By Arthur Vanmoor;
And some nasty incidents.
I got 12 times arrested falsely. Only a few resulted in convictions. Cops lie all the time and get away with their lies. A cop can arrest anyone and ruin their life. Convictions don't really count. Everybody looks at arrests. If your arrested for something and the case gets dismissed the arrest will bar you from jobs and renting apartments. When the police stops you they run your name and see your arrests not the convictions. With any new case the state attorney's and judges looks at your prior arrest record. Not having convictions to match the arrest will make it worse. They think your guilty but got away with it. This makes it harder to beat the future false arrests because state attorney's and judges now really want to get you.
False arrest nr. 1:
July 1989, I was for a two week vacation in the USA with my wife and son. We had rented a Corvette. She stayed in the hotel and I was driving around on Biscayne Blvd in Miami. Two girls were standing on the street, one was flagging me over and asked if I wanted some action. I stated : “Well what’s the deal?” She stated :”What do you usually pay?” I just felt something was not right, what kind of question is that for a hooker to ask I thought. so I stated: “nothing I am not from here”. I wanted to drive away, I gave gas but got blocked in by 5 undercover police cars. They all had their guns pointed at me and yelled get down on the ground. They searched my car, found my rental car lease and knew I was a tourist. Yet they put the plastic cuffs on me and put me in a van. There were several men in the van. After a few more men came in the van, I saw a news crew outside. I could see a monitor which showed how it was live broadcasted. They showed my rented red Corvette. The reporter was Rick Sanchez when he started out at channel 7. I was locked up in Miami main jail would numerous people. There was an old man from Brazil in his bathing suit. They arrested him for trespassing. They never gave me a phone call. The next morning I went in front of the magistrate. He set bond at $1000 which is standard for solicitation in Miami. I told the judge I was a tourist and did not have that much cash. He set it at $500. Back in the jail with 80 guys and one phone, I had to wait hours in line to get the phone and call my wife. She was real angry!! (I never understood why because, she was cheating on me all the time AND was a prostitute herself.) She came to jail with $500 cash and bonded me out. I left the next day back to Holland and obviously never went to court. Years later I had the records pulled by an investigator. It showed as "bond estruded". It could read how the police had lied they had put as my occupation: “laborer”.(I owned 8 clothing stores at that time in Holland.) They never asked for my occupation. The way they wrote the incident up was a total lie. They wrote that I solicited the woman. That I offered her money in exchange for sex. I found out later from others and myself that cops always lie otherwise they can't make cases.
False arrest nr. 2:
Aug 1991 , By tis time I lived in the USA , North Miami Beach. I befriended a girl from Germany who was an escort. One day she beeped me stating she was with a guy that wanted to see for his wife a guy. I was eager to comply. I did not even care whether I would get paid or not. So when I got there I got arrested right away, nothing was ever discussed. I went to jail again. Bond was set at $1000. I had a girlfriend pick up money at my house and got out. 3 months later I went to court and got a 180 dollars fine. Later the case was expunged.
Incident nr. 1:
In 1992. As I got close to entering the publix supermarket two cops asked me: “what are you doing here” I replied: “getting groceries” . Where is your car they said. I told them in the parking lot. “bring us to your car they demanded” . When we got to my car they told me to open it. They went trough my whole car for a long time. I had to open the trunk and even the hood. They left disappointed without apologizing.
False arrest nr. 3:
I met a girl and wanted to have sex with her. She was not a hooker and she hesitated. I knew it was going to take a little time. We went to Winn Dixie and bought a beer for her and a Coca Cola for me. We went around the back of the store in an alley to sit and drink it by a dumpster. After 15 minutes the po po came. The security guard from Winn Dixie was there too. He had called the po po. They thought we were doing drugs but we were not. They searched everywhere. They were really hot that they could not get us on drugs. Instead of letting us go we got arrested for trespassing, handcuffed and hauled of to main jail in Miami. A complete 100% false arrest. The property was not posted as private property and we should have been warned first. The police report did indeed indicate something was not right because the judge told me the next day I would not get a conviction. Thanks a lot! What difference does it make? It still shows on my record. These cops were extremely nasty. They cussed at us for no reason and were just really mean for no reason. We were just quit and polite but they kept provoking us. I had later learned they do that on purpose. They hope you get angry or say something back to them then they beat you up or shoot you for fun.
Incident nr 2:
In 1993, I was a driver for escorts. It was after midnight. Someone beeped me. I had to get of the US1 to look for pay phone. I turned in to a street and was driving real slow. A cop sees me and starts driving behind me. I did not feel comfortable so the next block I made a right and then again heading back to US1. He stops me and before I say anything he starts explaining that he has probable cause to stop me and search my car because I drove to slow and that was suspicious. I had to put my hands on my 1982 Skylark and waited 5 minutes to see no less then 6 cop cars appearing. One other cop was a real mean bastard he kept provoking me. He told me and the others that he had stopped me a week ago in a drug area and found drugs on me. I told him he was mistaken. Then 5 minutes later a car with a dog came. At the exact time the dog went in my car sniffing I had to strip on the street. I had to drop my pants right there and my underwear. I was standing naked in my ding a ling on front of all the cops and a few local black guys on the street. I did not care. I guess they had hoped that I would refuse. The dog was put trough my car several times. Every time the dog did not find anything they got visibly more disappointed. They made nasty comments like they knew what I was doing. And like I was buying or selling. Then they finally let me go. The whole thing took almost an hour.
Incident nr. 3:
In 1993, I was laying in the sun on the beach. A 12 year old kid trough a Frisbee and it almost hit me. There are signs all over that that was not allowed. I called him an asshole since he never stated I am sorry or something. Then his mother comes to me and asks me: “did you just call my son an asshole?” I said: “yes so what stupid bitch”.
10 minutes later two cops told me I was going to jail. I told them: “I live here and they do not” Then they stated they needed to see ID. I walked them to my car which had the ID in it. I told them go ahead search my car a Pontiac trans am 1987 too. Somehow they got the impression I was some kid with rich parents. “must be nice living on the beach” they said. At that time they decided to let me go. That lady got real angry with the cops. That lady did not even belong in the condo complex.
False arrest nr. 4:
I was driving on Dixie Highway in Hallandale in 1994. A cop pulled me over for a routine check he said. I had a pillow tapped with duct taped against my head rest of my chair. He thinks that that is weird he explains. He calls back up. 3 cop cars and one undercover appear in minutes. The undercover was real nasty, he kept calling me Jeffrey Dahmer all the time. They were like what the fuck is an asshole like me doing at night driving around."Nothing ! " I stated. The cop started searching my car and found a 9mm. It was in the back pocket of the drivers seat. I got arrested. Later my attorney got the report. It stated that the reason he pulled me over was that I was driving with my head lights off. The cop needed to make up a lie, otherwise they had no probable cause to search my car. The cop also lied that he saw the gun in plain sight. That was a stupid lie. He had charged me with carrying a concealed weapon. By tis time I was making good money and I hired a hot shot attorney (william Caine now deceased.) The judge had to throw it out on a technicality. I still don't understand why, something about the gun being in clear sight and not being concealed. In those years judges were more inclined to dismiss cases if they had to.
False arrest nr. 5:
It was September 1995. My (second) wife Barbara Butts got a phone call from a guy that said He was a cop and he wanted to talk to "Arnold". Since I was the only male around the house she called me to the phone. I answered "yes this is Arnold" and the cop stated that he was investigating an incident at the Sheridan Design Hotel in Hollywood. He stated that one of the escorts that worked for us was assaulted by a man in the parking lot and had cut her panties with a key last night around 3 am. When he stated that her name was Tammy I told him that she was lying since she was somewhere else last night. He stated that he did not believe her assault story either but it was his job to investigate, and he needed to meet with me. I told him there was no need meeting him since I told him she was lying and he knew it too. He insisted that I would meet him. I told him no, then he wanted my last name I made up the name 'Broder'. We ended the conversation and I hung up. Tammy had worked as an escort for us and stayed last night with a client and still had not paid us the agency fee. We had call her the whole day but she would hang up on us. I also did not like the fact that she got the po po involved with a bunch of bullshit andwhy the hell did she gave gave the cops the phone number of our escort service??.
I decided to go to her house and stab her four tires. This was a technique I knew was highly effective when girls don't pay what is owed. It works so well because they know that once the tires are fixed they could be stabbed again. (When the agency got bigger I stopped doing this and instead the girls had to prepay their calls). I drove by the house turned around and parked my car 100 feet away. Just as I was about to get out of my car, a police car pulled up and the cop wanted to know what I was doing in the area. I told the cop: "I was visiting a friend". He wanted my ID and I gave him my license. Then he got on his radio and talked to some guy about that he stopped a guy with a foreign accent (in 1995 I had a strong dutch accent). The cop now told me to put my hands on the car. Three more Hallandale cops came within minutes. They told me the usual phrase; "what is an asshole like you doing in this neighborhood" I stayed calm. Then two Broward sheriffs cars pulled up. One big guy came out and said "are you the guy I just talked to on the phone" I said: "I guess so". He said "well then I am arresting you for giving me a false name on the telephone". He handcuffed me and put me in his police car. He searched my car and then the trunk. In the trunk was a stun gun. In the back pocket of my chair was a small knife( 2 inch blade). He came to me and told me I was charged with giving a false name, obstruction of justice, loitering and prowling, and carrying a concealed weapon. When we drove to jail I tried to explain that he had no right to do what he did. He just lauged and told me he could do anything he wanted to. I spend about 24 hours in jail (in Broward county that's normal even when bond is paid right away.) after I bonded out. I got charged with the same crap he told me. loitering and prowling! Ridiculous, I was sitting in my car. The knife, he wrote up as that it was a 6 inch knife. I had to hire an attorney (William Caine) for three grand. He got the police report. The cop was Casimiro Navarro and he had lied as usual.It stated that he found the stun gun in the car (not trunk). He lied that the knife had an 6 inch blade. He admitted that the girl Tammy had made a false police report. That being the case my attorney made a motion to dismiss the case. It turned out the first Hallandale cop had no probable cause to hassle me and detain me. I think I was lucky to have one of the few good judges in Broward: Judge Holmes. She even questioned why this Tammy never was arrested for making a false complaint with the police. We notified the Sheriff Department of an intent to sue. I did not sue till three years later and only because I got falsely arrested many more times and more incidents happened. The cop eventually got fired. Not because of me but because he had too many problems with upstanding citizens and BSO got to many lawsuits because of Navarro. He had beaten up some people in front of a crowd and in front of numerous other cops. He had falsely arrested some elderly people and he had run-ins with undercover agents. In deposition many witnesses were heard and it was officially established that he was a liar. He stated the knife was between the seat and in the mid console. Cadillac has a gap their that can not hold a knife. The knife was of course gone instead of being in the evidense room. Witnesses saw him getting the stun gun out of the trunk not out of the car like he had lied. He admitted that he did not like escort service owners and that was his excuse for his nasty behavior against me. A week before trial and this is after my civil attorney told me I better settle because he claimed these cases against cops are never won. I wondered why he did not say this before I spend $50.000 on his fees. I guess he needed to make money first and knew all along the case would never go to trial. I had to settle for $10.000 so in the end lost $40.000. This cop later became a private investigator. It was funny that cop by the deposition looked like a real idiot with his t-shirt and jeans. Nothing like the big tough guy he was in his police uniform.
False arrest nr. 6:
Her follows a real nasty case: I was framed by the po po with possession of cocaine. I have never done any drugs in my entire life. Not even prescription drugs. Never tried anything, no pills or powder nothing. Everybody that knows me knows this.
I was driving on December 4 1995, on a Sunday afternoon around 4 pm, in my black cadilac on US 1 in Hollywood, Fl. It was that time of the day that the hookers came out and as always I was in desperate need for some action. I picked up an older woman/hooker, she was around 45 (I was 35). We both knew the game so not much needed to be discussed. I turned off the US 1 and went then into a side street. Normally I would drive about one mile and park somewhere in a "Guest spot" at a building. I was going north and a cop car came by in the opposite direction. After we crossed I kept looking in the mirror. The cop slowly stopped and turned. I figured it was better to speed up, who needs the hassle of being pulled over with a hooker in the car. I went right then next block left then right like zigzag. The distance of her car was such that the cop must have lost me. But concientdentally like 5 blocks away I saw the cop car and the cop must had seen me because the cop came now close behind me. I knew there was no need to speed up now so I just followed my way. the cop came driving behind me. Cops normally put their roof lights on when they want you to stop. I was driving slow and stopping at every stop sign 3 seconds. Some cops drive real close behind you and try to rush you into not stopping the 3 seconds so I was cautious not to do so. After a few blocks of having the cop car on my ass, the cop flashed the head lights. (No roof lights or siren) I stopped immediately. The cop came to the car and it was a female at first she seemed friendly. She wanted to see my license, registration and insurance papers. She went to her car and did a check like cops always do. It took the usual 3 minutes. She came back and gave me a ticket for not having insurance papers. She asked about my accent and I told her I was from Amsterdam. She reacted "oh really I had been there and had a good time I drank too much". I was like "oh", I wanted to get going. Then she said "oh I almost forgot I need to search the car. I told her no. My attorney had explained that unless I made a traffic violation the police do not have the right or probable cause to search your car. Unless you give them permission. She did not look happy. She was thinking and it was clear that nobody had ever told her no and now she needed to think what to do. It must have made her suspicious, she told me to get out of the car and put my hands on the hood. Then she went to her car and was on her radio for a while. 5 minutes later another cop came. This guy came to me and said he wanted to search the car. I told him no I don't want you to. He wanted to know why and I told him I don't need the hassle. In the past I always gave them permission and that did not much good (see prior false arrests). He walked back to his car and was on the radio too and looking in some kind of thick manual. It was clear that I had put them in a very unusual situation. I guess everybody always complies with a cop's request. Floridians must have learned and I was soon to find out what would happen to not obey the cops and to be a smart ass. Four more cop cars came. So now there were six cops (5 male and 1 female) and six cop cars. So this was 20 minutes after I got stopped. One cop recognized my passenger as having been arrested in the past. Then they put me in the back of a cop car. Then they told the hooker to get out of the car and made her sit on the side walk. They went in my car and went searching. They went on and on and on all these cops went through the car and the trunk. Two searched for ten minutes then 2 other cops and then again 2 other cops. Now three more cop cars came and they also started searching. They popped the hood too, so this went on for one full hour. It got dark and it was around six o'clock. Then one cop came to me and told me I was arrested for possession of cocaine. I told the cops "You fucking scumbags, liars there is no cocaine in the car". They were not even mad that I cussed them out. They just said your going to jail and we are confiscating your car. They gave me also 4 new tickets for running four stop signs. I then knew they fabricated those for the purpose of probable cause to search the car and "find" cocaine. The female cop drove with me sitting handcuffed in the back to Hollywood police station. I noticed she ran all the stop signs. I told her she was evil. She just laughed. I asked her where is the cocaine she found, she told me I needed to shut up. I did not say a word and my hate against cops really grew. I thought to myself is this my reward for a life of no drugs. In jail, I did not get my phone call as usual. I got out after 24 hours on a $1000 bond. The phone call I got after 18 hours.
William Caine my attorney got the police report. The report stated that the reason the cop had pulled me over was because of a "bolo" be on the look out for a black cadilac. This was of course all bullshit and designed to justify their shit. Then it stated that I had run stop signs and that's why she stopped me. Then it read as if they found the crack cocaine right away. Yes, now it was crack cocaine all of a sudden. The attorney demanded a lab report. It stated that it was 0.05(1/20) gram of cocaine. The attorney told me it was to small for cocaine so that's why they changed it to crack cocaine. The report stated that they did a field test on the spot. This was a lie too. From where I was sitting I could see everything and no test was done. The old lady hooker was also mentioned but not disclosed was her prior arrests. We hired a private investigator. He found out that the hooker was arrested numerous times for prostituion and possesion. That was good said my attorney, she was alone in the car according to the report so it could have been hours, and that's what he would argue if it ever went to trial. The detective interviewed several neighbors and it was established the whole cop thing took 1 1/2 hour just like I said. The detective managed to find the old lady hooker too. She swore that she had no drugs with her and had not put no drugs in my car. Many people told me that she was telling the truth since hooker/addicts use all their dope and then go out for a client. They don't save dope for later and don't cary dope around with the risk of it being found. The car that was confiscated was a prepaid lease so officially GMAC was the owner/lease holder. Therefore, the po po could not seize the car. The po po had given the car back to GMAC with the warning "next time we will not give it back". GMAC cancelled the lease and in order to get the car back we had to pay the residual as stated in the contract which was around 30k. My wife got a cashiers check and we got the car back. The glove compartment lock was broken and the 2 guns that were in it had disappeared. The cops had stolen them. Every 6 weeks I had to go to courtfor the the next few years. Every time the state attorney asked and got a delay. This is standard procedure. They want people to get tired and take a plea or they hope someone gets arrested again and then will take a plea. Or they hope that with a new arrest the judge will not give bail. Meanwhile, my attorney took the deposition of the cop. It was Christina Rodriguez. Her story in deposition was different from what she wrote in her own report. Their was never a "bolo" and now she said she honked the horn to get me to stop. My private investigator found that she used to be a school bus driver and was fired after causing a serious accident. She had not disclosed this on her job application to become a Hollywood cop. It was later learned that Hollywood police on purpose did not do background checks because they had a hard time getting enough cops for the job. The cop lived with another (lesbo) cop and had gotten in a bar fight and had hit someone with a beer bottle on the head while off duty. Even when Hollywood police was confronted with the lies on her application they did not fire her. Finally in March or April 1998 the judge ordered the case- by now almost 3 years old - really had to go to trial. I had always refused to take a plea and since I was out on bond there was no reason to. The prosecutor came to me and my attorney right before trial and told us she would drop the cocaine charge. I guess it had helped that by now I was being investigated and arrested for the escort service and small world as it is they all knew I was totally clean and never had done drugs. Even the prosecutor did not believe the cop.
But the case was not over. In September, I was arrested for the ninth time (read further) at the same time they filed a new information on this case now for "fleeing and eluding". Someone had read the police report again and had seen that that the cop had written that she had her roof lights on. ( a lie) So the new state attorney reasoned that because I did not stop at once, that I fled from the police. this case was now 3 1/2 years old. This new case went to trial Feb 99 and I lost a jury trial. The cop had 3 different versions of the incident. Her police report, her deposition and her current testimony. Despite the fact that there was no other evidence then her own lying testimony. She did admit that no siren was put on and no call for back up was reported over the radio something that would be normal when in police persuit. I got convicted. I should have taken the stand but my attorney adviced not to do so, attorney's never want their client on the stand. It's the judge who made this happen. Read more of this under the chapter crooked judges. The judge sentenced me to 6 six days county jail "fortwith" that means I got cuffed on the spot and was brought to jail. The jail and courts are in the same building. After 3 days I posted an appeal bond of $10.000 with a premium to the bail bond company of $1000. I did this to get out and not do the remaining 3 days. Later those reamaining 3 days were whiped out. We settled as time served.
False arrest nr. 7:
This was Feb. 1998. The whole story is described under the chapter my own escort service. Since the arrest was directly related to my escort service I put it in there. In short: I was arrested for racketeering and conspiracy. There was no evidence and the prosecutor never filed the case. I know everybody has their own opinion what an escort service really is all about. But no matter what people think, the law is the law and there was no evidence against me.
Technically anyone could open an escort service, advertise legally for escorts and clients and never discuss sex and still do great business. The real reason for my arrest was that I did not pay the Fort Lauderdale vice unit.
These cops arrested me for their own personal gains not because they were serving the law. The cops that arrested me all lived in ocean front condos or waterfront mansions. These cops were before they became cops: refrigrator repair man, fork lift drivers, graveyard care taker, assistant manager at a Mcdonalds and other low life jobs. One was a bookkeeper and every time he worked somewhere the business got bankrupt. 2 cops had convictions for drugs when they were under 18. The main cop that arrested me was Bary Margolis. Yet another cop that had lied numerous times on his job application. In deposition he stated he had a college degree from the university in fire science! This lie got him kicked of the force and gave him early retirement. The vice unit would take revenge. They also pressured my residential and office landlord to evict me. They forced the phone company to shut down my phones which they had to turn back on. They forced my car lease company to break the lease and repo my car. It did not work but made my life a hell. Everytime I moved the cops came to my place and informed the building that I was a menace of society and nuissance.
False arrest nr 8:
March 1998 is identical to arrest no 7 with the difference that the purpose of the arrest was only to try to revoke my bond. They also cleaned out my whole office. Everything, they took even a globe and a foosball table. They got real angry over the fact that the business continued in operation. they had never seen anything like this before. They called it: Van Moor is thumbing his nose at the system. No I just don't like crooked cops. I was singled out for prosecution something everybody including judges and prosecutors admitted. This still does not sit well with me.
False arrest nr. 9:
Sept. 1998 I was arrested and charged with 3 counts of procuring a minor and deriving support from a prostitute stemming from Feb till April 1997.
This is what happened; The vice unit of Fort Lauderdale had in February 1997 given a certain Queenie Berritz a false identification showing her age as 18 years old and with the intent to infiltrate the business and to set me up. Queenie Berritz was a self admitted street prostitute junkie who looked way older. From police reports we learned that she was told by police to infiltrate the business and set me up for hiring under age girls. When she called on the telephone she told my manager she was 17. The manager told her that she was too young and needed to be 18. The cops who recorded the conversation could have dropped their investigation since I passed the test. But they gave her a false Identification which showed her as just 18. Now she went to the office and was hired. She worked 2 months as an escort and serviced hundreds of customers.
Anyway, I was arrested 1 1/2 years later. I guess the case was so bad that nobody wanted to file charges back in 1997 but now that they had lost their recent case they picked this one up out of retaliation. The prosecutor was this crook Lee Seidman. Queenie Berritz herself and her mom told the court they did not wanted charges filed against me, at least not for the under age parts. Still this crooked state attorbey went ahead.
Meanwhile, I was out on a $56,000 bond and had to go to court every 6 weeks. Later two new prosecutors were assigned to the case; Stacy Honowitz and Cathy Berkowitz. The first was reasonable and the second was pure evil. Cathy would lie to the judge every time we tried to dismiss the case. We tried the selective prosecution. No clients and no other escort service were prosecuted. Judge Barry Goldstein decided that Barry Margolis indeed had singled me out for prosecution and that his reason to pursue was out of personal dislike of me. But that was not illegal. Since I was not singled out for reason of religion, race or gender it was alright to be singled out. My attorney then filed later a motion based on the fact she had used a false ID. The prosecutor defended the motion to dismiss by stating that I had as they called "strict liability". As an example they used of a car speeding due to broken odometer. The Judge nor prosecutor could explain how an ordinary citizen would be protected from a girl that uses deliberate fake ID with the purpose to defraud her victim into believing she is 18.
There where other cases were people were entraped by cops or informants using a false Id. for instance, where alcohol was served to minors using a gboy of 14 using an ID card showing 23, the seller was also responsible and charged with selling alcohol to a minor. So I lost that motion too. But the good thing was that the judge told the prosecutors "you should work this out in a plea? It does not sound like a good jury case".
Dec. 2001 these same prosecutors had a case that was big in the news of a of a female teacher that had sucked a 16 year old students dick. The guy lied on the stand and the prosecutor lost the case. After they lost this case the prosecution finally offered to settle my case. Margolis was still strongly against working the case out. Berkowitz told my attorney that Margolis had called her everyday for the last few years to push the case to trial and get me convicted in years of prison. Margolis wanted to have me plea to at least a felony. I did not know that at the time but I found out later that pleading to a felony would have been the end of my legal residence as an alien and would have gotten me deported.
In march 2002 we came to a deal which was 2 misdemeanors for prostitution and restitution of investigative costs of 65,000 and 6 months of probation. My immigration attorney Micheal Weiss had advised me at that time that this would be no problem for my alien status. Well he was wrong. Conviction of prostitution is a crime of moral turpitude and can block an alien from permanent residence. I tried to get out of my plea in 2003 but to no avail.
All those years I had private investigators watching her every move. We had video of her walking the streets selling her ass in Clearwater. This was just in case we had to go to trial.
In 2004 she came looking again for a job as escort and was interviewed at my office in 2004 this time she showed her real ID. She said she worked the last few years in New York as a high class escort. She worked a few nights as an escort and quit after she found out it was my escort service she worked for.
False arrest nr. 10:
Well of course there would be another arrest. I was Fort Lauderdale's vice unit enemy number 1. Since 1997 they had investigated me. They got sued by me and one detective got early retirement. They looked liked idiots because of all the publicity and exposure of their lies and misconduct. Revenge would follow obviously.
While I was on misdemeanor probation for the above described false arrest case no 9 this is what happened: I went to the probation office as I was ordered by the court to do so. When I got there I was supposedly assigned to a senior probation officer Heather something? But a black lady give me the first set of instructions and told me to call back in a few days and meet with Heather. In the probation rules it stated that you can't have any weapons in your house or in possession. I told her that I had a license to carry a gun. She told me that in this case; it was all right to have the gun as long as I had the gun permit with me. I called Heather the next day and we discussed meeting her in a few days.She called me a few days later and told me to go in. When I got there, she was going over the rules and was nervous. The reason she was nervous was because she had arranged to have me arrested and the cop was late. I did not know I was going to be arrested and wondered why this bitch was acting nervous. All of a sudden a cop, Frank Maio walked in and told me I was under arrest. Heather started smiling.
The night before the cops had pulled me over while I was driving. They fabricated a speeding ticket searched my car and took my gun and took it apart and gave it back in 7 pieces. They wanted to arrest me when they saw I was on probation but were not sure. Apparently they choose to contact my probation officer and have her arrest me the next day.
At the probation office I had to open my locked briefcase. In the brief case where the 7 pieces of my gun. I was arrested and charged with violation of probation for having a weapon while on probation and charged with bringing a gun in to the probation office.
Anyway my attorney managed to get me in front of a judge for a bond hearing. When the judge heard that I had a license to carry a gun and the gun was in 7 pieces, therefore not operate able he gave me a bond of $25.000. The bond was posted, I paid $2500 premium to the bail bonds lady and got out. This judge Horrowitz was one of the very few reasonable judges in Broward. Later my attorney took depositions of everybody involved. This Maio and Heather lied of course. But the black lady from the probation office did not. She stated that she indeed told me it was alright to carry a gun while having a permit. Heather also stated that the vice unit had told her that was a real bad guy and needed to be violated.
Soon after the depositions prosecutors had little choice but to drop the violation case. My 6 months probation were cut short after 3 months. This is normal but at the same time not a rule. I was lucky that by the time the violation was dropped my probation was almost finished otherwise the cops would have framed me again for something. I know from others and my attorney that some people get falsely arrested, get violated and found not guilty but are still violated because the judge can still find that person to have violated by preponderance of evidence. I was lucky this time. I did only 3 days in county jail. But my luck was going to run out. The Fort Lauderdale cops were determined to get me whatever it would take. As it turned out they revved up their investigation.
False arrest nr. 11:
Well an another false arrest was bound to happen. I had sued Fort Lauderdale police for false arrest and fraud and this case was supposed to got to trial in Sep 2003. I was in business now 8 years. At that time I thought I could beat any case involved in my escort service because I never discussed sex with anybody ever. That the cops were crooked I knew but what was to follow was beyond belief.
On June 19 2003 I was arrested on Racketeering charges and conspiracy to racketeer and money laundering. All related to my escort service. One of my managers Veronica Medina and two phone operators were also arrested on conspiracy. There bail was set at $75.000 each. then also about 12 escorts were arrested for conspiracy, there bail was set at $50.000. My bail was set at $3.001.000,00 A all time record in Florida's history. Even mobsters with real racketeering operations get bonds around $75.000,00 . 3 million is ridiculous for a non violent crime. THere goal was to have me locked up without bail. There goal was to let me rot in jail for years waiting for the case to go to trial. State attorney's know when people sit for a year and look at another year waiting to go to trial that they take a plea just to get out.
My bail bond lady bonded everybody out. When I got the 3 million bail posted which cost me $300.000 just in premium the immigration put a detainer on me. I went to Krome immigration center. Normally aliens get a small bond like $5000 up till $500.000 Not in my case the immigration judge was instructed not to give me bail. Note that I was approved as an alien with special abilities for my patents and my green card was pending since 1997. The greencard was pending so long because there were always felony charges pending. As soon as they were resolved new charges were filed. All those years immigration allowed me to stay in the USA pending my intervieuw In 1998 they already tried to use immigration to kick me out of the country when they had a bad case. But immigration rules had tightent up after 911 and it was now homeland security.
Immigration claimed they wanted to deport me to Holland. With this statement the state attorney went back to the judge who has set the 3 million bond. Now the judge , Susan Lebow revoked the bond. Now I sat in Broward county jail, one of the worst places to be. My managers kept the business going and when the cops found out that I was calling on the phone regularly the vice unit requested the kaptain of the jail to put me in isolation in a special unit with no phone. I was in this unit from Feb 17 2004 till mid August 2004. My business remained open.
Meanwhile my attorney worked out a plea. The state case revolved on the theorie that I should have known that my escorts were having sex with clients. There was no hard evidence. Well I could have gone to trial and beat the case. But it is very rare that defendants beat cases even when there is no evidence. Another reason was that it could take another year easy just waiting for trial. I met guys that waited 3 years.
I was to pay $ 550.000 in fines and get a conviction for racketeering. I also had to leave the country. The plea was also 18 months county jail. Normally you get one third of for good time on county time, not with me they manipulated the days in such a way that I did 15 months instead of 12. Sep 9 2004 I got transfered to Krome and they deported me to Holland on October 12. Normally aliens get put on the plain, not me two big guys traveled all the way with me in the plain to Amsterdam. When I got there they handed me over to Dutch police thinking I had Dutch warrants. Probably vice had lied to immigration about that too. Well I had no warrants in Holland and I was free from America's false arrests , at least that's what I thought.
Incident nr. 5 :
Just a week after I took the plea in the above mentioned case the IRS department confiscated around $400.000 in stocks in my account. This was in Aug 2004. I had just paid the government $550.000 in fines. Paid close to $80.000 in attorney fees and lost $300.000 in my own bail bond premium and paid around $50.000 in the girls bail bonds. I thought I was going to Amsterdam with some money, but no.
It turned out the Federal IRS agent Deborah Aycock had falsely made an affidavit to the court whereby she falsely stated that my (ex) wife Kristen Hickmon made structured deposits. Structuring deposits means that your depositing cash amounts just under $10.000 in order to avoid the bank from notifying cash deposits over $10.000. This statement was false because there were numerous deposits in the range of $14.000 to $21.000. Also deposits of $3000 and $4000. Anyway the stocks were sold while the stocks later if I still had them went up tp $700.000. (frontline stocks) Well I got to Amsterdam in October 2004 and had to hire counsel to try to get my money back. The prosecution now admitted that no structuring had taken place but claimed the monies were earned illegally from prostitution.
In deposition Aycock admitted that she purposely left out the deposits over $10.000 in her affidavit used in falsely confiscating the money. However she reasoned she had not lied, she just simply did not disclose matters she did not deem important.
You would think I would get my money back but no. It was like an illegal seizure of drugs. Then the drugs can't be used as evidence but you won't get it back. Conclusion they can seize money based on lies but you won't get it back if they claim the money is illegally earned. Note: I paid the IRS millions in the past years on income tax thinking the feds would not mess with me and never cheated them. Big mistake, I should not have paid them anything.
In depositions it came also to light that the seizure was planned on purpose to take place just after I would take my plea. And that lead detective Detective William Spodnick was the one pushing all this.
Anyway I was offered 10% witch I declined. Well I lost all the money because the judge reasoned that had taken a plea in the other case and he saw a nexus between the later earned money.
While this procedure was pending I also sued the government for illegal seizure of the money, and sued the agents also in person. The agents get themselves always get a large cut of the seized money.
There was so much misconduct in this case it's unbelievable. They had used perjured testimony of my ex wife Kristen Hickmon. She had stated in this deposition the money wascearned illigal. But she had given a video taped deposition in 2002 in a credit card law suit and she had stated just the exact opposite. When we confronted the judge he decided that the earlier testimony must have been perjury and not this one.
Deborah Aycock also took a signed affidavit from Davina Arrietta a friend of mine. Here she stated nothing was illigal and signed all 3 pages. Later a bogus affidavit was presented by Aycock, she had switched the first two pages with a different version. Davina wanted to testify but was told by the judge he would charge her with perjury if she insisted the false affidavit was not true. We even showed an extra set of holes from staples in the last page indicating the first two pages were switched and stapled back toghetter with the third page. The judge who was biased did not want a forensic examination. Aycock even admitted that normaly a statement has signatures on all pages. Why this affidavit had only the last page signed she could not explain.
Well I should have known better to know that cops always get away with their lies, this suit I also lost, I was never able to present my case to the jury, the judge came up with some BS argument and dismissed the case.
The aforementioned law suits made the government real angry and this lead to false arrest nr. 12.
False arrest nr. 12:
I was in Holland arrested for FDA violation. Note the crimes were in the USA committee at the time I was in Amsterdam to be continued soon. Here you can see the indictment; www.indictment.nl
By Arthur Vanmoor
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