This article about a cop that was killed was removed
from the Arizona Indy Media site:
This is a 2nd article on the same subject.
I wonder will the cops also remove it?
To me that is also a sign that the site has changed ownership
and that the police now run
Arizona Media.
Did Phoenix cop Sgt. Sean Drenth kill himself?
I wonder if this cops death was a suicide? And the cops are trying to cover it up by hinting that it is a murder?
The cops have not said it was a murder. But they hint at it.
The government did the same thing when Pat Tillman died. They painted him as a hero dying for his county till it was found out that Pat Tillman was killed by his own men.
I wonder if the Phoenix cops are trying to paint this pig as a hero who served his country before admiting he commited suicide?
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Reward offered for information in officer's mysterious death
by Michael Ferraresi - Oct. 22, 2010 12:00 AM
The Arizona Republic
About 40 crime-lab employees are analyzing fingerprints, testing DNA, conducting ballistics tests and reviewing limited physical evidence left in the wake of the fatal shooting of Phoenix police Sgt. Sean Drenth.
Yet with the autopsy concluded, and his body released in advance of his funeral next week, the cause and manner surrounding Drenth's death remain unclear.
Phoenix police continued to decline comment Thursday on any specifics of the scene where the sergeant was found shot to death earlier this week near his parked patrol vehicle.
Investigators are treating the case as a homicide. Police have said they lack witnesses and there is little physical evidence collected from the lot where officers discovered Drenth's body, in an open industrial lot near the state Capitol.
Silent Witness is offering up to $10,000 in reward money for information in the case with the hope that someone will provide an anonymous tip leading to an arrest, though Phoenix police have yet to confirm Drenth was murdered.
Police said he was neither writing a report nor responding to an emergency call when he parked at the lot near the Union Pacific Railroad tracks at Jefferson Street and 19th Avenue.
Doctors at the Maricopa County Medical Examiner's Office released Drenth's body on Thursday, though they could take up to three months to release the official death-investigation report.
Cause and manner of death are commonly released sooner than a complete death-investigation report, though a medical examiner's spokesman said there was no timetable for the release of records or information. Police only have confirmed that Drenth was shot but no other details have been released publicly.
The medical examiner's goal is to produce cause and manner within three months on 95 percent of as many as 150 weekly death investigations, office spokesman Mike Molzhon said.
Homicide detectives have withheld details, including the position of Drenth's body, the type of weapon used in the shooting, and any other physical evidence, in an attempt to preserve the limited crime scene.
Drenth, 34, worked most of his 12-year career in the city's South Mountain Precinct.
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Phoenix police sergeant death: $10,000 reward offered for tips to arrest
by Michael Ferraresi - Oct. 21, 2010 05:56 PM
The Arizona Republic
Phoenix Police continued to decline comment Thursday on what evidence was recovered from the scene where Sgt. Sean Drenth was found shot to death earlier this week near his parked patrol vehicle.
Investigators are treating the case as a homicide. Police have said they lack witnesses and there is little physical evidence collected from the lot where officers discovered Drenth's body, in an open industrial lot near the state Capitol.
Silent Witness is offering up to $10,000 reward for information in the case with the hope that someone will provide an anonymous tip leading to an arrest, though Phoenix police have yet to confirm Drenth was murdered.
Reward money was donated by Silent Witness, the 100 Club of Arizona and the Phoenix Police Sergeants and Lieutenants Association.
Police said he was neither writing a report nor responding to an emergency call when he parked at the lot near the Union Pacific Railroad tracks at Jefferson Street and 19th Avenue. The exact address is 1825 W. Jackson St.
Call the Phoenix Police Department's Violent Crimes Bureau at 602-262-6141 or Silent Witness at 480-WITNESS or 1-800-343-TIPS. Calls to Silent Witness remain anonymous.
Drenth's memorial services will be held on Monday.
- His funeral is scheduled for 10 a.m. at Christ's Church of the Valley, 7007 W. Happy Valley Road in Peoria. The interment immediately will follow the service at Phoenix Memorial Park, 200 W. Beardsley Road.
- In lieu of flowers the family requests donations be sent to Grizzly & Wolf Discovery Center, PO Box 996, West Yellowstone, MT 59758 or to the Arizona Humane Society, 1521 W. Dobbins Road, Phoenix, AZ 85041.
- Donations to aid Drenth's widow, Colleen, can be made to the non-profit Phoenix Police Sergeants and Lieutenants Association Charities at any Midfirst Bank.
Phoenix homicide investigators have said little else other than they are forced to consider the possibility that Drenth committed suicide based on unidentified evidence collected at the scene of the shooting.
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Phoenix officer's fatal shooting still confuses detectives
Case still treated as homicide, but police now forced to consider suicide possibility
by Michael Ferraresi - Nov. 5, 2010 12:00 AM
The Arizona Republic
More than two weeks after Phoenix police Sgt. Sean Drenth's on-duty shooting death, police have yet to release a suspect's description, a license plate on a getaway car or any other details from the scene.
If Drenth was shot to death by an unknown assailant, investigators have refused to say anything about the killer after the highly decorated patrolman was discovered fatally wounded outside his patrol vehicle in an industrial lot near the Arizona Capitol.
Drenth's shooting is still being treated as a homicide, according to Phoenix police, though the cause and manner of Drenth's Oct. 18 death is still under review by the Maricopa County Medical Examiner.
Phoenix homicide investigators have said little else other than they are forced to consider the possibility that Drenth committed suicide based on unidentified evidence collected at the scene of the shooting.
"We are still treating it as a homicide, as we always have, but there is still nothing definitive as to what happened out there," said Phoenix police Sgt. Trent Crump, the department spokesman handling the Drenth case.
"If we had that definitive evidence - one way or another, that it was a homicide or suicide - there would be no reason to withhold that information," Crump said.
By now, crime-scene technicians have already swabbed for evidence such as hair and fibers from inside Drenth's patrol vehicle and conducted a blood-spatter analysis from evidence at the scene, though it was still unclear if the South Mountain Precinct sergeant was shot inside or outside the vehicle.
Silent Witness is offering up to $10,000 in reward money for information in the case with the hope that someone will provide an anonymous tip leading to an arrest, though Phoenix police have yet to confirm Drenth was murdered.
Police said he was neither writing a report nor responding to an emergency call when he parked at the lot near the Union Pacific Railroad tracks at Jefferson Street and 19th Avenue on Oct. 18.
The vehicle is one of three crime scenes in the Drenth case, according to experts. The scene around the vehicle and the sergeant's body are the others.
Each has already been processed for latent fingerprints and ballistics at this point of the investigation, though investigators have declined comment on the results of tests conducted in the Phoenix Police Crime Lab.
Doctors at the Maricopa County Medical Examiner's Office said they could take up to three months to release the official death-investigation report.
Dr. Cyril Wecht, a longtime Pennsylvania medical examiner and forensic pathology expert at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, said any shooting like Drenth's should be approached initially as it were a homicide.
He said based on his limited knowledge of the case, that a major metro police agency such as Phoenix police likely have an idea at this stage of the investigation - or that they simply could be stumped based on evidence that could suggest a murder or suicide.
"Two weeks of silence makes me highly suspicious," Wecht said. "It makes me think they've got some questions, that there may be more there than they're saying at this time and that it might not be a homicide," he said.
The case largely hinges on the weapon or weapons used in Drenth's shooting. Police have declined to confirm if Drenth was shot at a distance, from close alongside his vehicle or with one of his police weapons - such as his shotgun, his duty handgun or a secondary handgun officers carry on patrol.