Evidence file · Case 24-1-00253-04 · Chelan County Superior Court
B&T Towing LLC
Brandon Chase Huntington · Peshastin, WA
Illegal Tow Operator
Entity Record — WA SOS & FMCSA
Sequence of Events
July 4, 2024 · ~11:30 AM · Colockum Wilderness
911 call — life-threatening medical emergency
Gina in acute medical distress. Truck flat on factory alloy — fixable for under $100, not requiring a tow. Ryan calls 911.
During 911 call
Dispatcher solicits vehicle make, model, drivetrain, engine spec
After conferring with an unidentified nearby party, dispatcher asks: "Is your truck 4-wheel drive, and does it have the V6 or V8?" Ryan shuts it down and explicitly states: "Nobody is allowed to touch my vehicle for any reason, without my explicit permission." Dispatcher confirms this restriction by repeating it back verbatim.
~1:00 PM
Pickup by Jeremiah Johnson (RiverCom Ops Mgr.) and Jana Johnson (911 employee)
Jeremiah presents as a volunteer. Jana relays real-time physical descriptions of Ryan and Gina to an unknown party during transit. Jeremiah bypasses the Wenatchee hospital and routes to an undisclosed location — claiming an ambulance is coming. No ambulance arrives.
~2:00–3:00 PM
B&T Towing arrives — vehicle seized without consent
Red rollback bearing painted "B&T Towing — Cashmere, WA" door signage arrives. Ryan's truck is driven by a third party — not transported on the rollback. Brandon demands $1,000 cash. Debit refused. No impound notice. No rate card. No carbon copy forms.
Documentation exchange
"I don't just carry a printer around" — plates blocked — 7-month expired tabs
Brandon refuses impound documents, refuses a business card, physically blocks the license plates when Ryan raises a camera. The expired tabs — ~7 months out — are visible once plates are partially unobstructed. Ryan photographs the truck.
Impound demand
"Will your truck make it to my house?" — No licensed yard exists
Ryan accepts impound. Brandon asks if the truck can drive to his house in Cashmere / Peshastin. Ryan: "Drive to your HOUSE!? Where is your tow lot!?" Brandon has no registered storage address. He has a residence.
Threat sequence
"He doesn't get it does he" / "You don't even know what's about to go down"
Jeremiah calls in: "He doesn't get it does he!!" Brandon nods. Ryan identifies the operation as an illegal shakedown tied to Jeremiah's city position. Jeremiah does not deny it. He laughs and says: "You don't even know what's about to go down out here." The assault begins within minutes.
State Patrol demanded — assault follows
Jeremiah panics — coordinated assault — obstruction by force
Ryan demands State Patrol. Jeremiah immediately begins mumbling and making calls. Jana and others launch a coordinated escalation: spitting, physical assault, screaming, threats. The assault begins the moment State Patrol is invoked and functions to prevent a neutral officer from arriving to a scene with ten observable violations.
On-Record Statements — Verbatim
Jeremiah Johnson — RiverCom Operations Manager
"He doesn't get it does he!!"
Said to Brandon Huntington about Ryan, while Ryan demanded documentation and State Patrol. Brandon confirmed with a nod.
Jeremiah Johnson
"If you decline to pay that means you are forfeiting your truck and giving it to us."
Said to Ryan after Ryan accepted impound. Direct statement of extortion. Made in front of witnesses.
Jeremiah Johnson
"You don't even know what's about to go down out here."
Said to Ryan with a laugh after Ryan identified the operation as an illegal shakedown. The physical assault began within minutes.
Brandon Huntington — B&T Towing
"I don't just carry a printer around out here."
Said when Ryan demanded impound documentation. Carbon copy forms — not printers — are the industry standard field documentation tool.
Brandon Huntington — on camera, to a deputy
Bragged that he put a spare wheel on the truck and drove it out of the wilderness himself.
On video, in front of law enforcement. Confirms no tow occurred. Confirms unauthorized vehicle operation. Confirms unauthorized repair after explicit 911 audio denial.
The Billing Fraud — Ten Simultaneous Failures
The State claims $1,000 for a "3-hour tow rescue." Brandon Huntington told a deputy on camera that he put a spare wheel on the truck and drove it out himself. The truck never sat on the rollback. By the operator's own admission, the billed service never occurred. What follows is the complete documentation record — or rather, its complete absence.
No tow occurred — Brandon's own admission
On video, to a deputy, Brandon states he put a spare wheel on the truck and drove it out himself. The State does not dispute the truck was never on the rollback. A vehicle driven under its own power is not a tow under RCW 46.55 or WAC 480-15.
Rollback was theatre — transported an ATV, not Ryan's truck
The rollback carried a side-by-side ATV to the scene. It transported nothing away. It was present to establish the visual appearance of a legitimate tow operation.
Unauthorized repair explicitly denied on 911 audio
Ryan stated on 911 audio: "Nobody is allowed to touch my vehicle for any reason, without my explicit permission." Brandon installed a spare wheel and drove the truck. He then bragged about it to a deputy on camera.
Firefighter narrative contradicts Brandon's own statement
The State suggests firefighters moved the vehicle. Brandon said he did. Both cannot be true. If firefighters made contact: a mandatory WVFD incident report must exist and must be produced. If the firefighter story is post-hoc fabrication, that is obstruction.
Video timestamp 17:48:47 — 5:48 PM — destroys the 3-hour claim
The evidence video filename is 20240704_174847.mp4. Android filenames encode the recording timestamp: July 4, 2024 at 17:48:47 — 5:48 PM. Ryan was picked up by Jeremiah at approximately 1:00 PM. That is 4 hours 48 minutes between pickup and when Ryan was recording this video. Under WAC 204-91A-140 Brandon's billable clock runs from when his truck left Peshastin — not from the 911 call, not from the pickup. Peshastin to the Colockum wilderness is ~45 minutes each way. Even accepting the State's claim of '3 hours': at the WSP Class A maximum of $297/hour, 3 hours = $891. At the 135% private impound cap (RCW 46.55.118): $1,201.05 — which would make $1,000 under the cap. But Brandon confirmed no tow occurred. The billable service was installing a spare wheel and driving the truck. That is not billed at Class A tow rates under any lawful rate schedule. The timestamp also confirms Ryan had a functioning camera and was actively documenting — the plate-blocking was a deliberate response to an active recording, not incidental.
"Will it make it to my house" — no licensed impound yard
RCW 46.55.010 defines a storage facility as a licensed, registered location. RCW 46.55.090 requires written notice of the storage address at time of tow. Brandon offered his house. No registered yard exists. No WSP trooper could be present because that trooper's first question — impound yard license and address — had no answer.
"Borrowed truck" impossible — MC-1585659 visible on door in evidence photo
49 CFR 390.21 mandates the operating carrier's legal name and USDOT/MC number on both sides of every CMV. The evidence photo (20240704_174847.mp4, 5:48 PM) shows 'B & T TOWING' painted permanently on the door in white on red, with the partial number '1583...' visible on the door panel — consistent with MC docket MC-1585659, B&T Towing LLC's registered MC number. The truck was marked with both the company name and the MC docket number exactly as federal law requires for its registered operating entity. This is not a borrowed truck. This is B&T Towing operating as B&T Towing under USDOT 4137574 — FMCSA NOT AUTHORIZED. The deputy's and public defender's 'borrowed truck' story requires Brandon to have simultaneously violated 49 CFR 390.21 while working for a company not found in WA SOS or FMCSA records under the name in State documents.
"I don't carry a printer" — no carbon copy forms, not a real operator
Carbon copy impound forms are the industry standard for field documentation and exist precisely because operators work without printers. Brandon didn't know this. A person who has processed even one lawful impound knows about carbon copy pads. They are on the dashboard of every legitimate tow truck in Washington.
Refused business card — blocked plates — 7-month expired tabs
Brandon refused a business card (RCW 46.55.090 / WAC 480-15 require operator ID at time of transaction), physically blocked his license plates when Ryan photographed the truck (RCW 46.37.380), and in doing so revealed ~7-month expired tabs on a commercial vehicle — likely voiding commercial insurance for every mile driven that day.
Ten simultaneous failures — not incompetence
No consent. No impound notice. No carbon copy. No rate card. No business card. Plates blocked. 7-month expired tabs. No licensed yard. FMCSA NOT AUTHORIZED. UBI dissolved. Every documentation and licensing requirement failed simultaneously. This is not negligence. It is the complete operational profile of someone who intended from the start to leave no traceable record.
Legal Claims
Extortion — RCW 9A.56.110
$1,000 cash demanded as condition of returning vehicle. Debit refused. Jeremiah stated explicitly: "if you decline to pay that means you are forfeiting your truck and giving it to us." Obtaining property by threat of permanent deprivation from a captive person in a medical emergency is extortion.
Unauthorized Use of Motor Vehicle — RCW 9A.56.070
Brandon drove Ryan's truck ~25 miles without authorization, then bragged about it on camera to a deputy. Unauthorized operation of another person's vehicle is a Class C felony regardless of any subsequent payment demand.
Criminal Threat — RCW 9A.36.080
"You don't even know what's about to go down out here" — issued by a public safety official with a laugh, before a group assault, in direct response to Ryan identifying the operation. This is a criminal threat and evidence of premeditation.
Obstruction — RCW 9A.76.020
Coordinated physical assault beginning the moment Ryan demanded State Patrol. Function: prevent a neutral officer from arriving to an observable scene. Jana Johnson — a 911 employee — participated in the assault against a person who called 911.
Conversion / Theft — RCW 9A.56.020
Vehicle seized without consent against explicit 911 audio denial. $1,000 cash demand to release it completes the theft by extortion.
Operating Unauthorized Carrier — 49 U.S.C. § 13901
FMCSA NOT AUTHORIZED. Expired tabs. No UTC certificate. Three simultaneous licensing failures at the moment of the tow.
Consumer Protection / Price Gouging — RCW 19.86 / RCW 19.158
$1,000 even, cash only, no itemization, no rate card, above statutory cap, during a medical emergency, with no competing option available. Treble damages and attorney fees available under RCW 19.86.090.
42 U.S.C. § 1983 — Color of Law
Jeremiah Johnson used his position as RiverCom Operations Manager to engineer the seizure, the extortion conditions, and the obstruction of State Patrol. Property rights violated under color of state authority without due process.
Civil Conspiracy — RCW 4.24.630
Jeremiah Johnson, Jana Johnson, and Brandon Chase Huntington acted in coordinated sequence from before the 911 call ended through the assault. "He doesn't get it does he" is a conspiracy communication spoken openly in front of the victim.
Brady / Giglio — 911 Audio, Tow Records, Company Name Substitution
State documents name a non-existent company (Mountain View Towing) in place of B&T Towing — whose truck, operator, and USDOT number are confirmed by photo, video, and public record. The 911 audio preserving the consent denial is Brady material. The cash transaction with no receipt is Brady material. All must be produced.
Have You Had a Similar Experience?
The documented pattern in this case — a 911 dispatch call, an off-books tow operator dispatched without the caller's knowledge, an unlicensed vehicle seized, a cash demand made under duress — is not the profile of a single opportunistic bad actor. It is the profile of a practiced operation.
If you or someone you know has experienced an unauthorized vehicle seizure, unexplained tow charges, or contact with B&T Towing, Mountain Highway Towing, or Jeremiah Johnson following a 911 call in Chelan or Kittitas County — particularly in remote or wilderness areas — your account may be directly relevant to this case and to potential criminal referrals.
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