Media to Sheriff Dupnik: Can We Have Your Records on Giffords’ Shooter? Dupnik to Media: No, No You Can’t..
It’s almost like he’s hiding something.
(Arizona Republic)- Sheriff’s Department and community-college officials in Pima County are refusing to release a wide range of public documents about the man charged in Saturday’s shooting rampage that left six dead and more than a dozen wounded.
The Arizona Public Records Law requires that records be “open to inspection by any person at all times” unless officials can prove releasing the information would violate rights of privacy or confidentiality or otherwise harm the best interests of the state. . . .
On Monday, The Republic requested copies of any reports from the Pima County Sheriff’s Department involving contacts with Loughner or calls to his house. Pima County Deputy Rene Carlson said her office would not release the reports without a specific date, though this is not required by state statute.
Carlson said providing these documents would be tantamount to releasing criminal history.
Carlson said she could not speculate on the nature of any calls for service regarding Loughner. She also said no calls or incidents involved threats made by Loughner.
Posted by ZIP on Wednesday, January 12, 2011, at 2:53 pm | 
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If we’re going to have a “Dupnik retirement pool” I am going to say “within the next 60 days”.
“It’s almost like he’s hiding something.”
LOL, Nooooo, ya think zip? Couldnt be. [sarc]
DAMN RIGHT he’s hiding something and they better start digging dammit.
Show us the goods, Sheriff Barney Dupeschtick.
took the words right outta my mouth. he’d better hold those records close. They show his utter incompetence as sheriff.
Who in the fuck does he think he is Obama?
Great Sheriff Dipshit went to the obama school of public records.
At this point we have a better chance of seeing obama’s long form birth records then Sheriff Dumbprick releasing any and all records on Jared Loughner
Maybe he’s in possession of Oboneheads birth certificate.
I’m going to lose it, if when these things come out they are as telling and out of line with the “official story” as:
1 – He was arrested for destroying a Bush/Chenney sign.
2 – He was arrested for pissing on a Republican Headquarters.
3 – He was arrested for destroying church property of some type.
4 – He was arrested for destroying a McCain/Palin sign.
etc…
Awww media…tsk tsk. He promised you diamonds, didn’t he, if you only serviced his teabags.
Heh.
Albert Einstein is correct…stupidity has no limits. Sheriff Dupa is a stupid old man.
Obama called this guy to thank a fellow piece-of-shit like himself!
This dickweed, Dupnik, needs to quit today!
Is a certain governor gonna have to send State Troopers to seize those records as evidence?
This thing sure stinks, he is definately hiding something to be sure of. They are probably scrubbing his records now of any wrong doing on the Sheriff’s part.
I definitely believe he is hiding something.What it is isn’t clear but there is no good reason to withhold the records if there isn’t something shady going on.
Calypso Jones says:
January 12, 2011 at 3:13 pm
Maybe he’s in possession of Oboneheads birth certificate.
Absolutely hilarious CJ!
That’s why Jan Brewer HAS got to initiate an Internal Affairs Investigation on Sheriff Dupnik.
Sheriff Dupnyet belongs in the same insane asylum as the “alleged” shooter.
fishy commentator:
Perhaps several hundred thousand of us should e-mail Governor Brewer and ask her to do just that!!!
Officer stopped suspect on day of Ariz. shooting
In the hours before the assassination attempt against Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, Jared Loughner went to Walmart, was pulled over for running a red light and ran from his father after an angry confrontation. Investigators are piecing together the timeline of Loughner’s frenzied morning before the attack that killed six.
“What he did and the morning before the shooting, we’re just trying to find all that out,” said sheriff’s Capt. Chris Nanos.
Nanos wouldn’t say what Loughner bought during two trips to Walmart.
After the shopping trips, Loughner ran a red light but was let off with a warning, the Arizona Game and Fish Department said. The officer took Loughner’s driver’s license and vehicle registration information at 7:30 a.m. but found no outstanding warrants and didn’t search the car, a late 1960s dark gray Chevy Nova.
About 8 a.m., Randy Loughner saw his son walk to one of the family’s vehicles and take a black bag out of the trunk.
“The father went out and said, ‘What’s that?’ and he mumbled something and took off running,” said Sheriff Clarence Dupnik.
Randy Loughner got in his truck and chased his son, but Jared ran into the desert.
At 10:11 a.m., police say Jared Loughner showed up at a Tucson grocery store in a taxi and shot 19 people, killing a federal judge and a 9-year-old girl, among others and wounding more than a dozen.
Hours after the attack, sheriff’s deputies swarmed the Loughners’ home and removed what they describe as evidence Loughner was targeting Giffords. Among the handwritten notes was one with the words “Die, bitch,” which authorities believe was a reference to Giffords.
Investigators with the Pima County Sheriff’s Department previously said they found handwritten notes in Loughner’s safe reading “I planned ahead,” “My assassination” and “Giffords.” Capt. Chris Nanos said all the writings were either in an envelope or on a form letter Giffords’ office sent him in 2007 after he signed in at one of her “Congress on Your Corner” events — the same kind of gathering where the massacre occurred.
Meanwhile, the city held a tribute to victims the eve of a presidential visit.
On Tuesday night, several hundred mourners filled a Tucson church for a public Mass to remember the slain and pray for the injured. As people filed in, nine young girls sang “Amazing Grace.” The youngest victim of the attack, 9-year-old Christina Taylor Green, was a member of that choir.
“I know she is singing with us tonight,” said Tucson Bishop Gerald Kicanas, who presided over the service.
President Barack Obama visits Arizona Wednesday and will honor the victims in a speech to a rattled state and nation.
In one apparent reaction to the shooting, the FBI said background checks for handgun sales jumped in Arizona following the shootings, though the agency cautioned that the number of checks doesn’t equate to the number of handguns sold.
Still, there were 263 background checks in Arizona on Monday, up from 164 for the same day a year ago — a 60 percent rise. Nationally, the increase was more modest: from 7,522 last year to 7,906 Monday, a 5 percent jump.
Loughner’s parents, silent and holed up in their home since attack, issued a statement Tuesday, expressing remorse over the shooting.
“There are no words that can possibly express how we feel,” Randy and Amy Loughner wrote in a statement handed to reporters waiting outside their house. “We wish that there were, so we could make you feel better. We don’t understand why this happened.
“We care very deeply about the victims and their families. We are so very sorry for their loss.”
Four days after a bullet went through Giffords’ head, she was making small movements on her own and tugging at her hospital gown, though she remained in critical condition.
“She was able to actually even feel her wounds herself,” said Dr. Peter Rhee, trauma chief at the University of Arizona.
The three-term Democrat was expected to live and has been making progress. Giffords is more alert after nurses eased her sedation. She can breathe on her own, respond to voice commands and even make small spontaneous motions.
As she improved, authorities continued their investigation of Loughner.
Sheriff’s deputies had been to the Loughner home at least once before the attack, spokesman Jason Ogan said. He didn’t know why or when the visit occurred, and said department lawyers were reviewing the paperwork and expected to release it Wednesday.
The visits were for nonviolent incidents, including a report by Jared Loughner of identity theft, a noise complaint and Amy Loughner’s claim that someone had stolen her license plate sticker, according to a report by The Wall Street Journal.
In addition to the new details about the hours before the shooting, interviews with those who knew Loughner or his family painted a picture of a young loner who tried to fit in.
Before everything fell apart, he went through the motions as many young men do nowadays: Living at home with his parents, working low-wage jobs at big brand stores and volunteering time doing things he liked.
None of it worked. His relationship with his parents was strained. He clashed with co-workers and police. And he couldn’t follow the rules at an animal shelter where he spent some time.
Loughner grew up on an unremarkable Tucson block of low-slung homes with palm trees and cactus gardens out front. Fittingly, it’s called Soledad Avenue — Spanish for solitude.
Solitude found Loughner, even when he tried to escape it. He had buddies but always fell out of touch, typically severing the friendship with a text message. Zach Osler was one such friend.
Loughner’s father moved into the house as a bachelor, and eventually got married, longtime next-door neighbor George Gayan said. Property records show Randy Loughner has lived there since 1977. Unlike other homes on the block, the Loughners’ is obscured by plants. It was assessed in 2010 at $137,842.
Randy Loughner apparently has not worked for years — at least outside his home.
Amy Loughner got a job with the county parks and recreation department just before Jared was born, and since at least 2002 has been the supervisor for Roy P. Drachman Agua Caliente Park on the outskirts of the city. She earns $25.70 an hour, according to Gwyn Hatcher, Pima County’s human resources director.
Since it appears Loughner was stalking Giffords with the intent to kill her since 2007, the Left has just had its carefully constructed campaign to shut down free speech in the US shot to pieces (pun fully intended). You do all realize there is going to be no end of Left melt-down, hysteria and collective frothing-at-the-mouth now that this is in the public domain.
Dipstick is up to his neck in hot oil.
I’m lovin’ this ~
Fox: DEVELOPING: The Pima County Sheriff’s Department released reports on Wednesday detailing its contact with alleged Arizona gunman Jared Loughner prior to Saturday’s shooting.
Never fear Chief Inspector Jacques Clouseau is on the case.
Maybe the shooter is Nupdik’s blood relative? oops, soory, I meant to say related.
One FOIA request, coming right up.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/01/12/pima-county-sheriffs-department-releases-loughner-records/
@GH722
Okay looking at the this better still be developing as they get stuff or they are still withholding.
Dupnik is kaput.
Since he knew about the threat, why didn’t this idiot sheriff have a deputy at that town hall meeting? He should be removed from office.