Special April Fools' Day Report: FBI SWAT Team Raids Mesa City Hall

In the light of the Full Moon today on Easter Sunday, one of the holiest days of the year, a special SWAT team staged a surprise early pre-dawn raid inside City Hall, a former bank building that's now, according to suspicions, the seat of power for a generations-old corrupt group of 'friends-and-families' that have operated much like an East Valley version of the Sicily-based Mafia originating on The East Coast.

Though rumors and innuendoes have been rampant for more years than most people care to remember or conveniently choose to ignore, multiple reports and a recent series of UFOs hovering in the skies over the deserted central business district, raised alarms with certain citizens who have stayed woke and vigilant wondering what's going on in their community after years of feeling 'not engaged'.
However, some newer arrivals, labeled as 'Trouble-Makers' and "Rabble-Rousers' by insiders in the entrenched political machine operating here for more than 140 years, did take notice and stayed on the alert for things appearing on their radar screens after a few clues to take a closer look.

Some of the evidence reportedly seized in today's under-cover raid up the steps inside City Hall were shown in this image seen to the left. What they are exactly is a mystery only known to a few who are maintaining their silence, although they appear to be special pure white garments worn by just a few of the minority population for closed-to-the-public religious ceremonies conducted at a local temple, the first built outside of Salt Lake City in the latter 1920's.

Other  uncorroborated evidence confiscated in the raid on City Hall included these infrared images taken by a UAV drone of the meeting houses built in stakes and wards of master-planned communities that serve as the bases of political operations for collecting a form of taxation from The Middle Ages called tithing, where 10-15% of the gross incomes for individual and families supports the faith and political activities of many of the followers. 

Readers of this blog may be shocked by these revelations on April Fools' Day. 
Something more fundamental that could open the curtains of what's been hidden in plain sight for far too long here in the East Valley, was written about very recently in early March when AP reporter Brady McCombs* had this to say about consequences in the aftermath and upheaval of a joint Department of Justice and FBI investigation on the Arizona-Utah border that busted up local government run by an LDS sect that had controlled the town for more than a century.
If that sounds way too familiar, it might a clue to too many coincidences of one kind or another here . . .
The group has run the sister cities of Hildale, Utah, and Colorado City, Arizona, for more than a century and had total control of town governments until November's elections.

This is not a convenient fiction on this site for April Fools' Day with real day realities reminding us that the current mayor of Mesa shown in the image to the right (Photo credit to local photographer Ivan Martinez) is the 40th in the LDS line of political succession, with few exceptions, than has run this city for more than 140 years.
Like Hildale, what was to become the City of Mesa was settled by 'Pioneers' sent from Salt Lake City, into the Salt River Valley to expand what they called The Kingdom of Deseret or "The Bee Hive" in The New Zion.
Most municipal workers quit in Utah polygamous sect town

Brady Mccombs, Associated Press

Updated 5:00 pm, Thursday, March 8, 2018 

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The new mayor of a mostly polygamous town on the Utah-Arizona border is finishing off a complete overhaul of municipal staff and boards after mass resignations when she took office in January to become the first woman and first non-member of the polygamous sect to hold the seat. . . Six of the seven Hildale, Utah, town workers quit after Mayor Donia Jessop was elected . . . They were joined by nine members of various town boards, including utility board chairman Jacob N. Jessop. All were members of the sect, the mayor said.

PLEASE TAKE NOTE OF THIS STATEMENT: Jacob Jessop said his religious beliefs prevented him from working for a woman and with people who are not sect members, according to resignation letters obtained Thursday by The Associated Press through a public records request. The mayor's husband is distantly related to Jessop in the town of about 3,000 people where many have that last name.

"It has come to a point where I have to choose between my religion and participation in city government, and I choose my religion," he wrote in his letter dated Jan. 25. "My religion teaches me that I should not follow a woman for a leader in a public or family capacity."
. . . The new town leadership is the latest sign that the community's demographics are shifting as it begins to resemble a typical town in the U.S. West, not a cloistered religious community. . . The town government and police are being watched closely by court-appointed monitors after a jury found them guilty of civil rights violations. . . More changes could be coming . . . Later this year, elections in the sister city of Colorado City, Arizona, could bring in outsiders, including to the mayor's seat. . .
Donia Jessop said she has filled the positions that include town recorder, clerk and treasurer . . New hires should help the community, said Jared Nicol, a new town council member, . .
"It's going to ensure that everybody in the city is being considered and represented,"
he said.
LINK > https://www.chron.com/news
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* Your MesaZoner blogger met Brady McCombs one day in Kino Springs, Nogales, Arizona a few years ago while he was reporting on the construction of surveillance towers and border issues for the Arizona Daily Star
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How close will the mysterious undercover "Sting" get to smoking-out and busting up the industrious hive of bees here?

Who Knows? .... Time will tell, if the  story from Hilldale, Utah might be testimony and a lesson-to-be-learned.