Gylmar Ochoa was a Detective in the wrong place at the wrong time. It’s as simple as that. The guy was just walking through the property room when Yvette Wilson was bringing in the stolen jewelry recovered from Trayvon Martin’s backpack.
Yvette Wilson, Property Room Specialist, was retrieving the Jewelry so that Detective Hadley could photograph the evidence as a supplement to the previous file, “Criminal Mischief”, complaint.
Ochoa was walking through when Wilson and Hadley were lining up the jewelry and screwdriver on an open cubicle. Hadley asked Ochoa if he had a camera, he did not. However, Ochoa took photographs of the jewelry and screwdriver with his cell phone and then sent the pictures via email to Detective Hadley.
What follows is the affidavit from Gylmar Ochoa answering the allegations of his Police Chief Hurley’s complaint alleging a department leak of criminal reports and information about Trayvon Martin.
Hurley accused six officers in the M-DSPD of illegally accessing the Trayvon Martin records and leaking to the media. Ochoa was one of those officers.
One of the interesting aspects of his interview by Internal Affairs investigator Ms. Neal, is the emphasis by Neal on Hurley’s policy of never sharing information in report format – even, astounding as it seems, amid themselves. Obviously, you can see from Detective Ochoa’s statement the Hurley policy seemed absurd.
We now know the reason for Hurley’s policy was his need to keep all persons within the M-DSPD at varying lengths of distance so they didn’t know what each other was doing. This was how Hurley managed the obvious risk from his instructions to ignore, manipulate, and cover-up, young black male illegal activity identified in the school system.
Hurley was seeking to reduce the statistics of black youth criminal activity by telling his officers to ignore it, or not to report on it, and to instead let school discipline take the place of criminal adjudication. Hurley was doing this because the School Superintendent Alberto Carvalho told him to.
Ironically, while Police Chief Hurley was effective at controlling the depth of knowledge between the individual people within his department, as soon as he accused them of illegal activity they started talking to each other through the investigators. The scheme began to unravel and the Internal Affairs investigation necessarily expanded outside of the General Investigations Unit.
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