Awa: I was targeted by corrupt cops because I refused to go along with illegal activities • By Troy Torres
Normally, when the federal court unseals documents in a criminal case – such as the warrant Homeland Security Investigations got to search Brian Awa’s cell phone on suspicion of drug trafficking – it is an indication federal law enforcement no longer needs to keep secret its investigation into a person. What almost always follows is a criminal indictment in federal court.
Following the November 16, 2023 unsealing of three warrants that targeted Mr. Awa, no criminal court cases against him in the U.S. District Court of Guam have been made public. And that’s because Mr. Awa has not been indicted, according to him in an exclusive interview with Kandit.
“There’s no court case against me,” Mr. Awa confirmed, “and no federal agent has even tried to interview me about this.”
And while federal agents have been investigating the Guam Police Department officer since late 2019, Mr. Awa said this story goes back to 2016, when Adelup – he says – directed GPD’s top brass to get rid of Awa.
“First of all, I’m not a drug user and I’m not a drug dealer,” Mr. Awa said. “All of this is a culmination of events that started back during the Mandana days when I said no to all of the bad things happening then.”
Mr. Awa said he originally was recruited to be part of the Mandana Drug Task Force when it was created by Ray Tenorio who then was lieutenant governor and had oversight of GPD. “They needed me because I was the K-9 handler of a drug-detection dog,” he said…
