So, Bisby used to be the um largest town city between New Orleans and San Francisco, something like that. And it's been, you know, the population has been declining ever since the mines went out of business. So, after the mines went out of business, uh the hippies moved in because you could get a house for very cheaply and come kind of do whatever you wanted basically, you know, do some art or something like that. and it became kind of a gentrified very creative in Bisby. Uh statistically we lose um 100 citizens every year. There's a lack of media in our area to cover things and it became apparent to me that you know there's a lot of corruption. So yeah, I just started filming the cops and Nolan tells us about the day he met officer Moreno outside of Warren Ballpark in Bisby, Arizona. It actually all started with um Doug Stanh Hope. Do you know who Doug Stanho? He's a comedian, but anyway, I saw Doug Stanh Hope and he was kind of rubbernecking towards the park just looking at something. And so as I passed there, um I was looking to the left in the park and uh there was just a lot of law enforcement activity going on. So I parked my car and got my camera out and started filming. the video starts and I was walking uh actually back to my car and uh I was walking by and I still had my camera going and then I noticed that she was talking to a lady about something so I just started filming that. You're not going to film us, are you? What are you doing? What? What are you doing? I don't know what he's doing. Could you please leave? I need you to leave. Are you going to Are you going to beat me up if I don't? My job. You're interfering with an animal control officer. Please leave. I can be in public, ma'am. Yes, you can. But please leave. I'm asking you to leave this area. Leave this area. I am asking you to go back to your vehicle. We're just talking about a stump. Hey, 911. It's just a stump we're calling about. Okay, we don't need like You see this ravine right here? This is in between me and you. So, how am I interfering with an investigation? You're interfering with maybe not 6 ft from me. Please leave. I have an individual here that's interfering with me. I am not animal. No, I am not. You are moving. Video. Videaping is not from me. You need to be 6 feet from me. Six feet. Six feet, miss. Right here. You're coming six feet at me. You're coming 6 foot at me. Bad woman. I will charge you with interference. Do it. You continue. Do it. I'll I'll take you to court personally. You don't got no qualified immunity if you act like an idiot. I'll take you to court. You don't have the right to boss around everybody that's got a video camera. You don't have the rights to tell me not to be on a public park. So, after the animal control officer made the false police report about me over the radio, um, two officers immediately showed up, um, Officer Moreno and Officer Nash, and they jumped out of their car and started, you know, running at me. [Applause] Hey, hey, I didn't do nothing. I didn't do nothing, guys. down back. [Music] I was actually knocked out for about 30 seconds. I don't even remember I don't remember being on the ground and them being over me. The only reason that I know that is because a bystander uh started filming basically just as my camera went flying out of my hand. As officer Mareno was throwing me um to the ground, he basically put his hand right there and kind of just, you know, knocked my head into the ground very deliberately. You know what I mean? He's basically a psychopath. He didn't do anything. You guys are crazy. This is so stupid. He did. He did. He interfered with me doing my job. Oh, come on. This is so stupid. He interfered. Okay. I don't know where that skunk is now because I had to deal with him. All I needed him to do is stay back. That's a full He could have This I could have dealt with him. No. Well, okay. Oh, this is so stupid. Okay, show me where to go. He went in here. He went in here and I don't think he came out the other side. Please don't record anymore. Now I'm going to record because this is really this is the whole point. The whole point of all of this is for me to do my job. I know. And now you're now you're we don't argue with them. How would we do this? I don't know what's going on. All right. Well, let me go. I didn't do anything. First of all, you're being detained until we investigate. Okay. Do your investigation. I just got a video camera. Okay. I don't know. He was getting violent with I was not getting violent. No, that's a report. That's why we're investigating. Okay. So, you can just wait. and do it thoroughly and honestly because I was not violent. That lady, man, oh man, you guys are going to get bully. I heard I don't know how many times I heard that one before. Yep. Thank you. I appreciate that. Wait till you guys lose your qualified immunity. I'm sorry. I said wait till you guys lose your qualified immunity. You're being videotaped and you knew it. Yeah, you're also being videotaped, sir. Oh, man. Yeah. I'm going to make sure you don't get hurt, man. Hold on. I'm going to pack you down for any weapons. You got any knives on you? I ain't got this right here. Thanks. After a while, they basically picked me up um brought me to the cruiser, put me in there, and uh what basically what's called hot boxing. I mean, it was hot in there. Um I was in there for about 30 minutes or an hour. They took me to the station. I was in there for about maybe an hour or two and they came and uncuffed me and told me to sign a piece of paper. So, pretty much signed it to get out and then I was released. What were the charges? Um, interfering with governmental operations. Immediately after being released from custody, Nolan went and published this video of his encounter on his YouTube channel, Bisby News Network. The day after the arrest, I got an email from the deputy chief of police at the time, and he said that based on the video that I published online, he found that uh the narrative that his officers were portraying against me that day was not true and that the charges were dropped. So, police are rarely held criminally liable for criminal actions such as this. The best that the state will offer you is allowing you to sue the political entity that the officer works for and take some taxpayer dollars. And some people would say that it's unfair to put this burden on the taxpayer. But the reality is the majority of taxpayers adamantly support everything the police do, no matter what. A lawyer by the name of Jesse Shoalter, uh, civil rights out of the Phoenix area, filed the case in federal court in Tucson. Not too long after that, he informed me that the city wanted to offer a settlement. And I think the first offer was like $14,000. And so I think we were both just like, you know, no, whatever. You know, I wanted to go to court basically. Um, but the city kept they kept coming back with higher offers. Got to $75,000. Nolan was convinced that if he didn't take a settlement, he'd likely walk away with nothing in the end, which is likely true, no matter how wrong the police were. And the truth was, justice wasn't even an option that was on the table, because justice would have meant criminal charges for the criminal cops that criminally attacked him. For the 3 or 4 hours of Nolan's liberty that was stolen from him that day, he was paid $75,000. I mainly wanted to see Moreno on the stand explaining why he did that to me. You know, I think that was the loss of not going to court. Was Moreno an officer at the time he arrested you? Yeah, he was an officer. What's happened to him since then? He's been promoted to sergeant since then. I I I I don't know. I don't I don't believe that any of the officers who actually attacked me were disciplined in any way. I really don't think so. Out of the three officers that were there that day, officer Moreno stood out above the others as having malicious intent. Have you seen Mareno since then? Yeah. I mean, Moreno is a psycho, you know, you see him around town and it's scary, dude. I mean, you know, and he's just a loose cannon. It's just a matter of time, you know, before something even worse happens in our community. People around town started reaching out to Nolan to tell their stories of their encounters with now Sergeant Mareno. He decided to start doing open records requests for Mareno's use of force reports. So I made a records request into any use of force reports relating to Mareno and then I got a couple back. So I was reading the police report and it really didn't make a whole lot of sense. So I just felt like making the public records request to see what the video looked like. What's up, guys? Okay. Having the beer. Okay. Go ahead and step on out. What's that? No, sir. I won't. She is. We're drinking beer and we're not touching each other. Hold on. Just hold on. We're not touching each other. I need you to step out. I'm not stepping out and I'm just telling you that we had the couple beards. Don't touch me. Step out. I'll step out. Step out. I'll step out. Okay. Understand? Under domestic. Just step out. Domestic going on. Talk to him. Let us investigate it. Am I touching you? No, I told you not to. We're just trying to figure out what's going on, man. We were arguing. Okay. And we had two beers and she's came outside and I just wanted her in the yard. That's all. Step out. No, sir. I won't. Please don't touch me. Step out. And I'm not even going to tell you again. I I've had step out to him. Okay. That's fine. We're just here to talk to you. Okay. But you're going to step out. You can step in the yard. No, you're coming on out. No, that's You can sit there. No, you're going to step out. I'm I'm sorry. We had to No. By law, nothing. I'm telling you right now on camera. You're stepping out. For what? To talk to him. Are you in handcuffs? No. No. Then we're trying to talk to you here in a minute. I'm going to put my hands on or I'm grabbing my taser gun. No, sir. Oh, yes, sir. No, sir. At no point in time are we physically doing anything. Step out. I'm telling you, step out. I can't. Why? Why not step out? Because I'm not doing anything except trying to talk to her. Do not make a move towards me. Please don't touch me. Do not touch me. Stop. Do not do anything. Step back. Don't you touch her. Don't you touch her. Get back right now. Don't you touch her. Need to move out. What the are you doing? What the are you guys doing? You're not allowed to do that. You need to move. No, you're not allowed to do that. Do not touch. You're not. Okay. Do you want to now stand up? And calm down. He's just protecting him. And you know that. Protecting him from what? We just try to talk to him. Taser him. I'm going to taser him. I'm going to protect him. Okay. I'm going to let your hand go and you're going to just stand up. Okay. All right, go ahead. Come on. Let me give you a hand up. Ready? I don't know why I'm doing any wrong. None. And you guys weren't doing anything wrong up until what happened? No idea what happened. We're working on the 101. We were just going to talk to him, talk to you. Even Sergeant Moreno himself verbally admitted that they didn't do anything wrong. Even the call that came in said that they were arguing, which is not illegal. The Bisby police, even by their own admission, had no reasonable, articulable suspicion that anybody here has committed a crime, was actively committing a crime, or was going to commit a crime. Without reasonable suspicion, they couldn't lawfully detain anyone, let alone open a gate and enter a property with a clearly posted no trespassing sign without a warrant. Everything nobody can. You will more than Yeah. I'm so glad to see. Welcome to request anything you want. Okay. All right. So, here's what we were going to talk about. There was a call of you guys arguing, which you guys clearly admitted. Yeah. No physical. Fine. The argument, we love the arguments cuz there's no physical. Yeah. All we were going to ask you versus him, he could have just stepped out, talk to my partner. I'm going to talk to you, make sure there's no injuries. And what happened? What are you guys arguing about? That's it. Um, whenever I was getting it, you know, you're getting a video, you really don't know. maybe the officer is justified, you know. But, um, I was like, I'll get the video. We'll see it. And I watched it. Some people think that he was, but most people I think most reasonable people who see that video, I mean, it doesn't make sense. Like, why he just grabs the guy? Like, it doesn't make any sense. Like, you're not even under arrest. We're just going to grab you, you know? And then basically the guy all he was saying is that he didn't want to talk to Marino which we have a fifth amendment right not to speak to cops. And so Mareno is saying you're either going to come out here and speak to me or I'm going to arrest you basically. It's like what what's he being arrested for? You know exercising his fifth amendment or so they had they didn't have probable cause to do what they did. After speaking with Nolan, we decided to take the short drive to the address listed on the report to see if these victims would speak with us as well. Let's come in here. The woman agreed to talk with us and told us that she herself had not even seen the body cam footage, but she heard it was posted publicly, so we showed her the video. God, he's a drama queen and a half. Marino. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know how he made it here cuz like by law um he's not really allowed to come in unless unless it's probable cause, right? Yeah. Or a warrant, right? Warrant or So that's why that's why we were like, uh, you can stay out there and we can talk to you. Yeah. Yeah. When did this happen? Actually, um, it was it was in 2023. Okay. It was a couple years ago though. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Um and then we we just got done with court all the way uh and probation. It was 6 months. Um and that was last year in like March I think. So like a year ago. What were you charged with? Um uh a lot of stuff actually. But I like it it um it went down to um it was it was domestic violence and I was like how is that when I live with him? He's my roommate. We don't we don't we're not dating. But then if we were and they assume that wouldn't be a domestic violence would be against me and him, not the cop and me. You know what I mean? Oh the cop is the victim of domestic violence. Yeah. Yes, dude. And that's why it was bad. I was like, "What the hell?" Were you both charged? Yeah, we were both charged. So, him is the victim. Yeah. Yeah. And that was why it was really bad. So then, um, we had a we had we fought we fought that that one. Um, and then they the lawyer gave us a deal on the the next one and it was a good deal cuz it was only 6 months of probation where we can't get the cops called. What was the second charge? The one that you ended up getting 6 months of probation on. What was that charge? Um uh uh failure to uh aris uh failure to arresting arrest. Yeah. So officer Mareno charged these people with domestic violence, which is violence against your wife, your girlfriend, your boyfriend, your domestic partner that you're living with. But he put himself down as the victim of the domestic violence. even though he's not the domestic partner of either one of these two people and him and his officers are the ones who initiated violence on them. So, the public pretender got the domestic violence charges thrown out but got him probation for resisting the unlawful arrest. When Nolan requested this body cam footage, it took a few months for the city to finally give it up. Once he received it, he realized that they had held it until right when the statute of limitations on a federal civil rights lawsuit had expired. When she found out this had become public, the only question she had was, "Did he get fired?" He got fired, right? No, he didn't get he suspended. No, been promoted since then. Oh my god. The Bisby News Network has also done records requests to find other complaints on Moreno. It was not easy to obtain, but I am now in possession of Carlos Marino's complaint file, and here are some of the most disturbing details. Blank says she was threatened by Bisby police officer Carlos Marino. She says this stems from an incident where Officer Moreno investigated her granddaughter having been sexually assaulted. Blank says Officer Moreno told her if she pursued this issue, he was going to arrest her. Blank filed a formal complaint with the city manager and was later told by a part-time officer that he overheard Officer Moreno talking about how he was going to get Blank into a situ situation where he he would have to shoot her. Sergeant Mareno came to me with a clipboard and a form and questioned me about my identity and what happened. While he was doing this, he began to threaten my animals, saying, "Your ducks are going to be gone, and I'm going to come to your house at 3:00 in the morning and arrest you." When I asked him why he would do that, because I had not broken the law, he said, "Yes, you have, and I can arrest you for it." said that she while she was in the back seat, her mother and the officers began to remove her items and watch one of the officers grab her laptop computer and breathing machine, place it in a garbage bag, and throw it out of the hotel room onto the ground, breaking it. Carlos Mareno has been investigated by the Coochis County Sheriff's Office as well. She says she filed a complaint with the city manager on Officer Moreno. The day after she filed the complaint, Officer Moreno and Chief Achave started stalking her house and followed her boyfriend through town. Not only do they not do anything to fix the problem, but Bisby News Network claims that in retaliation for him trying to bring these things to the city's attention, the police department stalks and harasses him. And even the city attorney harasses and bullies him when he shows up to public meetings. Are you high? Is that your Are you an idiot drinking? Shut up, dude. Get out of my face. I'm into my You tell me I can't come into a meeting. I'm just telling you. Don't Don't come up on me. You smell like alcohol, though. You're an idiot. You're a liar, too. No, I'm not. Go to hell. I'm serious. You smell like alcohol. Go to hell, idiot. I don't smell like nothing. Oh, you do? I'll get the chief to confirm it. Go to hell. I mean, it's like, why is Moreno not fired? you know, after all these years, this pattern of violating people's rights, the city manager, strong form of government, you know what I mean? And he just leaves them in place. And really, the community is just completely in danger. It could be anybody. It could be anything. You know, he's a liability. He's a danger. And they refuse to do anything about it. It's really kind of weird because you wonder why