A fantastic resource for a defense attorney...

So where do the facts that we've uncovered over the past few months leave Detective Jorge Baluja? To get some insight, let's take a look at this excerpt from Bob Normans article on "Hollywood's Mickey Mouse Cops":

"Prosecutors promptly dropped DUI and other trumped-up charges against Torrensvilas....But the fallout from Pressley's misconduct has likely just begun. Broward County Public Defender Howard Finkelstein is gathering all the cases involving Pressley and other officers involved in the coverup with hopes of getting those dropped as well."

Now, what would make Attorney Finkelstein think he can get all the other cases involving the dirty cops who are predisposed to lie in their police reports dropped? The fact of the matter is that like I said before, where there's smoke there's fire, if these cops lied about how a simple car accident went down (sound familiar?), it's safe to assume they've lied about far more serious matters in other cases as well. After all, the very cop who talked about "Walt Disneying the facts" on video was involved with a car chase where he falsely stated that there were "shot's fired" which escalated the car chase into a brutal beating of the driver by police. Essentially the credibility of the cops involved is permanently shot.

Now, ask yourself, who else do we know that has a nasty habit of lying on police reports? Who else do we know that has a history of perjuring himself and suborning perjury? Who's that man? Detective Jorge Baluja! Whether it's lying to the Independent Review Panel about the Blanton Harris traffic accident and the Internal Affairs investigation that arose from it, suborning perjury at the accident scene, suborning perjury in a witness statement, coercing witnesses or simply not having ANY IDEA about the subject he was investigating, our favorite Detective has created a bizarre situation for himself. Remember that old saying, "where there's smoke, there's fire?"


Everyone get it? Isn't it improbable that the two cases that we've outlined are the only ones that Detective Baluja has exhibited those characteristics in? I'd be willing to argue that most if not all of the cases that Mr. Baluja is involved in have evidence of some sort of misconduct, be it perjury, subornation of perjury, coercion of witnesses or obstruction of justice (HAH!). Just like there's doubt in all of the cases the Hollywood cops are involved in, I propose that all of the cases Mr. Baluja is involved in have the same cloud of doubt lingering over them. As a matter of fact, I will go so far as to suggest that Detective Jorge Baluja reputation is so tainted that he cannot be used as a states witness in court. In this instance Jorge, taint does not refer to the space between your balls and your ass, let's take a look at the definition so you clearly understand what I'm saying:

1 : to contaminate morally : corrupt (scholarship tainted by envy)
2 : to affect with putrefaction : spoil
3 : to touch or affect slightly with something bad (persons tainted with prejudice)

Get it Jorge? You have no credibility, words out of your mouth or on paper are worthless. As in the case with Mr. Finkelstein going back and getting cases involving the Hollywood cops thrown out, a defense attorney in a case involving you can now do the same. Perhaps this blogs lingering legacy will be a permanent online resource for defense attorneys that have cases involving Detective Jorge Baluja, put it this way, if you've been busted by Mr. Baluja, YOU'RE IN LUCK!

Have a great weekend!

A pattern of behavior...

A pattern of behaviour, bad character and lack of mistake. Could you imagine if I could characterize the behavior of police officer this way? Even worse if I could prove that the lead detective in an important investigation has a habit of lying, bending the truth and suborning perjury? Let's take a moment to examine that phrase...

Suborning Perjury- The criminal offense of procuring another to commit perjury, which is the crime of lying, in a material matter, while under oath.

That's some serious $hit there isn't it? I spent the weekend reading and rereading paperwork that I've collected regarding this cop and this case, I can't believe what I've found.
Why the hell would someone in law enforcement do something like this? Come on now, we're talking about Jorge Baluja here! Remember his treatment of the Blanton Harris traffic accident investigation? Do you recall the way he ordered a witness to change her testimony and lie about how the accident had happened? In case you forgot, let's take another look at an excerpt from the Independent Review Panel findings...

That's nice isn't it? You don't hear what you want so you make the witness change her statement to say what you want it to say! Isn't that convenient? Now, what if I tell you I've found PROOF of the same behavior in the Bernardo Barrera mortgage fraud case? Even better, who do we have ordering a witness to lie under oath? Under penalty of law for perjury? YOU GUESSED IT!

JORGE BALUJA!

Considering the magnitude of what I've discovered, I have to carefully consider what I'm going to do with my findings. Stay tuned!

Its been a long day, BIG NEWS in the world of Mortgage Fraud & a shipload of fail for Detective Jorge Baluja!

What a day. From the $40 million dollar Federal Mortgage Fraud bust to some serious and JUICY new information on the lead detective in our tale of mortgage fraud, Jorge Baluja. I must apologize to our readers here, I got caught up looking into the people who were charged and the states victim, I didn't take a close enough look at the Detective who was at the head of this investigation. Big news, I need a drink.

Oh well! So I'm running around today doing my normal daily routine and my phone rings with an email directing me to this story. HOLY CRAP! ARE YOU FCUKING KIDDING ME!? I had to pull my dumb ass over and reread this thing a couple of times. I was so shocked that I ran over to a computer and did a little looking myself. Lo and behold, a quick Google search leads me to this report from the Miami Dade County Independent Review Board and the minutes from the last hearing regarding the incident. That's some heavy crap for Detective Jorge Baluja. But again, after reading this report for some reason or another, my SPIDEY SENSES started tingling again.


Disbelief. The story about this, the simplest of ALL POSSIBLE TRAFFIC STOPS gone wrong is just too much to comprehend. How could this cop turn a traffic accident investigation and report into something so screwed up that it ended up being a shitstain on the personnel files of the top brass of the MDPD INCLUDING THE CHIEF OF POLICE! How the hell did Chief Leonard Burgess feel having to take the day off to attend this public slap in the face? My goodness. Can you imagine what it must have been like for Detective Jorge Baluja to be at the center of this mess and then on top of it have to attend this hearing where his superiors got BITCH SLAPPED? You would think that this incident would be burned into Baluja's mind, something that he must have run through his mind a million times both before and after the Internal Affairs investigation and the subsequent Independent Review Panel hearing. So what was Detective Baluja's recollection of the incident when asked during the investigation? Ready for it? He said:

"...he did not recall if he was working on that date."

EXCUSE ME? He was then shown a picture of Mr. John Oscar, one of the drivers involved in the traffic crash and also the red sports utility vehicle that Mr. Oscar was driving. Officer Baluja looked at the photographs and replied that:

"...he did not recall the incident."

EXCUSE ME? WTF DID HE JUST SAY?
Let me get this straight, this cop creates a mess so big that it turns into an internal affairs investigation which leads to a reprimand for himself, partner and the top brass of the MDPD? He can't remember a life changing event like this? Wow.

Moving along, regardless of the fact that the detective excluded important facts, eyewitness testimony and completely neglected undeniable physical evidence from a simple accident investigation, he then goes on to lie about whether or not he remembered the incident. Ok. Pardon my language here, IF YOU CAN FCUK UP THE SIMPLEST OF ACCIDENT INVESTIGATIONS AND CANT REMEMBER THE MESS YOU CREATED LATER ON, THEN HOW IN THE FCUK ARE YOU SUPPOSED TO INVESTIGATE A COMPLEX CRIME LIKE MORTGAGE FRAUD!?

What the hell is actually required to become a detective in the MDPD?! I mean after hearing how he bungled up this accident investigation, ITS NO WONDER THAT HE MISSED ALL THE BASIC FACTS AND ALL THE WARNING SIGNS IN THE MORTGAGE FRAUD INVESTIGATION! This simple fact scares the living crap out of me. This cop who doesn't have a modicum of common sense is out there destroying peoples lives? First Blanton Harris (the owner of the truck that got rear ended) and now the defendants in this case. At the very least we know that two of the co defendants in the mortgage fraud case were guilty of something, BUT WHAT THE HELL DID THIS MENTAL GIANT THAT IS JORGE BALUJA HAVE ON THE ATTORNEY?

Moving right along! I made a little post at the end of the story on Miami Beach 411 to get a little traffic over here and BOOM! My email starts going nuts throughout the course of the afternoon and evening. I got the following:

• Detective Jorge Baluja's education was limited to a High School Diploma.
• Before he came to work at the MDPD, he had a job helping passengers with baggage at Royal Caribbean Cruise lines.
• Detective Jorge Baluja spends a great deal of time online while at the office.

OK! No education past high school and he worked at a cruise line. But what about this spending time online at the job? Whats that all about? Turns out our good ole detective spends a great deal of his time playing around on social networking sites, cruising ebay and craigslist! Seems like he's got some colleagues that don't hold him in such high regard either. See the problem here? To date I've only spent less than half an hour total online researching this case and look at the MAJOR facts that we've found that turn this detectives case on its ear. Maybe if Baluja spent less time playing around online while on COUNTY TIME, he could have properly investigated this case the way it should have been done.

My conclusion after all these new developments today is that Jorge Baluja HAS NO PLACE INVESTIGATING ANYTHING. He's shown us that his investigatory skills are laughable and his powers of deductive reasoning are NON EXISTENT. I was thinking that perhaps Baluja is more suited to reading parking meters, but it seems like when it comes to Jorge, even the parking meters know what time it is...


I want to thank those who've sent me information on the Detective and PLEASE KEEP IT COMING (thestrawbuyer@gmail.com)! Rest assured your anonymity is guaranteed. Something tells me that this story is going to get A LOT MORE INTERESTING REAL QUICK!