What a web we weave.....

I started campaigning for the Sheriff's race and was contacted by certain
individuals because of this.  I came to know information that is not
generally made public. I wrote several articles on my website about Cindy
Peryam being Director of Internal Affairs while her husband was a Captain
and the obvious conflict this presented compromising her investigative
role into her husband and their friends activities. Bob Peryam is the
Democratic candidate for Sheriff.  I learned of Bob Peryam's activities
through his victim's mother. I learned of Cindy Peryam's attempts to cover
his misdeeds up, and the role Sheriff Roth played in it all from the
victim's mother.  I also learned several other things.  I atempted to get
the information which is public, or should be, and distribute it for
consideration to those who will cast a vote in this race.  I think it is
only fair the voters be informed.  The problem is Bob Peryam's file is
completely transparent and squeaky clean (missing in other words)due to
his wife's position. This is not representative of the truth.

I asked Sheriff Roth for Bob Peryam's file prior to the Homepac meeting in
Key West.  I was denied. I was told by spokesperson Christina for MCSO
that Bob Peryam was under an FDLE investigation, therefore his files were
not public at the moment.  She said she had obtained this information
directly from Sheriff Roth while she had me placed on hold.

I phoned Sheriff Roth directly the next business day. He asked to have me
on speakerphone with a witness present, his assistant Val Marinelli.  I
told him to tape record me if he wished.  I never say anything that I will
not say in public.  I asked Sheriff Roth if the investigation with Bob
Peryam was about the ongoing relationship he had with a very young girl
against the parents wishes during working hours.  He said, "No this
investigation is regarding the relationship he had with a young woman on
probation, the relationship you are referring to was handled years ago.  I
assigned it to an outside agency who I hired to conduct the investigation.
I believe it was FDLE in Tallahassee and that case has been closed for
some time."  I asked Sheriff Roth if I could have that file.  He said he
did not know where it was, he'd have to dig it up,if he could find it at
all. He said because an outside agency conducted the investigation, they
don't have to keep it in Peryam's file at Monroe County Sheriff's Office.
He said the current investigation was being handled locally by FDLE agent
Kathy Smith.  He told me to call her.

I called FDLE in Talahassee and asked for the closed investigative file.
I spoke with Mark Mitchell in Executive Investigations.  He said, "Which
file on Peryam do you want?  There are 10."  I said, "All of them."  He
gave me the number to call to request the files, which I did immediately.

I called Tom Tuell.  I said, "Peryam is under investigation currently with
FDLE,and it appears he has been numerous times before for the same
thing...relationships with YOUNG women while on duty. I gave him the
information and who I spoke with at FDLE in Tallahassee.I challenged him
to print the story just as he had done numerous times before when McCoy
and DiGennero were under Sunshine Law violation investigations, even
before they were concluded. Tom had printed each and every time there was
even an investigation.  I was sure he'd be interested in this candidate
for Sheriff being investigated for improper relationships. I was wrong. He
did not print it.

I phoned local FDLE agent Kathy Smith about the current "probation
relationship" and the new investigation. She responded that the
investigation was assigned to an agent, and the agent would contact me.

I sent a letter to FDLE in Tallahassee asking that the investigation be
conducted outside Monroe County as local FDLE Director is Kathy Smith, a
resident married to a police officer, and she is the same agent who threw
my file away and refused to investigate my case involving the illegal
incarceration of 5 juveniles in the adult jail for 10 hours on accusations
they played hide and go seek at a school 5 nights prior, and committed no
other crime whatsoever, yet were held like Guantanamo prisoners deprived
of every right afforded by our Constitution.  This same agent would now be
handling the FDLE case against Bob Peryam??? It needed to go to
Tallahassee, and I sent a letter to Tallahasse to follow up my phone call.


I spoke to Tom Tuell again.  He said Mark Mitchell with FDLE in Tallahasse
said there were not 10 files but only 1.  He said Sheriff Roth said there
is no active investigation going on, and then Tom said, "Sandy, I'll just
tell you, they say you are a nut case and they never told you this."  He
did not disclose if it was Mark Mitchell or Sheriff Roth who said this.

I called Sheriff Roth.  I said to Val Marinelli, his assistant, that she
had been there for his conversation with me, in which Sheriff Roth put me
on speakerphone.  I told Sheriff Roth to tape record it as everything I
say I am willing to say in public.  Val was witness to the fact that
Sheriff Roth said I can't have the Peryam file because there is an active
investigation going on with Peryam's relationship with the "probation"
lady.  Why would he tell Tom Tuell that I am not accurate and there is no
ivestigation going on? There either is,or there isn't.  If there isn't, I
want his file. "Oh and by the way I told Val, "tell Sheriff Roth I will be
reporting the fact he told lies to me in his offical capacity to FDLE."

Val said, "There was an investigation, but it is now closed. The files are
still with local agent Kathy Smith."

I asked Val "When did the investigation close? Why did Roth report to me
it was active?" She said I'd have to call FDLE. I called Kathy Smith.  She
said, "Yes, there was an investigation and it is now closed.  However, the
reports are awaiting approval and cannot be released yet. The report was
handled locally."

So, I called FDLE in Tallahassee, and asked what the status of my request
for the files were?  They said, "They are being processed."

I called FDLE, Kathy Smith, and also made a surprise visit to her.  She
said the investigation I want is with the State Attorney's Office.

I called Mark Kohl. They said I would have to leave a message with Paul
Meyers.  No one could tell me where the file I want is, who holds it, how
to get it, etc.  No one has returned my call.

All of the files have disappeared. This is the Bubba System.  This is what
I want ended.  This is why, unfortunately, you have no other choice for
Sheriff but me, if you want this *&@##!*# to stop.

Sandra Downs