Guests - Nils Grevillius P.I., Tara Maldonado Oster, Betsy Smith, Mary Ann Mendoza

Private Investigator Nils Grevillius Discusses Recent Crimes and Criminal Enterprises

Minnesota Democrat State Lawmaker Assassination

The assassination of Minnesota Democrat state lawmaker Melissa Hortman and her husband has shocked the nation. Private investigator Nils Grevillius, who conducts investigations without regard to borders, shared his insights on the tragic event.

"I think that there's more information that needs to come out," Grevillius explained. "There were certainly political aspects to what Bolter has done. But when I look at his history in employment and school and family, up until a few weeks ago, he was seemingly fairly stable with no prior history of irrational aggression, no criminal record of any kind."

Grevillius noted the unusual nature of the suspect's communications, including "no-king" flyers in his auto and a letter addressed to Kash Patel suggesting that Governor Walz "may have ordered him to assassinate Ms. Hortman and her husband and other people."

"I think he had a break with reality. I think he went psychotic. He's clearly not dealing rationally. And because it is sudden in his mid-50s, I'm going to offer a possibility here - this may be cannabis psychosis," Grevillius suggested.

He explained that in his professional experience, he's encountered multiple cases of seemingly normal people who over-indulged in high-grade cannabis and lapsed into paranoid schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder, where "they see things that aren't there, they interpret friends as enemies, and operate in a bizarre fashion."

When asked about regulation of cannabis dispensaries, Grevillius was direct: "It's impossible to regulate. It's not a reaction that every cannabis user has, and cannabis distribution is still handled by organized crime. They just hire legitimate front men to front for them and they use their legitimate business to masquerade their bootleg business."

"The boutique cannabis places in Los Angeles and Boulder and Denver are just fronts for illegal narcotics distribution, that's all," he added.

Missing Persons and Criminal Enterprises

Grevillius shared disturbing statistics about missing persons cases in Humboldt County, California, an area known for cannabis cultivation:

"Humboldt County is sparsely populated, yet it accounts for almost 60% of California's unsolved missing persons cases. Young people go from all over the world up to the Emerald Triangle in Humboldt County to participate in the harvest and processing of the cannabis crop, and many of them go missing."

The statistics are staggering: "717 people missing per 100,000 of population, which is an incredibly high ratio. In 2024, in Humboldt County, 244 children were reported missing, 238 adults were reported missing."

"It's extraordinary for the tiny size of that county in terms of population. And it's entirely attributable to the cannabis trade," Grevillius explained.

Grevillius recounted a personal experience searching for a missing person in Santa Cruz County: "Me and Bob Ferris, a private detective from San Jose, hiked further and further into the woods, the Muir woods, and eventually found skeletal remains."

After a year and a half waiting for DNA processing, they discovered it wasn't the person they were looking for. "It was another guy dumped on Highway 17, and the Santa Cruz County Sheriff told me at the time that they get 20 body dumps along Highway 17 every single year as a result of the cannabis trade."

Washington State Tragedy: Three Children Murdered

Grevillius also discussed a recent case in Washington State where three young girls were murdered by their father.

"I'm going to say that man is a psychopath, and he has probably gone into the woods to kill himself. He's too young to have the kind of connection someone would have to have to flee the country successfully. He's too disordered to live off of the land," Grevillius assessed.

"Guys like that commit suicide because they can't suffer imprisonment with real men," he added.

The mother had "reluctantly hand[ed] the children over to him for visitation, even though he had a long history of violence, substance abuse, disorder, homelessness, and really didn't have anywhere to take his daughters. He was living in the park or his vehicle contemporaneous with the visitation."

Grevillius criticized the court that allowed the visitation: "This is classic, classic low-rung psychopath. He was unsuccessful in the military. He was utterly rudderless in life, and the judge who voted the visitation ought to be pulled from the bench."

Grevillius's Background as a Private Investigator

Grevillius shared his path to becoming a private investigator: "I started out as a counterintelligence man educated at Wachuka here in Arizona. I'd already done a couple of tours in Korea as a scout in the infantry, and then got out and was working for the Pinkerton's and doing other work, and wound up with my own license as of '92."

"I've been continuously licensed ever since. I've also been licensed in Canada and South Africa, and Oregon, and Iowa. I've worked all over the world," he added.

When asked what brought him to this line of work, Grevillius was candid: "I'm always the square peg in the round hole. I wasn't a great soldier. I did okay, I guess. I did two enlistments, seven years active duty. When I got out, I was thinking of becoming a cop, and I just saw that all they do is, they have to take orders from the suits, and I just couldn't do it. I'd be bored out of my mind, and I'd be a hand grenade when I'm bored, so it's better that I found my way to this."

Grevillius described his work with the Pinkerton agency: "I was a Pinkerton agent for a good stint and I'm pleased to have it on my resume. Those were some of my best years. There were a couple of times where I had to deliver a large amount of American currency and pound sterling to ships in the harbor."

"You're in your 20s, you're strapped down with a couple of guns in plain clothes. You've got a canvas bag that's not marked as a money satchel and you're driving through one of the wildest cities in North America with all that money and your job is to get it down to the harbor. That's a simple courier job as a Pinkerton agent."

Current Law Enforcement Challenges

Grevillius highlighted issues with current law enforcement resources: "Every day of the week, somebody comes to me with a problem and it's not that I'm their first resort, I'm their last resort. A business will call the police and say we have an embezzlement issue over here and the police will say, we're a little busy. Call someone else or they'll say, sounds like a civil problem to us."

"Los Angeles Police Department has a pretty good financial crimes bureau. They have at least a four year backlog on felony cases and they won't even take a misdemeanor case. And the threshold is $100,000. They won't even work a case unless and until you've been victimized over $100,000."

Grevillius offered a blunt assessment of government agencies: "Our civic agencies and institutions have largely become daycare for people who couldn't otherwise work. So they get a garbage meaningless degree from a state funded hole factory, as Bill Maugh said. And they'll retire at 55 with 90% of their highest salary until the day they go to room temperature. And they don't solve problems. They move paper around and can touch the Zoom meetings and have pride month round the clock and things like that. They're not making life better for anyone other than themselves."

Recent California Fires

When asked about recent fires in California, Gravelius provided his assessment: "The Eaton fire, which burned down Altadena, was probably started by power utilities, poor maintenance of equipment. They have no incentives to upgrade their equipment and they're dialed into the power structure. They're big donors to Bunko Cherry and Gavin Newsom."

He criticized the response to the fires: "There were empty reservoirs, fire hydrants without water, firemen idled for a lack of resources to fight the fire. They had elevated somebody to fire chief as in a DEI situation because she was a lesbian. And then that person and the mayor had a big cat fight afterwards with one blaming the other. Nobody takes responsibility for anything."

Deadly Ambush of Firefighters in Idaho

Firefighters Targeted in Coeur d'Alene

A shocking incident unfolded in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, where firefighters responding to a brush fire were ambushed by a sniper, resulting in the deaths of two battalion chiefs and serious injury to a third firefighter.

Betsy Smith, a law enforcement expert, explained what happened: "They got a call of a brush fire. So yes, afternoon. And so of course they responded, start to set up to fight this brush fire because as we know here in Arizona, these fires devolve quickly into consuming thousands of acres. Once they arrived, the first two firefighters arriving arrived in pickup trucks. The third arrived in a tanker truck. And the first two firefighters took gunfire."

Smith emphasized how unexpected this attack was for firefighters: "When you're a firefighter, I was a cop for 29 years. I'm used to having people shoot at me. Firefighters, especially rural firefighters, this is not what they expect."

The firefighter who called dispatch reported: "There's two battalion chiefs down. Right now, there's an active shooter zone. Everybody's shot up here. We need law enforcement up here immediately. We could possibly get the two wounded out. I'm pinned down behind battalion one's rig. It is clear to me that the fire was set intentionally to draw us in."

Smith confirmed this assessment: "The sheriff said this absolutely was a fire set to draw in, not just law enforcement, but to draw in firefighters, to draw in first responders. And it's just extraordinary that these firefighters lost their lives before they even got out of their vehicles and they were running toward the flames. That's what fire, we run toward the shots. Firefighters run toward the flames."

Law Enforcement Response and Public Support

A massive law enforcement response followed the ambush. Smith noted the importance of military equipment that was used: "You saw again this massive local and federal law enforcement response. And one of the things that we saw were law enforcement officers bringing in heavy, militarized, if you will, equipment, bear cats and other pieces of equipment."

Smith credited President Trump for making this equipment available: "President Trump, after he took office, one of the first things he did was sign an executive order reversing the Biden administration's denial to law enforcement agencies around this country of used military equipment."

The community showed strong support during the procession of the fallen firefighters: "People came out just regular citizens in droves holding American flags, saluting as the ambulances and the firefighter apparatus and the police cars went by. It was just an extraordinary display of respect and patriotism."

Smith noted that this tragedy is part of a larger pattern of violence against first responders: "We had six police officers shot in this country this week in four different ambush attacks, two of them fatally too. So everybody please keep law enforcement and our firefighter paramedics in your prayers."

Justice for Angel Families Act

Mary Ann Mendoza Advocates for Victims of Crimes by Illegal Immigrants

Mary Ann Mendoza, whose son Brandon Mendoza was killed by an illegal immigrant while serving as a Mesa police officer, joined the program to discuss recent legislative developments. Last week, Congressman Andy Biggs introduced HR875, the Jeremy and Angel Say and Sergeant Brandon Mendoza Protect Our Communities from DUI's Act of 2025, which passed with 209 Republicans and 37 Democrats supporting.

"This bill is, I mean, it's kind of crazy that we even have to have this sort of a bill," Mendoza explained. "But what this bill does is if you are an illegal and you have a prior DUI on your record or you are charged with a DUI, you become inadmissible and deportable."

Mendoza shared her personal tragedy: "My son was killed by a drunk illegal in 2014, three times illegal illegal drunk." The driver had traveled 30 miles the wrong way before colliding with Brandon.

Justice for Angel Families Act

Mendoza is now advocating for another bill, the Justice for Angel Families Act: "The United States spends about $455 billion a year on illegals to be in our country. And yet they do nothing and provide nothing for victims of the illegal crime in our country."

"This would be a fund that would be set aside at a federal and then at a state level to assist with funeral costs, with medical costs, with counseling costs," Mendoza explained.

The legislation would amend the Crime Victims Fund to expand financial support to Angel Families, which it currently does not do.

Mendoza emphasized the critical need for this support: "A lot of these Angel Families end up having to cremate their loved ones because they are not prepared to lose a child at the hands of an illegal criminal like this, and they have unexpected funeral costs, and they have to cremate their loved ones because they can't afford a burial plot, a coffin, you know, the traditional funeral."

Voice Office for Victims

Mendoza also discussed the history of the Voice Office for victims of crimes by illegal immigrants: "Back when President Trump was in his first administration, Tom Holman was at ICE, Barbara Gonzalez, she was a great woman, great advocate for us, and we met with them and they created the voice office."

This office allowed victims to "get a status update of where the illegal perpetrator was in the justice system, what facility they were being held in, release date, confirm that ICE had a detainer on them and would deport them when they came out of prison or jail."

According to Mendoza, the Biden administration repurposed this office: "When Biden came in and Majorcas took it upon himself to turn it into a hotline for illegals who had been trafficked."

The Department of Homeland Security under Secretary Kristi Noem reopened the Voice Office in April of this year. The proposed Justice for Angel Families Act would require this office to stay open regardless of which administration is in power.

Mendoza urged listeners to advocate for the bill: "We need those phone calls to be made because we need this moved out of committees. We don't need it languishing there. We don't need it just shoved aside."

"I'll be doing this until the last breath I draw on this earth. I'll be fighting for my son and his memory," Mendoza concluded.

4th of July Celebration in Tucson

The program also promoted an upcoming 4th of July celebration at Udall Park in Tucson. Tara Oster shared details: "We are having a Fourth of July celebration. Charles Heller has been reading the Declaration of Independence. This will be his 27th year leading it, and it's a public reading."

The event will include a gathering at 8:30 AM with a 9:00 AM start time for the reading, followed by a flag wave on Tanque Verde and a barbecue with city council candidates. The Pima GOP will have a tent for voter registration and election information.

"This is the lead up to the 250th birthday of our great nation next year. So this is just a kickoff," Oster noted.