Wasatch County pulled the agenda item to discuss mysterious accusations that are now being examined

Heber City – Transparency has become a major concern for the residents of Wasatch County after a mysterious point on the County Council agenda had been discussed with regard to public security at the last minute.

The district quoted concerns about a proper procedure with a newly opened investigation before those who were intended to accuse them of raising the chance.

The problem started in February from a council meeting. The retired Lt. Jeff Winterton from Wasatch County Sheriff and the former sheriff of Wasatch County, Todd Bonner, publicly asked to be put on the agenda at the meeting of the Council on Wednesday, and only said that she wanted to take concerns about public security.

The Wasatch County Manager, Dustin Grabau, told KSL.com: “The citizens did not raise any specific accusations, but implicit accusations” and said that he had no “concrete details about what they still want to share in a future point today.”

“They were contacted to encourage them to share more details that they have not yet done,” he said.

The chairman of the district council, Karl McMillan, put the plan for Wednesday the schedule on the schedule, but a letter from the deputy district prosecutor Jon Woodard was sent to the council and Grabau and later forwarded to the media, which indicates that the element is drawn to write: “If you have heard this element, you may enable an investment with an investigation.”

Woodard wrote that the sheriff of Wasatch County, Jared Rigby, that the Cache County Sheriff's office had opened an investigation into these symptoms on Monday without including the Council or other district departments, although the complaints that have not yet been submitted were made.

During the meeting of the public comment of Wednesday, Winterton and Bonner did not provide any details about their concerns, but also did not positively looked at the decision of the Council to pull the point out of the agenda.

Bonner said: “I don't understand how a sheriff calls another sheriff in the state of Utah and can ask her to examine if he doesn't even know what the allegations are. I accuse (the advice) for it. I think there are many things that many public have to find out to find out what's going on and to hold all of them into account. “

Winterton said: “I am very concerned about the so -called ongoing studies. I have no idea what that is. “

There had been some obvious speeches about the complaints at the Council, and the two men had no feeling that they were considered appropriately. “A few weeks ago we brought many concerns about public security. I don't think we were heard. I don't think you took care of it, ”said Bonner, with Winterton repeating similar feelings.

Grabau told KSL.com that officials still want to hear complaints from residents and asking them to be submitted in writing. “We are always open to the examination of claims on misconduct or criticisms that the public would like to share with us,” he said.

“We just want to make sure that the proper process is followed. In view of the fact that it is an active examination, this type of agenda item presents these investigations with challenges, “said Grabau,” and that's why we pull it.

“I think, frankly, it should assure the public that we treat these things appropriately, because if we would proceed with this agenda item as suggested, this would provide a possible examination with challenges. We would rather be able to clear out these concerns instead of preventing or interrupting or delay procedural problems, which would ultimately be necessary. “

Remanding allegations

Further concerns about the Wasatch County Sheriff office have been raised in the past few months. In a letter shared with KSL.com, Lt. Shane Fredrickson the Unterheriff Josh Probst and Sheriff Jared Rigby to refer to him because he had submitted a formal complaint were accused in the rehearsals of misconduct.

In the letter sent to County Council in February, Rigby claimed to have a “personal Vendenda against the Heber City police department”. These lies seem to prevent an agenda for limiting or preventing Hebern participation in high-risk engagements and/or critical incidents, which unnecessarily increases the risk of the citizens of the district, ”wrote Fredrickson's lawyer Jeremy Jones.

In the case of Estrella Meza-Ojeda, Jones wrote: “Unterheriff-Probst has directly influenced the MPs (Wasatch County Sheriff) because he was a missing child because of his subjective and unfounded belief that the child is no longer in danger of no longer working in a toddler case. As Lt. Fredrickson discovered the actions of the Underheriff, he recommended that Heber City will continue his own investigation. “

The police later discovered that Ojeda had born the premature, additional oxygen that he had to survive before he had put his body on the side of the I-80, as said from an affidavit from the police.

Probst was also accused of threatening Fredrickson's son Jake Fredrickson, “wrongly and unethical”, who was representative in the office and had moved into shooting by Donald Ball in 2023.

Jake Fredrickson later resigned from the department, but took part in the meeting on Wednesday. “I don't want to say anything,” he said to the advice, “but basically the reasons for my resignation when writing to you.” He distributed letters to the council before he went.

It is not clear whether the concerns examined are criminal, civil or administrative nature. When asked about the investigation, the Lt. said Mikelshan Bartschi from Cache County Sheriff compared to KSL.com: “We will only say that we do not comment on the open examination at this time.”

Related stories: Wasatch County excluded the seat of the school authority after the candidate was disqualified