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Suspicious by Law Enforcement

Things citizen investigators flag as suspicious about state and local agencies — Orem PD, the Utah County and Washington County Sheriff's Offices, UVU police, Utah DPS, the Governor's office, and the Office of the Medical Examiner. Federal conduct is tracked separately under Suspicious by the FBI. Every item is an attributed claim or open question; no official named here has been charged with or found to have committed any wrongdoing.

The numbered list​

  1. Booking sheet arrest time contradicts affidavit — 10:00pm 9/11 on the booking sheet vs 04:00 9/12 on the submission record
  2. Miranda at 6:25 PM versus Brooksby's account — a Mirandized suspect 90 minutes before the Discord confession was posted
  3. Missing surrender CCTV and bodycam footage — no body cam found, lobby CCTV purged at 30 days
  4. Courtyard paved over days after the shooting — a contractor's "the governor and the FBI want this done by Monday"
  5. UVU GRAMA records show pre-shooting warnings — two men asking about "a plan" 14 hours before, six officers for 3,000 people
  6. Claim Robinson did not surrender voluntarily — Candace Owens on the missing written confession
  7. Gun drop location and the search sequence — nothing found by hand, nothing found by dogs, then found
  8. No autopsy and death-certificate questions — the claim that Utah law required one and none was done
  9. SUV interior photos with blurred windows — fragments on the seat rail, a blurred pane, no ambulance on site
  10. Sheriff Brooksby's resignation — the sheriff at the center of the surrender timeline steps down
  11. Unknown woman signed the medical examiner report — an anonymous DM claim, included so it can be checked

How to weigh these​

The eleven items above are not equal, and the numbering is roughly by strength rather than by chronology. Items 1 through 5 rest on documents that exist: booking paperwork with two different arrest times on it, a defense motion quoting a Bates-stamped video exhibit, a county's on-the-record statement in a public-records appeal, a contractor speaking on camera under his own name, and a 112-page GRAMA production obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation. Whatever they ultimately mean, there is something there to argue about.

Items 6 through 11 thin out quickly. Some are questions that have a published answer the questioner did not look for — the autopsy item, for instance, is largely resolved by the fact that Utah seals medical examiner reports during an active capital prosecution, so "no public autopsy" and "no autopsy" are being treated as the same thing when they are not. Item 11 is a secondhand direct message with no name, no document, and no corroboration; it is listed only so that it can be either substantiated or retired rather than circulating forever unchecked. A claim that cannot be checked is not evidence of anything, and the honest thing to do with one is say so.

The through-line worth your attention is the paperwork, not the atmospherics. Resignations happen, reports get signed by deputies, and campus offices field cranks before every political event — none of that is remarkable. But an arrest time that appears twice in one file with a six-hour gap, a Miranda warning that predates the confession it supposedly followed, and surrender footage that two separate systems failed to preserve are the kind of specific, falsifiable problems that either have a boring answer on the record or do not. Start at item 1 and work down; the further you go, the more the burden shifts back onto the person making the claim.