'Three Dead Women, and one infant girl' By Steven A. Montes, It is common knowledge, that the State of Arizona is the worst offender of its Citizen Civil Rights, as it is also common knowledge that the City of Tucson is the greatist offender of its “Citizens Civil Rights” I have a powerful story to tell, I would like to talk to you about the deaths of three generations of women in Tucson, Arizona. This car accident accrued at the hands of a reckless City of Tucson Water employee, while on the job in his City of Tucson Water Department vehicle. This accident was sure to have bankrupt the City of Tucson due to the over whelming evidence of neglence against the City of Tucson. If it hadn't been for a major cover up conducted by high ranking officials with the City Water Department, powerful City, and State politicians that control the Arizona State Motor Vehicle Division, the Tucson Police Department, and the Tucson newspapers, TV stations, and all media concerns. There was just a small morning article that appeared in the back of the newspaper, and nothing else was covered in the news anywhere after that artical appeared. It all started with a man named James D. Wile who everyone called Red, because of his red hair. He was an exceptional employee, he was well liked by all of water department supervisors, in the field, and all Water Department officials. He was well liked because he was a “Johnnie On The Spot “ or “Speedy Gonzales” he did every thing that was asked of him very quickly. He did not argue with his bosses about a particular job being to hard, or too strenuous to accomplish. He did what was asked, and he was very quick at what he did, as well as reckless. His motivation stemmed from his medical condition called “ADHD”, which refers to the extreme hyperrness, and anxiety that is associated with his condition. Although he was well liked by his bosses, he had an extensive history of traffic citations for speeding before working for the City of Tucson, being involved in minor accidents with his City truck in the yard, and numerous accidents involving damage to City equipment as well. All of his reported accidents over the years were the common knowledge of his fellow workers, and every supervisor at the Water Department. There was a “look the other way policy, when it came to this employee reckless behavior. While on his way to a job site that required his immediate attention, at a high speed that is sometimes associated with emergency vehicles, he went over a hill, saw that traffic was backed up at the street light, and could not stop his vehicle in time due to the speed he was traviling at. so to avoid a major accident with cars in front of him, he drove his City truck over a concrete medium to avoid hitting the cars in front of him, and slammed into on coming traffic. Killing three generations of women, an infant baby girl, young mother of baby girl, the mother of daughter of the baby girl. An investigation had begun immediately with a cover up. It was decided that the damaged City truck driven by Mr. Wile would be taken to a location, other than where the truck had originated from originaly. This diversion was to prevent all City employees from divulging any first hand knowledge to Police Detectives, OSHA, and any other investigating agency involved in this accident. As to the numerous accidents that James D. Wile had been involved in while he was employed with the City of Tucson. At the location where the truck was taken for further investigation, City employees working on the vehicle had taken the brakes off the vehicle, and had replaced them with worn out brakes to prove that it was break failure that had caused the accident. It was break failure that caused this accident, but only because Mr. Red was speeding at such a high rate of speed to stop his vehicle in time to prevent this accident. Later all accident reports within the Water Department concerning “Red” were destroyed. As well as other records listed with the Arizona Department of Motor Vehicle, and Public Safety. Mr. Wile was given monies by high ranking officials in a meeting, to keep quiet, and to start a new life else where. He was given a high recommendation for his performance with the City of Tucson to aid him in finding other work else where as well. Because the family's of these unfortunate victims were very poor, it was easy to give them an $800,000 settlement for the lives of their loved ones, from the insurance policy that covered the City of Tucson truck. Of this $ 800,000 the attorney got half the monies to misrepresent the family's in court, leaving the family with only $ 100,000 per lost victim. * This next incident involved the cover up in the death of City of Tucson Water Department employee, which lends proof that this City Department is capable, and quite skilled at covering up the facts. This story involves the death of another City of Tucson Water employee, his name is Mr. Valenzuela. One day Mr. Valenzuela was working on the small power hand tools, weed eaters, gas mowers, gas operated hedge trimmers, and other hand tools that he was responsible for the maintaining. These tools were then issued to the crews to maintained the surrounding vegetation around the different water wells located in and outside the City of Tucson. He had worked at his job, day in and day out for many, many years doing the same thing over and over daily. He was in charge of the small hand tools that he issued from the small tool shed that he worked out of. Everyone at the Water Department knew what his job was. One day his immediate supervisor, came out in a panic looking for some one to drive the broken down hazardous front end loader out to a job site. I turned out that some kids had fallen into a hole that was not secured, and the kids had bee injured. In an attempt to cover up the hole immediately, so the evidence would not be available to investigators, and to prevent a law suit involving the injury to the children. Because Mr. Valenzuela, was the only one that was available in the compound, his supervisor ordered him to drive the front end loader tractor out to the site to cover up the hole. Mr. Valenzuela protested for several moments, stating that he was not qualified to drive the tractor, and then stated that he was afraid to drive the tractor, because he did not know how to operate the tractor. He also stated that the he did not have a valid licence to drive the heavy duty equipment. After being threatened with his job by his supervisor, he began looking for someone else to operate the front-end loader. At which time Mr. Valenzuela approached my father, Manuel Montes who was a welder for the City of Tucson Water Department at that time. He begged my father to please take his place, but my father had just witnessed the argument and answered that he did not know how to drive the tractor either. My father told Mr. Valenzuela to continue to look for some one to take his place. So Mr. Valenzuela, got on the tractor, after a long search to find some one that could operate the tractor. As Mr. Valenzuela, approached the site, the hole was across a huge ravine that was at a speep downward incline. As Mr. Valenzuela started to go down the incline or the ditch, the tractor flipped over, on top of him, and had crushed him to death. Within two hours of the report of Mr. Valenzuela death to the Water Department Office of the accident, high ranking officials with the Water Department, went and forged documents, tests, proving that Mr.Valenzuela was fully qualified to operate the equipment, had prepared and passed tests that certified him to operate the tractor. The City of Tucson claimed that Mr. Valenzuela was neglect in the operation of the heavy Duty Equipment. The City maintained that because he was at fault, his family would have to settle for the small amount of insurance monies offered by the City of Tucson. Later Mr. Valenzuela's wife had learned the truth about he husband from other employees that he worked with. When she complained, she was threatened by high ranking City of Tucson Officials, which threatened the jobs of her relatives that were also working in other positions with the City of Tucson. Please note that I have a eyewitness to both incidents that occurred in the stories listed above * This story is more about my direct involvement in the dumping of tens of thousands of gallons of the EPAs 2nd hottest Hazardous Chemical called Malathion. When I work for the City of Tucson Parks & Recreations Department in 1974, I was directly responsible for the dumping of tens of Thousands of this highly toxic carcinegient known as “Malathion”. As owner of Montes Orthopedic for over 20 years, I would ask my clients what kind of work they are involved in. This information was very helpful in determining what lead to their foot problems, so I could make a foot appliance based on their needs. In November of 1997, I had an elderly client come in to my office so I could make him a pair of my foot orthotics. As standard practice, I asked him what type of work he was doing. He remarked that he had just resigned from his job a couple of weeks ago. He stated the he was a Hydrologist working for a small company that does testing on the numerous water wells that are located around the City of Tucson. Then his company reports his findings to the City of Tucson Environment Control Department, who in turn report these findings to the Federal EPA, on a regular bases. He stated that it was ironic that I should ask what it is that he does for a job. He stated that he had just resigned from his job because his boss was putting pressure on him to falsify his samples. He stated that the City of Tucson was putting pressure on his boss, so in turn his boss was putting pressure on him. As a result, he had to quit his job. He then started to educate me on what carsinigantes are, he stated that they are chemicals that are known to cause cancer in people. He stated that these carcinogens are measured in parts per million, and some chemicals are measured in parts per billion. He state that as he collected the samples, his boss wanted him to add pure water to the samples to show that the samples are within EPA standards. He stated that the levels of contaminates that were in our water supply were so great that they were way beyond Federal standards with the EPA. It was then he asked me if I was drinking tap water, or bottled water. I answered that I was drinking bottled water. He then informed me that the water I was using to shower with was not safe, because of the high levels of carcinogens that were in the City's water supply. He stated that I should be wearing swimming goggles to protect me from the harmful chemicals that are being absorbed through my eyes. He also stated that the chemicals were still a great hazzard to the population of Tucson because of the chemicals becoming airborne He stated that when people water their lawns, the chemicals dry out on the lawn and are then picked up by the wind, and then are breathed in to cause us harm. I then asked him how hazardous “Malathion” was, his eyes light up and said that Malathion is the 2nd Hazardous chemical on the EPA most hazardous list. I then began to tell him of my involvement with large quantities of “Malathion” that I had dumped for years while working for City of Tucson Parks & Recreations. I told him that Parks & Recreations had taken a 1400 gallon water buffalo used to spray water on dirt in back of a road grader, to keep the dust under control. We placed a pump on the tanker, so we could pressurize the tank. The Malathion we sprayed was used to control flies in the parks where we sprayed 6 days a week for years, and was also used to kill aphids on the medians located all around the city. When we sprayed, the wind through the chemical into our eyes and faces. It got on our cloths, hair, and skin. We had no Idea that the chemical I was using would be so dangerous to our health. I also explained to him that the first time that I was asked to dump such a huge load of this chemical, I asked my supervisor, why we were wasting so much chemical, just pouring it out into the dump. I was told that we had to dump the load everyday because if we didn't do this, the pressure in the tanker would weaken the rubber gaskets that held the pressure in. He also steted that the gaskets would blow out over night do to the excessive pressure in the tank, and that it would take months to replace the gaskets. Well in the latter part of 1997, I reported this information of my evolvement to the City of Tucson Mayors Office. I was following the progress of my reporting, thinking that the City would respond to my complaint. I was told that my complaint was on the agenda for a vote to get funds before the City Council to investigate my complaint. Well thinking that my complaint might not pass for a vote to get the funds to check to see if the chemicals were indeed there like I had reported they were, I could see that the red tape would get the best of me, and with no assurances that the vote would pass, I reported this matter to the Tucson Newspapers, and other media sources, which sided with the City of Tucson who was stating that the chemicals were found, but they were well within Federal standards. Since the City of Tucson had only 5 holes drilled using Arial maps of the area, and log books that stated where the chemicals were, was at best substandard. I had also disclosed that I knew of 4 other locations that contained hazardous chemicals. The City of Tucson Environmental Services claimed that the Malathion Chemical had been mixed with tree cuttings, grass, saw dust, and other plant matter that was designed to create a biodegradable condition for the Malathion Chemical, rendering it safe. A taped conversation with a University of Arizona Professor concluded that Malathion Chemical was not Biodegradable, and will remain in the ground until it is taken out. He stated that, the way we know this, is that Malathion had been used in the forests along the great lakes to kill a parasite beetle that was killing off the pine trees. 15 years later the Malathion was leaching in to the great lakes, where it was killing some of the fish. 20 years later the chemical was killing a lot of fish, and the animals that ate the fish. 25 years later it was a hazardous biochemical disaster. This professor was rebutting the testimony of the what the City of Tucson had issued in their reports of this chemical. As a result of me coming forward, the City of Tucson has closed most, if not all of the wells surrounding the area where I had dumped the chemicals into a unlined waste dump. I was also aware of the City of Tucson dumping solvents, paints, and contaminated oil, dead carcases of animals that died at the zoo, into this dump since 1963. I had been told that these chemicals would effect infant children, and older adults. I was told that infant children near this site would manifest it self in the form of birth defects, and still borne. As a result of my battle to make things right with what I had done, I became more out spoken in the protection of my fellow citizens safety from these chemicals. I was forced out of business in the latter part of 1998, as a result of my concerns for peoples health. * I was soly responsible for a Judicial Judge being forced to resigne his position from the Pima County Juvinial Court Center. At this correctional detention center this Judge sat in judgement of young children up to age 17, for many years. His job was to sentence children to the correctional facitity there for verity of crimes in cluding drugs for sale, the use of drugs, and the manufacturing of drugs. Well I found out that this same Judge was arrested for 'Cocaine use, and Possetion', In a cover up by City, and County officials was never made to answer for his crimes. He never went to court for his crimes, and the cases he had heard and ruled over for the many years while he sat on the bench were never retried. Only because of the monies that it would have costed both the City of Tucson, and Pima County to retry each case. When I had heard of his arrest, I was shocked that he was on leave with addministrative pay. I protested to a local TV News Reporter, to complain about him being paied to wait and see what happen to him. I told the reporter that if it was you or I that got cought using 'Cocaine', in a parking lot in the center of town, we would have lost our jobs, and would have been fired for our crimes. But special treatment was given to this individual, by City, and County polititions that hold them selves above the law. And are quite skilled at providing two types of law. One for the common people, and one for the politions, and high ranking officials that are allowed to act this way. * In August of 2005, I received a phone call from the City of Tucson Revenue Division. Asking me to come in to there office. After arriving, I was lead to a small office where I meet with a Revenue Agent, who wanted to change my taxing structure of my office, in an attempt to create new revenues for her department. I disagreed, stating that I was not in business from 1999 to 2005. As a result, the City Revenue Department, prepared tax returns for me that stated that I owed the City of Tucson over $76,000.000, and that from 1999 to 2005 I had grossed over $ 2.4 million dollars. Enclosed are fiticious copies of my tax returnes made by the City of Tucson, and the decision the tax hearring officer made in my case.. Also at my tax hearing the deck was stacked against me, I was not told that I could have my own attorney present at this hearing. But the City of Tucson had their City of Tucson Attorney there who aided the City Revenue Department. This fraudlent tax is in retaliation for my efforts to make everyone accountiable for their crimes, no matter who you are. While in the Military, I had received several letters of appreciation, and accommodation for my performance, while stationed at Fort Hood Texas. I was retired from active duty because of a disability that I sustained while in the Military, in 1979. I have been using my Disability Veterans Check that I get monthly from the VA to fight the City of Tucson in my defense. It has been hard, since it is the only income I have. Mission Statement: When I first enlisted into the ARMY, I swore an oath under God to protect America form its enemies, both foreign , and domestic. An oath that I have lived by since I first gave that oath. Call me for your copy of the Newspaper artical that was the only coverage that was covered in Tucson.