Dirty State Trooper Pleads Guilty

[Paul31]

CHEYENNE -- Claiming he wanted to clear his conscience, a former state trooper admitted Monday to arresting a truck driver as part of a scheme to kill him, stage a crash and collect settlement money.

Former Wyoming Highway Patrol trooper Franklin "Joe" Ryle Jr., 42, told a federal judge he didn't follow through with the plan because he couldn't bring himself to kill the trucker.

"There is no way I could harm that guy," Ryle said.

Ryle made the admissions as part of a plea deal with federal prosecutors that came six months after he stopped Wal-Mart trucker Richard Smidt while patrolling near Douglas. The trooper planned to murder Smidt and stage a crash with his patrol vehicle in order to collect a settlement from the corporate giant.

Under the terms of the plea agreement, which was laid out during a hearing in U.S. District Court, Ryle pleaded guilty to depriving the truck driver's civil rights and carrying a pistol during the Jan. 8 crime. The government will dismiss a third charge that alleged Ryle solicited a second trooper to participate in the plot.

Prosecutors will recommend Ryle serve a prison sentence of 19 to 22 years. Ryle's attorneys are free to argue for a lesser sentence.

http://www.trib.com/articles/2009/07/21/news/wyoming/16e46f6ae1149140872575fa00015a85.txt

The article continues about how this trooper suffered PTSD. Yeah right. How could one have suffered PTSD in Wyoming law enforcement? These men and women don't know anything about stressful police work. This guy all he did was patrol a section of I-25. How hard could that be? I could teach a monkey to do the same.

[Jagergeist]

Scary. I wonder what kind of psychological testing, if any, they had.

[Gray]

Cop hater!

Kneejerk reaction!

There, now that we have the usual excuses out of the way we can discuss this.

:)

[NascarGirl2448]

As bad as what this guy did was, it was lucky for the trucker that the guy realized following through on his scheme would only make things worse.

[gdoane]

He'll pay for it. Cops that do time in the slammer have no friends. The guards consider them traitors to law enforcement and the prisoners consider them worse than the guys who incarcerated them.

19-22 years in pure Hell where everybody hates you and you don't even have the option to choose sides?

The Judge would have done this guy a favor by sentencing him to hang at dawn.

[EmmanuelGoldstein]

Seems to me they could have gotten a lot more creative prosecuting that low life piece of ****. Kidnapping? Attempted murder? Extortion?

19-22 years is not nearly long enough.

Clear his conscience, my ass.

[EmmanuelGoldstein]

Cop hater!

Kneejerk reaction!


Something tells me they won't participate much in this thread.

[jimjames418]

Something tells me they won't participate much in this thread.
Em,
Should I post about all the nurses that kill people, and then say all nurses do that? Just asking. :whistle:

[gdoane]

Em,
Should I post about all the nurses that kill people, and then say all nurses do that? Just asking. :whistle:

Of all professions to not tick off, nurses have got to be in the top three. Even cops can't stick you with a needle and get away with it.

[Paul31]

The real reason he couldn't kill a Wal-Mart truck driver becuase all of their trucks are mounted with GPS. And it was GPS that helped confirmed the truck drivers story. Also in violation of WHP policy, he never had his mounted camera turned on when he came upon that driver.

[EmmanuelGoldstein]

Em,
Should I post about all the nurses that kill people, and then say all nurses do that? Just asking. :whistle:

Sure, as soon as you can prove I (or anyone else here) claim all police do this.

[EmmanuelGoldstein]

Of all professions to not tick off, nurses have got to be in the top three. Even cops can't stick you with a needle and get away with it.
LOL

I love needles.

Ask any (staff) nurse out there and they'll confirm they do the same ... I always scope out other people's arms to check out their veins (and estimate the gauge needle I could get in them)

Every now and then I'll see a 14. Woohoo!

:lol:

[Hadassah]

Of all professions to not tick off, nurses have got to be in the top three. Even cops can't stick you with a needle and get away with it.

That's right! We nurses got da powah!!!! :twisted:

[Hadassah]

CHEYENNE -- Claiming he wanted to clear his conscience, a former state trooper admitted Monday to arresting a truck driver as part of a scheme to kill him, stage a crash and collect settlement money.

Former Wyoming Highway Patrol trooper Franklin "Joe" Ryle Jr., 42, told a federal judge he didn't follow through with the plan because he couldn't bring himself to kill the trucker.

"There is no way I could harm that guy," Ryle said.

Ryle made the admissions as part of a plea deal with federal prosecutors that came six months after he stopped Wal-Mart trucker Richard Smidt while patrolling near Douglas. The trooper planned to murder Smidt and stage a crash with his patrol vehicle in order to collect a settlement from the corporate giant.

Under the terms of the plea agreement, which was laid out during a hearing in U.S. District Court, Ryle pleaded guilty to depriving the truck driver's civil rights and carrying a pistol during the Jan. 8 crime. The government will dismiss a third charge that alleged Ryle solicited a second trooper to participate in the plot.

Prosecutors will recommend Ryle serve a prison sentence of 19 to 22 years. Ryle's attorneys are free to argue for a lesser sentence.

http://www.trib.com/articles/2009/07/21/news/wyoming/16e46f6ae1149140872575fa00015a85.txt

The article continues about how this trooper suffered PTSD. Yeah right. How could one have suffered PTSD in Wyoming law enforcement? These men and women don't know anything about stressful police work. This guy all he did was patrol a section of I-25. How hard could that be? I could teach a monkey to do the same.

One can suffer from PTSD for other reasons than being a police officer. This man was in the Marines and the article also said that the PTSD resulted (at least partially) from issues in his personal life.

[neoINDIE]

Cop hater!

Kneejerk reaction!

There, now that we have the usual excuses out of the way we can discuss this.

:)

Discuss what?

The guy was obviously a nutjob.

[mysticbeauty_nbeast]

He'll pay for it. Cops that do time in the slammer have no friends. The guards consider them traitors to law enforcement and the prisoners consider them worse than the guys who incarcerated them.

19-22 years in pure Hell where everybody hates you and you don't even have the option to choose sides?

The Judge would have done this guy a favor by sentencing him to hang at dawn.

No kidding...can't imagine what life will be like the first year or so for this guy...that is, if he lives through it.

Maybe I didn't hear the story right on a purposed bill that would place any law enforcement official who is to serve jail time would be taken into custody by our military law enforcement. Serving in facilities like Leavenworth...which is no picnic to be sure..but a hell of a lot safer then say local or county/state facilities. Anyone else hear about the proposal? Would make a hell of a lot more sense and make is safer for these convicts to do their time.

~Mysty

[jimjames418]

LOL

I love needles.

Ask any (staff) nurse out there and they'll confirm they do the same ... I always scope out other people's arms to check out their veins (and estimate the gauge needle I could get in them)

Every now and then I'll see a 14. Woohoo!

:lol:
Last time I was in the hospital I got two shots a day in the stomach. Heprin I think is what they called it. I was black and blue for ever over that.

[jimjames418]

No kidding...can't imagine what life will be like the first year or so for this guy...that is, if he lives through it.

Maybe I didn't hear the story right on a purposed bill that would place any law enforcement official who is to serve jail time would be taken into custody by our military law enforcement. Serving in facilities like Leavenworth...which is no picnic to be sure..but a hell of a lot safer then say local or county/state facilities. Anyone else hear about the proposal? Would make a hell of a lot more sense and make is safer for these convicts to do their time.

~Mysty
Too bad they have shut down Portsmouth Naval Prison. Talk about a bad place to serve time. It was closed in 1974.

Portsmouth Naval Prison's future (http://www.seacoastonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080413/BIZ/804130313)
Constructed between 1905 and 1908, the Portsmouth Naval Prison was, in fact, modeled after Alcatraz. It was set on an island with tidal currents to deter escape.

The plan apparently worked. No escape from the Portsmouth Naval Prison was ever confirmed.

[mysticbeauty_nbeast]

Too bad they have shut down Portsmouth Naval Prison. Talk about a bad place to serve time. It was closed in 1974.

Portsmouth Naval Prison's future (http://www.seacoastonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080413/BIZ/804130313)

??? Whaaa? What does this tid bit have to do with present day safety concerns for law enforcement officials who break the law and have to do time?

A criminal is a criminal is a criminal...all must serve their time. Some of those criminals are high profile or within the field of law enforcement itself..and therefore take extra tax moneys to ensure their safety. Placing those types of criminals in the hands of say our military installations/prisons would be a promising way to go at no extra cost to tax payers. I remember a bill proposal speaking directly to this issue...and am wondering whatever happened to it. :whistle:

~Mysty

[EmmanuelGoldstein]

Last time I was in the hospital I got two shots a day in the stomach. Heprin I think is what they called it. I was black and blue for ever over that.
Only twice a day? Sounds like lovenox but in any case, bruising on your belly beats blood clots ;)

[EmmanuelGoldstein]

No kidding...can't imagine what life will be like the first year or so for this guy...that is, if he lives through it.

Maybe I didn't hear the story right on a purposed bill that would place any law enforcement official who is to serve jail time would be taken into custody by our military law enforcement. Serving in facilities like Leavenworth...which is no picnic to be sure..but a hell of a lot safer then say local or county/state facilities. Anyone else hear about the proposal? Would make a hell of a lot more sense and make is safer for these convicts to do their time.

~Mysty

I understand what you mean, but part of me is saying "so what?"... it's not like those in law enforcement don't know the risks if they go to prison. But I'd support this for the sole reason that it would ease the burden on the state and federal prison personnel who'd have to keep them segregated and clean up any mess that occurred if anything did happen.

[Paul31]

Of all professions to not tick off, nurses have got to be in the top three. Even cops can't stick you with a needle and get away with it.
Then you better be extra nice to Emma.

[mysticbeauty_nbeast]

I understand what you mean, but part of me is saying "so what?"... it's not like those in law enforcement don't know the risks if they go to prison. But I'd support this for the sole reason that it would ease the burden on the state and federal prison personnel who'd have to keep them segregated and clean up any mess that occurred if anything did happen.

I understand the 'so what' mentality...I do. A criminal is a criminal after all...fair is fair and all that. I've seen the effects of this class of criminal while working in the jail system..and man..what a pain in the arse they are! Expensive too! Financially, it costs a tax payer more to keep a ex law enforcement inmate then to keep your average every day criminal.

It costs tax payers almost twice (not quiet twice..but darn close) what a normal prisoner does. I'd like criminals who also were within the law enforcement field, not to cost dime one more then any normal shumck who broke the law. Wish I could find that bill...but am unable to locate anything about it. Must have been killed already. It had a good premise and a good solid backing by those in law enforcement. Running/policing a jail is a hard enough job without adding these law breaking cops to the day to day. That part of my tenor that I don't miss. :hand: Those men and women have one heck of a hard job on their hands...all the more difficult when one of these rouge cops shows up.

I get more angry at the waste of dollars. The waste of training said individual to do the job of a law enforcement officer; the wasted trust of the public that officer abused in breaking the law; and the waste in time other law enforcement officers have to give in order to manage said criminal as well as clean up the mess they left behind.

I say it's better to throw um into Leavenworth...let the military boys have um. :think: Seems like a perfect fit.

~Mysty

[neoINDIE]

cheyenne is just one white ghetto
esp east cheyanne filled with white thugs ranging from
goths emo metalheads grudgies punk sid vicous types
irish borgues & candians

Candaians you say? :lol:

[badkarma]

The article continues about how this trooper suffered PTSD. Yeah right. How could one have suffered PTSD in Wyoming law enforcement? These men and women don't know anything about stressful police work. This guy all he did was patrol a section of I-25. How hard could that be? I could teach a monkey to do the same.
I don't know if PTSD has any relation to what this idiot trooper was planning or not, but what I do know is that you probably don't really understand who it is that can suffer from PTSD (hint, its not just combat troops and drug enforcement agents)

[Paul31]

cheyenne is just one white ghetto
esp east cheyanne filled with white thugs ranging from
goths emo metalheads grudgies punk sid vicous types
irish borgues & candians
What the Hell does Cheyenne and it's people have to do with this? Go purchase or in your case, steal a dictionary...........Weirdo.

[sgtmac_46]

Cop hater!

Kneejerk reaction!

There, now that we have the usual excuses out of the way we can discuss this.

:)

I'm sorry, I didn't realize fraud and murder were the sole actions of the police.

Let me clear up some confusion.....us 'cops' come out to defend GOOD cops who are being WRONGLY targeted by clowns and cop haters who's KNEES are jerking! That happens FAR MORE than finding a BAD cop who is rightfully convicted of a kidnapping/murder scheme........folks like yourself want to LINK the two together, so that you can be right on every LEGITIMATE use of force or traffic stop debate, simply by pointing to guys like this clown.......but you're NOT!

I don't defend kidnappers and murderers, but it's clear you want to compare defending Officer Smith for using his pepperspray in a fight with a GANG MEMBER that was caught on tape, and the race makeup of the scuffle was wrong, with the asinine notion of DEFENDING a kidnapper/murderer.......and THAT is asinine.

[sgtmac_46]

He'll pay for it. Cops that do time in the slammer have no friends. The guards consider them traitors to law enforcement and the prisoners consider them worse than the guys who incarcerated them.

19-22 years in pure Hell where everybody hates you and you don't even have the option to choose sides?

The Judge would have done this guy a favor by sentencing him to hang at dawn.

He should have just done everyone else a favor and hanged himself.

[sgtmac_46]

Something tells me they won't participate much in this thread.

Really? Because this guy was a cop his actions somehow transfer to me? That's what guys like gray are insinuating. Most threads like this get brought up as a bludgeon, NOT against this clown who deserves to hang, but against the guy who wrote him a ticket on his way to work the other morning.

In reality it's like the occasional nurse who poisons her patients.....an aberration, but in the case of nurses we don't use it to paint the nursing profession as corrupt. ;)

What would be REALLY interesting to examine, however, is the source of Schadenfreude behind this stories about police officers.......certainly they don't get posted in order to point out how bad kidnap/murder schemes are......anyone who does something like that should hang. They seem to be tied to a deeper resentment, one more fundamental, and NOT about bizarre aberrant cases like this.

[sgtmac_46]

I understand the 'so what' mentality...I do. A criminal is a criminal after all...fair is fair and all that. I've seen the effects of this class of criminal while working in the jail system..and man..what a pain in the arse they are! Expensive too! Financially, it costs a tax payer more to keep a ex law enforcement inmate then to keep your average every day criminal.

He should do the honorable thing........Seppuku.

[EmmanuelGoldstein]

Really? Because this guy was a cop his actions somehow transfer to me?
No, but the participation in other threads is much greater.