SAVANNAH CHATHAM METROPOLITAN POLICE DEPARTMENT – CORRUPTION

Mike Delatorre, Special Agent (SA) with the Savannah/Chatham Counter Narcotics Team (CNT), was interviewed at the Savannah, Georgia office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation

(FBI), 220 East Bryan Street, Savannah, Georgia 31401. Also present during the interview was Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Task Force Agent (TFA) Michael Broome. After being advised of the nature of the interview, Delatorre provided the following information:

Delatorre was the CNT case agent of a joint CNT/DEA investigation that targeted drug dealers Joshua Varner, Hezekiah

Murdock, and others. During the course of the investigation, numerous Title-III wiretaps were authorized by the U. s. District Court for the Southern District of Georgia.

Sometime during the days leading up to February 13, 2009, agents started intercepting telephone calls from an unknown female caller with one of their subjects. Through various database searches, to include public records databases, Savannah/Chatham Metropolitan Police Department (SCMPD) databases, and the Chatham County Jail database, Delatorre identified the unknown female as Chassidy Lucas. Delatorre recalled the day that he identified Lucas as the unknown female caller and stated that he was in the wire room with fellow CNT agents Todd Desautels and MALIK KHAALIS.

This is Todd Desautels

KHAALIS sat next to Delatorre while he (Delatorre) ran the various database checks. Delatorre recalled that Desautels commented that he (Desautels) knew Lucas’ husband was a cab driver that sold drugs on the islands. After Delatorre identified Lucas, he posted her name, number, and other information (everything but her picture) on the Hall of the Hire room above one of the computers in red ink

Delatorre advised that on the day of February 13, 2010,
he was in the room until at least 5:00 P.M. (Delatorre noted that all agents Here required to sign in and out of the Hire room and that SA Hayes and TFA Broome could obtain his exact departure time from the log. ) Delatorre stated that sometime after 5:00
P.M., but before midnight, he Has at home then he received a call from CNT SA Charles Guyer. Guyer asked Delatorre if he gave permission to make a car stop. Delatorre told Guyer that he did not give permission to anyone to make any car stops.

The following morning at approximately 10:00 or 10:30 A.M., Delatorre was advised by another CNT agent, possibly CNT Lieutenant Rusty Smith, that the previous evening KHAALIS requested a SCMPD marked unit conduct a traffic stop of Lucas’ vehicle.

Shortly after he was notified of the incident, Delatorre received a call from KHAALIS. According to Delatorre, KHAALIS informed him that the previous night he requested a car stop of Lucas from SCMPD. KHAALIS told Delatorre that he got into a heated argument with the patrol supervisor and he eventually had to get Smith involved.

Russ Smith

Delatorre advised that after he departed the wire room on the evening of February 13, 2010, he did not receive a call from KHAALIS. Furthermore, Delatorre was unaware that KHAALIS Has out on surveillance and that he requested a car stop by SCMPD. Delatorre stated that he never was asked for or granted permission for KHAALIS or any other CNT agent to conduct a traffic stop of Lucas. Delatorre noted that there Has no need for a traffic stop of Lucas

because they already had her idencified. In addition, Delatorre noted that he had numerous conversations with KHAALIS and other CNT agents throughout the investigation that because it was a joint case with DEA, they (CNT) were not going to participate in more overt investigative methods such as car stops unless specifically approved by either Delatorre and/or the DEA case agent, SA Mike Sarhatt.

Charles Guyer, Special Agent (SA) with the Savannah/Chatham Counter Narcotics Team (CNT), was interviewed at the Savannah, Georgia office cf the Federal Bureau of Investigation

(FBI), 220 East Bryan Street, Savannah, Georgia 3140l. Also present during the interview was Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Task Force Agent (TFA) Michael Broome. After being advised of the nature of the interview, Guyer provided the following information:

On February 13, 2010, Guyer was assigned to the CNT wire room for an ongoing CNT/DEA investigation that included Title III wiretaps. Guyer worked that evening with fellow CNT agents Larry Harris and MALIK KHAALIS. Sometime after their shift started, after 5:00P.M., they received a call on the wire between one of their subjects and an unknown female. During the call, the unknown female discussed meeting the subject in the area of Highway 204 and Interstate 95 (I-95) in Savannah. KHAALIS advised Harris and Guyer that he was going out to the meeting location to get a tag of theunknown female’s vehicle. KHAALIS left shortly thereafter, got the tag, and eventually returned to the wire room after picking up dinner.

Later in the evening, a second unknown female called the same subject and set up a meeting at a gas station on the corner of Derenne Avenue and White Bluff Road in Savannah. KHAALIS again advised Harris and Guyer that he was going out to the meeting location to get a tag of the second unknown female’s vehicle. KHAALIS left the wire room and a short time later called (or radioed) Guyer with the second tag. The tag was the same tag that KHAALIS collected earlier in the evening at the I-95/Hwy 204 meeting. After KHAALIS provided the second tag, Guyer thought that he 1vas on his way back to the wire room. Hov1ever, a short time later, Guyer and Harris heard KHAALIS on the Savannah/Chatham Metropolitan Police Department (SCMPD) radio requesting a car stop of the vehicle. Guyer stated that he immediately picked up the phone and called KHAALIS and asked him what he was doing. Guyer also asked KHAALIS if the case agent, Mike Delatorre, knev1 about and/or approved the car stop. KHAALIS responded to Guyer “yes and no.” Guyer stated that he understood KHAALIS’ answer “yes and no”
to mean ”no he (Delatorre) doesn’t but yes he (Delatorre) will.”

After speaking to KHAALIS, Guyer contacted Delatorre via telephone and asked him if he approved any car stops. Delatorre advised Guyer that he did not approve any car stops. While Guyer was on the phone with Delatorre, he heard on the radio that the car stop was already in progress. Guyer stated that he did not call KHAALIS back after he spoke to Delatorre.

Guyer stated that after the car stop, KHAALIS returned to the wire room and stayed only about 45 minutes before leaving early for the night. During the time KHAALIS was in the wire room following the car stop, Guyer and Harris did not discuss the incident.

Guyer stated that he viewed the car stop requested by KHAALIS as a “major problem.”

Harris, Special Agent (SA) with the Savannah/Chatham Counter Narcotics Team (CNT), was interviewed at

the Savannah, Georgia office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), 220 East Bryan Street, Savannah, Georgia 31401. Also present during the interview was Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Task Force Agent (TFA) Michael Broome. After being advised of the nature

of the interview, Harris provided the following information:

Larry Harris stated that on the evening of February 13, 2010,
he worked the night shift of an ongoing CNT/DEA investigation that included Title III wiretaps. Harris worked the shift with fellow CNT agents KHAALIS and Charles Guyer. Harris advised that sometime during the early evening hours, a call was intercepted in which a female caller had a conversation with one of their subjects regarding a meeting. Harris stated that they (Harris, Guyer, and KHAALIS) did not know the identity of the female caller but KHAALIS thought she was a possible supplier of drugs from South Carolina. KHAALIS told Harris and Guyer that he was going to go out to the proposed meeting location and get a tag off of the car of the unknown female. KHAALIS left shortly thereafter, conducted surveillance of the meeting, retrieved the car tag and returned to the wire room.

Sometime later in the evening, a second call came in from what he (Harris) thought was a different female. KHAALIS again told Harris and Guyer that he was going to conduct surveillance of the meeting location and get another tag. KHAALIS later contacted the wire room via radio to advise Harris and Guyer of the tag. Shortly thereafter, Harris and Guyer heard KHAALIS on the Savannah/Chatham Metropolitan Police Department (SCMPD) radio talking to someone about a traffic stop. Guyer immediately picked up the telephone and called KHAALIS. Harris stated that according to Guyer, KHAALIS told Guyer that he (KHAALIS) was going to have the car stopped. Guyer asked KHAALIS if he had cleared the car stop with the CNT case agent, SA Mike Delatorre. Harris was unsure if KHAALIS answered the question yes or no, but thought KHAALIS answered yes. At that time, Guyer called Delatorre and asked if he had given permission for a car stop. While Guyer was on the phone with Delatorre, Harris heard over the radio that the car stop had already started.

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