Canton Cover-Up Part 364: Ken Mello Convened Grand Jury In March To Indict Karen Read And Turtleboy On Conspiracy Charges
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In late January State Police Detective Lt. Brian Tully showed up at Karen Read’s house with a warrant for her cell phone. He banged on the door and threatened to kick it down if she didn’t answer. Tully applied for the warrant, which was granted by Judge Peter Krupp, after claiming that he had probable cause that Read was collaborating with Turtleboy to plan “witness intimidation.” He came to this conclusion after speaking with two mentally unstable women with an axe to grande against both Read and Turtleboy – Natalie the German and the “fake victim,” who had a long and documented history of false restraining orders, false assault charges, substance abuse, and DCF intervention. Both women told Tully that Turtleboy and Karen Read spoke regularly, and despite the fact that it is not a crime for a journalist to speak with the subject of his journalism, Judge Krupp found that this was probable cause to seize her phone. Keep in mind, this is the same Brian Tully who testified that he didn’t apply for a search warrant for Brian Albert’s house because a dead Boston cop with one shoe found on his lawn didn’t reach the very low standard for probable cause.
Tully’s application for the warrant for Read’s phone was based purely off his speculation that there would be incriminating information on it:
The warrant was written by State Police Detective Brian Tully. He alleges Read entered into an agreement with Kearney “by providing information, photography, material relative to her criminal defense, and editorial oversight of blog posts and videos intended to harass, intimidate, and cause emotional harm.”
Karen Read has never had any editorial oversight over anything I publish. If she gives me verified information on the record I will publish it. If she gives me information off the record I do not publish it. This is journalism 101 stuff. But these corrupt cops are so obsessed with imaginary “witness intimidation” that they consider anything I say, do, or publish to be considered a felony, simply because Chris Albert says it causes him “emotional harm.” And they desperately want to prove that Karen Read is actually the driving force behind this imaginary “witness intimidation.”
In January Ken Mello confirmed that despite being too sick to comply with basic discovery in my case, he was having Read’s phone seized as part of his master plan to expand the Turtleboy case by charging Karen Read with felony conspiracy to commit witness intimidation.
As you can see, NBC’s “legal analyst” Michael Coyne insisted that Read would “likely face additional criminal charges before this case is over.” But like most legal analysts for corporate media channels, he was wrong.
Last week we received documents in discovery showing that on March 27, 2024, Ken Mello convened a grand jury in Norfolk Superior Court to have Karen Read and Turtleboy charged with conspiracy to commit witness intimidation. The bar for indictment is very low, since it only requires 50% of grand jurors to find that there is probable cause that a crime has been committed. Neither Karen nor myself are alerted that the GJ is taking place, and neither is allowed to have defense attorneys argue their case. Grand juries almost always return an indictment when it is brought, and the indictments come within a day or two.
However, it appears as if the grand jury likely returned a “no bill” in our case, because it’s been almost three months and neither of us has received any additional charges. I am not legally allowed to share the grand jury transcript, but I can confirm that a grand jury was convened, that Mello did ask the grand jury to return with two indictments, and that to this day there have been no additional charges.
The fact of the matter is that I have never committed witness intimidation, and Karen Read has never conspired with me to commit witness intimidation. Men with guns raided Read’s home and scared the shit out of her while I was unjustly incarcerated on an assault and battery charge that another grand jury declined to indict me on. They have possession of Read’s cell phone and mine, along with my bank account records. They have seen that there is not a single payment to me from anyone associated with the Read camp. There is no conspiracy. There is an award winning journalist exposing unprecedented amounts of corruption, and an innocent woman fighting for her freedom.
At the end of the day there is nothing of value to them on Read’s phone. She and I wisely used an encrypted app called Signal to communicate, and our messages disappeared after an hour. We NEVER texted, because Big Brother can get some hack judge to sign off on a warrant and read all of your private text messages based off of anything they deem to be “probable cause.” We didn’t use Signal because we have anything to hide. We used it because we know that corrupt cops like Tully and Michael Proctor will weaponize the powers of the state to get search warrants to read our messages in order to find out what the FBI has on them. If Proctor was smart enough to do the same then millions of people wouldn’t have seen what a gigantic piece of shit he is after reading his text messages.
