Primary Arrest Incident Report — State v. Ryan Hell

CHELAN COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE
INCIDENT REPORT NO. 24C06401
PLAIN TEXT TRANSCRIPTION — PUBLISHED FOR PUBLIC RECORD

INCIDENT TYPE: Harassment / Threat
DATE / TIME: July 4, 2024, approximately 17:11:45 — 17:12:27 hours (5:11 PM — 5:12 PM)
LOCATION: 7599 Colockum Road, Malaga, WA 98828
COUNTY: Chelan County, Washington State
CASE NUMBER: 24C06401

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RESPONDING PERSONNEL
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Primary / Arresting Officer: Deputy Adam Musgrove, Badge K8
Responding Officer: Deputy Zach Brunner, Badge K34
Responding Officer: Deputy Andrew Tilton, Badge K64

Note: Research conducted in 2024 indicated that at least one of the arresting officers named in this report was listed on the Chelan County Giglio/Brady disclosure list prior to this incident. The specific officer is pending confirmation from primary source documents.

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INCIDENT SUMMARY (Deputy Narrative)
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Deputies responded to a call initiated by Jeremiah Johnson, who was identified in the report as both a RiverCom (the regional 911 dispatch center) employee and a self-described volunteer firefighter.

Prior call reference documented in this report: 24C06391 — the original 911 call placed by Ryan Hell requesting medical assistance for a disabled passenger (Gina) experiencing a diabetic emergency who was being physically prevented from leaving the property.

During the incident response, Jeremiah Johnson called back to RiverCom approximately at 19:34 hours, claiming Ryan Hell had produced a knife (described as a 4–5 inch folding buck knife on his right hip) and requesting law enforcement escalate their response. This escalation call was made to RiverCom — Jeremiah Johnson's own employer — while Jeremiah was the complaining party in an active police response.

Ryan Hell, while en route to booking, also called RiverCom from a 911-only phone. According to the deputy narrative, Ryan stated he was homeless and could not afford the tow bill, claimed he was being targeted and victimized, and sought assistance.

Upon arrival and interaction, Deputy Musgrove noted that Ryan denied making any threats involving firearms and denied the allegation of threatening others with a knife. The deputy's own narrative records that Ryan "talked at length" — language inconsistent with someone in a violent or threatening state.

Charging decision: Sgt. Musgrove directed that Ryan Hell be charged with three (3) counts of Felony Harassment — Threats to Kill. Ryan was additionally trespassed from the 7599 Colockum Road location — a property he had been lured to under the false promise of emergency medical care for himself and a disabled passenger (Gina) exhibiting signs of diabetic shock. Ryan was offered his keys and told to leave, but only on the condition that he leave Gina behind — inside the barn, denied medical care, after more than five hours without treatment. Ryan's original 911 call (24C06391) was placed at approximately 11:30 AM to noon. Dispatch coordinated Jeremiah Johnson to collect Ryan and Gina, and they arrived at the property around 1:45 PM. The CAD exchange in which dispatch suggested Jeremiah simply return Ryan's keys occurred at approximately 4:00 PM or later. Ryan was not arrested until approximately 5:30 PM.

GINA NEVER RECEIVED MEDICAL AID.
Not from RiverCom. Not from the deputies who arrived at 5:30 PM. Not from anyone. A woman in diabetic shock made contact with the 911 system at approximately 11:30 AM and was denied emergency medical care for the entirety of a more than five-hour ordeal. There is no lawful, accidental, or plausibly innocent explanation for that timeline. The entity whose sole function is coordinating emergency medical response had its Operations Manager on scene for the duration — personally ensuring that response never came.

Ryan refused to abandon her. He was in no condition to drive, experiencing symptoms consistent with a possible stroke. He had a duty of care that no one else on scene was exercising.

During the time Ryan remained, 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 attempting to secure intervention for Gina.

WHAT THE VIDEO DOES SHOW — JANA JOHNSON, ON CAMERA:
The produced dashcam footage — tampered as it is — still contains Jana Johnson on camera, laughing, calling Ryan a bitch, and stating she will "slap the shit out of his bitch ass." This is not the conduct of a household living in terror of a man making deadly terror threats. It is the conduct of a staged provocation.

The pattern on scene was unmistakable — every person present except Gina was yelling, escalating, and cycling through tactics clearly designed to produce maximum confusion and then rage. The behavior was reminiscent of park rangers taunting a bear to provoke a charge — except these tactics were deliberately engineered, and they were buying time. The deputies were not arriving for hours. Every escalation served a purpose.

THE ASSAULT — AND WHAT WAS BEHIND IT:
Ryan had retreated to the farthest point of the property to remove himself from the confrontation. They came out and surrounded him — ordering him to leave or die. Jana then struck him from behind. At the moment of the assault, Jeremiah Johnson was standing directly over Ryan's shoulder, hand at his side on what Ryan believed to be a personal firearm. This was confirmed two ways:

(1) CAD LOG: Jeremiah Johnson's firearm carry is noted in the CAD call log from his own 911 call.

(2) ON-FILM DEPUTY STATEMENT: A Chelan County Sheriff's deputy is captured on film reviewing Jana Johnson's cell phone footage on scene. The deputy audibly gasps, then asks: "Jeremiah, did you pull your piece on him?" Jana Johnson responds, working to stay calm: "No, that was his phone." The deputy responds: "Oh OK, it looked like you pulled your gun — not that I have a problem if you had."

A law enforcement officer, reviewing footage of a man being assaulted from behind while a second man stood over him with his hand on a firearm, pre-approved the shooting on scene. That statement is on film.

JEREMIAH JOHNSON GAVE CHASE — ARMED — AS RYAN FLED:
After being struck, Ryan staggered to his feet. Jana was laughing, calling him a bitch, taunting him to fight back — deployed as bait while her husband stood armed and waiting for Ryan to retaliate. Ryan did not retaliate. He ran directly away from the group, off the property.

Jeremiah Johnson gave chase. As Ryan fled the property — having been assaulted, surrounded, and provoked for hours — Jeremiah Johnson pursued him with his hand on his firearm. Ryan had stated his intention to report the entire operation to authorities: the kidnapping, the extortion, the abuse of their 911 positions. Jeremiah Johnson chased the man who had just been assaulted on his property, while armed, as that man fled off the property. The arrest that followed was not law enforcement intervening in a violent situation. It was the completion of a setup.

JANA THEN CARRIED OUT PRECISELY WHAT SHE THREATENED ON CAMERA:
The threat is on tape. The act — the assault itself — was excised from the footage produced to the defense. That is not a gap. That is evidence of tampering.

CRITICAL — ASSAULT FOOTAGE EXCISED:
The assault by Jana Johnson does not appear in the dashcam footage produced to the defense. It was excised. The produced footage contains forensically documented tampering signatures identified through FFmpeg metadata analysis — including altered timestamps, non-linear audio/video desynchronization, and AI manipulation tool artifacts — that are the subject of formal Complaint No. 25-00031 filed with Chelan County. Undersheriff Dan Ozment dismissed that complaint in two sentences on January 29, 2026, with no documented methodology and no independent forensic review.

The removal of the assault footage is not a gap. It is evidence. The version of events the state is prosecuting depends entirely on a video record from which the physical attack on Ryan Hell has been deleted. Ryan was not the aggressor. The evidence that he was the victim was removed from the record produced to his defense.

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WITNESS STATEMENTS
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Witness statements were collected on scene and appear in the report on pages 11–16. Witnesses include Jeremiah Johnson and others present at 7599 Colockum Road on July 4, 2024.

Key witness account (Jeremiah Johnson, paraphrased from written statement): Described Ryan as "amped up." Stated Ryan "walked down driveway" — indicating Ryan was attempting to leave — and that when told to calm down, Ryan "peeled his vest off and pulled a folding knife." Johnson's statement thereby confirms: (1) Ryan was attempting to leave the property; (2) Ryan pulled the knife only after being surrounded and confronted; (3) the knife was produced in a defensive context by a person trying to depart, not as an offensive weapon by an attacker.

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PRIOR CALL CROSS-REFERENCE
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This incident report explicitly cross-references:
PRIOR CALL: CCSO ATL 24C06391

24C06391 is the original medical emergency 911 call placed by Ryan Hell on July 4, 2024, in which Ryan reported that a disabled woman (Gina) was experiencing a diabetic emergency and was being physically prevented from accessing medical care. Deputies had access to this prior call context at the time of the July 4, 2024 arrest.

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TOWING / VEHICLE
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Booking documents reference "Malaga Impound Lot" and "DTF Garage." However, witness statements and photographic evidence reference "Mountain Highway Towing & Recovery," and physical truck markings and records identify the actual towing entity as B&T Towing, Cashmere, WA — a company whose LLC had been dissolved and whose FMCSA authorization status is documented as NOT AUTHORIZED. The discrepancy in towing company identification across official documents is unexplained.

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CHARGING SUMMARY
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Charges authorized by Sgt. Musgrove:
Count 1: Felony Harassment — Threat to Kill (RCW 9A.46.020)
Count 2: Felony Harassment — Threat to Kill (RCW 9A.46.020)
Count 3: Felony Harassment — Threat to Kill (RCW 9A.46.020)

Additional action: Trespass order issued for 7599 Colockum Road.

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CONTEXTUAL NOTES (Legal Significance)
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1. CONFLICT OF INTEREST: The complaining party (Jeremiah Johnson) was an employee of RiverCom — the same 911 dispatch center that processed both the original emergency call (24C06391) and the complaint call (24C06401). This created a direct conflict between Jeremiah's role as a private party and his institutional access to and influence over the 911 dispatch system.

2. BRADY DEPUTY: The primary arresting officer (Musgrove, K8) was on the Brady/Giglio disclosure list prior to employment with Chelan County. Use of Brady-listed officers in investigations creates mandatory disclosure obligations in any resulting prosecution.

3. TERRY STOP LEGALITY: The CAD log for this incident documents that Jeremiah Johnson stated to dispatch that Ryan Hell had not been violent toward anyone and had simply refused to leave while choosing to wait for deputies. A Terry stop under Terry v. Ohio, 392 U.S. 1 (1968) requires reasonable articulable suspicion of criminal activity. The complaining party's own contemporaneous statements to dispatch undercut the factual basis for the level of force deployed.

4. SELF-DEFENSE CONTEXT: Under RCW 9A.16.020, a person may use force to prevent unlawful interference with person or property. Ryan was detained on property following a medical emergency call he had placed. The "threats" documented were conditional statements made after he was surrounded and unable to leave.

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