09/02/2021
I just want to let everybody know the Yuma Police Department has been notified to release my brother's property to us because the case was over now. so I called down to ypd to find out how to go about getting his things. First they told me it was all destroyed , Mikey's cell phones, backpack and tools. And obviously I got really pi**ed off at them and they put me on hold for 20 minutes. Then they told me that an officer Welch had custody of that property and he's got a while, when he's ready, to release the property. I then explain to them and reminded them that my brother is not a suspect in this case,
HE WAS FU***NG KILLED AND IS THE VICTIM in it!! I Informed them they have no right to be holding onto that property when the judge ordered a release and they have no right to be going through any of the information without a search warrant , which we never received. I then told them "if I don't get the property soon I'm going to file theft charges against the officers involved and I wanted to talk to either the Watch Commander or the Chief!!" So they took down my information and said they would have somebody contact me back shortly. okay mind you they told me that that officer was not on duty today, but somehow he then was on duty and called me back. I explained to him my worries and he told me " the reason he's holding on to them is he needed to make sure who the owners of the phones were" so now I'm even getting more frustrated and I tell the officer "he had multiple phones and they weren't connected but he used them for music." The officer replied by telling me that "they collected multiple phones from multiple people at the scene." I then informed him that his statement makes no sense. If they took phones from Witnesses, then there should be no need verifying whose phone is who because they should have people's names connected to each of the phones. He tells me that "I don't understand and they just need to find out which phones go to which people before he can release the phones to me. Now I'm livid and because of the way we've been treated from the beginning of this I am done with their bu****it!!!!! So I respond by asking him if he is informing me that his fellow officers are so poorly trained, that they do not know how to collect evidence from people and attach their names to said evidence, that he truly believes they are that inadequate at their job. Which in my opinion is the only thing that make sense out of what he's saying. Officer Welch then tells me he does not have the time for me to chew him out and hangs up on me . I am telling you people that there are dirty cops in the Yuma Police Department and they don't care and that they are rubbing it in my family's face.
I really need your help people! I'm begging you all, if you have a minute in your day to help me with this Injustice going on, we've been treated so poorly already this entire time by the Yuma Police Department. We need to let them know we're not going to take this crap anymore and I personally promise that I'm going to keep fighting to to try to make sure that none of you have to be treated like this!!!
So if you would please call The Yuma Police Department and express your feelings and thoughts on what I just told you happened when I tried to retrieve my brother's property from YPD and Officer Welch and what their statements to me was. Let them know they need to release the property to us RIGHT AWAY!!! and that their excuse of incompetent officers, not knowing how to take evidence, which is the only thing that makes sense from what he's saying, is not a valid excuse to withhold victims properties!!!
If you know anybody in the local media contact them and let them know what's going on and maybe they can bring this BS into the light and into the public eye faster than I can. I'm asking you all for help and I really mean it!! We've been through enough!!! we don't deserve to be treated like criminals when we are the victims.
YPD'S non-emergency phone number is
928-783-4421
please call and just let them know how you feel about what I just told you . And what it would do to you if this was happening to yourself! Okay here's a breakdown of everything that has happened since since my baby brother was killed, of everything that YPD has done for us or should I say to us .
I just want to remind you all,
1- since my baby brother was taken from us, my mother, still to this day, has not received a single call from the Yuma Police Department!
2- the only time we were contacted Buddy Yuma Police Department with the night my brother was taken and we were told nobody else was involved it was a mechanical failure. We had to find out from social media and the news that it was a hit-and-run and later found out that he had also been run over by another vehicle, so they absolutely knew there were other vehicles involved!!! so they lied to us🤬🤬🤬🤬
3- when I would call to ask for updates on the case they treated me like I was interrupting their day and they had better things to do and just so disrespectful. an employee of Wheezy's Bar and grill contacted me and said; " they wanted to remain anonymous but couldn't live with themselves without telling me that Antonio was there drinking all evening and soon after the time he left ,he killed my baby brother."
There was only one officer that I could talk to at ypd that showed any concern about the case and gave me time of day.
I informed him about the information I received. He actually went there looking for access to security cameras for a possible way to prove DUI since Antonio piece of s**t Nunez waited over 24 hours to turn himself in and a blood draw wouldn't do any good. The owners told that officer that he would have to get a search warrant and ask him to leave. Within a week that officer, the only one gave a damn about what had happened to my brother, was removed from the case!!!!***WTF*** I was then told I could not talk to him and then later they told me he didn't work there anymore, which recently I found out is a lie!
4- 27 hours after Antonio killed Michael , after he sobered up, he turn himself in. he had a warrant for driving on a suspended license with unsecured minors in the vehicle . so they arrested in for the warrant . Which was then paid off within the hour by weezy's Bar and Grill. they issued a release of his suspended license and let him walk out that door with a brand new legal license after he had just left a man to die in the middle of a road, to be run over by other vehicles, 27 hours earlier. In his statement he told them the reason he left was he thought he may have killed somebody, so he could have pulled Mike out of the road so he could live !!! consciously he killed him on purpose ,he's a murderer , right? And that's the person they let walk out the door with a brand-new unrestricted license and no charges. in my opinion a license to Kill. 3 months later after a lot of pressure from myself and many of you they finally charged him with one felony; leaving the scene of an accident with fatality. They arrested him and released him. we were not informed until we saw it on social media or the news I don't remember . So YPD made sure we had no say as to how we feel about him being let out on his own recognizance at court. imagine if you were treated that way if you lost a very close loved one, which I know many of you loved Mikey and were and still are hurting!
So please take a couple minutes out of your day, call Yuma Police Department non-emergency line, and let them know how you feel about the way they're treating us. How they have no right to be holding on to my brother's belongings smart and not an excuse. They need to figure out who's phones go to who, I mean they really going to back that their officers don't know how to right people's names when they collect evidence and make sure the evidence is tag correctly. If that is the case oh my God how many innocent people are in prison in jail and how many real monsters are free to walk the streets it just makes no sense that officer Welch's excuse.!!.
Yuma police non-emergency number-928-783-4421
Officer Welch
Case # 20-2308
I just want to thank each and every one of you to take the time to express your disgust with ypd right now and if you are not able to do that if you could just repost this to let more people know! if you know somebody in the media let them know! I can't believe we're still being treated like this! it's like a stab in the heart all over again. There are pictures and stuff in those phones that are priceless to us! we want to see them and get those phones before the next thing we hear is " we destroyed them by accident" please don't let them do that ! help us get his stuff home, thank you