![]() ![]() Racop tells us he'll be flying here for his first court appearance in three weeks.Scarlet has long red hair and a scar that covers a bit of her right cheek, under the eye, and nose. He also didn't want to go on camera, but said his client is returning from Greece in a few days, and both of them will sit down for an interview. It's just part of being a Christian and as a preacher, you know, this is an attempt to besmirch my reputation." Racop tells us, "It's the only thing that helps me through this, Dan. ![]() Investigating this story, we learned something more about Racop - he's a minister we watched his church sermon this past Sunday online. He said, "I'm dealing with someone privately on that." Noyes asked him, "Who's that?" and he just hung up. He was surprised when we asked about the Batmobile. "It simply defies reason, in my view, why so many people, so many high-ranking members of law enforcement, would have to go and enforce something so unnecessary? And so trivial?"ĭan Noyes did reach Anagnostou by phone in Greece, where he's on vacation. He says this squabble over a luxury item, the Batmobile, belongs in Indiana civil court - with no involvement by the San Mateo County Sheriff's Department. It shocks me that it's in criminal court." He told us, "I just can't imagine why it's in criminal court. We ran the case by Tony Brass, former prosecutor for San Francisco and the US Attorney's Office. Eamonn Allen, refused our request for an interview citing the ongoing investigation. The undersheriff now in charge, Mark Robbins, and the department's spokesman, Lt. His office confirmed he's away on a month of vacation he leaves office in January after losing the election. He didn't return our repeated calls and texts to his personal cellphone. We wanted to talk to Sheriff Bolanos about Anagnostou and about the use of public funds - four round-trip airline tickets, hotels for three nights, meals, overtime. McLaughlin: "I can't speak to that, I have no knowledge about what relationship if any the sheriff has with the victim." Noyes: "After the case went nowhere with the first criminal case, the civil case, is the sheriff stepping in for a friend here?" McLaughlin would not discuss that additional evidence or the sheriff's unusual step of sending four investigators across the country, for what Racop argues is a simple business dispute. Marie McLaughlin, San Mateo County Deputy District Attorney: "Additional investigation, the detectives were able to obtain search warrants and obtain additional evidence." We interviewed the San Mateo County Deputy District Attorney, prosecuting this case.ĭan Noyes: "You wrote a letter to Racop in September of last year saying that there would be no criminal charges. I love '66 Batman and Batman always stood with the law." As a Batman fan since I was 2 years old, this was a completely opposite side. I've never gone through anything like this ever before in my life, I am on the side of good. He only later found out they got a warrant for his Gmail, contacts and photos that they froze his bank account and charged him in California with two felonies - Obtaining Money by False Pretenses, and Diversion of Construction Funds. Racop says they read his Miranda Rights, brought him to the local jail for an hour, but let him go. I thought I was gonna have to move my other Batmobiles out of the way to be able to let them take this car."īut investigators took only two files of documents, according to the Search Warrant Return. ![]() So I thought, 'Oh, they're coming in to pick up his car,' which is right behind me, by the way. Mark Racop tells us, "Then, they showed the warrant saying that they were here to seize anything to do with his car. He sent a lieutenant, sergeant and two deputies to Indiana they raided Fiberglass Freaks last week - July 19. Then, sources inside the San Mateo County Sheriff's Department tell the I-Team's Dan Noyes that the realtor asked his Facebook friend, Sheriff Carlos Bolanos, to intervene. ![]()
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