I've met and fished with Rich. I can personally vouch that he was a tribal police officer when I met him. You should have seen the warm looks the friendly folks of Forks gave him as he drove around in his tribal police car.

It was also at this time that I heard about his encounter with a BigFoots. I can tell when someone is lying or whack-a-mole crazy. At the time, it was very apparent that Rich did have an encounter with something and that he wasn't making it up and he wasn't showing off the crazies.

This was...oh...damn near 20 years ago....so I can't vouch for him now.