It's all about the access codes...

That's the truth.  The entire basis for the arrests of the three Airways Auto Tag agency tellers was strictly based on the access codes that according to the police report and the agency owners testimony were only known to the tellers and no one else.  Simple, let's think of these codes as an electronic fingerprint that's unique to the user, if their codes were used during the commission of the crime, it only stands to reason that they were the ones that stole the money, that is if you buy the premise of the tellers being the only ones that have access to their codes.

I've managed to spend about twenty minutes really researching this case (that's forty minutes or so less than Detective Baluja of the MDPD spent) and what I've found is rather alarming.  Yesterday we talked about probable cause and how if you followed the detective's theory of the case, there was no one else other than the teller that could have been responsible for the theft.  I've found transcripts of an unemployment compensation appeal hearing where the owner of the tag agency vehemently defends her firing of the tellers and at the same time manages to destroy the states case against the very tellers she's accused of robbing her.

The first bit of questionable testimony by the owner of the tag agency, Ileana Martinez de Castro, starts when she's asked about how she found out about the timing of the voided transactions that according to the police resulted in the money going missing...

Wait, wtf?  How often have you been able to speak to the guy who wrote the programs that you use on your computer?  We'll talk about that in more detail in a minute but what we should take away from this statement is that the owner of the tag agency has access to the internal workings of the tag agency's bookkeeping software, that puts a serious dent in the states allegation that only the tellers knew there access codes for this system.

Now, here is where the states case goes right out the window...

So there you have it, when the tellers first chose their access codes, it was the tag agency owner who entered those confidential codes into the agency's internal accounting system!  So now, instead of just the three tellers knowing their confidential access codes, we have at least two other people that know these codes, the programmer that created the accounting software and the owner of the tag agency!  So much for the basis of the arrests as now there are at least two other people that could have skimmed the money from the tag agency.

Now, this whole case is pretty fucked isn't it?  I did a little more digging regarding this "accounting software" that the tag agency uses.  It turns out that Airways Auto Tag isn't the only tag agency that uses this software, from what I've heard there are a few other local tag agency's that use the same software that's created by a company called Nitrosoft Corp.  Remember at the beginning of this post we mentioned how unusual it was for the owner of the tag agency to be able to talk to the person that wrote software, while we couldn't find anything about Nitrosoft online, we did manage to get some valuable information regarding the company from Sunbiz, you'd never believe who owns the company that wrote this accounting software, the same accounting software that the police and the tag agency owners claim clearly implicates the three tellers that were arrested...

Would you look at that?  The company's registered agent and VP is none other than the owner of Airways Auto Tag agency, Ileana Martinez de Castro!  SWEET!  No wonder she's able to talk to whoever wrote the software, she's in business with them!

Remember, we're not accusing anyone of anything here, all we've done is simply point out that the owner of the tag agency and subsequently the detective's assertion that the tellers must be responsible for the missing money because their software access codes that were used were only known to them is total bullshit as we've established that there are at least two other people who knew these codes other than the tellers.  I can't believe that the tellers would have been arrested if the investigating detective would have known that they weren't the only ones with access to these confidential access codes, that is unless the detective didn't give a shit because he was there to do the Chief of the City of South Miami a favor and help his wife out and could have cared less about the truth.  It wouldn't be a first for detective Baluja...