Sheriff Candidate Martines Fighting Political Termination From Metro Employment

The Las Vegas Tribune has learned that longtime (35 years) LVMPD
Detective Gordon Martines was notified on February 14, 2014 that he
was terminated from employment effective February 10, 2014, per
Sheriff Douglas Gillespie. This latest news bore an effective date
coinciding with the day that the LVPPA (Police Union) discriminated
against and refused to allow Sheriff Candidate Martines and the only
other Hispanic sheriff candidate (Barbosa) from participating in a
public forum debate held at the Cashman Field center room, February
10, 2014.
The Las Vegas Tribune further learned that among other things, the
reasoning that Sheriff Candidate Martines was terminated was because
he had been on medical leave for a couple of years, and was now
considered by the LVMPD to be officially “Permanently Totally
Disabled,” despite the fact that two medical doctors have medically
evaluated Sheriff Candidate Martines’ current improved condition and
found him to be eligible to return to duty, in a light duty capacity,
at the LVMPD. These factors, along with numerous other very disturbing
facts and circumstances, allegedly manufactured and covered up by the
LVMPD, will more than likely be offered by Sheriff Candidate Martines
in his appeal to be re-instated.
Politics being what they are, and especially as they appear more
disheartening and more corrupted in the city of Las Vegas, we wanted
to examine the unusually harsh measures that are being employed
against Sheriff Candidate Gordon Martines of late in order to prevent
him from expressing his views, opinions and revelations, in his
candidacy for Sheriff of Clark County.
Some of those revelations include but are not limited to the four
resurfaced unsolved murders that occurred in 1996, 2001, 2002, and
2010, in which the LVMPD administration and leadership, past and
present, are complicit. Especially disturbing is the 2010 murder of
Corrections Officer Kevin Daily. This 2010 murder was not covered by
the mainstream media, even though it was of epic proportions and
extremely newsworthy for our community.
To summarize, Corrections Officer Kevin Daily failed to show up to
work at the Clark County Detention Center after a month’s absence from
work and NO missing persons’ report or attempt to locate was made by
anyone. Daily’s coworkers in the jail formed an off-duty search party
and later found Daily’s head approximately 300 feet from his
burned-out car, in a desert area in Henderson. This incident was never
published in the mainstream news media and this murder case still
remains unsolved in Henderson PD files. Further information later
obtained is that Daily may have been involved with the LVMPD
Intelligence Section, the Russian Mafia, and the HOA Scandal, which
also involved LVMPD former Lt. Benjamin Kim, LVMPD former Lt. Chris
Van Cleef, former LVMPD Lt. Morris Mattingly, and former LVMPD Captain
Frank Sutton.
The far-reaching ramifications and implications of this apparent LVMPD
cover-up are that three of the current six sheriff candidates — Joe
Lombardo, Ted Moody and Larry Burns — were all working in the LVMPD
administration when Corrections Officer Kevin Daily’s murder and
cover-up first occurred.
It is a known fact that the only way police corruption can occur is
for it to be tolerated and condoned by upper police administration.
In the last sheriff candidates’ debate, at the El Cortez, to which all
sheriff candidates were invited, Sheriff Candidate Gordon Martines
mentioned that just recently, in legal depositions — and pursuant to a
2011 Federal Lawsuit against the LVMPD, Sheriff Douglas Gillespie, et
al, and fourteen other high-ranking police officials — taken in
June/July 2013 from other witnesses, four unsolved murders resurfaced,
including the 2010 Kevin Daily murder, which allegedly directly points
the finger at the present LVMPD administration and leadership as being
complicit. This murder revelation coincidentally came to light when
Sheriff Douglas Gillespie recently became the recipient of the Sheriff
of the Year Award, which was covered by the mainstream media. Also
worth mentioning is that in 2013, in the span of two short weeks, four
assistant sheriffs and two captains left the force, and our current
sheriff changed his mind about running for a third term after being so
enthusiastic about his campaign just about six months prior.
The revelations about the four murders occurring in 1996, 2001, 2002,
2010, which are allegedly currently being handled and investigated by
the FBI and the Federal Justice Department, cannot help but
drastically affect the up and coming race for Sheriff of Clark County,
and possibly prosecute and shed dark light on the current
administration and leadership of the LVMPD.
This community can only hope and pray that these disturbing matters
will be cleared up in a timely manner and allow us to all move forward
and start anew with honorable and ethical leadership in our police
force — eventually leading to that same ethical leadership in all
departments of our local government.