I have been getting alot of odd calls. It started last year when the LAFD was taking photos of me on my deck. They could be heard on the scanner saying, "Let's drop down and give _____ a call" and my phone would ring within a minute. The calls stopped for awhile, but they have started up again. I'm assuming that they are using VOIP so as not to be traced. Calls today came from 888-507-4324 and 877-223-0632. Below is some of the harrassment documented over the past year.

I am writing this in the attempts that it will be forwarded to the proper department within the re-election campaign. It is my hope that Gov. Schwartzenneger will be re-elected and finally put an end to far reaching corruption with the LAPD and the LAFD. Below is an email that has been sent to the LA City Council's office.

I've attempted to reach you for several months now about an issue involving the Los Angeles City Fire Department and Los Angeles Police Department (Air Support Division) and the Rampart Division of the Los Angeles Police Department.

I am writing to at the suggestion of the Duty Officer at the local FAA office here in Los Angeles. Please bare with me, as this is a rather long story. I’ve tried to keep it as brief as possible, but given the fact that this has been going on for an entire year, I felt the need to give you as much information as I could initially.



I should preface this letter by telling you that I have to take responsibility for my actions as described below. Of course you run a certain risk of exposure, but it has gone so far beyond that, it's ridiculous!! My feelings have run the gamut from being hurt, angry, scared and finally resolved to ending this.



Last summer I began listening to our scanner. I became extremely familiar with the voices of the LAPD helicopter pilots, the LAFD pilots and the traffic Cessnas that circle the city. I had not realized that there was so much air support to the city. It made me feel safer having them in the air. My husband and I moved into an area of Downtown that was presented to us at the time as very safe by the building owner.



My husband and I discussed for several weeks the idea of taking a basket of cookies and brownies that I had made over to the Hooper Heliport to thank them for all of the hard work that they do. The problems started a few days later. I was getting ready for my wedding this summer by tanning topless and that’s why I always had the scanner on, to keep track of the helicopters. A few weeks later an LAPD helicopter flew over very low and said into the scanner "I GOT’ EM" and his tail number matched the person on the scanner, Police 11.



As the summer progressed, I would look up and see a white helicopter very high up, which I assumed was the LAPD. It wasn’t until the black outs this summer that I finally realize that it had been the LAFD that was up very high. They literally flew right up to my deck and hovered for several minutes, extremely low, waiving.



Given the conversations that I overheard, I believe that the LA Fire Department helicopters took photographs of me on my deck, partially naked. I also believe that it is possible that they circulated photographs of my husband and I being intimate on our enclosed deck. I feel this way because there is NO line of sight onto our deck except from the sky. We have a bamboo fence that conceals our deck, unless you are in the air. I've had people that I don’t know walk up to me on the street, come into the shop that I was working in and stores making specific comments to me, calling me by name and mentioning my personal grooming habits. I actually called the Legal Department of the local Rite Aid across the street from my building about their security guard that also works in our building, because of the comments that he made to me. I do have the lawyers name documented here somewhere, but I was afraid to even leave my name for fear of retaliation by the security guard. I bring this up because every time that I walked into that store a Los Angeles Fire Department Paramedic would walk in directly after me. The security guard walked right up to me and stopped and said “Danice, I love the way that you shave” and then looked directly at my groin area and winked. I immediately came home and called my building manager, Nemecio Cervantez and explained how scared that I was.



When my husband bought me a toe ring with a cat on it, pilots started to "meow" on the scanner that we have. The Hooper heliport dispatcher was heard saying "get me a color report" right after that the color of the nightgown that I was wearing was broadcast on the scanner! There were many comments made on the scanner such as, "Danice the porn star" there was a captain that said "I'm embarrassed to admit it, but I'm going to fly over and see the jellyfish for myself" and the other pilot answered by saying "you have to get close they're small, but nice" immediately after that an LAPD helicopter was over my deck. Other LAPD pilots were heard saying "I’m bored, let’s go play with strawberry girl" while I was wearing a nightgown with strawberries on the cups, "let’s drop down and give Danice a call" and with in moments my phone would ring. (We do have a log of calls). I would walk across the street to Rite Aid and then the store would start paging Danice. I called their Corporate Office and they informed me that there was no one that works in that store by that name.



We have had the same number for two years with no problems, but suddenly we began to receive numerous prank phone calls. We have the numbers of most of the callers. We had to get new cell phone numbers after getting a brand new account because men were calling and meowing. I did start a file with Cingular about all the harassing calls. Sometimes they would call and specifically ask for “LIZA”. While we were in the midst of putting together wedding music one of our favorites that we discussed was “LIZA” (this will become more significant later in this letter).



My husband had to go to Cedars emergency room on Oct 7 because of a kidney stone attack. I flew down Wilshire from Downtown and passed several police cruisers who obviously saw me speeding and they didn't stop me. When we arrived at Cedars, I tried to get my husband out of the car while two police officers sat in their car literally right next to us and laughed. My husband checked in under his first name, but when we were in the actual hospital room that he was assigned in the ER, there were several nurses talking to two Los Angeles City Fire Department Paramedics around the center console laughing, pointing to his room and saying "Danice and Brian are here from 6th & Burlington".



I have had what I believe to be fire department employees continue to come into the extremely high end antique store where I was working and repeat specific conversations that I either had on my cell phone or with my husband at home. The helicopters (both police and fire dept) circle and fly directly over our unit on top of building ALL the time (we have footage). They fly directly over us and then turn and go in another direction. There are Fire Department Ambulances that go up and down our street with their sirens on and then turn them off immediately after passing our building. I realize that we are very close to a hospital, but I’ve seen them literally circle the block with their sirens on, specifically on September 11th of this year. The y even hesitated between buildings on Union, waived and then continued up and around the block again. I have been followed into restaurants, grocery stores, hair salons, gardening stores and music stores by Fire Department employees in uniform. When I've been out with friends, there have been men that have followed us into stores, so I began to test it. I would ask them which picture was their favorite and they would either turn beet red or in some cases actually drop things that they were holding.



I’ve tried handling all of this in many different ways. I’ve left humorous notes on my deck, I tried being humorous, nasty and confrontational but nothing has worked...it just doesn't stop. I even tried emailing the SGT at Hooper heliport and calling there. When I did call to report a channel 5’s news helicopter and a Cessna that were flying extremely low over our deck at 5:00 A. M., I was initially told that the LAPD was not responsible for Cessna traffic, and that I should contact the Fire Department and the Sheriff’s Office. I thought that I was being given the run around, so I wasn’t very nice to the Watch Commander that I spoke with. I thought about it f or a bit and after getting my husband off to work I called back to apologize to the Watch Commander for being abrupt, but I was told by Officer Dyer that because of a shift change that I was not able to speak with him.



Officer Dyer then presented himself to me as THE WATCH COMMANDER. He seemed to be friendly at first, asking where my husband worked, what time he got up and when he left for work. I answered all of these questions honestly, not thinking twice about it. We discussed the fact that I had heard the name of the pilot and her call sign and that I was going to report it to the FAA. I also told him that I had heard Desiree Horton (Channel 5 pilot) at the same time saying things to Grace (the Cessna pilot) and then she flew over our deck extremely low as well and that I was going to report her to the head of Warner Brothers, her employer (I did call the WB and spoke with the Human Resources Department). Then Officer D yer asked if I was sure that they were not just looking at the 101 traffic, which is quite a distance from my building. I had left a note on my deck for the pilots the weekend before because we had seen a small white dot (a helicopter) above our deck after we had had been intimate on the deck. My husband assured me that they were not there for us….they must have been doing surveillance for the gangs in the area. Later that evening I heard the pilots asking each other if they had seen “ANYTHING ELSE THAT THEY WERE NOT SUPPOSED TO SEE SOUTH OF DODGER’S STADIUM”. I still didn’t know what was going on, so I made a sign “Week End Voyeur Daddy”. When Officer Craig Dyer asked me if I thought that maybe she was just another voyeur? I answered back, “I don’t care what you have been taking pictures of or videotaping, I just want you to make sure that your pilots stay above their 1,000 ceiling and stop waking us up. I then asked his name and he shouted “ D__Y__E__R”, I thanked him and hung up.



Immediately after that every pilot started using their first names, which hadn’t been their normal protocol that I had heard. I kept the scanner by me so that I was able to track where they were and quickly cover up if need be.



These people that I’ve mentioned are all colleagues, and I seem to have made them very angry by reporting them. But these two female pilots were in direct violation of FAA rules that state that they have a 1,000 foot ceiling.



When we first moved downtown, we began to notice an elderly homeless man and would give him small amounts of cash or clothing. My husband gave him his business card with all of our contact numbers, and then we started receiving calls from a man claiming his name was Fabreese, around Labor Day weekend. I now believe that this man was a Fire Department employee. It should be very easy to check with our phone logs.



A call came to our home from a man named JR Stewart claiming that he was a "friend" of the homeless man and that he had been attacked (which I do believe happened) and he needed money for medicine. So we called the local Rampart station to check on the validity of the homeless man's story, but they were extremely rude to me. I did make a lot of calls to every homeless shelter on LASA.ORG’s website around the area to find shelter for this man, but to no avail. However, I was able to speak with the people at St. Vincent's Hospital and they offered to deliver food to him three times a day through their Meals on Wheels program. I called JR Stewart back to let him know about the delivery and was told that the homeless man been taken to Good Samaritan because of a relapse.



I phoned there to see if he was alright, at the urging of JR Stewart. Then we started getting phone calls from people at Good Samaritan hospital claiming to be doctors that were not even on duty at that time. The woman at St. Vincent’s suggested that I call the social worker handling his case, stating that the more people that mentioned his name, the more apt they were to act on it. So I did call and speak with the head social worker there, Martha (forgot last name, but I have it documented somewhere here). She made an odd comment to me about "how nice I was and that the ENTIRE department would love to meet me". It was the tone of the comment more than the actual words. I called the CEO of th e hospital after the DR? calls and had an odd conversation with her and mentioned that "if people would just do the jobs that they were hired to do, and put as much effort into helping Poppa Tony (the homeless man) as they were putting into reaching me, that he might actually receive the assistance that he needed.” Those exact words were repeated to me at Cedars Hospital by a nurse when I thanked her for helping my husband.



I believe that it is possible that some of our phone calls have been intercepted. My husband purchased a device to detect eavesdropping and bugging within our home and we have it on video that while we were using our home and cells phones, it was activated.



There is just so much more that I could tell you…..the list goes on and on. I hope that there is something that you can do to help us. I will of course leave you my contact information below, but recently I’ve been told by my building manager that when he calls my cell phone, it’s disconnected. There have been times that my husband could only reach me via email because my cell phone would not ring when he called, nor would the house phone.



I’ve contacted the city about filing a Civil Grand Jury complaint, but after speaking with the Duty Officer from the local FAA office this morning I decided to contact you. He thought that I was on the right track, but that I should let my local councilmen know about the situation.



I’ve also been in touch with the Legal Department of NBC Universal in NYC. My next step is to contact Internal Affairs if this can not be resolved.



Any assistance or suggestions that you can offer would be greatly appreciated.