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**It is factual that I had been conducting an investigation into a man who approached me online and I learned that he was attempting to traffic his 7yo daughter online to anyone who lived close enough to him to do so. There was no way I was going to let this stand.
**It is factual that I reported the sexual abuse of this 7 year old and also the attempted trafficking of her online, to Sergeant Kevin Schaub with the Kalkaska County Sheriffs Office in fall of 2022, which ended up being shockingly futile and fruitless.
**In a separate incident, on a perfectly legal chat site a female who portrayed herself to be 20yrs old messaged me on there and pretended to befriend me. Unknown to me at the time, her ultimate goal was to defraud me. After phone conversations and my belief that she was a decent person her fraud game began. She ended up getting ahold of my credit card info and attempted to purchase some items from Victorias Secret online using my credit card. I was notified by Capital One fraud department. The fraudster lives in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
**I called the police to report this fraud, and on December 2nd, 2023, MSP sent a 23yo probationary Trooper to my property to take the complaint. This was all filmed. I gave him evidence of this female claiming she was born in 2002, living in a motel room (which you can't do unless you're 18), her name etc, and evidence of her obvious and deliberate fraud. Nobody knows even to this day what this criminal sent me, because NOBODY was able to make contact with this female. She's evading even to this day.
**It is then on the record that on December 2nd, 2022, this MSP Trooper came back to my property approx 6hrs later and called me on the phone and lied in order to gain access to my closed gate, claiming that he just had some information to share with me and I wasn't in trouble or anything. He then requested that we step inside. He then did a warrantless seizure of my cell phone by threatening to arrest me for obstruction if I didn't hand it over, even after I protested and said that I needed an attorney etc. He was looking for one photograph that this fraudster supposedly sent me, which again was never verified to even be her. He learned by contacting her father that she was only 17, but had clearly been portraying herself as she was 20yrs old. No attempt was ever made by the police to actually talk to this woman in order to verify that what she sent me was of her. This is a truly sloppy and irresponsible police 'investigation', which only exists because MSP is worried about being sued.
**Probationary Trooper Koedy Dole didn't even have sufficient probable cause to seize property or apply for a warrant anyway, and he never did any investigation which would attempt to establish probable cause either, because he never verified what was sent and he never spoke to the fraudster who supposedly sent it. Its also interesting that according to the report, the alleged illegal photo was never found on my phone.
**Directly after the warrant-less seizure, I called Sgt, Kevin Schaub of KCSO at home and woke him up to tell him what just happened to me. He informed that that the Trooper can't threaten me to obtain my property without a warrant. The next day, Sgt. Schaub called me and had a 43 minute conversation with me gathering details of what happened. Within a day or 2 of the warrant-less seizure, Sgt. Schaub was in direct contact with Kalkaska County Prosecutor Ryan Ziegler, informing him of what this rogue trooper had done. Sergeant Schaub even went further to call the Houghton Lake MSP post to speak with the Post Commander to inform him of what his trooper had done in our county. Sergeant Schaub was then in contact with MSP Internal Affairs, as well as Koedy Dole's former employer, Crawford County Sheriff Office, where Sgt. Schaub was informed that Koedy Dole was a bit of a problem while employed there. So much so that he was caught drunk, UNDERAGE, while being employed as a deputy sheriff and was unable to report for duty one night due to him being intoxicated. A kid cop, underage, drinking with a county badge in his pocket? Imagine that.
**It is further on the record, that Michigan State Police probationary Trooper Koedy Dole held my phone for 5 days, and then was caught red-handed committing felony perjury on a search warrant affidavit while under oath in Kalkaska County, Michigan on December 7th, 2022, when he lied on an important material fact in the search warrant affidavit. He changed the birth date of this fraudster from 2002 to 2005 which transformed the person from an adult to a minor. The magistrate he appeared in front of is notably the Sheriff's wife. Huge conflict of interest. Plus, Koedy Dole's own police report which states the truth of 2002 (but was created 2 months after the warrant affidavit) proves that he lied on the warrant affidavit when he claimed she was born in 2005. It is on video and important to know that the date 2005 came from this fraudsters fathers mouth when he told the police that his daughter was born in 2005 and then from Dole's mouth when he told me her actual birth date. This is further evidence that what the trooper did was not a "typo", which is what the prosecutor is saying in order to cover for this dirty cop. He simply used the birth date which he felt would increase his chances of obtaining a search warrant after he became nervous of his illegal seizure and was under pressure by my attorney to return my phone and that he didn't have a legal right to possess it. Without him typing 2005 on the warrant affidavit and making it seem as if I knew this person was a minor, there was no evidence of a crime which would have caused his warrant request to be granted.
**It is on the record, that shortly after the warrant-less seizure I filed a formal complaint with MSP Internal Affairs on the grounds of their trooper violating the terms of 18 U.S.C section 242 when he violated my constitutional rights under color of law. It took them 2 months to complete their investigation, after which we subpoenaed Dole's employment jacket and noticed that no discipline had been doled out to Koedy Dole, nor was he found to have done anything illegal...on a warrant-less seizure?? Really?
**It is factual that the crime of violating 18U.S.C sec 242 is a Federal felony.
**It is factual that the crime of perjury that Koedy Dole committed is a state felony, punishable by up to 15 years in prison. (Evidently just for us citizens though, not cops), because the prosecutor has claimed that his perjury was merely a "typo". Trooper Dole then testified under oath that his perjury was just an innocent "typo" after surely being coached by the prosecutor to say that. However, typing 2002 takes 2 fingers if you type from the home keys, and typing 2005 takes 3 fingers and isn't even the commonly known definition of a tyop. <----- (that's a typo). Regardless, now Koedy Dole has further perjured himself while lying on the stand under oath. He's now committed multiple counts of felony perjury.
**It is on the record that MSP Trooper Koedy Dole attended what essentially is 30% of the standard academy and holds less of a college degree than the average trooper. This is a program initiated by MSP which evidently serves to more quickly get more troopers on our streets who have less training and knowledge of the law than the typical MSP trooper.
**It is on the record that on Nov 21st, 2023, Kalkaska County Prosecutor Ryan S. Ziegler attempted to cover for Trooper Dole's felony actions by claiming that he was operating under exigent circumstances when he felt the immediate and emergency need to seize my property based on a known fraudster having sent me a naked photograph, which once again was never verified to even be of her because nobody has ever made contact with this woman. One singular photo of a criminal is an emergency in Kalkaska County evidently.
**MSP and Kalkaska County Prosecutor Ryan Ziegler are essentially trying to set a precedent that makes what Koedy Dole did a righteous action which will then further erode the 4th Amendment protections in this state. ONE photograph of a 17yo online fraudster constitutes an emergency in their words, thus negating the need for any warrants. Be warned!
**It is further on the court record that in the same above court hearing on a motion to suppress evidence (evidence which was obtained with Trooper Dole's lying warrant) Kalkaska County Prosecutor Ryan Ziegler wasn't completely truthful to a circuit court judge. When the defense attempted to call Sgt. Kevin Schaub to the stand as a witness for the defense, Ryan Ziegler objected and told Judge George Mertz that essentially this sergeant had no knowledge of the seizure. Remember, Ryan Ziegler was first notified by Sgt. Kevin Schaub of what had happened, and he was even informed that I had been online gathering information on that father who was molesting his 7yo daughter and attempting to traffic her to other men online. Without Kevin Schaub notifying Ziegler of the illegal seizure, Ryan Ziegler wouldn't have known about it for a while. The phone wasn't even searched for 2 months. Ryan Ziegler knew that Kevin Schaub absolutely had knowledge of that seizure.
**Oops. The problem for our prosecutor is, I have hundreds of texts from Sgt. Kevin Schaub regarding my case because he has been intimately involved with it since the night my property was seized by Trooper Koedy Dole without a warrant and I called Kevin at home.
**In fact, Sgt. Kevin Schaub was so intimately involved with my case, and disgusted by Dole's actions and the warrant-less seizure, that Sgt. Schaub actually called the Post Commander at the Houghton Lake Post to inform him what his young and inexperienced Trooper did to a citizen of Kalkaska County. He then called the Post Commander a 2nd time, 6 weeks later to check on the handling of this Trooper. He also called the director of MSP Internal Affairs.
**It is further on the official court record that at the motion to suppress hearing, the lying trooper Koedy Dole, lied on the stand under oath, surely being previously coached by the prosecutor to do so because it fit the prosecutors inaccurate narrative and would help save the trooper from his own crimes against a citizen. He testified about stairs that don't exist where he said they did, falsely claimed that we sat down at my dining room table when he never sat down even one time, and grossly misrepresented the place where I live. He claimed that the uninsulated and UNHEATED porch area with a dirt floor where he initially stood was my "kitchen" and "dining room". Keep in mind that it was December and in the 30's in my pole barn and in that porch area that he claimed was my "kitchen". The whole purpose of the prosecutor coaching him to say these things was to try to establish that I had invited the dirty cop over the threshold of the door to my home, when in fact he had only been invited (at his request) into my pole barn/garage which the video clearly shows has a dirt and stone floor, and motorcycles and vehicles etc. This was the prosecutors attempt to get around the dirty cops illegal seizure. Anything to win.
**It is on the record, that in 2021, Kalkaska County Prosecutor Ryan Ziegler prosecuted a female RN named Wright, for 2 counts of felony perjury in this county for lying on a sworn affidavit. However...
**Kalkaska County Prosecutor Ryan Ziegler has flatly refused to press charges against probationary Trooper Koedy Dole for the EXACT SAME FELONY crime as Wright stood trial for in 2021, and instead has attempted to cover for him. It is thus REASONABLE to assume, and the record seems to show, and based on the above, that Ryan Ziegler feels free to prosecute the citizens of this county for whatever he wants, but refuses to charge the police when they commit the same crimes.
** ALL VIDEO CAM PROVIDED BY MSP TO OUR DEFENSE TEAM IN DISCOVERY HAS BEEN EDITED.
**Sgt. Kevin Schaubs actions against 4th amendment violations in this county were absolutely honorable alas the prosecutor is pretending that Sgt. Schaub has no knowledge of this case.
**So, Sgt. Schaub has no knowledge of this case Mr. Prosecutor? You know he does because you know he's the one who came to you immediately after the warrant-less seizure to inform you what had happened, and the seizure was what was in question at my evidentiary hearing. He's also the same KCSO Sergeant who continued to speak with you on my case for weeks after the Trooper's warrant-less seizure. Of course this is all easily provable with texts I have in my possession.
**It is on the record that Kalkaska County Prosecutor Ryan Ziegler charged an aggravated felony case against me, which was predicated on the lies of that State Trooper, and also predicated on an illegal seizure of my property stemming from a fraud complaint where evidence clearly showed that what this woman claimed and said to me in text were all lies. Further it is predicated on the items being in the cache of my operating system and nowhere else, and there's no evidence I was visiting any illegal sites or looking for such media, which is part of the statute required to prove beyond a reasonable doubt.
**It is on the record that I had a spotless criminal history and a perfect driving record.
**And, I had actually investigated and reported to the local police a father who was molesting his daughter, months before this liar Koedy Dole showed up to seize willy-nilly, with no warrant.
**It is factual that the Kalkaska County Sheriff Office made no real effort to help me in my reporting to the proper authority in another jurisdiction, the abuse of a 7yo child, and there’s text evidence that exists that Prosecutor Ryan Ziegler was informed about it too. He's never asked even one question about it.
**It is factual that the items I was charged with "possessing" were located in the phones cache, and thus were cache files and not any sort of media file such as photos or videos that are viewable. Thus, being unable to be accessed by anything other than forensic software (as claimed in writing by the MSP Computer Crimes Unit) and thus out of my "dominion and control". No evidence exists of those photos being sought after or purposefully being looked for by me, and none were ever found in any folder I had created or any other area of my phone where I intentionally stored such filth.
**So, it is then factual that the so-called evidence which was supposedly found was then used to charge me with a crime which the police report and discovery showed no evidence of some of the elements within the state statute required to charge someone with this crime. Nor was any investigation done by MSP. However, all attorneys involved in my case claim that the prosecutor is likely under pressure by MSP to get a conviction in this matter because if a conviction is obtained, then the civil liability for the 4th amendment violations by MSP will go away. At least MSP thinks it will. It won't...not on my watch.
**It is fact that MSP Trooper Koedy Dole completely disregarded the felony fraud complaint made by me, and instead concentrated on and attempted to manufacture a larger case for himself and his career as I was reporting the fraud. The fraud case remained tossed aside for 4 months before the prodding by a defense attorney forced them to finally investigate the fraud. That’s a violation of the states crime victims right act and just irresponsible and negligent police work, and also shows the track that Koedy Dole's mind was on in this case and also the track that MSP is on...get a conviction on me and me only. Even after it was deemed that she was actually 17 and had been sending out supposed naked photos to people online, she has never been charged with the manufacture and transmitting of child porn. Instead she is listed as the "victim" of me in the MSP report when in fact all evidence shows that I am the victim of her felony fraud, lies and deception.
**It is on the record that Ryan Ziegler made an argument which pushed the bounds of the 4th amendment. His argument essentially tried giving the police even more legal ability to seize your property based on what is called "exigent circumstances". The only problem was, exigent circumstances didn't exist and if Ryan Ziegler leaves the prosecutors office and becomes a defense attorney like most prosecutors do, he would argue against his own claims he made as a prosecutor in this instance. So you must understand that it's no longer about true guilt or innocence, but more about winning. The Guinea Pigs they use in their fun little adversarial game is YOU and your family. Don't ever forget that.
**It is the opinion of several attorneys that the above case shouldn't have even been charged. If Ryan Ziegler's claim is that he thought he could push it through, while also knowing his state trooper had been caught committing perjury, and his property seizure was without a warrant, then my opinion that Ryan Ziegler is dangerous to the citizens of this county holds water. We don't need a prosecutor who's willing to push the bounds of our constitutional rights while hiding behind his immunity and covering for cops who commit federal and state felonies. Major ethical impropriety.
**It is factual that even Sergeant Kevin Schaub believes I'm not being treated properly in this matter, but he still hasn't stepped forward to say anything about my initial report of that child abuse. The sheriff shut him down from talking to me, which I learned on the day I was escorted into the courtroom by him in belly chains to appear in front of the Sheriff's wife.
**It should also be noted that Ryan Ziegler is the former law clerk for the Circuit Judge who’s presiding over this case, and has told my attorney that regardless of the problems with this whole case, he's just going to put it in front of the judge and let him decide. Kinda like, let daddy decide? Where's Ryan Zieglers discretion? Why isn't Ryan Ziegler being truthful about this case in front of the judge if he expects the judge to make an informed decision about this matter? Ryan Ziegler wants to win, at all costs, and he's under pressure by MSP... that's why.
**It is on court video that the sheriff's wife, Magistrate Malena Whiteford obviously knew I was coming. She had obviously been talked to by her husband before my appearance and her treatment of me was vile. She took my bond, which was pre-arranged by the prosecutor to be $50,000/10% which meant that I need to pay $5,000 to bond out, and she said she was going to double it. However, she actually increased my cash liability by 1900% when she made my bond $100,000 cash. This is a flagrant abuse of bond and it was intended by her to be punitive in nature. She was mad that I was friends with one of her husbands sergeants and was accused of what I was accused of. My criminal record is spotless and so is my driving record, AND I turned myself in 2 hours before the arrest warrant was even signed.
**She also forced me to submit to urine analysis when I don't even drink and havn't drank in 4 years, and I don't use illegal drugs and this case had nothing to do with drugs or alcohol anyway. She also imposed a "no internet use" rule on me which is unconstitutional, especially considering I have several very severe medical problems and her ruling made it illegal for me to communicate with my doctors via secure email portals. Basically, she intended by her ridiculous bond for me to end up behind bars, and she intended to remove as many rights from me as possible even though a presumption of innocence is supposed to exist. She uses bond as punishment, and not for its intended purpose.
**It is factual that other judges have also set ridiculous bonds on people who merely have a drug charge for instance. In one case, she set a $250,000 bond on a man for a drug charge. Even with him only having to pay 10%, that’s $25,000 cash. Most people can't afford that, including this man, who was then sent to jail where he was of course then made to pay $1200/month to stay in jail.
**Every attorney who has looked at my case has exclaimed that Malena Whiteford sitting on the bench in the same county that her husband is the Sheriff is a clear conflict of interest. The conflict becomes even more pronounced when she has ruled on cases which originated from her husbands Sheriff Office. This woman has been getting away with this for years. The ethical and proper thing for her to do when her husband became Sheriff was to resign her position of magistrate, but according to some of her husbands own sergeants and deputies, this woman has a "power trip" problem. Thus, this likely explains why she continued to sit on the bench even when she surely knew that it was unethical. Then again, she doesn't have a law degree or hasn't passed any bar exam, so why would she be concerned with the ethical standards of the Michigan Bar Association?
**It is factual that Prosecutor Ryan Ziegler told my attorney that if I chose to exercise my constitutional right to a fair trial by jury instead of pleading guilty to his charge that I've had for well over a year now, that he would amend the complaint and add more counts, thus making it far too risky to go to trial and scaring me away from that option, thus virtually guaranteeing himself a conviction. Yep, this is what goes on behind the scenes here in Kalkaska folks.
**It is on the record and dates show that MSP Internal Affairs waited to see what the lying warrant revealed before they made a determination on whether Koedy Dole did anything improper. That doesn't matter. Police misconduct is police misconduct.
**It is fact that MSP Internal Affairs has the word "transparency" in their official name. However, once the internal affairs complaint was supposedly concluded against Koedy Dole, MSP Internal Affairs would not reveal what (if any) discipline was doled out to the lying cop Koedy Dole, nor would they reveal what the outcome of their investigation was. Thus, the word "transparency" in their official title is a lie directed at the citizens of this state, and in fact attorneys have called this MSP entity basically useless and self-serving.
**It is on the record that MSP Internal Affairs took over 2 months to investigate Koedy Dole. Surely they looked at bodycam and Koedy Doles report and warrant etc. His own police report proves his perjury on the warrant affidavit as does the body cam. It sticks out like a sore thumb. Therefore it is reasonable to conclude that since MSP has never stepped forward to call foul on Dole's perjury in an honorable fashion, that either they noticed it and decided to keep it hush-hush, or they didn't notice it which would deem them incompetent and negligent. Either way, it is reasonable to conclude that MSP Internal Affairs can't be trusted, because it seemingly exists to serve its own cops and not the citizens of this state.
**It is asinine and oxymoronic to expect that a police agency can be trusted to police themselves. If the notion of policing ourselves was reliable, then we as citizens wouldn't need the police at all because we could all police ourselves. Are the police trusted to police themselves because they are believed to be of a higher standard? Then, why are these same higher-standard police caught red handed lying under oath? Oops.
**It is factual and verifiable by the Judges own biography on his Court page, that Judge George Mertz is very slighted toward the police. All attorneys who appear in front of him regularly will back that up. They all know he is very slanted toward the police. So much so, that he didn't make a single statement of admonishment toward Trooper Dole for the very obvious perjury and other sketchy actions which were in question at this hearing.
**It is FACT that the Michigan State Police and Prosecutor Ryan Ziegler are directly responsible for the damaging news media stories which were published on a man who's supposed to be innocent until proven guilty, and were grossly inaccurate due to the fact that they left out any mention of the illegal acts by the police, which is the actual truth on the record, and MSP knew it was the truth of the case but failed to make the news aware of it. Thus, allowing the news media to publish a story on a presumed innocent man without also including their own illegal and/or unethical acts in the story.
**Even after MSP has surely been made aware that the record shows that their trooper lied his ass off on the warrant affidavit, they still havn't stepped forward in an honorable fashion to correct the public record. They're hiding it at all costs.
**It is factual and public knowledge that Kalkaska County Prosecutor Ryan Ziegler has immunity and can't be sued for any of his actions against a citizen of this county, even those actions which are completely unethical or predicated on cops that are lying. You as a citizen have no recourse against him, and he knows this. He has unchecked power with nothing to lose and has shown that he is absolutely willing to take advantage of his immunity. Other states have abolished prosecutorial immunity. Michigan should too. The founding fathers main founding principle was to limit unchecked power. Michigan legislators don't seem to care and continue to allow prosecutors to operate under immunity, unchecked.
**Based on Ryan Zieglers refusal to prosecute a lying State Trooper who's caught red handed, he's ok with cops lying and committing perjury under oath. Further, once he charges a case, it is no longer a matter of right and wrong and innocence vs. guilt. It's an adversarial system that is only concerned with winning and saving face on charges that really shouldn't have been charged in the first place due to all of the legal and ethical problems with the case.
**My case went to interlocutory appeal as of December 27th, 2023, because the Circuit Judge in my motion to suppress hastily ruled in favor of the police, called the troopers very obvious perjury a misstatement and in the opinion of all who witnessed this hearing, completely got it wrong. Although this is no surprise because he is well known to be pro-cop and is a former attorney for the police. This is made clear by his own biography listed on the courts website. Do we really want a judge on the bench here that has a love of the police and tends to side with the police? Is this a balanced scale of justice?
**It is factual, that after the Kalkaska County Sheriff's Office gave me no help in reporting the terrible crimes of this sexually abusive father, that I continued to have grave concerns for this child. However, once my phone was illegally seized, I wasn't allowed to come forward and say anything under the orders of my attorney, and if I was going to override him he made me promise not to say a word to anyone until our motion to suppress hearing on November 21st, 2023. This bothered me tremendously because a child continued to be abused.
**Finally, I had enough of being forced to keep quiet and in an explosive argument with my attorney in which he decided to quit me, I told him that I didn't care any longer about what he wants and what the 'process' requires and that I intended to come forward with my information in an effort to finally help save this child. My reasoning was simple. If the 'process' doesn't allow for someone to come forward with information regarding such a horrible and serious crime, then we have an officially broken 'process'.
**It was then after my hearing when I finally started making attempts to open up communication with the police in the proper jurisdiction where this child lives and get my information into their hands. Once this child is located and my suspicions are shown to have been correct all of this time, some heads will roll. My conscience is clear. I've done the right thing, just exactly as I attempted to do when I first reported it.