Harrassment Case Logs
AUGUST 2006
08/30 - Received harassing email from faked source/name.
Unknown harasser IP address: 72.148.73.92.
Originally assumed the harasser likely Scott West because e-mail written in
manner similar to his M.O., and contained typo, which is typical of him.
However, Scott's IP 70.141.12.142. NSLOOKUP resolves to
adol-072-148-073-092.sip.gnv.bellsouth.net. Puts it in Gainesville.
08/31 - Called GPD and filed a complaint over the e-mail harassment.
GPD sent a STREET cop to fill out the report. Then this cop went to Scott
West's address and actually ASKED Scott: "Did you do it?" Scott denied
involvement in this incident but admitted to harassing me in the past. (What
an idiot.) Now Scott demanding apology from me. (HAH!)
Case assigned to Joseph Mayo, Det. Div., Computer Crimes Div., GPD. 334-2484,
M-TH, 8a-5p. mayojr@ci.gainesville.fl.us.
SEPTEMBER 2006
09/13 - 3:45pm, Called Det. Mayo. He will subpoena logs tomorrow and will be
in touch in a few days. Hadn't done anything with case yet when I called.
(Now two weeks since filed.) Emailed him a copy of the harassing email.
09/14 - Emailed a quick history of current case to Det. Mayo.
09/28 - Email to Det. Mayo. Did logs come back? Status? No response.
OCTOBER 2006
10/17 - 4:23pm, Called Det. Mayo. Logs sub'd a couple days after I'd called
him last. (Which would be 9/15.) Nothing yet. Says Yahoo and Bellsouth
subpoenaed. Yahoo said they're looking but could take a while. Advised
Bellsouth may charge outrageous fee (trying to discourage subpoenas). Says
sometimes these guys charge for the web logs, so there could be some costs
involved...not to me, but to the PD. Cox, for example, charges $40 to $50
for web logs. Other companies free or nominal fee ($10). (I've got this
weird gut feeling about him. Seemed like he was attempting to get me to change
my mind about subpoenaeing the logs. Doesn't seem enthusiastic, and it felt
like he was toying with me. But he was a cop...)
NOVEMBER 2006
(no contact)
DECEMBER 2006
(no contact)
JANUARY 2007
01/11 - Email to Det. Mayo requesting status of case. No response.
FEBRUARY 2007
02/05 - 3:33pm, Called Det. Mayo. Answering machine. Out of state for trial
til Monday. Left message to call me about case status.
02/07 - 9:48am, Called GPD Records Department. 334-2471 - Secretary of
Investigations Dept. (in Det. Mayo's department). Talked to female. Checked
status of my case to make sure it hadn't been closed without my knowledge or
something. Case No. (02) 06-17550 was still open. Asked to be transferred to
Detective Mayo's phone again. He actually answered. Going to review it with
the State Attorney's Office and see what they say. "Could be civil in nature."
The IP logs came back...some of them. But some others did not, yet. He said
upon initial looking over them that there could be some spoofing involved.
Said it looks like someone may have been using an anonymizer in some places -
including the IP addresses. He said he will meet with SAO today or tomorrow
and get back with me tomorrow.
02/07 - 11:00am, Call-back to Detective Mayo. Suggested he question Jeff
Capehart. Ask him "do you know anything which could help this case?" and see
if the pressure makes him cave. Strange he knew that it might be Melissa, and
to check that typo. Detective said he was thinking of doing just that, and
possibly questioning Phil and Melissa, too. I told him Jeff works at OIG
(Office of Inspector General) in Tigert Hall. Go up stairs to 2nd floor, go
right, a few doors down. Can't remember which room, specifically.
02/09 - No word from Det. Mayo as promised.
02/20 - 4:15pm, Called Det. Mayo. Soon as I said my name, sounded frustrated.
He's busy. Something about having had to take two days off and being two days
behind. ***I WANTED TO KNOW IF I COULD STOP BY AND MAKE PHOTOCOPIES OF THE IP
LOGS SO-FAR RECEIVED BACK.*** (NOTE this, and then note what happens the next
day.) Said didn't have time and to try back tomorrow. Said he didn't get a
chance to drop off logs with SAO, or to go tlak to Jeff, Phil, or Melissa. Was
anxious to hang up phone. So, still, nothing done since last successful call
two WEEKS ago. I feel someone got to GPD and I'm being put off. :(
02/21 - 1:35pm, Voicemail message from Detective Mayo, GPD:
"Hello, Mr. Sherman. Uhh, this is Detective Mayo, Gainesville Police
Department. Uhm. Well, I've got BAD NEWS for you. I've, I thought the case,
originally, when I got it and read it and everything, uhm, you know, and
received your, your paperwork that it was CIVIL. I contacted, ahh...I FINALLY
did get ahold of the State Attorney's Office. We reviewed the case, annnd, in
fact, THEY also say it's a CIVIL case. Which, of course, THEY'RE the last WORD
on this...(breath)...issue. (breath) And (breath), when (breath)...I've
reviewed the case also with my supervisor and he also advised that, uhm, it was
civil. He didn't have, uhh, any other ob- objections or anything like that,
anything like THAT, or...contrary opinions. So I'm sorry to say, sir - the
case IS BEING CLOSED." Uhm. There's NOTHING I can do. Once a State Attorney
basically, uhh, has said that it's a civil matter - and also, you know, I I
think is IS a civil case...uhm...There's nothing else we can do on this matter.
Okay, sir? Ahh. Take care. OH, and when I told you that I had received
uhhhm... (long pause) ... th'uhm... (long pause) ...SUBPOENAS concerning the
headers and what-not and everything, I was mistaken, annnnd, I confused your
case with another case. I work...I've got 40 or 50 of these cases, at LEAST -
and I confused your case with someone else's case...okay, sir?...uhm...that
involved, uhm...the same companies. Okay? So, and I'm constantly dealing
with, uhm, the same companies also. So, I'm sorry but I did confuse the-uhm
, your uhm, header information and subpoena and other information that I got
from them with another case. Okay? And uhm, sorry about the bad news, sir.
Take care. Bye."
02/21 - 1:45pm, Called Detective Mayo back. Wanted to clarify some things with
him...
"Are you saying you DON'T have the IP logs? For seven months you told me you'd
subpoenaed the logs, that you got them back, that there was some spoofing and
anonymizing going on. Are you telling me that you DON'T have the logs?"
"Yes, that's correct. I confused you with another case. I have like 50 cases
here and I got yours confused with somebody else's."
"...For seven MONTHS you got mine confused with someone else's?"
"Yes."
"...So you DON'T have the IP logs?"
"No. The SAO said it's a civil matter. I believe it's a civil matter. I have
even from the beginning."
"...So you didn't even TRY subpoenaing the logs?"
"NO. As I said, the SAO said this was a civil matter. There's nothing I can do
once they've made a decision."
"...And when did you TALK to them?"
(long pause with stuttering) "I...eee...uhh...uhm...Today."
"I don't understand. I asked you to subpoena the logs and you didn't because
the SAO said it was a civil matter, but you only just talked to them TODAY?
So what were you doing for seven months?"
"I'm not arguing with you, Mr. Sherman. The SAO has made their decision. I've
made my decision. It's a civil case. And the case has been closed."
"Okay. Will you put that into the report, then?"
"Put what into the report?"
"...that I requested the logs be subpoenaed seven months ago and that the
reason why you didn't was because the SAO's Office said JUST TODAY that it was
a civil matter? WIll you put that into the final report?"
"Uhm, Mr, Sherman, I'm not going to argue with you about this. I don't have
to put anything else into that report EXCEPT that it is being closed because
the State Attorney's Office said it is a civil matter; nothing else. And
that's that. Uhm, I'm not going to sit here and argue with you about this.
I'm going to hang up now. Uhm...bye."
So why didn't the detective subpoena the IP logs when I requested him to 7
months ago? Why did he continually put me off and lead me to believe that he
did? He did absolutely NOTHING for my case in seven months time; and now it's
too late because all the logs have been erased from the Bellsouth and Yahoo
databases.
MARCH 2007
3/23 - Cryptic excerpt from email from Jeff Capehart regarding contact
from Melissa Royce:
Did I tell you she paged me and called me at the conference too?
Oh yeah... it was about that subject that Phil has told her not to discuss
and that Phil's boss has told him not to talk about and for Melissa not to
talk about... and yet she can't keep herself from bringing it up.
Jeff
On later questioning, it would turn out that Jeff was talking about the fact
that Detective Mayo had apparently gone to Phil and Melissa, Chief May, and
Dave Donnelly, and talked about my case, and complained about how stupid he
thought I was, how he thought I didn't know what I was talking about, how he
had a "gut feeling" about me, how he didn't like me, how he thought I was just
trying to use the law to pick on innocent people, how he complained about all
the emails I had sent him ("this thick"), how he was baiting me and saying
everything he thought I wanted to hear, how he delayed things until it was too
late. "Phil's boss" is a reference to Dave Donnelly. Phil works at ACSO, in
their Communications Dept., and he fixes radios in the patrol vehicles.
Loosely speaking, Dave is his "boss", because they're all part of the CCC
Building, as he sees it; and he and Phil and all the other hams all work with
Dave as part of their public service activities. He was NOT talking about
Sadie Darnell.
Jeff will not talk about this in email circles, he insists on only talking
about it in person or on the phone, he will not repeat it in public, and when I
try to get him to go to GPD's Internal Affair's Department with it and report
it, Jeff uses the excuse that this is "hearsay" because it came from Phil
Royce. He ignores all my emails about the subject, deliberately.
ADDENDUM (02/05/2010): The shocking thing about that is that Jeff was not
involved in this case in any way and he should not have known anything
about the case at all. Yet, It was scary as hell having these
confidential details about my own case being repeated back to me
from this of all persons! It's just so wrong that this asshole
seems to be able to get whatever information about me that he so
desires from people in places which are supposed to be a lot more
careful about that. Unless you have it happen to you, you have no clue
how frightening that is. You feel so helpless, and like you have no control
at all over what is happening to you. You feel like this guy can do or obtain
whatever he wants and there's nothing you can do about it. And
worse yet is the most obvious thing that slaps you right in the face...THAT
THE POLICE DON'T CARE AND NOT ONLY *REFUSE* TO HELP YOU, BUT THEY'RE GOING OUT
OF THEIR *WAY* TO HURT YOU AND YOUR CHANCES OF MAKING THESE PEOPLE STOP!