EXCLUSIVE: Cops Raid City Council President’s Home After He Exposed Their Corruption
Days after a city council president motioned for an audit of the local police department, his home was mysteriously raided by police.
By Jack Burns
TheFreeThoughtProject.com
June 9, 2018
Masontown, PA – When the president of the city council learned about theft committed by the local police and began calling for an audit of the department over “seemingly corrupt and unethical actions,” police responded by raiding his home and stealing from his property.
John Stoffa told The Free Thought Project that he raised his concerns about past theft within the department at a city council meeting in January, and he openly called for an audit. Days after the meeting, in what is now alleged be a clear act of retaliation, Stoffa’s home was raided by police.
Stoffa said he believes the invasion of his home and confiscation of his property is a blatant attempt to prevent the police department from being audited. The council president’s home was searched by three officers—two from Masontown and one from Cumberland Township. They confiscated his son’s Ipad, his iPhone, CD’s and DVD’s, a couple of Sony memory sticks, his home computer, and three USB hard drives.
“They could have planted something for all I know,” Stoffa told TFTP. “But we got it back. My attorney has it now.”
He also noted that even though the council has voted in favor of an audit, it has yet to begin. “They never began the audit. We actually voted to do the audit after they raided my home,” he said.
We asked Stoffa why he believes he was targeted by the police and he said, “because I was the most vocal about them. Nobody else questioned their practices, they kinda just did what they wanted.”
When asked why he was so concerned about auditing the police department, Stoffa told us it is because he has “heard too many stories of people’s Constitutional rights being abused by this bunch [of cops].” Now he can relate.
There is a disagreement between Mayor Toni Petrus and the Masontown council over who actually has authority over the police department. “Since we hire, and fire, and promote within the police department I believe we [the council] have the authority to audit the police department,” Stoffa said.
To date, no charges have been filed against Stoffa for any incriminating evidence found in his possessions. He and his lawyers filed a motion to quash the search warrant and return his property for the—as he sees it—politically motivated violation of his Fourth Amendment rights.
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