Jan 17, 2020, 01:16 AM
A Barrel of Rotten Apples: Corruption within the Minnesota State Patrol
Sgt Harry Walshie executes an injured suspect
EVOCITY, ID - The Minnesota State Patrol, operating in EvoCity, has been, without the public's knowledge, hiring criminal elements into it's ranks, such as murderers and biker gang members.
THE SUSPECTS
SGT Harry Walshie
Sergeant Harry Walshie is currently the recruitment and internal affairs officer for MSP's EvoCity unit. Walshie recently resigned from the Marion County Sheriff's Office, after an incident, when he was then a detective, he executed an injured individual with a patrol shotgun.
Facing an internal affairs investigation, Walshie subsequently resigned from the MCSO and, when approached by reporters, has said that the incident is "being investigated.. by a company" and that the incident is "out of the MCSO's jurisdiction now" - possibly leading to the conclusion that Walshie is attempting to evade justice. What is also most troubling about this case is that Walshie has been subsequently promoted twice, despite being under active investigation by local and state authorities, he was brought into the MSP at the rank of Corporal, and has since been promoted to Sergeant, and remains on active duty.
According to sources, Walshie is almost being actively protected by the state patrol, when sources approached his superiors to make complaints about his conduct, their only response was "ok".
TPR Dutch Trager
Dutch Trager is the current president of the Sons of Anarchy motorcycle club, which drew recent attention after what some have called a "war" with the Weyland-Yutani Corporation.
Trager has been photographed holding illegal firearms, committing arson, murder, resisting arrest, holding police officers at gunpoint, etc. In fact, even in the image used as his profile above (where he wears a mask), from body camera footage obtained from public evidence, his motorcycle gang cronies turned up and opened fire on the officer recording.
In a series of disturbing images posted online, Dutch and his Sons of Anarchy members are seen holding illegal, fully automatic firearms, and holding state troopers wearing the uniform of the agency he is employed by himself at gunpoint.
Trager's Sons of Anarchy have also engaged in illegal firearms and drugs sales, according to evidence released to the newspaper after a raid some weeks ago by WY-SEC on the club's former clubhouse.
TRAINEE Max Weller
According to intelligence sources, Max Weller is a known Sons of Anarchy member who has attacked law enforcement and defence contractors in the past. One of the most violent Sons of Anarchy members known, he has been involved in operations by the gang to free arrested members on several occasions from detention by local authorities.
DET Daniel Harrelson
According to sources who complained to the state patrol, Harrelson has been accused on several occasions of excessive force and police brutality. Despite these complaints, no investigation has been undertaken by the force's Internal Affairs officer, Harry Walshie.
When one of our complainants went to report Sgt Walshie to the Superintendent of the MSP, Stephen Lorenzo, they were met with the only response by email, "ok".
To the newspaper's knowledge, local and federal investigations are currently being conducted against at least Sgt Walshie, Tpr Trager and Trainee Weller, yet despite this the force has not undertaken to suspend any of these individuals or investigate themselves. Indeed, many of these members themselves hold convictions that would never see them employed by any reputable police agency.
The backgrounds of many of the individuals employed by the MSP brings into question it's supplementing role to Idaho's own state police, if these are the individuals employed to keep us safe, can we really feel safe?
The MSP and Sgt Walshie have both refused to comment.
Published: 16 January 2020
Submitted by: Alyce Locke