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How EMS workers exposed themselves after using ambulance to steal Oakland County mailbox

Two EMS workers stole a blue collection mailbox in Oakland County by using a stretcher to load it into an ambulance, and then they exposed themselves by calling to ask if they could keep it.

Ryan Baugh and Jacob Sandrock are accused of theft of government property and obstruction of mail in a criminal complaint that was unsealed Tuesday, July 16, 2024.

Blue collection box stolen
Officials received a report from the Bloomfield Hills postmaster on April 30 that the blue United States Postal Service collection box at 2550 South Telegraph Road was missing.

Postal maintenance workers said there was no work order for that area, and there had been no plans to remove the mailbox.

EMS worker calls about mailbox
At 11:33 a.m. May 2, a postal technician received a call from Baugh, who asked if he could keep a blue collection box that he found next to a dumpster in Bloomfield Township, the complaint says.

Local 4 went to the mailbox on Wednesday and confirmed that it stands about 10 feet away from a dumpster. But it’s also bolted to a slab of concrete.

The postal technician asked Baugh why he wanted to keep the collection box, and Baugh said it was for personal use and decorative purposes.

Baugh was told that he is not allowed to keep the collection box.

Officials traced the caller’s phone number and found that it belonged to Baugh, which is how they first linked him to the case.

Phone call from EMS manager
About 23 minutes later, the postal technician received a call from the manager of the STAR EMS on Telegraph Road in Southfield.

The manager said he didn’t think his employees, Baugh and Sandrock, had taken the collection box. He told the technician that Baugh claimed someone at the Postal Inspection Service told him he could keep it.

Baugh calls again
About 10 minutes later, Baugh called the postal technician again and said that a blue collection box was at the EMS station in Southfield. He provided the door code.

The technician asked Baugh for the identity of the person who helped take the collection box, and Baugh said he knew him as “Jacob,” but didn’t know his last name.

Officials said they later confirmed that the second person involved was Sandrock.

Evidence against EMS workers
Postal inspectors met with the EMS manager on May 2, and he confirmed that Baugh and Sandrock had been on duty at the time the mailbox was taken.

The manager said the pair were identified via GPS, which showed the ambulance had been stopped at the location of the missing mailbox between 5:22 p.m. and 5:29 p.m. April 29.

Video inside the ambulance showed Baugh and Sandrock using a stretcher to load the collection box into the back, officials said. That video was turned over to investigators.

“On the video, Sandrock and Baugh are clearly seen stealing and loading a USPS collection box into their ambulance,” the criminal complaint reads. “On the video, Baugh states that if he and Sandrock get an emergency call, they will have to dispose of the USPS collection box.”

USPS collection boxes are worth about $1,800 each.

Jacob Sandrock interview
Postal inspectors interviewed Sandrock on May 6 about the mailbox theft.

Sandrock began by saying that stealing it had been “f—— stupid,” in hindsight.

He claimed he hadn’t seen the mailbox until the previous week and thought it was trash because it was near a dumpster. He said Baugh told him it was trash.

“Sandrock stated Baugh told him he got permission from the post office to take it,” the criminal complaint says. “Sandrock stated Baugh thought it could be used as a drop box for their medical reports.”

Sandrock also admitted during the interview that the collection box had been bolted into the concrete, officials said.

Ryan Baugh interview
Postal inspectors also spoke to Baugh on May 6.

He told them he had noticed the collection box around April 22. He said he sent a picture of the mailbox to his boss over text and suggested it could be used in the EMS office.

Baugh said he believed the mailbox was no longer being used because it was next to a dumpster. He thought he could refurbish it for a dropbox to be used for medical reports.

Baugh said he took the mailbox to the EMS station, and admitted it was his idea to do so.

Post Office officials said the collection box has always been in that spot, but the dumpster is new.

Conclusion
The criminal complaint concludes there’s probable cause that Baugh and Sandrock stole government property and obstructed the mail system.

Source; Click On Detroit

Dem staffer axed after saying Trump gunman should have taken ‘shooting lessons so you don’t miss next time’

There were a lot of these evil ghouls that lost their jobs this week, but this was the first and possibly the funniest.

A staffer for a Democratic congressman from Mississippi was fired for her inflammatory comments that she hoped the shooter who targeted Donald Trump “wouldn’t miss next time.”

“I don’t condone violence but please get you some shooting lessons so you don’t miss next time ooops that wasn’t me talking,” Jacqueline Marsaw wrote on Facebook Saturday evening, shortly after Trump narrowly avoided being shot in the head during a rally in Pennsylvania.

Marsaw, of Natchez, worked as a field director for Rep. Bennie Thompson, the Natchez Democrat reported.

Marsaw also wrote that the shooting — which killed one rally attendee and critically wounded two others — “couldn’t [have] happened to a nicer fellow,” though she insisted that it was a “staged” incident.

“That’s what your hate speech got you!” she added in a third post, seemingly referring to Trump’s often-controversial takes on social and political issues.

As of Sunday morning, all the posts had been deleted.

“I got overwhelmed in the moment,” Marsaw told the Natchez Democrat.

“I am a diehard Democrat,” she added.

She deleted her posts after she was instructed to do so by a manager on Thompson’s team, Marsaw explained.

The comments, however, continued to draw backlash online.

“@BennieGThompson should FIRE his field director for condoning the attempted assassination of President @realDonaldTrump!!!” the Mississippi GOP wrote on X alongside screenshots of the comments.

Mississippi Lt. Gov. Delbert Hosemann echoed calls for Marsaw’s ouster, writing that Thompson should let her go “immediately.”

“With staff like this the poison is deep,” former Republican presidential candidate and House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) chimed in.

On Sunday afternoon, Thompson confirmed that Marsaw was “no longer in [his] employment,” Fox News’ Aishah Hasnie reported.

Marsaw’s firing came as conservatives decried left-leaning social media users who were celebrating and even making light of the Saturday night shooting.

Some of the tasteless jabs included mock séances summoning the spirit of Abraham Lincoln assassin John Wilkes Booth, as well as impassioned cries lamenting that the shooter missed.

Source; NY Post

Boston police demoted official over appointment to Mass. police oversight board, agency says

The agency that oversees allegations of police misconduct in Massachusetts said Monday that the Boston Police Department has demoted a deputy superintendent because of his appointment.

The Massachusetts Peace Officer Standards and Training Commission says Eddy Chrispin was demoted last week from his command position to sergeant detective “due to his recent appointment as a POST Commissioner.”

The POST Commission said Chrispin was appointed in June, an act it says “fulfills the statutory requirement of having an active law enforcement officer chosen by the Attorney General from nominations by the Massachusetts Association of Minority Law Enforcement Officers (MAMLEO) on the Commission.”

A source who works at the City of Boston tells NBC10 Boston that police leadership gave Chrispin an ultimatum to resign from the POST Commission or take a demotion.

On principle, Chrispin would not step down, the source said.

The agency, established by a criminal justice reform law in 2020, maintains lists of disciplinary records, suspensions and decertifications for Bay State police officers. It handles claims of misconduct like those against Trooper Michael Proctor, who was suspended Monday by the Massachusetts State Police following his testimony in the Karen Read murder trial.

“We see no legitimate reason why Commissioner Chrispin’s appointment to the POST Commission should result in his demotion,” the agency said in a press release Monday. “This unwarranted decision by the BPD sets an unfortunate precedent and undermines the decisions of the appointing and nominating authorities while also undermining POST’s work toward police reform.”

In a statement posted to MAMLEO’s website under the banner of “We stand with Eddy,” the union called for “the immediate reinstatement of Eddy Chrispin to his command staff rank, for the promotion of officers of color off of the existing civil service exam list, and for a expeditious stop to the bewildering retaliation practices that have sadly become the hallmark of the present day Commissioner’s Office, department, and the city.”

“The evolution of both the conversation and advocacy around equity and inclusion in our country has been a long march of vision, voice and volume. And yet, it’s been a march too often plagued by the intentional forces of what can best be termed a ‘status quo blockade,'” the union said. “This is particularly true in our law enforcement community, where the present fight to have equitable and diverse practices in the Boston Police Department has been thwarted and stalled by the mislabeled and misguided framing of conflicts of interest.”

The POST Commission said in its press release that it had learned Boston police demoted Chrispin “claiming to have concerns about conflicts of interest due to his position on the command staff.”

“Like any other state agency, the POST Commission has procedures to deal with conflicts of interest that may arise. Commissioners routinely disclose or recuse themselves from a particular matter that presents a conflict of interest,” the agency wrote. “Additionally, current and past commissioners have held positions on an agency’s command staff, such as the position of police chief, while also serving as commissioners.”

NBC10 Boston has reached out to the Boston Police Department, but did not immediately hear back.

Source; NBC 10

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