People wonder why I find police self-investigation reprehensible. Same reason the military never finds anyone did anything wrong, unless a goddamn digital photo album and videos are delivered in gift-wrap.
" A Collier County deputy arrived at the scene and wrote up Santos for driving without a license, not having insurance and careless driving.
The deputy put Santos in a patrol car and drove away. Later that day, Santos' construction foreman contacted the Collier County jail so his brothers could bail him out.
But Santos wasn't in the jail. He never had been.
The deputy would later say he never arrested Santos, that he decided instead to drive him to a Circle K store and let him go.
That was more than a year ago, on Oct. 14, 2003, and Santos' family has not seen him since.
Months later, a lawyer from St. Petersburg named Linda Friedman Ramirez started looking into the case, trying to figure why a grown man with a young family would simply disappear. At a loss, she went to the Internet and typed in the name of the deputy, "Steven Calkins."
Instead of finding answers, she stumbled onto a deeper mystery."
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