After a rogue wildlife officer made the news, state officials are scrambling. We have some info-
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- The legislature asked DWR to address Fab Rats Legal troubles. The Utah Legislature and Governors office are now taking actions to solve the underlying issues.
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Sorry for the sound. Our mic broke. But stay tuned for an update.
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No shit dude , god dam lets stand out in a wind storm and talk about important stuff so know one can make out heads or tails of whats being said , lol
I was having lunch today with a friend at a little out of the way place in Jonesboro, AR. As I was telling my friend about your encounter with the Rouge officer, a gentleman passed our table said "You are talking about FAB RATS aren't you?". A conversation ensued from there. Small world.
In my opinion, this officer has been getting away with his tactics for so long because the people that he ticketed did not have over 500,000 friends and supporters to speak up for them and to get the attention of the governor. I know that I would not feel comfortable to come into Utah with a boat as long as this man is still employed by the state. Thank you "Ride Utah TV" for the up dates.
All of his previous convictions should be re-examined or automatically overturned and fines reimbursed. Anything less should result in the people going to the courthouse and guillotining all the people who didn’t take action sooner.
A Badge is a responsibility to Enforce the Law, Not a Weapon to Enforce your personal Will upon others
I’m glad Paul fought this and brought this nonsense to light. LE officer for lots of years, discretion is a huge part of our job. Hope there’s repercussions for this officer’s heavy handed actions as it makes the rest of us look bad. Enjoy your channel, thanks for sharing!
Good news is always nice to hear of. The Cox family did not deserve this treatment. No excuses for bad enforcers.
@@Plutogalaxy so YOU would pay a fine you DIDNT break? screw that! you just asking for tickets every day! this is a bs officer with a power trip!
There is nothing wrong with asking for transparency and oversight as citizens. No agency should ever have an issue with providing it. If it does then that is the first red flag that the leadership of that agency is suspect.
Apply that logic to the current federal government......
I sent an email to Utah division of Wildlife asking for the officer to be removed from his job. All your viewers should do the same.
Thank you for posting this clip ,let’s get this bad guy out of a job there’s way too much on him years past ,he should of lost his job long time ago
It’s good to hear our elected leaders are responding to this. Rouge agents waste public funds and take up valuable court system time
Politicians are NOT leaders. That kind of thinking is how they've amassed so much power.
Even "if" the officer is removed he will likely be moved to another area. From the evidence on one case alone, the whitehouse will pick him up as an expert and make a job for him.
Your video was on the recommended videos after watching Fab Rats video. I Agree with you he should lose his job. As someone who has worked for the state of California in the CCC to get experience to work for State parks or other agency's they tend to only hire people they have connections with and then try to keep them even when they are not right for the job. Worked with a lot of trails guys and it seems like a 50/50 split on these types of people. The higher ups tend to want these types of people so they can use them like attack dogs.
I’m sure fab rats doesn’t feel like this but it’s good that they got hit because this guy has probably been getting away with it and wheeling his power to his own Liking.
Most anybody else he’s been harassing has probably had to pay because they don’t have the film to back them up in court as fab rats would have had. And yes he needs to go there are a lot of good officers out there and they need to weed out the bad ones otherwise your image is tarnished across the community.
My guess would be that Paul and Michelle wholeheartedly agree with you!
He's the dirtbag that tried to kill a deer on private property with children around for no legal reason. His reasons are because he was given the power to do so. He was removed from that position but he should've been charged with poaching and firing a weapon in a residential area with children around. Any of those things done by a random person he would arrest them. There shouldn't be 2 types of justice and 2 different groups for who has to follow the law and who can be held accountable for breaking the law!
I'm glad he's been exposed. Now he needs to lose his job. Like yesterday.
This officer must be related to someone higher up. He is being protected for some reason.
I appreciate this video! Thank you!
Thank You for Standing With Your Neighbors !
The Nazi with the badge and gun should be fired and stripped of his pension
I have left a message for Kane County Sheriff regarding Micah Evans trespassing on The Coxs property and entrapment
I agree with your sentiment but the guy wasn’t trespassing. He was clearly invited in to Paul’s shop, and asking questions about an investigation - however ridiculous - is not entrapment.
Entrapment would be if a DWR officer persuaded or convinced a boater that they didn’t need to stop and clean off their boat or do a mussel inspection and then arrested them or charged them with not doing what they were supposed to do.
Trespassing would be if he entered Pauls home or shop or property without consent, or stayed after consent was withdrawn. Simply driving down someones drive-away to knock on the door to request permission into the abode is not trespassing.
Thanks for saying his name!! Paul said everyone knows who he was but I did not. Thanks again
Way out of line. An overreach of power. We once had a game warden officer ( I don't remember his proper name but he was referred to as Toke eye) here in my neck of the woods who thought he was the sheriff of the whole county. Trying to bust people for things that he had no jurisdiction over. Another wanna be cop like a lot of security guards and the like. There are more good officers than bad that understand their job duties. One bad apple makes everyone look bad unfortunately a lot of the time. Paul Cox did nothing wrong outside of saving the state wages for their staff to remove the boat/trash from a long dried up lake bed and restored it and has been trying to return it to its owner instead of keeping it for himself or trying to sell it for a profit and doing it all for free. If it wasn't for him and his relation and crew the boat would have been scrapped. That boat was so dried out for so long there were a couple mice living in it.. He did the state good not bad. He was only singled out because of his youtube channels success. Paul is a saint not a sinner and the world need more like him. Goodness of the heart should not be punished but praised. The state owes him an apology at minimum. If the truth was known the officer might have had his eye on it for his own. It reminds me of NY trying to take Trump down. Ain't going to happen.
The barking yam is a criminal clown, he's going down.
You had me right up until your Trump anecdote!
W I T F did u bring Drump into this story??
Don't follow the news? Do you know who Jack Smith is??
PATHETIC.
I never agree with the notion that one bad cop makes the rest look bad. They all are bad because they know of the ones who are bad and do nothing about it.
This is the first I’ve found of your videos and while the wind was overpowering i could hear and understand just fine
I couldn’t believe when the wanna be hero showed up at Fab Rats but there’s always a few that want to make a name for themselves I’m glad they posted the interaction it got a lot of attention
I also appreciate your diplomacy in dicsussing this issue
Had seen many videos of how low the lake was with that boat Fabrats got charged on, being high and dry for months. Plus there was a mouse nest inside, if that boat had only been on shore for less then 30 days, plus the time between when Paul heard about the boat, went and looked at it, doing all the calls and paperwork to go get the boat and doing removal had to be well over the 30 days required. That guy needs to lose his job.
yes mous don´t come walking buy in 30 days ..
way way longer ..The officer is a A Hole
Fab Rats have everything video documented!
Yeah saw that video big fan of Fab Rats and you can see the officer trying to trick Paul. Funny thing is the went through a check station on the way back. I also believe this officer is the same one who gave my buddy and his father false information and then wrote a citation.
Back the blue until it happens to you.
Matt offroad pulled a truck out of lake Powell that was in the water for 2 days. Is that a violation, the owner of truck just drove off.
I highly doubt the owner of the truck will get it running the same day and proceed to drive directly to another lake and sink it. 🤣 Crisis averted!
Good. That's what a responsible government should do.
Why can’t we name these law enforcement thugs publicly? It worked with Bud Lite.
Micah Evans is the officers name
Thx for this video, i appreciate the update on this overreach!!
That Wildlife Officer needs to be removed from that agency!!!
These are the kind of limp dick people that end up on homeowener's association.
I am greatful for the office of Sheriff. So they can take control of the county.
Okay here is my two cents on this, the first time I seen that vessel was in a CZcams video about the water level in the lake, probably about 18 months before Paul went down to look at it. I remember it because it was a pretty little vessel with clean sharp lines I remember thinking to myself oh, what a waste. In my younger days I laid a lot of fiberglass and was surprised by how well it had stood up under time underwater. That boat had been high and dry for a while. The first time that vessel seen water in years was when Merlin took a hose to it. So this out of control officer sporting a judge dredd complex, though he was doing Paul dirty just exposed the corruption he is involved in. Guess he didn't figure on the backlass and support of Paul's fans . Never entered his mind that he was going to become a CZcams star. Whoops .
He's still employed to bully others unfortunately.
AS I HEAR IT, NO CHARGES FOR FABRATS, THEY ARENT LIKIN THE NEGATIVE PR
Them not paying the fine preserves freedom . The more the innocent just roll over and pay fines. Only funds and fuels there march to takeaway more and more of are freedoms. Think about that the next time you just pay the fine. When you wasn't at fault or your being targeted unlawfully.
He Needs to Be Fired...This Has Gone On To Long...
This one person needs reigned in.
Thanks for your video.
Jest more government over reach .
I saw they drop the charges on June 7
Fire this guy
The Forest Service also has "LE" that harass people in the forests. I was in a conference room testing video conferencing equipment and "LE" was in the next room with all the regional staff in attendance. (Region 3, NM and AZ) The leader of the group was discussing the activity they had patrolling the forests. The gist was how to harass people minding their own business and using sneaky methods to search people in the forest camping and riding the trails. They reveled in stories of how they arrested people by pushing them so they could arrest them for resisting the officers. As a senior manager in the FS I was appalled but then I remembered that many of these LE people are junior grade and are wearing badges that gave them unprecedented authority over others. A very bad combination.
“Letting a demonstration be judged by its most violent participants but not judging a police force by its most violent cops is the language of the oppressor.”
--R. Andrew Free
Bad police officers can only exist with the approval and protection of all of the other police officers, which makes them accessories before, to, and after the fact. If there were actually any good police officers (i. e. law enforcement officers) there would be no bad police officers because they would be arrested for their crimes.
A police force that approves and protects bad police officers can only exist with the approval and protection of the chain-of-command, which makes them accessories before, to, and after the fact. If there was any good police officers in the chain of command, there would be no bad police officers because they would be arrested for their crimes by the good police officers (i. e. law enforcement officers).
You have just admitted that you are just as bad as all of those you claimed to be appalled by.
@@oldtimefarmboy617 Lighten up Francis. I took action asI was a GS 15 and knew the senior managers these asshats reported to. Don't be so quick to spout virtuosos crap and try to bar something you're not
@sjb3460 I took action. what that was sin't your concern. Since I posted my name I guess it's not "anonymous" And,, I've been retired 8 years now so I can imagine the new generation of low skilled, low payed FS LE are on the prowl. This post was a warning to those who like to use their public lands to know they cannot trust anyone with a badge
One of the greatest mistakes the FS has made is making LE responsible directly to the Chief's Office, rather than to the local line officers. Some are dedicated employees, but many are loose cannons, because they are not responsive to the local line officer.
“Why doesn’t he get fired”? Come on man, it’s Utah! It’s not that had to figure out.
Thank You Ride Utah-TV. You do good work!
Wow! The last time I read about a "rogue" law enforcement officer, it was not only from Utah, but in the EXACT same area. In fact, I'd bet a hundy on the two rogues knowing each other.
Good law enforcement officers deserve respect and support. Officers who abuse their position should be fired, lose their pensions, and if applicable face trial for their behavior.
To bad the flag was flying. He should, have taken it down. Hard to hear it. Had to listen very, VERY, VERY, VERY CLOSE. But, so glad he made both videos!! YESSSSS!!!
THE WIND NOISE…
If their that concerned about these mussles that their setting up catch stations why not just post a officer at a inspection station at the lake that has to sign off your boat is clean. Im not fron Utah i live in wv so im not knowledgeable about their procedures currently but i am aware of the fabrats situation been a viewer since pauls first video.
That’s a California tactic…it needs to stay in California. The mussels are already up & down the Colorado River. There should be education and possibly the occasional courtesy inspection, but no enforcement.
People will watch if the video is not great but will not if the audio is bad. The audio is not great. 😊
I live in Wyoming, but the invasive muscle BS is the reason I got rid of my boat. This is nothing more than bureaucrats lobbied by tree huggers to give these alphabet agencies the power to create rules that persecute law abiding citizens that just want to enjoy the outdoors. Taxes is the first step in taking away your access to public lands, rivers, lakes, and creeks. You want to have a boat or ATV look at all the read tape and fees (taxes) you have to pay!!! You can't tell me muscles only get across state lines by hitching a ride on some one's boat or jet ski, there are so many tributaries & rivers that cross state lines, these are much more of a threat to upsetting the balance of the eco-system than a personal water craft. Time to take back your rights and it starts with your local sheriff growing a pair and running rogue state and federal agencies out of their counties.
Given this officers 'history' and the disciplinary action, (or lack thereof), I think that serious questions should be asked of those who are supposed to be overseeing these officers and reviewing their actions. The sudden decision to set up catch stations in Kanab stinks of retaliation. And of course they will say that it had NOTHING to do with the public calling out of the DWR officer. Of course they will SAY that this had been proposed years ago and the timing is 'purely coincidental,' and we will believe it just as IF it were true.
Where I live, our local Sherriff is excellent! I actually went to school with him and was in Boy Scouts with him. The local County attorney and the judges are all right but usually they're the only ones that run for that position, so you don't always have much to select from. They do an acceptable job, but they don't have much competition.
time to assign that officer to desk duty for the rest of his career.
As a Canadian tourist and boat enthusiast, this all looks really bad on the state of Utah. I understand what they are trying to do , and I support it 100%. One bad apple ( in this case, pretty obvious ) can make the whole state look bad. Why this guy still has his job is a mystery. I'll visit other states first, before I run into these type of officers. BTW, I support law enforcement, but I hate bullies with badges.
Michelle made the comment how they support Good law enforcement. Unfortunately if this officer has been getting away with this corruption. It reflects So badly on the elected officials, not to mention his supervisors. Absolutely disgraceful
DWR dropped the charges.
I was going to visit Utah with my camper but if this is the kind of parks and wildlife officers you have I will pass
My hearing is absurdly bad. I heard you just fine. Perhaps these folks complaining should give it up and move out their moms basement.
I have only seen a few of your Videos, you do a good service for the State of Utah. Thank you. As for the Fab rats they did a good thing removed a navigation hazard, a environmental hazard. and restored a Cool Boat. I live near the area in question and there is plenty of law enforcement with out DNR setting up shop more then they are now BLM, two Sheriffs offices, two DPS and two city police departments.(I love our law enforcement and some are friends) this move seems to be a Money issue, a piece of the so called pie. Not an invasive species protection, just a revenue producer. a Second look at this is very needed. Granted you can launch small craft at some beaches on the Utah side of lake Powell but NPS has officers to cover this, it's not perfect, but well you get my point. Thank you again for the coverage of this. I wish Paul and his crew the best and you all so for your coverage, of this and other hard work you and yours do.
Government is out of control
I bet this rogue doesnt get out much at night. Some good ole boy would snatch a knot in his tail.
This makes my day :p
I don't know how a person would do it but, every ticket should be reviewed that this "officer" wrote. Sounds like Utah state officials have got a corrupt officer.
Enjoy your channel..
Arrogance & Ignorance often seem to be prevalent in "law enforcement" now days, unfortunately the cost to fight their idiocy often prevents innocent citizens from standing up. It is important that those officers found to be over stepping their authority should IMMEDIATELY be removed from service to protect others less able to protect themselves.
Can't finish watching the video, too much wind noise. I don't understand why some people choose such adverse recording spots. Put a sock over the mike it will help.
Audio was so poor I just turned it off!
The wind sucks.
Put that officer in charge of picking up dog shit?
Harrison County Texas once nominated a game warden for sheriff to get him out of the woods because of his dubious behavior as warden.
If enrollment really wanted to help with this, they should just help people at the lakes to make sure all is good. Without the fines and court dates. As for this rogue officer, I think the state will produce some unwanted pressure on that office and officer rogue will be gone.
Micah Evans is the gung-ho "officer"
Back to blue until it happens to you.. Sounds like this game. Warden is a loose cannon?
My God get out of the wind.
DNR = do not resusitate
DWR = ? ? ?
Many officers have body cams. Seems we citizens need them too to protect ourselves from officers like this!
We had one just like him in vernal it’s been a few years age he tried trapping people all of the time after so many complaints instead of firing him they relocated him last I heard he was in southern Utah but he might have retired by now but I don’t think it’s a service to not make his name public every one should hear about him but on the other hand the good ones should be publicly praised and thanked the public shouldn’t fear there law enforcement like the KGB or something
Don't protect him... NAME him !
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Micah Evans.
In vernal was Jason Teagarden
He wasn't profiling, he was just looking for possible thefts. He was also being bullied bye the video taker. That would cause anyone to react unproffessinaly. My opinion from viewing this.
Glad I'm no longer an outdoors kind of guy (my health doesn't allow it). No knock on Utah as I've never been there but I've seen law enforcement abuse of citizens and their rights for years in every place I've been. It at least sounds like something may be done now to deal with it in your area.
I support LAW ENFORCEMENT officers absolutely.
Cops not at all.
That being said, if any government official can not be trusted and if a cops charges are dismissed the majority of the time or even a lot of the time, then they are obviously violating the law and should be arrested, charged, prosecuted, and imprisoned; no matter who they are or what branch of government they work for. It is the law and it is their sworn duty to do so.
“Letting a demonstration be judged by its most violent participants but not judging a police force by its most violent cops is the language of the oppressor.”
--R. Andrew Free
Bad police officers can only exist with the approval and protection of all of the other police officers, which makes them accessories before, to, and after the fact. If there were actually any good police officers (i. e. law enforcement officers) there would be no bad police officers because they would be arrested for their crimes.
A police force that approves and protects bad police officers can only exist with the approval and protection of the chain-of-command, which makes them accessories before, to, and after the fact. If there was any good police officers in the chain of command, there would be no bad police officers because they would be arrested for their crimes by the good police officers (i. e. law enforcement officers).
Byrd v. Brishke, 466 F.2d 6, 11 (7th Cir. 1972)
“We believe it is clear that one who is given the badge of authority of a police officer may not ignore the duty imposed by his office and fail to stop other officers who summarily punish a third person in his presence or otherwise within his knowledge. That responsibility obviously obtains when the nonfeasor is a supervisory officer to whose direction misfeasor officers are committed. So, too, the same responsibility must exist as to nonsupervisory officers who are present at the scene of such summary punishment, for to hold otherwise would be to insulate nonsupervisory officers from liability for reasonably foreseeable consequences of the neglect of their duty to enforce the laws and preserve the peace.”
Helm v. Rainbow City, Alabama, 989 F.3d 1265 (11th Cir. 2021)
Stevenson v. City of Seat Pleasant, Md., 743 F.3d 411 (4th Cir. 2014)
Anderson v. Branen, 17 F.3d 552, 557 (2d Cir. 1994)
Peterson v. Heymes, 931 F.3d 546 (6th Cir. 2019)
Cooper v. Garman, 2021 WL 4033113 (M.D. Pa. Sept. 3, 2021)
The UTAH DWR issued Fab Rats a citation saying they transported mussels across state lines. Then Fab Rats posted a video about it and the DWR removed the citation. The DWR officer is on a video and he even says the mussels were dead. The boat had been out of water for about a year and the policy is if it’s been in the water the last 30 days. They cleaned it before transport, then it sat in Glendale UT for a winter, then went to AZ and got pressure washed again. czcams.com/video/0CJ1zaS7Teo/video.html and czcams.com/video/R1GrdXPr2kw/video.html. The original finding of the boat was posted on December 27, 2021. The rear was still in a bit of water. It was not in any water when Fab Rats went to look at it the first time. Then an ignorant news channel does a story on it and tries to degrade a local CZcamsr. ABC4 UTAH does not do any research
Love fabrats
U need a "Dead Rat" for the wind. Why is that body or water fenced in? I saw the Fab Rat's vid. That seemed dicey to me also.
My lavaliere mic broke at the worst time! Thanks for commenting! That’s normal a fenced grazing area. There usually isn’t water there.
next time stand out of the wind only got half of what you said
I heard everything he said even with the wind. People needs to stop trolling in the comments
Wtf was that all about?
Why don’t you get the heck out of the wind so we can understand what you are saying. 😮
Needs to be a Supreme Court smack down on all dnr department s. 4th and 14th amendment.
the wind is killing your voice.
Consider buying a windscreen for your microphone so we can actually hear what the hell you’re saying. Or record the video where there is no wind. Maybe ever turn your back to the wind. HELLO!
Subtitles would help.🙉
If you're going to make CZcams videos, buy a microphone with a windscreen. Two-thirds of what you said is completely unintelligible because of wind noise. "Sorry, my mike broke" is not an excuse for a video that can't be understood by viewers.
Good information horrible video😮
I would like to hear what you had to say, but I can’t understand what your saying. Something something… the DA doesn’t trust the officer… something (your lips are moving lots of wind).
Put a sock over the mic.
Find a better area to fill, can't hear over tgexwind?
What’s with the truck and then wind noise. I’m not watching
Go inside to much wind
mic. sock. unwatchable.
Quagga/Zebra mussels primarily move from one place to another through human-related activities. They attach to hard surfaces and can survive out of water for up to a week. The microscopic larvae also can be transported in bilges, ballast water, live wells or other equipment that holds water.