The answer is simple… A LAWSUIT, A FAILED PROTECTION ORDER, A FAILED FBI INVESTIGATION, AND A FALSE ARREST!!!
The hatred Spokane County Sheriff Ozzie Knezovich has for both Matt Shea and Scott Maclay is extremely well documented. That hatred led to Knezovich being a driving force behind the “Brady Cop” Deputy Travis Pendell lawsuit against Matt Shea and Scott Maclay, which apparently isn’t going well for the Sheriff or Pendell, after Pendell’s sworn deposition. The attempt by Knezovich and his allies, Brandi Peetz, and her father Bob West was summarily dismissed by a Judge, leaving only as far as Orders of Protection go, an effort to obtain one by Maclay’s ex-wife and Knezovich ally Laura Renz still open and headed for court. Kenzovich’s complaint to the FBI and subsequent investigation about Maclay threatening his life and putting a bounty on him went nowhere, even though members of the Joint Terrorism Task Force, Special Agent Jennings and Spokane County Sheriff Deputy Shane McClary, diligently interviewed many residents regarding Maclay, none of which have been covered by the local Main Stream Media other than a short article about the Shea lawsuit leaving this news site as the only place to get the facts. What is troubling about the lack of reporting by the local MSM is that a lack of diligent investigative reporting breeds corruption. It is hard to believe that the arrest of a Sheriff Knezovich political enemy (Maclay) at the Sam Strahan memorial service isn’t newsworthy, it is one of those stories that you start to investigate wait for a while out of respect and then in report on it. I don’t know how anyone could not think a full-blown Federal Investigation on Knezovich’s complaint against Maclay could not be considered news…but apparently the MSM don’t or they are too lazy to do the work. Whatever the excuse might be, it isn’t healthy for the Community.
https://examplepro.me/2018/01/09/to-answer-the-same-question-in-one-shot/
As most of my readers know getting to the truth isn’t an easy task with the City of Spokane and Spokane County who delay Public Records Requests if they possibly can to keep the Public from knowing the inevitable truth. Both the City and County of Spokane could take a lesson from Pend Oreille County as far as diligence and transparency is concerned they have been great as far as responding to my Public Records Requests and yesterday in response to my latest PRR to them I promptly received the case disposition in State of Washington v. Michael Scott Maclay which is imaged below.
The decision not to charge Maclay is no surprise, even a lay person reading the arrest reports regarding Knezovich’s arrest of Maclay could easily see the arrest was based on hatred rather than Probable Cause. Even the involved Deputies reports placed the blame for the arrest squarely on Knezovich perhaps knowing it was motivated by other than true law enforcement purposes. When you read in an arrest report statements like this it becomes obvious that there is something deeply wrong with the arrest.
It is hard to tell whether Sgt. Simmons made that statement to Knezovich or not, perhaps depositions in a lawsuit will bring out the truth, however as the Pend Oreille Prosecutor points out it was pure fallacy.
With just a little bit of checking any reporter could have easily determined that Knezovich’s statements about Maclay assaulting his wife were false, and those statements are something Knezovich will likely have to answer to later this year.
https://examplepro.me/2018/02/02/it-is-getting-badreal-badthe-worst/
https://examplepro.me/2018/02/03/the-hit-team/
Knezovich tried everything he could to get the Pend Oreille County Prosecutor to charge Maclay, and even went to unheard of lengths to do so.
https://examplepro.me/2018/01/31/never-in-all-my-years/
https://files.acrobat.com/a/preview/5cca15f9-de01-4e4f-8a4d-6332032557f9
When it became obvious to Knezovich that the Pend Oreille County Prosecutor wasn’t going to charge Maclay, Knezovich stuck to his MO and sent a nasty email to the Pend Oreille County Prosecutor in a last-ditch effort to get any kind of a charge against Maclay. We must now add Pend Oreille County Prosecutors to the long “List of Deplorables”.
Buffalo Brian Breen 