February 28, 2007
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

JOHN MONTI, SAVE OUR STATE
323-474-4402
 

GRAND JURY RECEIVES COMPLAINT OF POLICE INACTION TO STOP SEX TRAFFICKING AND PROSTITUTION IN MCGONIGLE CANYON

San Diego, California – Save Our State member John Monti will file a grand jury complaint on Thursday, March 1, 2007 asking that the county grand jury investigate the San Diego Police Department’s (SDPD) response to continued prostitution and human trafficking occurring in Rancho Penasquitos. He will meet the press outside of the Hall of Justice on 330 W. Broadway, San Diego, CA at 10:00 a.m. on March 1, 2007 after the complaint is formally filed to answer questions and distribute footage of the December 2, 2006 incident.

This complaint was prompted by police actions on December 2, 2006 when San Diego Police Department officers were called to investigate prostitution in McGonigle Canyon. The officers refused to investigate and when shown where girls were hiding in the brush, they refused to enter the thicket to talk to the girls to investigate their situation.

In the context of the human trafficking and forced prostitution problems that San Diego County has been found to have, Mr. Monti believes that San Diego Police Department is egregiously ignoring its duty to defend the most weak and vulnerable – women and children. It is believed that this is more than just the dereliction of duty of two police officers, but instead strikes at the modus operandi of the migrant liaison officers and the command element of the SDPD in the Northern and Northeastern Divisions of SDPD.

The complaint will ask for an investigation of why the SDPD has refused to acknowledge and investigate the existence of prostitution and human trafficking in Rancho Penasquitos in spite of numerous eyewitness reports and information provided by the local migrants.