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Thursday, May 7, 2009

Internal Affairs and being Mr. Teflon

When my Criminal case was over, my job decided to have Internal Affairs do an investigation into the charges against me. They were notified by me and by the courts that the charges had been reduced to Disorderly conduct and I received 6 months probation. Well, I was still staying at the shelter at this time so there was no home # to call, just my cell #. I was told that a meeting was to be scheduled so I would speak and make a statement to the investigators regarding the final judgement. Well, I was on my days off when my Manager decided to call me and told me "Where are you" I replied "Who the hell is this". My Manager said "This is Marco", you have an appointment with IA today". I said "No one told me, I guess your are going to have reschedule it because I'm not in the area". I said to him "If you guys want me to be there, someone going have to say something to me in advance so I can make sure I can be there". So when I got back to work in 2 days, my manager told me "I better watch how I talk to him" and I replied "Your the one who call me and didn't identify who you were, so If anyone needs to correct how they speak to someone it is you", also if an appointment is made don't you think the interested person (ME)should know when that appointment is. Well I meet with the IA investigators regarding the arrest and they were OK but one was just intent on what the statements said and I told him "I don't care what the statements say That is not how it went down. I showed him letters from my EX that stated that she just wanted me out of the house and that was the easiest way to do it. So I really don't care if you believe me or not but the truth is I was arrested on a false charge and I outlasted the prosecution and they agreed to my terms not the other way around. I wrote a statement for them about the night I was arrested and gave it to them. It took 4 pages to complete. I told them that the only reason I took the disorderly was so my son would not have to testify and be questioned why he changed his statement. The prosecution would have battered him on the stand and I didn't want that to happen. Well, a week past and the decision was to give me a counseling statement (non formal disciplinary) that says don't do it again. Really it's not worth the paper it's written on. That is all they can do because all other paths of discipline were unwarranted. I take this as a VICTORY in my eyes because I beat the criminal case, the Divorce and now my job. I am what my fellow soldiers in the Army used to call me and that is MR. TEFLON because nothing sticks.

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