Dennington went to arbitration, the arbiter who I think is dirty and should be removed with extreme prejudice, ruled against Dennigton. Dennington Sued, won. The arrogant fools at the County appealed and got shellacked. on 2/18/2018 the decision of the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals became final.
It did not stop a series of delaying tactics and face-saving legal briefs. Remember – the County of Riverside’s strategy is to bankrupt Worker’s Comp Claimants and to string out employment practices lawsuits in an attempt to bankrupt the claimants.
The face-saving arrogance of Snodgrass, Sniff and County admin was as follows: They tried to do an end-around on the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals, going back to the dirty arbiter (that’s what I think of him based on several cases I have seen) and trying to see if the arbiter would intervene. The Arbiter wisely decided that he had already whored himself out to County Admin enough and said that the court’s decision stripped him of authority to do anything further. (again my interpretation of events) Source Document from the arbitor rejecting the end around Here.
Blogger’s Note: Crooked losers like this arbiter (my opinion again) are one of the main reasons I take pause at labor union’s love of binding arbitration.
In Snodgrass’ arrogant outburst masquerading as a legal brief filed on 5/2/2018, he quotes Charles Dickens’ classic Oliver Twist: “”If the law supposes that,” said Mr. Bumble, “the law is a ass — a idiot.”
What a way to start out a legal document. This is Snodgrass trying to get the arbitor to end-around the 4th Circuit overturning the termination.
Dennington’s attorney is a stud. At least that’s what I think of him and from reading his brief, he systematically dismantled the inane arguments of Sniff, Snodgrass and County Admin.
Here’s the bottom line – similar to the Smoak Termination, the attempted lynching of Donald Vincent Brooks and others – Sniff and crew are trying to forestall everything until after the election. A Sheriff Bianco resolves a lot of this stuff quickly and expeditiously.
In the case of Gabe Dennington – (and Brooks and Smoak for that matter) he is a straight up victim of the vendetta of a member of management. Dennington did not go away after getting screwed 
It is my opinion that Captain / Chief Deputy John Anderson should be prosecuted for what he did.
Dennington stands to be paid something like $6 Million or more in the settlement. What a waste of taxpayer money again by the arrogance of Sniff and Snodgrass + County Admin’s clear policy of deny all claims and fight to bankrupt people regardless of merit. This is the same sort of insanity that allows your county to be utterly destroyed by your enemies rather than surrendering and keeping some stuff in tact.
I finish with a re-post of the last summary of the Dennington case that I did. (This is for the benefit of those of you just reading about this for the first time).
Blogger’s Note: The following is a summary of issues in the case of Gabe Dennington against the Riverside Sheriff’s Department. Dennington appears to have been railroaded by his Captain. This is standard practice under Stan Sniff. Also pay attention to the players involved. You will recall that Chrispoher Brandon Ford was involved in the leaked email that shows the open corruption of Stan Sniff’s management team conspiring to campaign on government time. Dennington prevailed in his case despite the appearance of County Admin and Sniff Subordinates committing felonies in an attempt to defend against the lawsuit.
The then Captain that railroaded Dennington retired and is leeching a massive pension off of the taxpayers when he should be prosecuted for what he did in his career (as should Christopher Brandon Ford and Stan Sniff). It is clear that Captain / Chief Deputy John Anderson (promoted by Sniff) was friends with the tow truck company owner and wanted to destroy Dennington for pulling over one of the tow trucks for making illegal tows. This sort of behavior is commonplace in Stan Sniff’s department.
The initial complaint encompassed 3 incidents that occurred with Hook and book towing. The complaint was written by the owner, Daniel Morales and his wife. Neither had firsthand knowledge of any of these events and relied on employees who were less than honest. Sgt. John Whitting, who was a participant in two of the incidents, was initially assigned to handle the personnel investigation and was later removed due to his involvement.
So the first issue is for some reason (Pretty much a personal vendetta of at the time Captain John Anderson of the Moreno Valley Station) Dennington’s incident was the only incident investigated. Why were the rest ignored?
Second issue, this case was investigated in house at the Moreno Valley Station and not turned over to internal affairs. Odd considering there were criminal implications alleged and by department policy should have been handled by internal affairs. Seems that Anderson, who initiated the PERS, wanted to keep it under his control to get the result he desired (Investigate to terminate). The investigation is supposed to handled, without any interference to ensure an independent and unbiased investigation, by whoever it is assigned to. Yet Sgt. Gyll met with Anderson and Lt. Brandon Ford (Also promoted to chief deputy after the sheriff was made aware of his involvement and possible criminal acts during this investigation) after each interview and was instructed how to proceed with his investigation, a major POBRA (Police Officers Bill of Administrative Rights)violation.
Third issue, when Dennington was notified that he was being investigated, the department notified him of all the allegations but left out the most serious charge of destroying evidence. I believe if this allegation was made that Dennington would have brought an attorney with him to his interview and that is why the department omitted it from the notice. This is a major POBRA violation. (The notification is in the Exhibits from the record of appeal)
Fourth issue, the only person to be interviewed twice was the department chaplain who was riding along with Dennington during the incident. Chaplin Jones fully corroborated Dennington’s accounts of the incident in his initial interview. During his second interview Jones was interrogated rigorously without counsel but did not waiver much from his initial interview other than the doubt the investigators psychologically beat into him about minor details. For this the department (John Anderson after promoting to Chief Deputy) called him a liar and relieved him of his voluntary status as a CHAPLIN. (Investigate to terminate???)
Fifth issue, John Anderson held onto the completed investigation from the beginning of march to the end of June after making his commander recommendation to terminate Dennington, A major POBRA violation. Could this be because he already knew that as soon as Boris Robinson’s retirement was final, he would get promoted to Chief? Considering that his first act as chief was to put Dennington on administrative leave and ultimately terminate him, one might draw that conclusion.
Sixth issue, Dennington, RSA, and his attorney made two written requests prior to his Skelly hearing, and a verbal request at the Skelly hearing with now Chief John Anderson (I know, you’re 
Then after making the final decision to uphold his self-recommended and determined termination of Dennington, did not preserve the evidence which was argued to him that would exonerate Dennington when examined forensically. When in fact he had the evidence returned to the owner and when they retrieved it for the purpose of examination by Dennington’s forensic expert, the SD card was wiped clean in a way that their own forensic testified would take a special type of program and extensive effort that a normal person would not have access to, essentially destroying exculpatory evidence as was the finding of the trial court of the actions of the department. Evidence “accidently” destroyed AFTER three attempts and the argument made that it was exonerating?
Seventh issue, during the arbitration, the passenger of the tow truck told a very different story than he initially told investigators. When he was questioned on the discrepancies he claimed that he was told what to say by his boss Daniel Morales. My question, one that according to the record was never asked by Dennington’s former attorney, how Morales knew what the questions were going to be? Oddly during Morales’s belligerent testimony, He and John (Yes he and Anderson are on a first name basis) had talked several times DURING the ONGOING investigation (Pretty unethical and illegal I might add) and how he assured him that Dennington would be held responsible. (Investigate to Terminate).
Eighth issue, John Anderson maintained authority and control over the case determining that the department should appeal the decision of the trial court, even after the sheriff was made aware of the corrupt actions of Anderson and Ford during the investigation and destruction of evidence. Anderson maintained this authority and control until he retired. I bet you won’t believe it, but he handed that control over to none other than Chief Ford……Hmmmm I wonder why.
Blogger’s Note – It should be noted that even after Dennington won his case in resounding fashion that Chief Ford and crew are administratively putting up roadblocks to Dennington returning to work or receiving his settlement in defiance of the court.
Ninth issue, Appellate court decision became final on 02/17/2018 upholding the trial court’s decision. The trial court granted the Writ of mandate reinstating Dennington, compensating him for lost wages and lost benefits, paying his attorney fees, and remanded the case back to the arbitrator for only determining proper punishment for the remaining allegation, which Dennington openly admitted to without hesitation, which is 8 hours according to the discipline matrix and past practices (Pretty sure this can be handled with a couple emails). Yet Dennington is not back to work or even on administrative leave. He has not been compensated for back wages or benefits. It has been 30days since the court’s decision has been final and un-appealable, yet the Department is blatantly not complying with the courts orders? Is it possible he (STAN SNIFF) doesn’t want to explain having to pay a huge sum of money to a deputy because he was aware of criminal acts committed by his Executive Staff and did nothing to remedy the situation so close to the election?
What about the Tow Truck company? Were they illegally towing cars to shake people down for money? Why did John Anderson care so much about Gabe Dennington pulling over a tow truck and arresting the occupants? Was John Anderson making money off the tow operation? Why did Stan Sniff allow the blatant corruption and conflicts of interest to exist?
Do you see the pattern? There are constants, the investigators try to trick those they are investigating in to talking without representation. In this case, it is likely that John Anderson coached witnesses to perjure themselves. (Btw, the trial judges said as much in their rulings)
Is Hook and Book towing a County Contractor? If so, why?
Chief Deputy Brandon Ford – already burnt to a crisp on this blog for campaigning on public time, should be fired and prosecuted for corruption. John Anderson should be brought out of retirement and the same done to him.
Meantime – in my opinion, due to Brandon Ford’s continued involvement in this case, the county is stonewalling complying with the writ of mandate from the 4th Circuit Court.
You will never see stories like this in the Riverside Press Enterprise, but I am happy to write them here. Have you been screwed over? Contact RightonDaily, tell your story, you can remain anonymous. Do you know about corruption in the department?, same thing, come forward and tell the story. You can remain anonymous.
P.S. My source(s) for this story do not include Gabe Dennington himself, as typical of the cover ups that have defined the Stan Sniff era, Mr. Dennington is under a Gag Order, which I believe County Admin is taking advantage of to try and defy the court’s ruling. This is still true as of the writing of this updated post in October of 2018.
Are you aware that Snodgrass was a Lt for RSO prior to becoming an attorney? Another Sniff butt boy
They tried to run Gabe’s name in the ground and he didn’t let them get away with it. If you have been done dirty don’t let administration get away with it. It shows what a strong person Gabe is six years SMH.
While I am at it that was a little bitch move you pulled yesterday.
It will take Sheriff Bianco YEARS to clear the department of corruption and the leftover litigation from Sniff’s tenure.
I contacted an attorney after I was basically forced to retire and he said because I voluntarily retired there was nothing I could do. The attorney represented all counties in Southern California but said he received the most calls for service from RSD He said “I don’t know what’s going over there but it isn’t good.”. So I guess administration knows if they can get you to retire you can’t come after them. Just a suggestion to all getting targeted by the administration and using attorneys from RSA, get a second opinion from an outside attorney before making any decisions.
John Anderson was a tyrant pice of shit. I recall numerous incidents where we clashed. As a matter of fact I recall one meeting this Joel Ontiveros ( his assistant) and John Anderson back then John Anderson was at least a 300 pounder. They both came into the meeting with some cocky attitude and hated being questioned the way they were operating the DUI Checkpoints and why only certain tow truck companies were being asked to participate. Rumors were that Sniff was collecting kick-backs from certain tow truck companies.
Joel Ontivero’s another 300 pounder seemed to be more pleasant then Anderson and eventually, Joel became captain of MV Station.
I am not going to justify what Dennington did, but what the second floor did was nothing less than criminal. Failure to book in evidence is insubordination, please. This was nothing more than retaliation at the highest levels of administration. Neglect of duty, yes, but not insubordination.
The second floor just uses this as an excuse to terminate people. Like Buck Vaughn and Brad Gardner would tell me, in the old days if you got into an on-duty traffic collision, you were charged with insubordination because you were told to “not get into an accident,” and to “not cause damage to county property.” But you were never fired for it.
So what about Kevin Vest and Aaron Kent cheating on the Lt.. exam, is that not insubordination? And what about Jason Gore, Robert Cornett and the others involved in the cheating scandal, is that not insubordination as well. And Tim Elwell sleeping with the Academy recruits and calling Craig Roberts the “N” Word, is that not insubordination? And Robert Rose, and Kevin Smith, are their actions not a form of insubordination as well? Christian Dekker and Marty Tochtrop, their actions are at a minimum borderline criminal, in addition to insubordination.
Same thing with Robert Epps, and what about Zach Hall and his indiscretions, they are tantamount to insubordination as well. And Jeff Kubel comprised his principles at Temecula, yet nothing happened to him. And the case against Vincent Brooks is falling apart because Steve Brosche failed to do his job as a supervisor, is that not insubordination, and let’s not forget Aaron Martin, his behavior is just as suspect as the rest of them. And Mike Manning dating a subordinate, that’s right up there as well. And Tyler Clark asked Ron Heim about the questions on the Captain’s test, that right there is a violation of insubordination against Tyler Clark because Tyler Clark knew better than to ask, but they give Tyler Clark a pass as they hammer Ron Heim.
Yet Sniff and the uncultured swine that sit at his table allow these offenses to go unpunished, as they retaliate against others for imagined sins. I hope they all rot in retirement.
Mr. Hestein, if this case alone does not give you enough cause to initiate a grand jury investigation of Stan Sniff and his executive staff, then pass this off to the AG or the Justice Department. This is corruption plain and simple, and Dennington is not the only victim in the Department that has suffered injustice at the hands of these self-serving opportunists on Lemon Street. How about we take notice from the Mark Bostrom rule of law, he is always trying to get a staff member prosecuted for theft of time from the department because they were not engaged in actual work when the alleged offense was committed. So I say they prosecute “Big” Jon Anderson and Daniel Morales for grand theft and conspiracy in denying Gabe Dennington the pay and benefits that he was entitled to due to malicious accusations of violation of department policy which caused his termination. He was entitled to work as a sworn deputy, and was acting within the scope of his employment when Jon Anderson and Daniel Morales conspired to take Dennington’s pay and benefits away from him in order to benefit Hook and Book towing. And what about witness tampering since Jon Anderson told Daniel Morales what to say on the witness stand instead of giving his own version of events. They should also charge Sgt. Larry Gyll as well as a co-conspirator because he was the investigating officer in the Dennington matter. They should all be wearing orange on the 7th floor for their malfeasance in this matter. The delinquents on the second floor deserve no less.
If the second floor is going to take that attitude in a legal proceeding in what they deem insubordination, we can add Steve Fredricks and Jon Wade to the offense of insubordination for the DUI cover up. But what kills me is that Jon Wade was always talking all kinds of junk about the department and how “The second floor hates me,” which was witnessed by multiple employees at Southwest. Yet they still reward Jon Wade with assignments in the detective bureau and SET. Way to go executive staff. And let’s not forget about Lt Kent Werges, his actions also amount to insubordination as well, in addition to being incompetent. You can always remedy the mindset to correct unruly behavior, but you can’t fix someone stuck on felony stupid, as Lt Worthless is. Now with Kurly toes and fat Bodnar, they are just incompetent, as compared to Tyler Clark who seeks to benefit at the misfortune of others, and they all deserve what they get come January. We can only hope Chad Bianco drains the Mo Val swamp after he cleans up the second floor.
I blame the fat Canadian (Ontiveros), for Kent Werges, Ontiveros had the opportunity to do something about Lt Worthless, but failed to act, which is another definition of incompetence and insubordination when Lt Werges cost the county half a million dollars iin unjustified overtime, and tried to put the blame on the Sergeants and corporal. The only reason Ontiveros never made Division Chief was because he was over 300 lbs. and the Undertaker DiYorio refused to give stars to someone who could barely walk and chew gum at the same time. And Ontiveros would eat so many peanuts that his office looked like the floor at the Texas Roadhouse restaurant with all the peanuts and trash in the room. And to add insult to injury, they had to order a special chair for Ontiveros that cost the taxpayers over $2,000 to support his weight. I knew a lot of large men that could still do the job, and carried themselves and their weight with dignity, but not Ontiveros. And fat Bodnar is on his way to becoming another Joel “can I get that burger triple stacked” Ontiveros.
You top dogs only have a few days now to publicly announce your support for “Bianco for Sheriff” after that, as you know, it will be too late for you. When Stanley looses, and he will, he is not going to give a shit what happpens to you. You know what he has done to everyone else. You know that everything said on this blog is true (nobody could make this much shit up). He is a self-centered rat that cares nothing for anyone but himself.
Wise up.
John Anderson was a piece of work, in many ways, he had his favorites, and everyone else was on their own. The only person he cared about was himself, and when someone was getting treated unfairly he would say,”No system is perfect” and would still allow the staff member to get screwed by the Department. He was anything but competent, and was easily manipulated, which is why he was promoted to the second floor. So no one should be surprised when he violated Dennington’s rights, or the law for that matter because Anderson felt he was entitled to protection because he was,”In the club” and could act with impunity. With fat boy Ontiveros, he was his own worst enemy, I was at BCTC and Ontiveros had a hard time walking up the stairs to the trailer for a meeting. He was an embarrassment, after that Ontiveros and Anderson went to the Green Onion in Mo Val for lunch, and you can bet they did not get the lunch special either.
87 the Swing: FYI, they can’t prosecute Danny Morales… The guy passed away in 2014…
https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/colton-ca/daniel-morales-6204080
Daniel “Danny” Morales Obituary – Colton, CA
Daniel “Danny” Morales, 49 years old of Barstow, California, passed away on Monday, November 17, 2014 at Arrowhead Regional Medical Center in Colton, California. He was born on November 21, 1964 in Los Angeles, California to Eva and Daniel Salcido.. He is survived by his wife, Stacey and children, Shasta, Alexis, Brandon Morales, Christopher, Crystal and Heather Salcido. His parents, Daniel and Eva Salcido, brother, Jeffrey Salcido, sisters, Trina Aviles, Rosemary Martinez and Lucy Enriquez. Also, his 6 grandchildren. Danny was self employed tow truck driver for over 20 years.
Visitation will be held on Monday, November 24, 2014, 4-8 p.m., and Funeral Service on Tuesday, November 25, 2014, 1 p.m., both at Montecito Valley View Chapel, 3520 E. Washington St., Colton, California, with burial to follow.
Danny will be dearly missed by his family and many friends.
Bearclaws and 2 Moreno 83, I hear you. I have witnessed how Anderson’s overweight would cause him a ” Culo ” rash to the point where he literally needed Desitin ointment for his underwear rash. In regards to Ontiveros, he was pleasant, but if you got him in a bad mood, he was an ass. I recall one time I encountered him and his family at the movies… Ontiveros is very frugal with his finances. So his family of four, ordered one large bucket of popcorn and one large drink both with FREE REFILLS and yup, that large popcorn and large drink seemed to go around like conveyor belt. His seemed to go back and forth about wanting a hot dog but he protested the $ 6.50 price, so she had to settle for the large bucket of popcorn.
Fat boy one (Anderson), and fat boy two (Ontiveros) were fearful of critical thinkers because they were a threat to their command, although Ontiveros was a lot smarter than Anderson, who displayed no attributes to hold a command. And they screwed good people over to promote the tools they could manipulate, hence the free thinkers got bent over by these two because they had the skills and abilities that their selections for promotions did not have. So they deserve whatever consequences that come from their felonious behavior.
Don’t forget about this LYING, worthless piece of trash and his sorry ass acting:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pI8y8k8q-Ps&feature=youtu.be