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Who Urinated in Her Boots? Mystery at Military Base ..
.. Staff Sgt. Jennifer Pineda, a 15-year veteran of the California
Air National Guard .. On a March morning four years ago, Pineda was
about to dress into a uniform .. when she made a foul discovery.
Someone had urinated in her boots. ..
.. High-ranking officers tried to bury the incident ..
The inspector general's inquiry is the third investigation into the
Pineda affair and part of a broader probe .. Two of the guard's top
officers held key leadership positions at the 144th at the time of
the Pineda incident .. Neither responded to requests for interviews.
.. Pineda declined to comment for this story. ..
Soon after she reported that someone had urinated on her boots,
members of the 144th's security forces, who police the base, arrived
at the location, attempted to lift fingerprints and had photos taken
of the scene, according to an internal investigative record ..
The security airmen collected the urine from the floor and reviewed
hours of security camera footage .. The perpetrator, they said,
could be prosecuted and jailed in a court martial ..
Pineda named two women who "have had issues with" her in the past,
and her supervisor later suggested one more .. It states that all
three women were questioned. .. The results .. were inconclusive ..
Soon after the first investigation was shelved, a second was opened
when "new information" revealed that pilots had been drinking in a
nearby break room the evening before the discovery .. Investigators
questioned 18 people .. In a second interview with investigators,
Pineda said a couple of pilots told her they suspected Navin of
urinating on her boots .. Navin denied .. The interviews "did not
lead to any new conclusions"or identify any suspects. ..
In August 2015, Pineda .. wrote that the main investigator told her
that the evidence showed that a woman could not have urinated in the
boots, but that she heard that officers speculated that she urinated
in them "for attention." .. The guard declined to comment .. A 144th
pilot, filed a complaint alleging that commanders punished him ..
for going to bat for Pineda by telling a superior that the first
investigation might have been mishandled .. He declined to comment ..
.. 144th "leadership" ordered .. to shut down the investigation and
destroy all the evidence .. The lead investigator .. offered no
explanation .. Experts on military and criminal law questioned the
decision .. A guard spokesman declined to say .. Sikora did not
respond to requests for comment .. ...
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The story is indeed mysterious and dramatic. It's intriguing that so
many people neither did respond to requests nor inclined to comment.
But we knew for sure from the very beginning that Byker did it.