Police chief pissed fire chief didn’t report paramedic who stole morphine
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Cottonwood Heights (UT) Police Chief Robby Russo is very unhappy with the Unified Fire Authority and Chief Michael Jensen. Russo says it’s a violation of the public’s trust that the police department wasn’t notified back in June after morphine was stolen from the fire department and that a paramedic who was suspected in the theft was allowed to resign without a police investigation.
The police chief told KSTU-TV that his officers only found out about the theft three months later from a third party. Chief Russo is concerned the paramedic could be working for another agency. While Russo has plenty to say about all of this, Fire Chief Jensen, who is also chairman of the Salt Lake County Council, has had no comment.
Russo believes this same paramedic could be connected with a rash of thefts of morphine and fentanyl, which occurred at several stations, including in Cottonwood Heights, back in 2013. In some of those cases, the real drugs were replaced with other substances.
Russo says when Cottonwood Heights reached out to UFA for information they were denied.
“We haven’t been granted access to any of that information,” he said. “We asked for the records, and that request has been declined.”
UFA Chief Michael Jensen referred all questions to Salt Lake County, which is conducting their own investigation. The Salt Lake County Sheriff’s Office confirmed they are conducting an investigation on this matter, but they wouldn’t go into any further details.
