Of?ce 91' the Mal-imp: County Cunstahles Constable [neldenl Repert Principle: Madeupa County Constable Kent R'mi Jux?ee Cam-t 101 East Chicago Sheet Chandler. M20113 35225 Failure In Report a Minor (nun-injury} Traf?c Accident in a Ma?eupa Cem?y Vehicle And Conduct Unbeming a Ma?eopa Ceunty Elected Of?ciala?Empleyee. Daleufthe D?ense: January 13?? 2mg analien: New Training: Tuba Geif Ike-sen Cine ?lm Rani Bax 129? Tuba-:21 Arizona 35% (520) 393-35113 Synapsis: Du Friday. Jammy 13'? 201.9. Marin-.992 Enemy .C?n?iabli: Kant Rini was fennel have backed his 1 [70me Issued Ferd Escape inn} 3 mnbile mailer uwned by the Arizuna Constables Asmeia?tm while attending new constable training at me Tuber, Resort [meted at One Diem Read in Santa Cruz Cuumy. Arlinuaam not repel-Ling the ineidenL Subsequem inves?gaiiem deiennined melanin: time efthe irmidem. ij' was mammal)! two hours late fer training having-admitted m'being unable ta amend after becoming ill me em eensumpiion of aleehul en Ihe evening of Thursday. January l7?:h 2019. anestigaliun: On Friday. January 2019 al appmximately l?l? hams. while assisling Will: ?eld mining problems for new constables unending msdalmy miningel ?ne {here Read Tum. {Santa Cruz Canary} Milena, I was advised that students had mnments earlier mimessed an unrepurted traf?c collisinn en Private meson} l?ureupertz.r between a Mal-leopa county vehicle being d?ven [3114i 50]er by Ma?eurm County ?ammable Ken! Rini and a trailer nwned and uperatcd by the Arimna Cunstahles Assueiatiun. Sntdeots reported thata?er Rioi hacked Ihe county vehicle into the tow tongue on the double asei trailer {causing a notable audible metal on metal contact noise}. he pulled forward. exited the vehicle and wailted to where students were involved in scenario based training. He made no attempt to check for damage to either the trailer or the county vehicle. nor did he report his actions to anyone around him or to Maricope Counb' authorities. Seveml students and thought Rioi exhibited as strange or ?o??lmiance" while walking. As he approached Maricopa County Deputy Constable Chris Mueller [one ofthe scenario htsu'actors]. Mueller could detect the ?HI-Elma?? smell of alcohol related odors entitling from Rini?s person. Mueller instructed staffers to ?nd me and responded to Mueller's location and made contact with Rini in a grass park area of the resort near where Mueller was instructing. Rini was coshaven and disheveled in appearance and I noted that within a foot ot?distance. I too could smell both the odor of alcohol as well as human vomit emitting from his person. I speci?cally asited Rini why he hoth looked in the condition he was found in as well as to why i was smelling both vomit and alcohol. Rini stated that he had been ?throwing up" and was still theling ?sick". 1 When further pressed. Rini volunteered that hch?ad consumed ?a lot" of vodka the previous night (Thursday. January till? ill-119] while alone in his room at the resort. have previously received training as a officer to birth detect and investigate crimes involving the ingestion oi?aicohol through the Maricopa (Sonatar Sheriff's Of?ce Sworn Academy as well as through classes approved and sponsored by Ihe Arizona Peace Of?cer?s 'l'raining and Standards Board (over a four decade career}. Rini ?rst started that he ?wasn't sure" that he had been involved in the collision with the trailer. but quickly changed his story to indicate that he knew he lad made collision contact. however. that there would he no damage to either vehicle. based upon his low speed at the titneof the event. When speci?cally asked by me. he could offer no explanation as to his failure to physicallyr check for damage upon his exit ?'orn the vehicle. norhis failure to report the collision now some time later in the day. I limiter stated to itini that his actions had the course of inch-action being conducted and that he had missed two horns of ?eld pnihlems training. He made no response hack to me. nor o??ered further explanation for his behavior. He did admit that he had no intention of reporting the collision to anyone. contrary to Mal-icons {Triton}.r Policy 45: Procedures. Rini's demeanor was appropriate and his posture. Marine and facial expressions did not indicate thathc was under the influence of alcohol. He did present as someone quite ill from over constunption ot?alcohol and at one point he began gagging and coughing in my presence. but did not ultimately vomit again. Marianna County Deploy Constable Chris hhtellcr isa Former career Arizona State Department of Public Safety Sworn Trooper. who has also been train-2a] and has extensive experience in the investigation of' crimes involving alcohol. I consulted with him and found that we both believed that Rini?s Explanation of having ingested a large quantity of alcohol on the previous evening was both plausible and believable under the circumstances. Tuhee. Arizona is in ?nal Santa Cruz County. Arizona From past professional caperience. 1 am aware that independent testing'for alcohol ingestion in a coal: this would require extended transport by vehicle into Tucson and due to the nature of this speci?c event. 1 noted that it did not nanara a request for assistance from the Santa Coo; County Sheriff's Office. so neither were attempted. Several snideats who had witnessed the collision. stated to me than they had observed Rini (who was the lone occupatu and driver} scored in the driver's seat of the County Vehicle attempting to hack the SUV into an area near where the ACA trailer was parked. They watched as he collided with the trailer tow tongue yin the rear area of the SUV at a slow speed. which had resulted in a loud metal on metal sound emitting from the sceuem well a the visual shaking of the trailer upon collision. Upon my arrival. literal that tutknown ACE. staffers had moved the trailer from the location where it was stuck and readied it for transport from the scene behind a sta?'er?s personal pick- up truck quite a distance away. ACA l?ast President Ken Sumner and I examined both the trailer and Riui's assign-ed County Vehicle and found a paint transfer from the trailer to the plastic rear panel oftl'te county vehicle as evidence of the collision. No ?u'ther damage was {mind on either vehicle. "Elimination oldie scene where the trailer had been parked was not possible [based upon the surface of the grntatd and the fact that the trailer had been moved prior to my arrival]. During my voltuttary interyiew with Kent Rial. he stated that he ?had adrinleiug problem". Rioi offered that he had brought a large bottle of Vodka {alcohol} with him to the training and had consumed at great quantity of the contents of the bottle alone in his room each night after training. but in particular on the evening of the night before {con?rmed to be Thursday. January 17?? 2019}. He stated he started drinking the night before around ?Szll? and stopped at ?Around 9:30 He awoke around five are on Friday morning and felt very ill. He ?threw up" a great deal helhre falling asleep again in his room. missing class and awaiting again around nine thirty with a"had hangover?. This in turn made him miss the ?rst two hours of the ?eld prohlerus class. Riai says that he has been having un-treated over consumption ot?alcohol issues ?for years" and regularlyr over indulges alone in his home 1.IIrith similar results. Kent Rlni requested and was titrnished with the eonmnt information for the Marianna County EmployeeAssistanee Program. so that he might inquire as to nonlinear options. I dien contacted Resort Management sta??anrt them! that Rial had boon assigned Roonthangalow Number 3 for his stay at the pmperty. was assisted in locating the maid for that part of the complex. one Thetesa Molina alto informed myself and resort management that she had alre?y cleaned Rini's room after eheclt out. She described it as somewhat disheveled, however eould not remember whether or not she had observed signs that Rini had vomited. She did produce a 59 ounce empty bottle of'i?oto?s Brand Vodka Front thereeycled container on her cleaning cart. She remembered ?nding it discarded in Rini's mm. but could not remember where in the room it had been when she found it I photographed the bottle and later the photograph was shown to Kent Rini. lie positively identi?ed it as the discardedtempry bottle he left in the room at eheek not time. Rial stated that he had brought that bottle and another bottle of 1vodka currently packed in his personal suitcasewith him?om hem-e on Sunday. January lit"I Edit}. Rial could not remember whether the seal had been hrolted on the now empty bottle ttponarrlval at the resort. but did advise that it had oertalnly been ?quite full" when he arrived. Rial advised that he usually drinks only beer and he typically consumes at least ?a sis pack a day". seven days a week. Vodka he says he saves For speelal oceasions. 1 searched the Vehicle and found NO other alcohol containers anywhere inside. His personal loggage 1with the second bottle of alcohol was not esandned by me or offered up for destruction by Rlnl. Marieopa County Constable personnel were loan-acted to transport Rini?s (Donna.r issue vehicle heel-t to the San Tan Court Centerand Rial was transported by me home to his residence in Phoenix at the conclusion of training. I have inatrueted Rial not to operate the vehicle in any capacity until further arrangements have been made. not to attend any further training sessions until a mediation plan is developed Michael D. Branham Presiding Constable of Marianna Arrowhead Preeinct Northwest Regional Court Center Hid-i 1life-st Tierra Bttena Lane Surprise. Arizona 35311 390-21314 Of?ce of the Marieopa County Constables February 2i] i 9 To: Constable Kent Rini From: Constable Mike Presiding Constable Some being formally installed as Constable for the Kyuene Justice Court you and I have now been prawn! for two formal meetings with Ms, Roni Smelling. Court Manager for the Kyrene Justice Court as 1well as coo infmmal worksessions with Constables and the Deputy Constable for your area to address your substandard purfonnaore in the handling. preparation 5: renun of o?ieial court doeumm for your area. During the month of December 21!] 18 and moving through your-swearing ceremony, you and all of the other new Morioopa County Constahies were given both as well as ?eld training said one on one instruction in theproper methods for receiving and ealaloging court documents, prayer service of those documents and instruction on how to complete returns For those documents and success?iliy ?ling them with the proper com-ts. You were then assigned and attended mandatory New Constables Training in Southern Arizorua, where the prompt and accurate service of court generated documents was again highlighted for you in your mandatory training You were also given opportunities to ask questions and clarify service ot?said documents through all of the mini og received. Additionally. you 1were given institutions to ask for assisrance from Deputy Gordy Leia and the other members of your area when questions on how to proceed with speci?c types of court documents arise and Ms. Stradiiog and her sta?'eveu voiunte?ed in be of some limited assistance in those important matters. As ofthis report. you are performing at these dtuies ina substandard level and your perfonnance is undermining con?dence in your of?ce and the of?ce of constable county-wide. Examples of. but not limited to the substandard performance of these duties: An order {If Show Order which was received by you and transported to the of?ces ofa local attemcy. In my presence dating a coaching session. you generated an of?cial Dwiaratien of Service. which you signed stating that you personally served the attorney the order on behalf of his client. You originally reunited to the court insuf?cient infemtatien to allow his. Handling and her staff to gauge whether er not the Fingeqrrhu Order had been processed and received by the attorney's of?ce. When questioned. you immediately prepared a Declaration of Senice in my presence and signed the document of?cially attesting to having delivered the order to the snot-trey. Follow-up by his. Stradling's staff with the law ?rm found this infenuatien to be false. They had not received use order from you on that day and were not currently under any judicial order to have their ciietlt appear at the Maticepa County Sheri ITS Of?ce for ?ngerprinting in this court matter. When yeu and I discussed the follow-up information. you admitted that yet: had NO idea whether or net you had actually served them with the ?ngerprint order. In a second recent example. you returned art tut-served Order of Protection From the Annwhead Justice Court to me. Your Declaration of Non Service lacked a great deal of speci?c detail on your attempts to ?nd and serve the deietidant in this case. You however. signed the Der?arntien of Service indicating that the order had been served eml myself and court Sta?? found that a receiving court cleric had entered a note in the o?icial court ?les indicating service had been CGWLETED by you. when in fact this had not occurred. This action happened because you signed the Deciaration of Service and attested to such service. While there are a :1th ofcheclts and balances in the court system. both of these serious en-ers ceuld have resulted in aju'stice of the peace taking action against defendants for failing to comply with proper court orders. Potential toss ot?petsenal liberty ceutd have escorted in both of these cases for defendants as-weli as complaints generated against both yourselt?antl the justice court by the attorney and ptainti? for lack of due diligence. Additionally. you could be heid in contempt by a judge andfor criminally charged for authoring false and misieading of?cial documents. Remediatien Plan In order to assist you and restore con?dence in you and your of?ce. his. Stradling (in a very limited capacity}. your area constahies and yourself have agreed to participate in a remediation plan which will include the creation of forms for your use in managing and appropriately de?ating the work accomplished in the service of court documents. Further insuuetien will also be given It: yet] by both myself and the ether eensrehles ef year area in identi?eelien, and retum ofeeurt deemertts. Ne ene wishes fer you te hewever the mess er this remediatien plan rests entirety with anti seer ability In absorb and retain the being presented. Failure In een'eet said de?eieneies will mull ineempisims In the Adj-Lena Censtehles Ethics and Training Board. whieh in turn eeulrl result in action by the Madcepe Enemy Heard of Supervisurs te seepend you [er trike etherpmitive series) ?-em yeur e?ieia] dun'?. 'feu may author a rebuttal In this twine]: document for inclusien inio this file. Such a rebuttal must he slithered end returned tn me wilh a ?ve day time peried From medals: at? this receipt fiir inclusien in said plan. Feiitrre to submit such a rebuttal will be interpreted as acknowledgment ef? the serenity of the in?mnntien eemeined within this memerendum. Yeti will be ?lmished with. both Mediate feedback ?'em these inveltred in this remediation plan as well mitten feedbeek frem me as theplen pmgresses. Please ask fer assistance. clarify infermetien er strengthen the precess fer improvement. I stand ready [e assist you er In further eiau'ify these pesitiens. Respectfully. Michael D. Erenhem Presiding Constable. Ween Camry Febmarv 14. 2019 To Wham It May Concern, Kent Rini am resigning as Marianna County Eyre-n2 Presclent {In?atable effective Feb. 15111 2019 due to personal reasons. Kent ?ini Date Of?ce of the Marin-ups County Camille: Sim the inilial dra?htg uf Ibis impmvemenl plan, addi?nna! 31mm and nmissiuns including but nut limited to entries inm nf?c?iai Inga, incuumiehe and in?ame reporting an mun and inaccurate mitten Tepcrr?ng an rather v?icial domems have cm?nurd plague Constable Rini. On Thursday. February 2019. Kent Rini advised 130131 my self?nd 1hr?- Ecm? 0f Supa'visurs for Maricppa County that he was valuntarily resigning thus: Df?ce 0f lestahle for the hrs?cc Pm?inc: effec?ve mm. H: submitt?da w?ttcin'mti?ca?an It: the Clerk uanard and Wm mean Ma?mpaCmty lssuedep-myinhis possession. All Df?cial in his pimsessiun wen: eith?r reassign-d f'?r at pmed and his O?cial ?ammable-?5 Lug fur Fehnmy 2019 was archived far submitml to the Clerk of the B?md A mummy W??w plan has bean dcwluped forth: Kym-Brie Justine Court fur Currant-1: related activitiES. This matmr has mw been of?cially clams}. Michaci D. Brnnimn PIE-sitting Cunmahl? of Marimpa Cuunty Arrowhead Pmcinct Northwest Rngiona] Cour: Canter 14264 West Tierra Burma Lam: Surprise. Ari-5mm 35374 (602) 393-2184