Steven B. Pancoast; OK state veteran agency official phony
Someone dropped off a link on our Facebook page about this Steven B. Pancoast fellow who was chief investigator for the Oklahoma Veterans Affairs Department. Apparently, he claimed that he had years of experience with law enforcement, that turns out to be true, but from the other side of the gray bars;
Steven B. Pancoast Jr., 41, was never the state-certified law enforcement officer he pretended to be, authorities allege. His paperwork turned out to be faked.
Instead, he is an ex-convict who spent almost three years in a New Jersey prison in the 1990s before moving to Oklahoma, they say.
Friday night, a Canadian County judge authorized a search of Pancoast’s home in Mustang and signed a warrant for his arrest.
Pancoast is accused in the arrest warrant of impersonating a police officer, perjury and illegal possession of a firearm after a felony conviction. He turned himself in Saturday morning and was released after posting bail.
The discovery, of course, has influenced some local high-profile cases. And, you know, if you’re going to pretend to be a police officer, you might as well pretend to be a military officer, too;
Pancoast described himself in at least one search warrant affidavit as a former New York City police officer for two years and a former U.S. Army military police officer for six years. However, in a resume he sent to the Veterans Affairs Department in 2010, he wrote only that he “observed with the New York City Police Department.” He made no reference to the Army in the resume.
Well, I guess he’s probably going to get some more experience in law enforcement that he can add to his resume.
Category: Dumbass Bullshit
Wonder if he ever investigated anyone in Bartlesville, OK.
You beat me to it.
This must be how Bill Blake gets paid.
“A background search conducted before his hiring at the ODVA did not turn up any information that would have prevented his hiring,” said Shane Faulkner, the public information officer for the Veterans Affairs Department
As a rule, criminal convictions don’t “turn up.” They are there IF the correct records are obtained. Unfortunately, someone actually has to obtain and then look at those records. Years ago, when an online FBI record was requested, the FBI would kick back only those records that it had that were independent of what a full-participating member state possessed. In other words, a person might have a record in NJ but the FBI record would not contain it b/c Jersey is a full participant. One would have to request the record from NJ–and the FBI would alert to a record being there. I don’t know how it works today or how it worked in 2010 when this guy was hired by OK.
In other words, it helps to have people doing background checks who actually know how to obtain and interpret criminal history information? What a concept!
Criminal records will show up on a NCIC criminal history IF the arresting/convicting agency submits a readable 10 print fingerprint card to the FBI and it is matched to the one they have on file. Now days with the LiveScan machines it’s quicker and the machine will usually tell you if you have a good print. Back in the day when we used to roll ink, especially if you had a real turdbag who was resisting, the cards would get “smeared” sometimes. We would submit the cards by the boxful to the FBI, and months later the cards would be returned as “unreadable” please resubmit. By then the felon was usually in the wind and it would never get resubmitted so their federal rap sheet would not show the conviction.
What you get back depends on what code you use when they are requested from NCIC too. There’s something like 7 or 8 different codes that will all return different results. Some crimes will not show up on a background, especially if they use the “Employment’ code.
Yeah, the thing is that an online search of the database will not yield a result from NCIC if the member state is a full participant (i.e., certified by the FBI as having met all of its prerequisites to be secure and trusted to have reliable records.) The FBI will note in its request return that one or more states may have additional records and may respond. That’s the way it was, anyway, for ONLINE requests. So, my guess is, one way or another, OK screwed up when it hired this felon and the state now has a big ass headache, sorting through the cases he helped to make and, presumably, reviewing those that failed.
Odd thing here. my wife saw this post and did a web Search, and saw news Footage and swears this turd looks like the sheriff from the movie Practical Magic… It’s odd but I think she maybe Right.
LMFAO ! ! ! !
What a turd. As a former MP and civilian LEO I hope he has fun going back to prison. I bet he won’t try and tell anyone there he was a cop.
Uh-oh. This isn’t a good thing. Report Comment? What happens when one is reported? Does it go into limbo? Should I report myself or wait for others to do it. Lars and that Canadian need to know!
Details are coming.
Can we pre-report comments? Lars’ novels – I mean comments” – old Joe the Colorado treehugger, a few others?
I am in OKC.ODVA has a history of hiring medical personnel with criminal records. Governor Mary Fallin recently announced Maj. Gen. Myles Deering OKNG Ret.has been appointed as Secretary of Veterans Affairs. Hopefully he can straighten the mess out.
1 in 3 state veterans center doctors has marred record
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