The Missoula County Sheriff’s Office wanted to get closer to the river for a long time, going all the way back to a public bond, passed by voters, to buy some land next to the jail, a jail not everyone understands is run by the Missoula County Sheriff’s Office. The idea was to expand the jail into a “Law and Justice Center”, but that didn’t happen. Instead, local politicians, along with their non-profit advocates, like United Way of Missoula County, saw an opportunity to create the subsidized housing complex that shares a name with America’s first test of nuclear power: Trinity.
To highlight how butt-hurt feelings amongst the badges still lingers over this land grab, here’s a recent mention on Facebook by a real interesting character in our story, Detective Guy Baker, now retired.
For those who haven’t followed Detective Baker’s career, like I have, the phrase “would have been very practical” doesn’t sound nefarious at all, but by the end of this “Part II”, I hope readers will be left wondering how much Detective Baker may have known about the drug trafficking supposedly carried out by an alleged paid informant for the High-Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA) by the name of John Skinner.
When John reached out to me last April it was because he claimed to be doing better with his life (this later proved to be a lie, which is why I’m writing this).
John wasn’t messing around with meth anymore, he claimed, and he was NEVER involved with child porn. Getting a minor drunk in a tent during “Occupy Missoula” was “not in any way like that” he said in his email threatening legal action:
I decided to give John the second chance he was demanding, so I took down the post before giving him a call last year. When I got John on the phone I told him, at the very beginning of the conversation, that I had already complied with his demand. That means what he told me wasn’t just an effort to wow me with a story to get the result he wanted, since I had already given him what he wanted. The story that came after, well, it’s one hell of a story.
John told me that he was a paid informant selling drugs for the cops. The money came from the High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area and he operated out the Colonial Motel, on Broadway. He sold mostly heroin until a bad batch caused a bunch of overdose deaths, a detail that helped confirm the veracity of his story, since this detail was confirmed to me by multiple street addicts I spoke to looking to either confirm or discredit John’s claims.
John continued his story, explaining that product was stored in trailers behind the Walmart, on Mullan, and sometimes on the property of a pawn shop in the area. Not only was I quite familiar with this pawn shop, I had also become familiar with the owner, a man who claimed to know some dirt on Sheriff Deputies, since he was personally friends with one who allegedly got internally disciplined for meth use and being in a hot tub with a male minor.
When I mentioned this alleged detail about the pawn shop to a source last week, he nodded his head vigorously, saying “Of course, that makes sense! I was wondering why he closed up and left!” Sure enough, when I biked by the building the next day, a new business has opened up where Riverside Pawn once operated. Hmmm.
Before I show how the High-Intensity Drug Trafficking Area really does give official money to the Sheriff’s Office and United Way of Missoula County, let me clarify something: this isn’t a story about corrupt cops simply selling drugs to make money. What I think John described to me is his role in a law enforcement operation designed to catch bigger and badder drug traffickers, and I believe this operation is directly connected to the deaths of Sean Stevenson and Johnny Lee Perry.
That said, here’s a blurb from a 2020 Department of Justice press release about HIDTA money “helping” the problem of drug addiction:
Missoula Substance Abuse Connect, a coalition created to develop a comprehensive community plan to reduce substance abuse, including methamphetamine-related violent crime, in Missoula County, has received a $248,000 federal grant as part of an overall initiative to fight violent crime, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.
The Office of National Drug Control Policy awarded initial funding of $248,000 through 2021 to the Rocky Mountain High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA). Rocky Mountain HIDTA allocated the funds to the Missoula Police Department. The MPD will administer the grant through United Way of Missoula County, which is leading the Missoula Substance Abuse Connect effort.
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“The Missoula County Sheriff’s Office looks forward to this partnership with the United Way to provide assistance through Missoula Substance Abuse Connect to those in our community who are dealing with addictions and substance abuse issues. I’d also like to thank United Way of Missoula CEO Susan Hay Patrick for her efforts on this project,” Missoula County Sheriff TJ McDermott said.
A few weeks ago it might have seemed VERY outlandish to suggest that some of the $248,000 in grant money to FIGHT drug abuse may have been going to DEAL drugs, but, after yesterday’s post about the local implications of the Southern Poverty Law Center scandal, the scenario I’m describing now appears more than plausible to me.
Another pretty outlandish claim I’ve made over the years, one that now also seems disturbingly more plausible, is that Todd Keith Spence is law enforcement’s angel of death, killing problematic drug addicts with Fentanyl-laced Cannabis, like I reported in July, 2023.
Any good drug operation needs a few psychopathic killers around to help instill the kind of operational fear that keeps people in line. When violent sex offenders, like Todd Keith Spence, appear to be protected instead prosecuted, like the slap on the wrist Spence received in 2022 for violently attacking TWO Department of Transportation personnel during a homeless camp cleanup, the only explanation that makes sense is that Spence has some kind of unstated value to law enforcement outside of jail.
The Missoula County Sheriff’s Office controls ALL information around death, since Montana lets these idiots operate as CORONERS in addition to LAW men with the power to kill anyone they want to without any worry about accountability. That’s why, six months later, no one knows the name of the man who was found dead last November on a popular trail near the University.
Before Missoula County Sheriff Deputy, Sean Evans (pictured above), shot Johnny Lee Perry in the back out in the woods, Perry claimed to be the “new CIA” in this video footage I recorded just days before Johnny was killed. While Johnny is clearly fucked up in the video, making his claim sound insanely dumb and crazy, I had heard from another street source that Johnny actually did have a girlfriend in St. Regis, and that her Dad was a retired CIA agent.
Again, this sounded crazy, but that was before I read about some very real CIA agents in Montana who got conned by a private security conman in this very curious book:
After reading this book and writing a book where I cite passages from Seyler’s investigation into the private security company, Amyntor, I no longer laugh off Johnny’s crazy sounding claim, especially after I discovered Johnny Lee Perry was close (possibly related) to Oscar Grant before Grant was killed by cops on the BART.
After Johnny Lee Perry was killed by Missoula law enforcement, I met a guy near the Russell Street bridge who knew Johnny, and this guy had just arrived from Oakland (he got very sad and emotional when I told him what happened). This was after the major 2022 cleanup at Reserve Street, so I was at Russell looking into the new hot spot for drug dealing where Todd Spence had relocated to, as evidenced by several local articles about him and high water.
Not coincidentally, this is also the spot in Missoula where I met Clayton Shaya, a homeless man with connections to northern Washington and proximity to the political advocacy for urban camping pushed by the rebranded Montana Human Rights Network. Isn’t that interesting?
Is Clayton Shaya the kind of guy who might be into informant/drug trafficking? I don’t know, but my direct interactions with him, combined with the fact he ran a write-in campaign in 2019 to be a Washington County Sheriff before arriving in Missoula, makes me very curious about WHY he chose this town to come and be homeless in.
I’m not kidding about the Sheriff campaign thing, because an official complaint exists to help document this interesting detail. Here’s a summary of the complaint:
When I quote the details of the massive drug case investigation I think Sean Stevenson was killed to protect, dates like 2019 (when Sean also arrived in Missoula) will be more obviously significant.
To bolster my claim that the Reserve Street homeless camps represented a “VERY PRACTICAL” spot to run a multi-jurisdictional HIDTA drug-trafficking operation, one last drug dealer who transitioned from Reserve Street to the short-lived “Authorized Camping Site”, post Reserve Street cleanup, merits a mention here, and that’s Tully Sanem, the tweaker I put into context last April after first reading his name in a local article about his propensity to build “pallet houses” within the authorized plot of land overseen by RI security.
How do I know so much about all this? Obviously, seven years working at the Poverello Center helps put me into contact with knowledgeable people, but plenty of other individuals on background have helped me understand this troubling terrain over the years.
That’s why Missoula’s most famous, now-retired, Detective, Guy Baker, tried pumping me for my sources a few years ago in a text exchange I sat on for awhile before publishing. Here’s the full exchange:
Ok, with all this crazy context in mind, it’s time to unveil what started happening in 2019 and, more importantly, WHY I think this particular operation happened, because we’re all (as in, Missoula) now living with the results. Here it is, the full press release in screenshot form:
Two words stand out to me from this public government celebration, and that’s “intelligence-driven”. Who and how that local intelligence is developed is left up to people like former Sheriff, T.J. McDermott, and the people who ride along with Detective Baker to see the decomposing body with a neck tattoo hanging from this tree, located just a couple hundred feet from that former pawn shop.
I posted the above image of the hanging tree, along with some graffiti that said BAKER, in last week’s post about the cost of keeping this area under and around the Reserve Street bridge clear of its previous activity. Upon hearing that former Detective, Guy Baker, is named more specifically and subtly on the other side of the river, just a few dozen feet from the former pawn shop, I had to go and check it out. Though hard to make out, it says “Ky Guy Baker” in golden lettering on the concrete of the bridge:
Before I get to my BIG BANG conclusion, shouldn’t I be happy that big, bad cartel traffickers got busted? Sure, if I didn’t think this big bust was to make room for a more nasty strain of RUSSIAN black market operators, yeah, I might understand the need to use some live bait and break a few scrambled-omelet/addicts in the larger “war on drugs”, but replacing Sinola with something else is what I think happened, so I’ll reserve happiness for when more actual transparency on clandestine operations comes out.
Ok, I’m going to do one final insane thing, and that’s to suggest that the dead homeless man, Sean Stevenson, rendered dead by the Missoula County Sheriff’s Office on January 5th, 2020, is tied to all those missing scientists with connections to things like the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where Missoula’s former City Council guy, Bryan von Rocket Scientist, once worked.
Bryan, weirdly enough, was the guy I lashed out with a HARD-R N-Bomb while waiting for my taco during the lunch break of Johnny Lee Perry’s Coroner’s Inquest, where I sat in uncomfortable, pew-like seats with all the local badges to watch them spend 34 minutes planning Johnny’s execution. I think I may still be fucked up by that experience.
So, what’s the connection?
I’m sure you’re on the edge of your seat wondering, right? I mean, how crazy could this get? It’s not like Sean’s father, Dr. Kenneth Stevenson, could have had some sort of official role studying one of the most studied holy relics of all time, the Shroud of Turin, along people from NASA, JPL, Los Alamos Labs…and SO MUCH MORE, because that would be REALLY CRAZY, right?
Whatever the fuck is going on here, this post represents A LOT of my cards in explaining the death of Sean Stevenson and the death of Johnny Lee Perry, but not all of them. Like I said, I have an entire manuscript going back, historically, a couple hundred years to really get my head around the things coming to seeming fruition in our current timeline.
For everyone sticking with me on this crazy ride, thank you. And stay tuned, because I’m not done yet.
Can I get a hootie-hoo?
