FROM A LAKE STEVENS WOMAN · FORMER LSPD COMPLAINANT · SENT VIA FACEBOOK MESSENGER · ANONYMOUS
"Be careful with lake stevens pd plz. they are not trust worthy."
Sent privately by a Lake Stevens woman who had already filed a complaint against LSPD herself — she knows firsthand what it is like to bring something to this department. She asked to stay anonymous out of fear of retaliation. She is not alone — every account below is on the record.
Direct outreach & written complaints
On the record, in their own words
Sworn declarations, signed citizen complaint forms, and emails sent directly to the Chief, Mayor, City Council, and state legislators.
OngoingAnonymous Lake Stevens woman — former LSPD complainant
Facebook Messenger
"Be careful with lake stevens pd plz. they are not trust worthy"
Be careful with lake stevens pd plz. they are not trust worthy
Sent privately by a Lake Stevens woman who had previously filed a complaint against LSPD herself — she knows firsthand what it is like to bring something to this department. She asked to remain anonymous out of fear of retaliation, a fear that, as the records on this site show, is not unfounded.
June 30, 2015Cynthia "Cindy" Brooks — 17-year LSPD employee, Police Guild secretary
Sworn declaration · Warbis v. City of Lake Stevens (Snohomish Co. Sup. Ct. 14-2-02417-5)
Chief Lorentzen: "If I had to live with her, I'd suck start my gun."
I have heard Dan Lorentzen, Chief of Police, refer to Marlo Warbis in terms I considered derogatory and offensive… 'If I had to live with her, I'd suck start my gun.' Lorentzen was talking to other members of law enforcement when he made this comment.
I was told by Jenn Anderson, another City employee, that Lorentzen had referred to Marlo Warbis as 'bat shit crazy.'
I AM CONCERNED THAT PARTICIPATING IN THIS MANNER WILL NEGATIVELY IMPACT MY EMPLOYMENT WITH THE CITY OF LS.
A sitting LSPD employee swore under penalty of perjury that the chief openly disparaged an officer's spouse using suicide imagery — and that she expected to be retaliated against for saying so.
May 9–11, 2017Stephanie McNeal — USN Retired (OEF-OIF 07-08)
Email to Chief John Dyer
"I expect this type of false reporting from the Lake Stevens PD. I've got it all on video."
I've never once dealt with any Lk Stevens officers who didn't make me feel they were being inconvenienced.
The incident report I just got today wayyyyyy after the fact is false!!! 100% false… There's a 3rd person listed that wasn't there.
An uninsured licensed suspended driver drives away and the officer sits there!!! That's a bogus incident report!
My comment about expect[ing] that from LSPD goes back to officer Thor when he responded to a hit and run again 200 plus in property damages… nothing was done then to the uninsured, unlicensed driver.
A Navy veteran from a law-enforcement family documented a falsified collision report and a pattern of LSPD officers refusing to act on uninsured drivers caught on video.
May 18, 2020Nicholas & Cecily Johnson
Written citizen complaint to Mayor Brett Gailey & Chief John Dyer
LSPD refused to serve a DV protection order, then told the protected homeowner the abuser had "every right to live here."
Sergeant Thomas… told me, 'you didn't check the correct boxes to have the PD serve the protection order'… It clearly states on the DVPO that the LSPD is to serve this order.
Sgt. Thomas told me that Kiner had every right to live here and you have to let him in the house.
Lyons responded 'I hope it's not you I'm coming to arrest.'
Lyons informed me, we have already wasted too much time on this, you got what you wanted.
It is obvious to me that in the mind of the LSPD I am the criminal and not the victim.
Officer Lyons and Sgt. Thomas let the restrained party back into the protected person's home, then threatened the homeowner with arrest when she asked the order be enforced.
September 17, 2020Sgt. Robert Miner (internal) re: Rebbecca Johnson rape / DV-order case
Internal LSPD email chain (Case 20-11921)
A rape victim's DV-order violation was retroactively re-classified from "order violation" to "suspicious" three months later — with no report ever written.
Sgt. Miner: 'I'm not sure going back 3 months later and changing the call status to a suspicious is the right thing to do… that needs to be documented after an investigation has already started.'
Officer Anderson: 'If anyone else wants to take the responsibility of charging persons with false crimes they are welcome to do so without my involvement.'
Sgt. Summers: 'Sorry about Alan's response and delay in this and I agree a[n] informational report could have been done.'
Context from Miner: 'the DV order was between a rape victim and her attacker (husband).'
LSPD's own sergeant flagged that a sex-assault survivor's order-violation call was being quietly downgraded and erased instead of investigated.
April 20–29, 2021Diana McCorkle
Citizen complaint → escalated to Rep. John Lovick after LSPD non-response
"If I cannot trust the words of one of your officers then I cannot trust your entire police force."
You have serious problem with one of your officers, Officer A. Bryant. He speaks to ordinary citizens like they are either dumb little children or suspects. He lied to me!
I tried to contact the LSPD to file a complaint and I was treated with disbelief. Sgt. James Barnes then promised to call me back… and he never called back.
He treated me like I had made the whole thing up and said that Officer Bryant refuted all my statements. I have no faith in getting my concerns addressed in a respectful and timely manner.
McCorkle had to route her complaint through her state representative because LSPD's internal complaint intake refused to take her seriously.
October 10, 2022 – January 30, 2023Tosha Edwards
Email complaints to Chief Beazizo, Deputy Chief Young, City Council & City Administrator
After her 16-year-old biracial son was assaulted, LSPD treated the victim as the problem — and the Deputy Chief used the child's medical condition as an intimidation tool.
Officer Schedler literally asking me 'What do you want me to do?' in which I replied 'I don't know… Do whatever the law says to do when a drunk adult assaults a minor'.
DC Young suggested that we 'Make the body cam public' because, according to him, no one else would agree with me. Then he followed up with 'I assume you already did considering your disdain for our department'.
DC Young took it upon himself to not only speak to an unauthorized adult about my son's private medical condition, he also made comments like 'If he is that fragile, should he even be outside?'.
Chief Beazizo… was able to tell me what [public-records] requests got denied as well… When my associate asked him who we can speak to above him he said 'no one'.
Apparently not the family of a Latino boy who was attacked by a drunk guy for 'looking suspicious'.
City Administrator Gene Brazel later told the City Council: 'Please don't feel inclined to respond to the email below from Tosha Edwards.'
November 7, 2022Tanaya Hooten
Signed LSPD citizen complaint form
Corporal Schedler gave a domestic-violence survivor's home address to her stalker — and another survivor's too.
Corparel Schedler… asked if i still lived at my address i stated yes about 7:40 this lady i have never even met said she was 'varfying address's'…
When the sargent called this corparel he admitted to goving out my address as well as shuna wilsons address putting her an her children at risk as well.
Now i dont even feel safe in my own home yet again but this time its at the hands of a lake stevens police officer.
Same officer (Schedler) Tosha Edwards had already filed against weeks earlier — and the one Chief Beazizo called "a future leader in the department."