I told her AFOS. I estimated within 72 hours. She said, "Dad, tomorrow is Thursday. I will be on this porch with you tomorrow morning." I told her, "Yes."
Wednesday morning at 0700, the federal grand jury in the District of Wyoming returned a sealed indictment against Brian Pendergast, Sentinel Ridge Properties LLC, and three individual principles of the development company. The indictment included 19 federal counts spanning honest services fraud, conspiracy to defraud the United States under title 18 USC 371, fraud against the Air Force BAH program, and false statements under title 18 USC 10001. The indictment was sealed pending the Predicate Act AFOS I had been waiting for. By Wednesday at noon, every federal investigator and every Air Force investigator involved had been briefed on the expected Thursday morning predicate. By Wednesday evening, FE Warren, Security Forces Squadron Commander, Lieutenant Colonel Octavia Peton, had been briefed.
The two defenders most likely to be dispatched to the Callaway Ranch on Thursday morning, Senior Airman Saxon Otterstead and Senior Airman Meta Halverson, had not been briefed. The authentic response was the point. Wednesday night, I sat on the porch with Mire Enz and my father. My father was lucid for the entire 2 hours. He told stories about Korea.
He told stories about his first Air Force command in 1971. He told stories about the morning in March of 1989 when he had paved the first half mile of Saddle Ridge Road with his own bulldo. He recognized everyone. He recognized himself. At 2100, he turned to me.
He said, "Whitley, tomorrow morning. You make me proud." Thursday morning at 0600, Brian Pendergas called Cheyenne Police Dispatch one final time. The call was routed through the Laram County Combined Communications Center. The dispatcher was a 34year-old woman named Hazel Bridgewwater.
She had answered every prior Briany Pendergast call about the Callaway F250 since November. She knew the address. She knew the complaint. She knew the response. Civil matter.
No police merit. She told Brian politely that Cheyenne PD would not be responding to any further calls regarding the 2009 Ford F-250 at the Callaway Ranch on Saddle Ridge Road. She told Brian again politely that the matter was civil and that Mrs. Pendergast was welcome to pursue any legal remedy through the Laram County District Court. She told Briany a third time that any further calls on this matter would be logged as harassment. Brian Pendergast hung up on Hazel Bridgewater at 0612.
At 0615, Brian Pendergast called FE Warren Air Force Base Security Forces non-emergency dispatch. The dispatcher was a 26-year-old senior airman named Casima Solano, who had been working the FE Warren Defender Dispatch Desk for 3 years. The call was recorded. The recording would 3 weeks later become government exhibit 17 in the federal trial of Brian Pendergast. Brian Pendergast identified herself as the wife of Lieutenant Colonel Pearson Pendergast, the president of the Sentinel Ridge Estates HOA, and a longtime supporter of the FE Warren military community.