Cheye Calvo

What the heck is wrong with the law enforcement in Berwyn Heights, Maryland? The house of Mayor Cheye Calvo and his wife Trinity Tomsic was raided and their dogs killed by police in what appeared to be an innocent victim accused of drug smuggling scheme, authorities said.According to the Baltimore Sun, police kicked in the door and stormed his home and shot two black Labradors and seizing an unopened package with 32 pounds of marijuana inside. But the drugs evidently did not belong to him or...Read Full Story

SARAH BRUMFIELD Associated Press UPPER MARLBORO, Md. The mayor of a small town in the Washington suburbs whose dogs were shot to death during a raid at his home hopes the settlement of his lawsuit against Prince George's County will reverse some of the "deep problems" he sees in the way SWAT teams are deployed in the county. Berwyn Heights Mayor Cheye Calvo said that he and the county began the settlement process Monday and it should be finalized by the Feb. 24...Read Full Story

Scientists sometimes introduce a predator into an ecosystem in order to take care of a pest that is threatening say, the potato crop. These experiments often go wrong - the predator turns out to be more dangerous than the pest. Social engineers do the same thing as scientists, except with human beings. One example is China’s one child policy to control overpopulation. The jury is still out on whether or not that policy will benefit the world or China in the long term. It certainly doesn’t...Read Full Story

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYQD-btqhKgImagine you just got home from work. You see a package addressed to your wife on the front porch, and bring it inside, putting it on a table. Suddenly, police with guns drawn kick you door down and storm in, shooting to death your two dogs and seizing the unopened package. In the package the cops find 32 pounds of marijuana. But you have no idea why the package was delivered to you.Mayor Cheye Calvo, the mayor of Berwyn Heights, Maryland, doesn't have...Read Full Story

Over the past few decades their has been a gross over militarization of our nations police forces. S.W.A.T. teams (Special Weapons And Tactics) used to be used to stop bank robberies, hostage situations, and several other highly volatile and dangerous situations. Nowadays the Pentagon gives away millions of dollars worth of military hardware, every year, to whichever police stations can grab at it first. Prompting SWAT teams to form throughout our nation (Many of these places have little...Read Full Story

SARAH BRUMFIELD Associated Press UPPER MARLBORO, Md. The mayor of a small town in the Washington suburbs is settling a lawsuit he filed against a Maryland county after his dogs were shot to death during a SWAT team raid at his house. Berwyn Heights Mayor Cheye Calvo will receive money from Prince George's County under the settlement announced Monday, and he says he expects the deal will also reform how SWAT teams are deployed in the county. Details of the...Read Full Story

Cheye Calvo’s July 2008 encounter with a Prince George’s County, Maryland, SWAT team is now pretty well-known: After intercepting a package of marijuana at a delivery service warehouse, police completed the delivery, in disguise, to the address on the package. That address belonged to Calvo, who also happened to be the mayor of the small Prince George’s town of Berwyn Heights. When Calvo’s mother-in-law brought the package in from the porch, the SWAT team pounced, forcing their way into Calvo...Read Full Story

In what reads like a story from Nazi Germany, police in Prince George's County, Maryland staged a stakeout outside the home of nearby town Berwyn Heights Mayor Cheye Calvo.  They had tracked a Fed-Ex package that was delivered by an undercover officer to the mayor's home that contained 32 pounds of pot.  It seems the mayor and his wife were the innocent victims of a ploy to smuggle drugs into the area.  Addresses were somehow picked and packages were shipped.  A Fed-Ex driver, in on the plot...Read Full Story

Gregory Kane Examiner Columnist Uh-oh. Public officials are "investigating" again. This time the public officials are way up in Rochester, N.Y. The back story goes something like this: On May 12, Rochester resident Emily Good decided to record a police stop on her iPod. Described in several news reports as an activist, Good said she was concerned that racial profiling might be afoot when three white police officers stopped a black motorist. Rochester police Officer Mario Masic...Read Full Story

US MD: Police Raid Berwyn Heights Mayor's Home, Kill His 2 Dogs IF THIS DOESN'T MAKE FOR A  GOOD SETUP, I REALLY WOULDNT KNOW WHAT WOULD.....   THE QUESTION IS "WHY" WOULD THEY WANT TO SET THIS MAN UP?  SOME RESEARCHING NEEDS TO BE DONE.....   SHEREE Media Awareness Project << Prev Area Email Index Print Source Translate Next >> US MD: Police Raid Berwyn Heights Mayor's Home, Kill His 2 Dogs URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews...Read Full Story