Public Complaint No. 1676443749 - 575781608

Detective Tristin Pittenridge along with several other officers came to my home to serve a search warrant the day after he was driving erratically and recklessly behind me in which I was unaware it was a detective as the vehicle was unmarked. I got behind the vehicle to gather the license plate to turn them in as it seemed like a drunk driver, the detective proceeded to run red lights and almost cause large accidents within the intersections. I backed off as I had gathered the license plate and upon reviewing the video footage realize that it was detective Pittenridge. Detective pinton ridge was the leader of the search warrant and tactical team to reach my home in which an unnecessary excessive amount of force was used by breaking out every single window within my home, damage to my personal property intentionally, instructions to other officers to damage my vehicle without probable cause and during the extreme excessive use of force, my empty home was flash bombed, Windows completely busted out, my personal property smashed to pieces and three officers instructed by detective pit and ridge to attack my 2012 Cadillac CTS coupe with their batons in which they busted out the windows and beat my vehicle in my driveway. The detective has made several false claims of History against me stating that I have a long history of firearms and weapons and charges and I am a danger to the officers. I have no convictions on my record, no charges have ever been pursued other than current charges now that have been placed against me for a situation in which an officer listed as the victim was also investigator evidence collector etc. Detective Pitt and ridge falsified information to the tactical team who breached my home in which an officer took it upon himself to break out every single window one by one damage my home by trying to break through the stucco, based on the comments made by detective Tristan pit and ridge. The detective led the tactical approach to my home in which the officer proceeded around breaking Windows after the home was already breached and confirmed to be empty but proceeded to go and break all the windows anyway. He then proceeded to the front where pit and ridge was questioning my fiance and advising her to call me back to the residence and state that they were no longer there and it was an emergency to come home. Detective pit and ridge turned his audio recording off at this time in which in his statement says it abruptly stopped recording. When my fiance refused to call me to lure me back to the home as he wanted, he then ordered the attack upon my 2012 Cadillac CTS coupe after expressing to my fiance that he was embarrassed that I was able to keep up with him and that he has never been quote made like that in his entire career and was made fun of by the team throughout the evening. Upon his direction the three officers pulled out their batons and beat the windows into my 2012 Cadillac CTS coupe there was in my driveway and not included on their search warrant. The detective placed on his report that there was nothing of evidentiary value within the home yet the other officer Sean Gerhart (victim) and his commanding officer stated they found Tucson Police items within my home and then within my vehicle that was in the driveway. Detective pit and ridge preceded to contact me via text message advising me that he wanted to talk to me about the incident and to come to the precinct. I was in Phoenix visiting my son for Christmas and his birthday, in which I was unable to accommodate the detectives demands. The detective proceeded to obtain a federal arrest warrant as he claimed that I was an unlawful flight from officers the same day the restaurant was placed upon my home in which he documented the reason for the amount of force used was I was a threat to the officers and the threat was immediate as I may have been within the home. According to the police reports, the unlawful flight incident was happening during the serving of the warrant upon my home in which if that was the case, there is absolutely zero reason for why the officers intentionally damaged my home beyond reason as the supposed threat was not at the home and was being pursued by officers. The detective not only violated my civil and constitutional rights by unlawful search and seizure, also was aware of the conflict of interest of Sean Gerhart, but brought the officer to my home and allowed him to remove my property without any receipt or documentation of the property removal. A lot of the officer to collect and document supposed evidence within the case, he also had my vehicle removed from my driveway after they beat it with the batons because they were unable to secure it according to the documentation. And the text messages between the detective and I he claimed that Tucson Police department nor he had removed my vehicle from my driveway and to call it in stolen. I confirmed with him again that they have not removed my vehicle and wanted him to affirm his statement to clarify whether I needed to place a stolen vehicle report or not. The detective wrote back in text message that they did not remove my vehicle and it was still there in the driveway upon them leaving the scene. He advised me to place in a stolen vehicle report in which I did. Upon my arrival back to my home on 12/22, there was no receipt for the removal of my vehicle and the affidavit of property did not include any items taken out by officer Sean Gerhart as his "personal property". The detective proceeded to make threats and had officers leading outside of my home prior to getting a federal arrest warrant to prevent me from going back to my residence. Tucson Police department did not send me a notification of the removal of my vehicle until 12:19 2022 and which was not received until after Christmas. There's a 10-day allowance period where the owner of a vehicle has that time frame to recover their vehicle or would be marked as an abandoned vehicle and would place a charge upon the owner's account and they would lose their vehicle to the tow yard. My insurance adjuster luckily located my vehicle at Gary's towing. I'm on my arrival at Gary's towing I was advised that my vehicle was in very poor shape and advised that I would be unable to pick up the vehicle because I didn't have the actual title physically in hand but could show them online that the vehicle is registered and owned by me. It was later brought to my attention by the customer service representative at the front at Gary's towing that they were threatened by detective pittenridge that they are not to release my vehicle to me unless he is present. She stated that the intent was to prevent me from being able to get my vehicle and for it to be marked as abandoned so I would no longer have the vehicle in retaliation to me following the detective and getting his license plate for reckless driving. She stated that Tucson Police department does this quite often. Luckily I was able to obtain my vehicle the day it was set to be marked as abandoned and I would have lost my vehicle in entirety. Upon getting to my vehicle the windows were busted out so hard from the officers that glass was all the way on the driver side of the vehicle and the passenger windows were the ones busted out. There was damage to the outside of my vehicle, the inside of my vehicle and intentional cutting of my front seats. Personal property was taken out of the vehicle which includes a launch diagnostic automotive pad valued at $1,500, a gold in Victor watch valued at 895 including a 1 carat princess cut diamond solitaire ring size 9. My personal financial documentation and social security information was also removed from the vehicle. None of this property was included in the affidavit, the removal of my vehicle was not included in any affidavit or receipt of property taken. My vehicle has been marked as a total loss due to the amount of damage caused by Tucson Police department. That is over $13,000 in damages just on the vehicle. In previous incidents the officers failed to save keep my vehicle keys which led to the theft of my 2015 Kia Sorento which was also marked as a total loss over $13,000 for that vehicle. my Cadillac had been stolen the time before in September on 9:15/2022 when detective pit and ridge served an additional search warrant where they left my vehicle and home keys by an open back door in which homeless came and removed my property and stole my vehicles. Tucson Police department failed to come out to the scene for the theft of my 2012 Cadillac in which I personally went and located my vehicle using my tile and took it back from the homeless. The police department did not come out to take any statement or document any damage or theft even though I had reported it. This has been an ongoing situation in which I have been a targeted individual and because all charges were dismissed by the Pima county prosecutor, I believe detective Tristan pitten ridge had intent to act in bad faith on the search warrant issued in December along with the intentional damage of my home and vehicle, he took firearms in September they were not listed or within the scope of the warrant and used false pretenses and information to obtain the search warrant in September specifically to remove my weapons from the home even though the warrant scope was for stolen car keys, Indica of occupancy, cell phones, and a buccal swab. My firearms have already been processed by the Tucson Police department and evidence department four times prior to this in which every firearm that was taken by detective pit and ridge has already been listed in their system along with the serial numbers and I am the legal registered owner purchase those firearms through a legal firearms dealer. I strongly believe my constitutional rights have been violated as well as due process has been violated by allowing the conflict of interest and an officer who was marked as a victim to partake in evidence submissions collecting, removal of my personal property without putting it on a receipt, retaliation of beating my vehicle in because I got his license plate and captured him on video driving recklessly, and because there were dismissed charges every time he has come and placed accusations against me, I believe he intentionally set up the incident in December with the extensive show of force used against my helpless animals in an empty house to cause significant financial harm as he had already removed my weapons from the home violating My second amendment right but proceeded to violate my 14th amendment right by illegal search and seizure of my 2012 Cadillac CTS coupe there was parked within my driveway and not within the scope of the warrant in addition to my BMW that also was in the driveway and not included in the warrant, intentional intent to cover up / hide the misconduct by abruptly shutting off the audio recording the moment before he ordered officers to attack my vehicle in the driveway, ordered an officer to break down my security camera above my vehicle off of my home and remove the SD card, documented there was no items of evidentiary value in his report but proceeded to get a federal search warrant with the intent to cause additional financial harm with my employer who he threatened me he was going to go and place at my workplace and submit a public announcement for help in locating me. I did not know that the person that I was following on December 14th 2022 that had been following my vehicle for several hours and driving extremely recklessly was the detective and there was no intent to scare him or whatever happened to deem getting a search warrant breaking my home apart, intentionally damaging my vehicle in which he knows is a sentimental value of my dead mother. I strongly believe that this has been a coordinated attack upon me to first cause financial damage, remove my ability to defend myself by taking my weapons that were not within any scope and no justifiable reason, remove my means of transportation as they took my vehicle keys to both of my BMWs and claim they do not have them, left the keys by an Open door with a failure to save keep leading to their thefts, then when I recovered my vehicle and fixed it, again another attempt to remove my means of transportation, cause financial harm by the significant amount of damage to my home, personal property, and intent to cause additional harm with my employer. I have been at Target of this officer and his team in which I am not clear why as I have no record, no priors and the officer intentionally advised the court that I have several prior firearm convictions and that I'm a threat to the community in which all is false information as I have zero charges other than these ones newly placed upon me. My second, 4th and 14th amendment rights have been clearly violated several times by this detective intentionally. The failure of due process and knowing of the conflict of interest between a officer marked as a victim and investigators / evidence collector/report modifier/ raid operator has resulted in significant damages to me and my home as well as my personal life emotional status and living situation. The detective also advised me to file a false police report for a stolen vehicle in which he knew he stored at Gary's towing, failure to document property removed from my home including my vehicle, acting bad faith advising the department did not touch my vehicle, intentional criminal damage and what myself and Geico are considering theft of my vehicle by removing it from the property without any receipt and claims of not removing the vehicle shows clear intent to deprive me of my personal property, weapons, financial stability, emotional state and of my vehicle indefinitely also known as theft of means of transportation.