Honestly, we didn't think it was possible for a story about a Maricopa County Supervisor's wife allegedly carrying out a sexual relationship with a 14-year-old boy to get any more strange. But today it did, and now includes code-talking with one of her gal pals about destroying evidence.
If you're unfamiliar with the case of Susan Brock, who was recently hit with divorce papers from her Maricopa County Supervisor hubby, Fulton Brock, click here.
A friend of Brock's was arrested yesterday after police say she tried to destroy evidence in Brock's child molestation case.
Christian Hart Weems has been hit with five felony counts including
hindering prosecution, tampering with evidence, and obstruction of a
criminal investigation for allegedly trying to destroy emails stored in
Brock's alleged victim's email account.
According to court documents obtained by New Times,
Brock and the victim would often coordinate meeting times by writing
drafts of emails and saving them in the victim's email account. Brock
had access to the account and could check messages left by the victim
and leave her own for him.
Because the emails were only drafts, they were
never sent and wouldn't appear in the victim's "sent box." Court docs
state Brock told the victim to do it this way to avoid being detected by
his parents.
On November 2, after Weems had visited Brock in
jail, Brock called her from the clink and the two had a conversation
where Weems seems tries get Brock to tell her some sort of password
using code-talk about a trip the two on to California.
"I have a
question," Weems said to Brock during the conversation, "do you remember
when you and I went to California and when we went to that, that, you
and I and all the girls we went to the beach house and you had to have a
password to get in the gate, do you remember what that is?"
At first, Brock seemed confused by the question, but later, after some hints from Weems, seemed to figure it out.
Brock
then rattled off a password -- supposedly to get into a gate at beach
house in California -- which happened to be the same password to the
victim's email account.
Chandler Sergeant Joe Favazzo tells New Times
it's unlikely Weems knew about the molestation prior to Brock's arrest,
but says the two saw each other at the jail prior to the phone
conversation about the password.
It seems Brock told Weems about
the email account and password in a prior conversation. Being a good
friend, Weems, it appears, was going to delete some incriminating emails
stored in the boy's account.
After Weems had the password, she
told Brock "thank you, um OK so thank you, I need that in order to take
care of some things and be able to get into it, so thank you."
Weems was released on her own recognizance. She is due back in court on January 12.
It's unclear, Favazzo says, whether Brock will be charged with any crimes in regards to tampering with evidence.
