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Mayor Schor: RELEASE THE WILCOX REPORT! As reported in the Lansing State Journal April 14, the Lansing police department is refusing to release a report of its investigation of Ryan Wilcox. The investigation was completed March 27, but the LPD isn't talking about it and Mayor Schor supports the department's decision not to release the report. Wilcox embezzled from the city by mowing lawns while on the clock as an officer, reporting overtime he did not work, and charging $105,000 to a city-issued credit card over a period of 2.5 years. In addition to mowing lawns on city time, he got paid over $12,000 by the National Testing Service to do interviews for other police departments. Wilcox retired March 10, 2025 at age 46 with 25 years of service after purchasing 14 months of service - presumably with the money he embezzled. The cost of that purchase was $186,628. This is from the minutes of the March 2025 meeting of the Police & Fire Retirement Board:
His annual pension is $108,837.73, but $20,570.64 of that had to go to his ex-wife, leaving him $88,267.09. That is $7,355.59 per month. In May 2025, he was sentenced to 10 months of probation and ordered to pay $18,500 in restitution by 54A District Court Judge Cynthia Ward. Rumors of Wilcox's cheating had been going around for about 15 years, so why did it take so long for him to be called to account? Was this a common practice at the Lansing Police Department? Did Wilcox just take it too far? And why did he receive such a light sentence? Was it pressure from the Capital City Labor Program, the union for Lansing police? Is that also why Mayor Schor won't release the report of internal investigation? The City's failure to provide information requested by the LSJ over the last year is outrageous. All I know is what I've read in the LSJ, mostly stories written by reporter Matt Mencarini. Here are links to all the stories I could find:
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