RiverCom CAD Log — July 4, 2024

RIVERCOM 911 DISPATCH
COMPUTER-AIDED DISPATCH (CAD) LOG
CASE: 24C06401
DATE: July 4, 2024
PLAIN TEXT TRANSCRIPTION — PUBLISHED FOR PUBLIC RECORD

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CAD LOG SUMMARY
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Incident Number: 24C06401
Type: Harassment / Threat
Location: 7599 Colockum Road, Malaga, WA 98828
Initial Call Time: Approximately 17:11 hours

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KEY CAD ENTRIES (Timestamps Approximate)
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17:37:12 — RP IS NOT GOING INTO HIS HOUSE, SAYS THAT THE MALE IS PARKED IN THE DRIVEWAY AND WONT LEAVE

17:37:27 — RP DOESNT WANT TO LEAVE BECAUSE THE MALE MIGHT TRY TO GO INTO HIS HOUSE

[Subsequent entries document the evolving dispatch narrative as provided by the reporting party, Jeremiah Johnson.]

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CRITICAL AUDIO EXCHANGE (911 Call Audio)
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The following exchange occurred between RiverCom dispatch and Jeremiah Johnson during Jeremiah's 911 call on July 4, 2024:

DISPATCH: Can't you just give Ryan his keys and tell him to leave?

JEREMIAH JOHNSON: I already tried that. He says he's gonna stay here and see it through with the police. He wants to stay until the deputies get here and talk to them. He's gonna see this thing through.

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WHAT THE CAD LOG OMITS — AND WHY IT MATTERS:
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The CAD summary records that Ryan was offered his keys and refused to leave. What it does not record — and what the full audio and video evidence establishes — is WHY Ryan refused. That reason is the entirety of this case.

Ryan was offered his keys on a single condition: leave alone, without Gina.

Gina — Ryan's disabled passenger — had been inside the barn and shop on the property for nearly an hour at this point, untreated, with no medical attention despite Ryan having placed the original 911 call (24C06391) for a diabetic emergency. Ryan had been denied access to check on her condition. The people who had lured them to the property under the false promise of emergency medical care had provided none.

Leaving without Gina was not an act of belligerence. It was an act Ryan was constitutionally, morally, and legally incapable of performing:

1. DUTY OF CARE: Ryan was the only person present who had attempted to secure medical care for Gina. Those controlling access to her had explicitly refused to provide it. Abandoning her was not a legal or moral option.

2. RYAN'S OWN MEDICAL CONDITION: Ryan was himself in serious physical distress — experiencing symptoms consistent with a possible stroke — and was in no condition to safely operate a vehicle.

3. CITIZEN'S DUTY TO REPORT: Ryan had a documented obligation to remain and report what he was witnessing: a 911 Operations Manager using his own agency's dispatch infrastructure to manage and weaponize an emergency response against the very person who had called 911 for help.

4. PHYSICAL ASSAULT ON SCENE: While Ryan remained — attempting to reach dispatch intervention for Gina — he was subjected to escalating provocation: nagged, ordered to leave without Gina, insulted, and spat on. He was then physically assaulted from behind by Jana Johnson, struck hard enough to nearly lose consciousness, while he was on the phone with dispatch. This assault is captured in video evidence.

5. JEREMIAH'S DOCUMENTED STATEMENTS ON VIDEO: While Ryan Hell appears on video crying and begging for intervention for his dying friend, Jeremiah Johnson is captured on the same recording — laughing — telling Jana that Ryan "needs to disappear for good," that his deputy buddy would be there soon, and that it would be "real quick and real messy." This is not the language of a man who feared Ryan Hell. It is the language of a man who had already made arrangements.

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LEGAL SIGNIFICANCE:
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1. NON-VIOLENCE ESTABLISHED BY COMPLAINANT:
Jeremiah Johnson's own statement to dispatch confirms that Ryan Hell was not engaging in violent or threatening behavior. Ryan was not assaulting anyone. He was not brandishing weapons. He was attempting to secure medical care for a dying woman while being physically attacked himself.

2. CONSCIOUSNESS OF GUILT — JEREMIAH:
Jeremiah's stated preference that Ryan leave before deputies arrived — combined with his documented death threats on video and his escalation call to his own employer's dispatch center — establishes that Jeremiah did not want law enforcement to hear Ryan's account. That is consciousness of guilt.

3. TERRY STOP LEGAL STANDARD:
Under Terry v. Ohio, 392 U.S. 1 (1968), a lawful investigatory stop requires reasonable articulable suspicion that criminal activity is afoot. The complaining party's own contemporaneous statements to dispatch — that Ryan was not violent and was waiting for deputies — directly undercut the factual predicate for a firearms-drawn Terry stop.

4. RIVERCOM CONFLICT:
Jeremiah Johnson was RiverCom's Operations Manager. He was simultaneously the 911 caller, the complaining party, the assault perpetrator (via Jana), and an employee with institutional access to and authority over the dispatch system processing this call. Sheriff Mike Morrison, whose deputies conducted the arrest, sits as a voting member of RiverCom's governing board.

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PRIOR CALL REFERENCE: 24C06391
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The CAD system cross-references prior call 24C06391 — the original medical emergency 911 call placed by Ryan Hell requesting assistance for a disabled woman (Gina) experiencing a diabetic episode who was being physically prevented from accessing medical care. Deputies responding to 24C06401 had access to this prior call context. The full arc of the July 4 events — medical emergency, shadow dispatch, interception, escalation — was knowable to law enforcement from their own systems.

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SUBSEQUENT ESCALATION CALL
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At approximately 19:34 hours, Jeremiah Johnson placed a second call to RiverCom — his own employer — claiming Ryan had produced a knife and requesting law enforcement increase their response urgency. This escalation call was placed to the dispatch center where Jeremiah worked, by Jeremiah, while he was the active complaining party. The knife claim was denied by Ryan Hell to the responding deputy and is contested.

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