I just completed reading the lawsuit and the affidavit for search warrant. Unbelievable work by Detective Wendy Willette. Incredible detail, etc. Excellent job. The warrant is signed by a judge which should protect the officers, but you never know. I mean, O.J. Simpson was found not guilty. Fish Receiving Ticket information is vital to WDFW managers. It was my experience that FRT fraud, or under reporting was/is too common. Many years ago I charged a fish buyer, who was buying salmon on the Makah Res., with more than two hundred counts of failure to report (send in ) FRT in the time required by law. He had then strewn about the van he used. The most interesting aspect of the current case to me is that this is tribal members cheating tribal members. Did the tribal leadership do anything about this?

On one occasion another officer and I were sued with false arrest, false imprisonment, conversion, etc. The allegations were outrageous and not factual. So, I hired my own attorney, counter sued and won several thousand dollars. I hope the officers in this case, if they are named, do the same.