One of our Chief's Indicted!!! hoooya

[chewy]

This is our Port Director at the Airport here in Detroit. This kind of thing explains, partly, why Detroit is sooo Fu&^ed up and morale is at an all time low the last couple years. I hope she goes to prison!!!

For other articles see the links below:
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/m...-7m8intel.html
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercu...a/11838225.htm
http://www.freep.com/news/statewire/...0607.htm<br />
http://www.woodtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=3445765

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Feds: Chief of customs took bribes
Metro Airport official is charged with overlooking smuggling at Calif. border crossing.

By David Shepardson / The Detroit News

DETROIT -- The official in charge of customs inspections at Detroit Metropolitan Airport was indicted by a federal grand jury Tuesday on charges she accepted tens of thousands of dollars in bribes to allow drugs and illegal aliens to be smuggled into the United States.
Daphiney Kimberly Caganap was named in a nine-count felony indictment handed up by a grand jury in San Diego.
The indictment says Caganap, who was then an assistant area port director in San Diego, accepted between $20,000 and $30,000 in cash and other gifts in exchange for looking the other way when a corrupt border inspector allowed vehicles into the United States that had illegal aliens and marijuana at the San Ysidro, Calif., port of entry -- the nation's busiest land border crossing.
"Corruption within the ranks of law enforcement is a breach of trust and a threat to public safety and it simply can't be tolerated," said U.S. Attorney Carol C. Law in San Diego.
The 43-year-old Ann Arbor woman was placed on leave from her job as port director at Metro Airport, where she oversees several hundred federal employees, including agriculture inspectors, and border and customs agents.
She will be arraigned within the next two weeks in U.S. District Court in San Diego, said Assistant U.S. Attorney Edward Weiner. Weiner said he didn't know how many aliens or the amount of drugs that entered the United States as a result of the alleged conspiracy.
Since 2003,Caganap has overseen passenger and cargo screening at Detroit Metro, but the 18-year veteran of government service is not charged with any wrongdoing here.
Ron Smith, a spokesman for the Bureau of Customs and Border Protection in Michigan, said he was unaware of any allegations of wrongdoing at Metro. "CBP does not condone any corruption within the ranks. We hope that she will be exonerated," Smith said.
Caganap allegedly received $1,160 in repairs to her 1994 Mercedes-Benz and the installation of a $9,986 spa at her San Diego-area home. She told federal investigators that she had won the hot tub in a raffle, the indictment said.
Named in the indictment are two co-conspirators -- a former Immigration and Naturalization Service agent and a mechanic identified as cooperating witnesses. In 1999, agents learned of the alleged plot and later told Caganap, who was the supervisor of an intelligence unit at the border.
Instead of reporting the activity, she allegedly lied to investigators, saying she had gone on a "coffee date" with the INS agent. The agent in June 2000 admitted to receiving thousands of dollars per week to smuggle aliens and "Caganap indicated she would provide assistance and information to (the agent) in return for money," the indictment said. The next month she accepted an envelope from the agent with thousands of dollars, mostly in $100 bills, the indictment said. In March 2001, the agent arranged to have her Mercedes-Benz repaired and for a company to deliver and install a deluxe spa, the government said.
Neither she nor her attorney, Thomas Warwick of San Diego, could be reached for comment.
She is charged with five counts of making false statements, conspiracy to defraud the United States and three counts of accepting bribes, authorities said.
You can reach David Shepardson at (313) 222-2028 or dshepardson@detnews.com.


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It's wierd, you would thing, having to work with such morons, that I would be embarrased but actually I'm kind of happy. This means we get a change of management before we normally would have. Now if they could just find something on about 8 other chiefs Things would be great :D

[JBT]

Ah, you gotta love the border. I am glad to see some change and action going in CBP. Hopefully, Chewy, you will get a good chief for her replacement.

[chewy]

Ah, you gotta love the border. I am glad to see some change and action going in CBP. Hopefully, Chewy, you will get a good chief for her replacement.

Hopefully. You know Weeks (CMC director) is leaving? I'm sure he was there when you were although he was Customs CMC director so I don't know if you ever had the displeasure of meeting him. He is going to LAX. I keep hoping this is a trend and we can cut some useless dead weight at the top and get some fresh blood in there. It would be especially nice to get a director and some Chiefs that actually wore a gun at some point in thier career. It gets tireing getting policies handed down from people who have never done our job and, a lot of which, don't even have much of a clue as to what we REALLY do.

[Switchback]

Chewy for Chief! Chewy for Chief! Chewy for Chief! Chewy for Chief! Chewy for Chief! Chewy for Chief!



heheheheee
Glad to hear the bad apple is getting pulled out of the barrel.

[chewy]

hehehe thanks, switch. I actually just decided to stop testing for supervisor. Some of the things they do here I can NOT be a part of and I have a very very hard time holding my tounge when I disagree with something which would, more likely than not, get me removed from that position. Some day in the future maybe

[SPEtactical]

The dirty ones make us all look bad.

[railroadfuzz]

"Corruption within the ranks of law enforcement is a breach of trust and a threat to public safety and it simply can't be tolerated," said U.S. Attorney Carol C. Law in San Diego."

Damn straight!

[Big Sexy]

It gets tireing getting policies handed down from people who have never done our job and, a lot of which, don't even have much of a clue as to what we REALLY do.

Story of my life.

[Sleuth]

Chewy, some things in government never change. I was working in Sells, on the Tohono O'Odham Reservation in AZ. We drove 4WD pickups, and were tracking smugglers on foot. Some moron in HQ ordered that all Special Agents had to wear suits unless they were undercover! In the desert! In the summer!
That's what made up my mind to retire.

[chewy]

Chewy, some things in government never change. I was working in Sells, on the Tohono O'Odham Reservation in AZ. We drove 4WD pickups, and were tracking smugglers on foot. Some moron in HQ ordered that all Special Agents had to wear suits unless they were undercover! In the desert! In the summer!
That's what made up my mind to retire.

Ya, that's a fairly boneheaded policy.

[ICEGrrl]

Chewy,
I KNEW you'd be all over this when I heard about it the other day. I am wondering why it took so long to get her? I remember when she left SYS.

[chewy]

Chewy,
I KNEW you'd be all over this when I heard about it the other day. I am wondering why it took so long to get her? I remember when she left SYS.

Well apparently she wasn't the only one involved so I suspect they wanted to make sure they had a solid investigative base before going after them. I kind of think they should "make and example" of her. I know there are other crooked cops out there but how often do you get to see a pisspoor GS-14 manager (wait till I finish, I know there are a lot of pisspoor 14's, that wasn't the whole sentence) get put in jail for being stupid and accepting bribes or "gratuities" Besides, no one I know actually liked her, she was kind of a little Hitler as far as being a manager. I have no doubt they will replace her with a sufficiently useless "don't do anything" mentality boss :mad: It seems like the ones that would make good bosses get fed up to early and leave.

[chewy]

Chewy,
I KNEW you'd be all over this when I heard about it the other day.

Wait a minute, was that a slam on me??? are you saying I jump at every opportunity to mention when our leaders are doing bad things? I think I might be offended...let me check with my wife and see if I'm offended.

[ICEGrrl]

Wait a minute, was that a slam on me??? are you saying I jump at every opportunity to mention when our leaders are doing bad things? I think I might be offended...let me check with my wife and see if I'm offended.

Nah, I wasn't trying to offend you. When I heard the news I was shocked. I knew nothing about an investigation on her. I heard she was a shi*bag too. Never worked for her though, thank god. I hope they give you a decent 14, but my doubts are high unfortunately. Our own 14's here are useless. I think its a pre-requisite. Hmmm...hope none of my bosses are reading!

[crossing_guard]

I'm only left to wonder why this person was allowed to go on poisoning the border for so long. Her legacy, unfortunately, lives on among her many lackeys at Detroit Metropolitan Airport. It's a cryin' shame! :eek: