From The "What's Wrong With This Picture" Column: The $200,000 Seized By The PSPD From The Nichols' Family Without Criminal Charges Being Brought? Huh?

Question: When is a PSPD Informant NOT a PSPD informant?

Answer: When Laurie says they aren't.  That's one answer.

In fact, I'd like to add that an informant isn't an informant when Laurie says they aren't and then their money all goes missing and you end up in jail.  Just like Mike Nichols did.  If you haven't watch the KMIR 6 News story featuring Mike and Mindy Nichols, you should take a few minutes and watch it.  If the basic facts of the case are the same, and it would be really easy to see if they are, then there is something really wrong about seizing this family's assets of $200,000 without filing a criminal charge against them.  There is something so Laurie about this.

Make no mistake about it.  I'm going to say it now here.  I've already suggested to Attorney Ben Meisalas, representing the Nichols' family, that he needs to look into the relationship between Laurie LaFraud and Rae Fernandez as well as the other two officers.  I'm not the kind of person that sees a headline like this one and thinks, hmmm, "The PSPD wouldn't screw over their informants"...puuuuuuhleeeeeeeze. I've been down that road so many times I opened up a Taco Bell and a McDonalds.  What I am hoping for is a deposition where Mr. Meisalas asks Officer Fernandez, in what capacity is your relationship with Laurie LaFraud to your job performance.  What I am looking for is a, "I don't know whom you are referring to" answer.  That's the kind of answer that can get a cop fired.  Show a picture then ask again of all three officers.

You see there is something very strange going on in this informant or not case.

I was contacted by someone pretending to be Mindy Nichols from an IP address frequently used by Laurie.  This would put Laurie in the middle of another informant case...therefore, discoverable for the plaintiffs.  I'm certainly not going to miss an opportunity to get Officer Fernandez' x's 2 on the record about their "friendship" with Laurie now that she's gone on the record in another civil matter in another court saying that she doesn't know any other police officer than Bryan Anderson.  Then there is the matter of the grand jury that is just going to love both Laurie and Rae Fernandez in an inquiry about their conversations....also discoverable.

As Laurie would say, "but that's beside the point".  What I am wondering about is this. Why have the police seized $200,000 from these plaintiffs if the police didn't give that to them to operate the sting or if the police weren't going to bring criminal charges against them?  There is no other reason for the cops to take their money at all.  Before a police officer could ever seek to seize this kind of asset, they would have to show good cause to get this cash....a warrant would then be issued....and criminal charges would be brought.  What it looks like here is that the cops simply took the money and threatened their "informants de jure" to not say anything or risk losing the money.  So where's the money and for what reason is it held?   There is no criminal charge that I know of....so what's the deal Rae?  My point is that you can't seize assets first...you charge then seize assets.  

Then the punishment phase begins.  I've seen it.  Christopher's seen it too.  Cops that Laurie talks to begin to do things to "send a message" to the informants.  In the case of the Nichols' family a search warrant was served.  That's so fucking mean, isn't it?  You spend years helping the cops then they serve a search warrant on your home.  Then they can't find anything but a twenty dollar item that was questionable and take Mike to jail.  That's not a search it's a shake down.  Seen a few of those too.  I've been shaken down by Officer Fieux and Officers Villegas, Dougherty and Reyes.  What really stands out here is the using and throwing away of informants.  Christopher spent a year and a half in a jail cell...as a warning.  I don't even thing Steven Frey spent that much time in jail.

Cops telling this couple to drop this lawsuit or they will never see their money again...if you all think that sounds like nobody would say, then you haven't been an informant in Palm Springs.  Cops tell us all kinds of shit when Laurie tells them to.  You can't believe  the kind of shit the cops said on behalf of Steven Frey.  "How's your friend doing over there Rae?"

There is this kind of "organized crime" thing that happens when Laurie gets involved.  The cops stop doing what they should and whomever Laurie is going after becomes public enemy number one.

Now I don't know if Mike and Mindy Nichols are, in fact, PSPD informants, but it would seem to me that there was a relationship there.  I've worked for more than one judge.  I can hear them all asking about that relationship and it's black and white, not gray.  The police were either using them with permission or using them without.  Without permission, then the Nichols should have been charged...that didn't happen.  The cops just kept going back time and again.  Then the Nichols even call the cops...that's not the kind of relationship that shows no permission, it shows a link definable as informant.  They don't have a lesser informant...it's either they are or they aren't.  The cops didn't do anything that made the Nichols look anything but informant like, then, when it was convenient, the cops turned on them.  Arrested them.  Took their money.  Put their lives in danger.  Then they thought they had no responsibility to them and smeared their reputation.

Someone clearly fucked up on the police department's end.  Whomever was in charge didn't have the kind of experience for this kind of operation.  One thing is certain.  Laurie knew what the police were doing...she's following Rae all the time.  Laurie's not one to hold off on advice either.  Pushing people around is her calling card.  I know first hand what it is like when Laurie ISN'T the Queen Bee Informant...she gets jealous and nobody works with Rae besides Laurie.  She's very possessive.

Laurie definitely eavesdropped on the initial conversation that my mom, dad and I had with Sgt. Anderson which she quickly relayed to the target of the proposed informant work.  Steven Frey told me that I was a police informant before I even agreed to it...dangerous behavior exhibited by Laurie tattletaling on what should have been a private and confidential setting.  When I did make the decision to do the work I received a threatening text that sounds like Laurie too: "Now I know why theres a bullethole in ur cardoor...too bad they missed".  That came from Steven Frey's number after I called Bryan to tell him that Christopher and I would do the job.  I hadn't heard from Steven in weeks, now, as soon as I made the decision, I get this message?  Only Laurie is capable of this kind of hate.  The "too bad they missed" is the chilling reminder that she is trying to kill me still.

There is nothing confidential about informant work with implanted officers or implanted informants.  I decided to use the technology as a wire for my team to keep all conversations with police and Laurie straight...this way I'm holding the cards too.  If Mike and Mindy were wearing a wire like this, they too could prove beyond a reasonable doubt what the police had said to them...I can do that with lots of cops that threatened me...so can Christopher.