Goyeneche: Cantrell's cell phone could be key to the case

Could Mayor Latoya Cantrell have put herself in trouble by thinking her phone was somehow secure from having messages and other data extracted from it?

It starting to seem like a possibility. We are learning that several pieces of evidence have been gathered, and President of the Metropolitan Crime Commission, Rafael Goyeneche, says there are clues in the Vappie indictment that the cellphones of both are the biggest.

“They were able to establish through texts, pictures, and videos that they conducted their relationship over the phone. That served as the basis for the grand jury to issue the indictment.”

For months it had been speculated that federal prosecutors were closing in on Mayor Latoya Cantrell and Officer Jeffery Vappie though it wasn't clear what evidence there was that sealed the case against them.

It seems, due to the contents, that the mayor did indeed think the cellphone was private and secure.

“Now the question becomes, did she have evidence of other wrongdoings that the federal prosecutors now know.”

Goyeneche says now that Vappie’s lawyers know what the prosecutors know, it will start to become more clear what steps he may take like taking a deal to roll on the mayor.