized to further a political agenda to wrongly portray Forde as a white supremacist.  It’s likely he said, “the only color she likes is white.”  Shawna’s friends know that white is simply her favorite color, and has nothing to do with race.  In fact, on the day she was arrested, she was wearing all white.  And Gaxiola admits that he has a relationship with the leader of the Minutemen, Shawna Forde.  Gaxiola is Hispanic, so one can only wonder about how they can make the “white supremacist” smear stick.

Right after the murders, on the same day, a woman named Felicia Reese called the PCSO and said, “I know who did it!”  Reese was a houseguest at the home of Sandy Stroup and Oin Oakstar in Arivaca at the time.  Reese claimed she had heard Oakstar’s girl friend, Sandy Stroup, talking about the murders, and appearing to know many more details than what had been released by the media.  Reese told how she had been shown a video of Oakstar shooting guns and making verbal threats about Raul Flores.  She also related how she was asked to drive Oakstar's truck from an RV park back to the home, which she found odd.  PCSO took her seriously and sent a SWAT team to Oakstar’s home at 10:30 am on May 30, the same day the murders occurred.  They broke down the gate with an armored vehicle, used explosive devices to disorient the occupants, and flushed Sandy Stroup out of the shower wearing only a towel, which fell off outside the house.  Stroup was described as “belligerent, uncooperative, and agitated,” and she refused to allow officers to take pictures of her or her kids.  Deputy Tyra described her as “a Caucasian female, heavyset,” which just happens to match the description given to the PCSO by the surviving victim.

Oakstar was not there, and the SWAT team tore off the skirting on the trailer to make sure he wasn’t hiding in the crawlspace.  Eventually, Oakstar was arrested walking down the street a couple of blocks from the home.  He was booked into jail for being a convicted felon in possession of weapons which were found at his home.  The only media picture of him was published by the Green Valley Sun, and it is of his back.  No picture of his face has been published.

A day after the SWAT team raided Oakstar’s home, Detectives Svec and Murphy went to visit Gina Gonzalez, the surviving victim in the hospital.  They questioned her about the appearance of the intruders who had shot her and killed her husband and daughter.  She described the Caucasian male as over 6’4” tall, balding or with a receding hairline, 35-50 years old and approximately 300 lbs.  The female was Caucasian, 35-50 years old, “5’ tall, and heavyset or chubby,” according to Det. Svec’s report.

The detectives asked Gonzalez if it was Oin Oakstar and Sandy Stroup (who fit the descriptions). Gonzalez knew both of them, since her husband had engaged in drug business with Oakstar before.  Gonzalez allegedly replied it was not them.  Was Gina Gonzalez fearing further retaliation?  She claimed, according to the media release, that she could not identify the people who shot her and her family.  Which was it?  That she couldn’t identify them, or that she could, but it definitely wasn’t Oakstar and Stroup?  Was this botched witness recall cast aside for future implication of "a designated suspect?"  

Oin Oakstar is 6’3” tall, and weighs 300 lbs.  Source information indicates that Sandy Stroup, AKA Sandra Somers, is a short, fat white woman.  Shawna Forde is 5’3”, and weighed 150 lbs. when she was arrested.  Maybe she’s a bit on the short side for the average Caucasian woman, but she’s not fat.  Jason Bush is 6’6” tall, and is built very lean at 225 lbs.  He’s tall, but not big.

According to information revealed in the December 21 Probable Cause Hearing, Oakstar will be testifying for the prosecution!  The Green Valley News recently reported he is getting supervised probation and no prison time in exchange for his testimony.  He was released on his own recognizance, despite his evaluation as a high risk offender.

During that hearing, Det. Navarro described the female perpetrator as “white and heavyset.”  How many women in Arizona or Arivaca would that describe?  Is there a legal definition of "heavyset," or is it just a PC term for someone who's fat?  And upon cross-examination by Eric Larsen, Shawna’s attorney, Navarro was forced to admit that Gina Gonzalez could not pick Shawna Forde out of a lineup of other women!  She could not even say what color hair the woman intruder had, despite all the lights in her house being on.  Larsen stated, “There is no evidence against my client.”

Meanwhile, Shawna Forde, who is innocent, sits in jail in solitary confinement.

What’s really going on here? 

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