* Tribal Dis-enrollment ~ What do you think?
Some of the more powerful, local Southern California Tribes have been dis-enrolling their some of their members. It is not a California thing... other Tribes, Nations have done this at times too.
Perhaps they were doing right with some.... those that do not have that Tribe's blood in their own veins and do not have a living connection to the Tribe anymore (a spouse).
However in my opinion, they were not playing fair dis-enrolling others... those that DID have the blood of that Tribe in their veins and DID still have familial connections to the Tribe.
In some cases, the Tribal Member did not agree with the decisions or opinions of the Tribal Council. This should NOT be a reason or a cause to eject that member and/or their family from the Rolls of the Tribe itself.
~~~>> D.
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DW1 says...
"I would agree with your comments, these processes are native and not about agreements or disagreements, they are about being native. "
Tuesday, June 22, 2010
Arrest of Murder Suspect in OLD Cabazon Tribe Triple Homicide
Arrest of Murder Suspect in OLD Cabazon Tribe Triple Homicide
Wed. Sept. 30, 2009
Reporting Officer: Sgt. Dennis E. Gutierrez, Public Information Officer
On Tuesday, July 1, 1981, at about 6:48 am, the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department Indio Station was dispatched to the scene of a triple homicide at 35040 Bob Hope Drive, at the time of this crime this was the unincorporated area of the County.
Friends of the deceased had arrived at the location to visit and discovered the bodies and notified the Sheriff’s Department of the incident.
The victims in this homicide were ALFRED ALVAREZ, with a date of birth of July 18, 1948, a resident of the location, RALPH ARTHUR BOGER, with a date of birth of September 20, 1938, a resident of San Bernardino, and PATRICIA ROBERTA CASTRO, with a date of birth of January 17, 1938, a resident of Long Beach. All victims had been shot.
After 28 years in investigating this case, the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department Cold Case Unit had an arrest warrant issued by the California Attorney General’s Office.
A warrant in connection with these three murders was issued for the arrest of Jimmy Hughes, age 52. The warrant was executed in Miami at the airport when Hughes was attempting to board a plane to Honduras. Hughes has been living in Honduras for past few years as a preacher. Hughes is currently fighting extradition to face murder charges in Riverside California. He is currently being held in Dade County (Florida) Jail.
The Riverside County Sheriff’s Department has continued to monitor and re-examine this cold case and requested the assistance from the California Attorney General's Office for prosecution.
No further information will be released at this time on this case. Case File Number: C81182009.
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Suspect Arrested in 1981 Triple Murder
Posted: Sep 26, 2009 02:22 PM
Updated: Sept. 27, 2009 07:10 PM
By Nathan Baca, News Channel 3 Reporter
nbaca@kesq.com - KESQ.COM - Channel 3 - Desert’s On-line News Leader
MIAMI - An assistant Sheriff with Riverside County confirmed Saturday the arrest of Jimmy Hughes, 52, the suspect in a 1981 triple homicide known as the "Octupus Murders"
Hughes was arrested at Miami International Airport while trying to board a flight to Honduras, where he runs a Jimmy Hughes Christian Ministries and other outreach programs.
The Sheriff's Department tells us Hughes is being charged with three counts of murder and one count of conspiracy to commit murder.
Fred Alvarez, his girlfriend Patty Castro, and Ralph Boger were shot inside a home on Bob Hope Drive in Rancho Mirage in 1981.
Alvarez was Vice Chairman of the Cabazon Band of Mission Indians. News Channel 3 reported earlier this year, Alvarez was planning to blow the whistle on a business partnership between defense contractor Wackenhut Services and Cabazon Manager John Phillip Nichols to form Cabazon Arms. Boger was likely in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Stay with News Channel 3 for new developments on this breaking story. To learn more about this investigation click on the link in the upper left hand corner: "Part 33: Local Indian Tribe Investigated in 'The Octupus' Murders."
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Part 30: 1981 Triple Murder Tied to DA Investigator McGowan Murders-Suicide?
DONE LAST YEAR: Posted: July 16, 2008 - 03:52 PM
By Nathan Baca
News Channel 3 - KESQ.COM - Channel 3 - Desert’s On-line News Leader
There are new developments in a year-long News Channel 3 investigation.
The Riverside County Sheriff's Department is looking into possible connections between a triple murder in 1981 and murder-suicide in 2005 that claimed six lives.
It's a story you'll only see on News Channel 3.
We have internal documents from the Cold Case Division of the Riverside County Sheriff's Department showing the depth of the investigation.
We will not reveal the investigators' identity at this time since the documents show their lives may be in danger.
The investigation ranges from a local indian tribe to the top levels of the federal government.
Nicaraguan arms deals, stolen computer databases, weapons testing on local Cabazon Indian land and a lawsuit alleging conspiracy from the highest federal officials of the 1980s.
All of these are now being investigated by the Riverside County Cold Case Division.
On July 1, 1981, Fred Alvarez, his girlfriend Patty Castro and friend Ralph Boger were shot to death on Bob Hope Drive in Rancho Mirage. There was a house at the location that has since been bulldozed. Nobody was ever arrested for the shooting.
Family menbers and friends say Cabazon Band of Mission Indians Vice Chairman Fred Alvarez was going to blow the whistle with documents from the early 1980's showing a business partnership between defense contractor Wackenhut Services and Cabazon Manager John Phillip Nichols to form Cabazon Arms.
The tribe that now runs the Fantasy Springs Casino was a pioneer in Indian gaming, starting with a small card room.
Nichols allegedly planned on using Indian sovereign land to test and build pistols, assault rifles, sniper guns and rocket launchers.
The partnership was interested in biological weapons that could be deployed in small countries.
Twenty-five years ago, the offices of Cabazon arms were in an office suite on Requa Avenue in Indio.
This is at the heart of the Iran-Contra scandal that affected President Ronald Reagan's administration, whether weapons were sold to Central American groups to pay for the release of hostages in Iran.
The documents show that some of these weapons were developed near Indio.
Three people may have been murdered to protect that secret.
Cabazon business manager John Phillip Nichols later went to prison for a separate case of murder solicitation, but tribal officials say that any connection to the Alvarez triple murder was "ridiculous and malicious."
Wackenhut corporation declined to comment to News Channel 3, but denied any wrongdoing in the book "Return of the Buffalo: The Story Behind America's Indian Gaming Explosion."
The murder case has been reopened and closed multiple times in the past 27 years. Sheriff's investigators have asked friends and former partners of District Attorney Investigator David McGowan whether he was working the case in 2005.
An investigation concluded that McGowan murdered his family of five before shooting himself on May 10th, 2005. Surviving family members tell News Channel 3 they believe the investigation was rushed and incomplete.
Sheriff's officials now tell News Channel 3 the District Attorney's office was not investigating the Alvarez case.
Another document says otherwise:
Former DA Investigator and current Indio Councilman Gene Gilbert handled the case in the early 1990's.
His report detailed a weapons test held in Lake Cahuilla between Cabazon Arms and two Nicaraguan generals. (Documents 1, 2, 3.)
It is unclear at this time whether Investigator David McGowan was working on the Alvarez triple murder before his 2005 death.
What is clear is that the sheriff's cold case squad is taking it seriously, interviewing people familiar with McGowan's former cases and reopening a case that in the words of one investigator, they "do not want to continue working - based on the number of people who have met an untimely demise while doing so."
As of Wednesday, the Cabazon Band of Mission Indians has not responded to News Channel 3's questions.
Our next report will focus on the importance of a stolen computer database in the 1980's, and how a journalist may have been murdered after uncovering a local connection to a massive political conspiracy.
Wed. Sept. 30, 2009
Reporting Officer: Sgt. Dennis E. Gutierrez, Public Information Officer
On Tuesday, July 1, 1981, at about 6:48 am, the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department Indio Station was dispatched to the scene of a triple homicide at 35040 Bob Hope Drive, at the time of this crime this was the unincorporated area of the County.
Friends of the deceased had arrived at the location to visit and discovered the bodies and notified the Sheriff’s Department of the incident.
The victims in this homicide were ALFRED ALVAREZ, with a date of birth of July 18, 1948, a resident of the location, RALPH ARTHUR BOGER, with a date of birth of September 20, 1938, a resident of San Bernardino, and PATRICIA ROBERTA CASTRO, with a date of birth of January 17, 1938, a resident of Long Beach. All victims had been shot.
After 28 years in investigating this case, the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department Cold Case Unit had an arrest warrant issued by the California Attorney General’s Office.
A warrant in connection with these three murders was issued for the arrest of Jimmy Hughes, age 52. The warrant was executed in Miami at the airport when Hughes was attempting to board a plane to Honduras. Hughes has been living in Honduras for past few years as a preacher. Hughes is currently fighting extradition to face murder charges in Riverside California. He is currently being held in Dade County (Florida) Jail.
The Riverside County Sheriff’s Department has continued to monitor and re-examine this cold case and requested the assistance from the California Attorney General's Office for prosecution.
No further information will be released at this time on this case. Case File Number: C81182009.
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Suspect Arrested in 1981 Triple Murder
Posted: Sep 26, 2009 02:22 PM
Updated: Sept. 27, 2009 07:10 PM
By Nathan Baca, News Channel 3 Reporter
nbaca@kesq.com - KESQ.COM - Channel 3 - Desert’s On-line News Leader
MIAMI - An assistant Sheriff with Riverside County confirmed Saturday the arrest of Jimmy Hughes, 52, the suspect in a 1981 triple homicide known as the "Octupus Murders"
Hughes was arrested at Miami International Airport while trying to board a flight to Honduras, where he runs a Jimmy Hughes Christian Ministries and other outreach programs.
The Sheriff's Department tells us Hughes is being charged with three counts of murder and one count of conspiracy to commit murder.
Fred Alvarez, his girlfriend Patty Castro, and Ralph Boger were shot inside a home on Bob Hope Drive in Rancho Mirage in 1981.
Alvarez was Vice Chairman of the Cabazon Band of Mission Indians. News Channel 3 reported earlier this year, Alvarez was planning to blow the whistle on a business partnership between defense contractor Wackenhut Services and Cabazon Manager John Phillip Nichols to form Cabazon Arms. Boger was likely in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Stay with News Channel 3 for new developments on this breaking story. To learn more about this investigation click on the link in the upper left hand corner: "Part 33: Local Indian Tribe Investigated in 'The Octupus' Murders."
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Part 30: 1981 Triple Murder Tied to DA Investigator McGowan Murders-Suicide?
DONE LAST YEAR: Posted: July 16, 2008 - 03:52 PM
By Nathan Baca
News Channel 3 - KESQ.COM - Channel 3 - Desert’s On-line News Leader
There are new developments in a year-long News Channel 3 investigation.
The Riverside County Sheriff's Department is looking into possible connections between a triple murder in 1981 and murder-suicide in 2005 that claimed six lives.
It's a story you'll only see on News Channel 3.
We have internal documents from the Cold Case Division of the Riverside County Sheriff's Department showing the depth of the investigation.
We will not reveal the investigators' identity at this time since the documents show their lives may be in danger.
The investigation ranges from a local indian tribe to the top levels of the federal government.
Nicaraguan arms deals, stolen computer databases, weapons testing on local Cabazon Indian land and a lawsuit alleging conspiracy from the highest federal officials of the 1980s.
All of these are now being investigated by the Riverside County Cold Case Division.
On July 1, 1981, Fred Alvarez, his girlfriend Patty Castro and friend Ralph Boger were shot to death on Bob Hope Drive in Rancho Mirage. There was a house at the location that has since been bulldozed. Nobody was ever arrested for the shooting.
Family menbers and friends say Cabazon Band of Mission Indians Vice Chairman Fred Alvarez was going to blow the whistle with documents from the early 1980's showing a business partnership between defense contractor Wackenhut Services and Cabazon Manager John Phillip Nichols to form Cabazon Arms.
The tribe that now runs the Fantasy Springs Casino was a pioneer in Indian gaming, starting with a small card room.
Nichols allegedly planned on using Indian sovereign land to test and build pistols, assault rifles, sniper guns and rocket launchers.
The partnership was interested in biological weapons that could be deployed in small countries.
Twenty-five years ago, the offices of Cabazon arms were in an office suite on Requa Avenue in Indio.
This is at the heart of the Iran-Contra scandal that affected President Ronald Reagan's administration, whether weapons were sold to Central American groups to pay for the release of hostages in Iran.
The documents show that some of these weapons were developed near Indio.
Three people may have been murdered to protect that secret.
Cabazon business manager John Phillip Nichols later went to prison for a separate case of murder solicitation, but tribal officials say that any connection to the Alvarez triple murder was "ridiculous and malicious."
Wackenhut corporation declined to comment to News Channel 3, but denied any wrongdoing in the book "Return of the Buffalo: The Story Behind America's Indian Gaming Explosion."
The murder case has been reopened and closed multiple times in the past 27 years. Sheriff's investigators have asked friends and former partners of District Attorney Investigator David McGowan whether he was working the case in 2005.
An investigation concluded that McGowan murdered his family of five before shooting himself on May 10th, 2005. Surviving family members tell News Channel 3 they believe the investigation was rushed and incomplete.
Sheriff's officials now tell News Channel 3 the District Attorney's office was not investigating the Alvarez case.
Another document says otherwise:
Former DA Investigator and current Indio Councilman Gene Gilbert handled the case in the early 1990's.
His report detailed a weapons test held in Lake Cahuilla between Cabazon Arms and two Nicaraguan generals. (Documents 1, 2, 3.)
It is unclear at this time whether Investigator David McGowan was working on the Alvarez triple murder before his 2005 death.
What is clear is that the sheriff's cold case squad is taking it seriously, interviewing people familiar with McGowan's former cases and reopening a case that in the words of one investigator, they "do not want to continue working - based on the number of people who have met an untimely demise while doing so."
As of Wednesday, the Cabazon Band of Mission Indians has not responded to News Channel 3's questions.
Our next report will focus on the importance of a stolen computer database in the 1980's, and how a journalist may have been murdered after uncovering a local connection to a massive political conspiracy.
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