Victim: Megan Waterman, 22, missing June 2010, found Gilgo Beach Dec 2010 *Rex Heuermann charged*

[Tugela]

I dont know what AC habits were. Seems like money was the bait though. Meagan had a room. Why would she leave? Where was Akeem when she left?

Because sometimes clients are more comfortable meeting in a place of their choosing, rather than the escorts choosing. That way there is no danger of some guy jumping out of a closet with a baseball bat to rob them, or LE making a sudden entrance.

 

[Tugela]

http://bayridgejournal.blogspot.com/2011/01/body-dump-at-gilgo-beach.html


Megan Waterman disappeared after leaving a Holiday Inn Express in Hauppage, alone, on June 16, 2010. Her boyfriend/pimp, a 21-year-old Brooklyn man named Akeem Cruz, now serving 20 months in Maine for drug trafficking, picked her up in her hometown of Scarborough, Maine and drove her to New York City, then to the Holiday Inn Express in Hauppage, where she disappeared.

Why Megan, who never went on outcalls, and never worked without Cruz nearby, went out alone that night without her cell phone and without telling anyone where she was going, is a mystery.

And, I have explained how that works a few posts above.

I expect she went on an outcall to a location considered safe, so she didn't require her security.

 

[Justiceforever]

And, I have explained how that works a few posts above.

I expect she went on an outcall to a location considered safe, so she didn't require her security.

Or AC was preoccupied and was like, "Baby take this call, you know we need the money." If that's the case then he was slippin in his pimpin.

Just a thought.

Another thought is that she booked it herself and didn't tell AC. Maybe, so she didn't have to share the money. Something to tuck away for her and her daughter?

 

[Just K]

Or she went to meet someone she felt safe with...maybe even one of the other girls/a coworker...maybe she really was planning on getting some snacks. Maybe the last call said he'd be there in a half hour or 45 minutes and she figured she had enough time to get a little something before he arrived. I mean, 1:30 AM is peak working hours, correct?

 

[Mountain_Kat]

Or she went to meet someone she felt safe with...maybe even one of the other girls/a coworker...maybe she really was planning on getting some snacks. Maybe the last call said he'd be there in a half hour or 45 minutes and she figured she had enough time to get a little something before he arrived. I mean, 1:30 AM is peak working hours, correct?

Leaving her phone, pocketbook, possibly her wallet behind in the hotel room? That just seems like such an odd thing to do if you're a woman alone,walking to a convenience store, in an industrial area, at 1:30 in the morning.

 

[Justiceforever]

Leaving her phone, pocketbook, possibly her wallet behind in the hotel room? That just seems like such an odd thing to do if you're a woman alone,walking to a convenience store, in an industrial area, at 1:30 in the morning.

Quite honesty, I would leave my "pocket book, and wallet" behind if I were going to the corner store.

I would have my money in my bra....pants pocket...sock...etc!

Not my cell phone however, I would have my cell on speed dial the whole way there.
Unless she was angry with AC and didn't want to go on this "car call" so she was flustered...or trusted AC that it was easy $$$ and just in her haste and naivite...forgot/left her phone while she "ran out for a second?

 

[Tugela]

There is nothing to suggest she was going to the store, she was last seen heading in that direction, it doesnt mean she was going there.

 

[deedee21]

There is nothing to suggest she was going to the store, she was last seen heading in that direction, it doesnt mean she was going there.

She wasnt going to the store. He sent her to her death. MP, JB, and MB pimp should have all been arrested.

 

[Tugela]

On what grounds? There is nothing to suggest that any of them had anything to do with her death.

 

[deedee21]

On what grounds? There is nothing to suggest that any of them had anything to do with her death.

They all engaged in illegal activities. Men get arrested for these types of activities all the time. Why should they get away with it? Someone said they are not little girls. Well these men are not little boys.

 

[Tugela]

In order to arrest someone, you have to have evidence of these illegal activities. Just "knowing" they are doing it is not good enough.

And in this case, there is nothing to suggest that any of those people had anything to do with MWs death, so why arrest them?

 

[Samantha Spade]

Oh if "they" wanted to arrest them, they could have found something. imho.
They are dealing with something much larger than what appears to be.

 

[ps149]

Oh if "they" wanted to arrest them, they could have found something. imho.
They are dealing with something much larger than what appears to be.

As a law enforcement advocate, I take offense to your suggestion that "they" (meaning the police) did not do their job. Almost 99.99% of the negative words that have been said about the men and woman working on this case at the SCPD have come from either people with a personal beef against all of SCPD or from those who simply do not understand the way the justice system works.

An arrest usually requires a grand jury to find that sufficient evidence exists to warrant the arrest before an arrest warrant is issued. Grand juries are made up of people like you and me. Not active members of LE. Not politicians. I have enough faith in and understanding of the system to acknowledge that any one of these men would have been indeed charged and arrested if a grand jury voted that there actually was sufficient evidence to justify doing so.

As was already stated, our legal system can't simply arrest someone based upon assumptions without proper evidence to support the suspicions.

 

[Just K]

Well. Akeem Cruz was arrested, charged, sentenced and served out a sentence in Maine on drug trafficking and he and Mr Blake and one other so-far unnamed defendant, IIRC, have been arrested, charged and either adjudicated and prosecuted/sentenced or are currently preparing for their Federal trials on promoting prostitution and transporting persons across state lines for the purposes of profiting from the prostitution of said persons.

Over the past several years, since MW was killed, quite a few of MW and Akeem Cruz's associates or acquaintances have also been arrested on drug and prostitution charges (Maine) or have been attacked (Sherri York/Maine) or gunned down in the streets of Brooklyn (VB) and Portland (TS).

Obviously, based on the numerous arrest of people associated with either AC or MW, the LE in Maine has been trying to get someone to speak up. As to the death of one man arrested with AC, on the Maine drug/weapons charges, we have no way of knowing if this was gang related or some kind of a personal beef or some act of retaliation. But it would not be fair to suggest that nothing has happened to the key players on the periphery of this case.

Also, of interest was the arrest, after ALC was ID'd, of her boyfriend, B Br**dsk*.

KW, JT's pimp, has been arrested at least two times, since the discovery and ID of the rest of JT. As to anyone being arrested re: MBB and MB...well...has anyone found anything about any arrest re: JT, MB's so-called boyfriend, yet or anyone related to MBB?

 

[Samantha Spade]

PS149,
I did not mean to imply they did not do their job.
There are reasons why an arrest could be made but isn't, because it would be more helpful to the investigation to keep them out on the streets.

And no one could be a more loyal Law Enforcement advocate than I am.

 

[To Kill a Mockingbird]

In order to arrest someone, you have to have evidence of these illegal activities. Just "knowing" they are doing it is not good enough.

And in this case, there is nothing to suggest that any of those people had anything to do with MWs death, so why arrest them?

you need to have probable CAUSE to have someone arrested.

 

[Just K]

And then there is this Brooklyn native who was with a friend (LG) of MW's just an hour before he was shot, outside a Portland, ME residence that comes up as an address for AC. TS, managed to get inside but died, inside the apartment.(7/25/2010)
Friends and family gather to honor Megan Waterman, likely murder ...
www.kjonline.com/.../friends-and-family-gather-to-honor-megan-wa...

Jan 31, 2011 – PORTLAND -- Lashonda Gregory of Gorham stood under a green awning ... Maine Yellow Pages; Portland Press Herald Facebook page ...
Police identify Portland homicide victim | The Portland Press Herald ...

www.pressherald.com/.../police-waiting-on-a-positive-id-in-weekend...
Jul 27, 2010 – Maine Yellow Pages; Portland Press Herald Facebook page ... "Everybody liked him," said Lashanda Gregory, who lives in a nearby apartment ...

Portland police identify Allen Ave. shooting victim | Maine Observer
maineobserver.net/.../portland-police-identify-allen-ave-shooting-vict...
"Police have identified the 22-year-old man who was shot and killed early Sunday in an apartment at 55 Allen Ave. as Taquan Samuels, of Brooklyn, N.Y." ...
UPDATE: Portland police identify man killed in Allen Ave. shooting ...
www.theforecaster.net/content/p-allenaveshooting-072810

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Jul 26, 2010 – ... identified the 22-year-old man who was shot and killed early Sunday in an apartment at 55 Allen Ave. as Taquan Samuels, of Brooklyn, N.Y. ...
ProvinceCity: Police identify Portland homicide victim
www.provincecity.com/.../police_identify_portland_homicid-275281...
Morrill: Police have confirmed the identity of the man killed over the weekend at Allen Avenue Apartments as Taquan Samuels, 22 of Brooklyn, N.Y..

 

[Tugela]

you need to have probable CAUSE to have someone arrested.

You need evidence, or the first judge they see will release them.

If you arrest someone knowly without evidence, just to harrass them, you run the risk of being prosecuted yourself on a civil rights violation. It is illegal and a federal crime to do that.

 

[To Kill a Mockingbird]

In United States criminal law, probable cause is the standard by which an officer or agent of the law has the grounds to make an arrest, to conduct a personal or property search, or to obtain a warrant for arrest, etc. when criminal charges are being considered. It is also used to refer to the standard to which a grand jury believes that a crime has been committed. This term comes from the Fourth Amendment of the United States Constitution:


Probable cause is a level of reasonable belief, based on facts that can be articulated, that is required to sue a person in civil court or to arrest and prosecute a person in criminal court. Before a person can be sued or arrested and prosecuted, the civil plaintiff or police and prosecutor must possess enough facts that would lead a reasonable person to believe that the claim or charge is true.

 

[Tugela]

Probable cause is a level of reasonable belief, based on facts that can be articulated, that is required to sue a person in civil court or to arrest and prosecute a person in criminal court.Before a person can be sued or arrested and prosecuted, the civil plaintiff or police and prosecutor must possess enough facts that would lead a reasonable person to believe that the claim or charge is true.

Bolded the bit you have missed. There are no facts to support charges, if LE did try to arrest any of them, the prosecutor would decline to charge, and if they did, the case would be dismissed on the basis of lack of evidence on the first motion.

After that, if LE and the prosecutor would potentially be open to charges and civil action themselves.

They would have to explain what the basis of probable cause actually was, and if they didn't have them their legal protections would be gone.

There are rules, and if LE knowingly flouts them, there are consequences.