Wade Carpenter

dealing a heavy blow to the prosecution's murder case against Corey Richens.

Within half an hour, Bates got a call from Park City Police Chief Wade Carpenter.

She expressed feeling ambushed, and per the affidavit, Carpenter warned that the accusations could compromise the Richens trial.

Both men strongly encouraged her to pass the information along to the county attorney prosecuting the case.

Later that January, an anonymous letter arrived at the prosecutor's desk.

Rigby previously served as deputy under Edmonds.

And when Rigby's 2023 nomination to lead Post, Utah's police standards agency is what Post is, it hit political snags.

Edmonds publicly vouched for him at the confirmation hearing, a council chaired by none other than Wade Carpenter.

dealing a heavy blow to the prosecution's murder case against Corey Richens.

Within half an hour, Bates got a call from Park City Police Chief Wade Carpenter.

She expressed feeling ambushed, and per the affidavit, Carpenter warned that the accusations could compromise the Richens trial.

Both men strongly encouraged her to pass the information along to the county attorney prosecuting the case.

Rigby previously served as deputy under Edmonds.

And when Rigby's 2023 nomination to lead Post, Utah's police standards agency is what Post is, it hit political snags.

Edmonds publicly vouched for him at the confirmation hearing, a council chaired by none other than Wade Carpenter.

Now, digging up political opposition research is standard practice, and it's completely legal, but prosecutors contend that targeting this specific information at an active murder trial crossed the line into criminal conduct.

dealing a heavy blow to the prosecution's murder case against Corey Richens.

Within half an hour, Bates got a call from Park City Police Chief Wade Carpenter.

She expressed feeling ambushed, and per the affidavit, Carpenter warned that the accusations could compromise the Richens' trial.

Both men strongly encouraged her to pass the information along to the county attorney prosecuting the case.

Rigby previously served as deputy under Edmonds.

And when Rigby's 2023 nomination to lead Post, Utah's police standards agency is what Post is, it hit political snags.

Edmonds publicly vouched for him at the confirmation hearing, a council chaired by none other than Wade Carpenter.

Now, digging up political opposition research is standard practice, and it's completely legal, but prosecutors contend that targeting this specific information at an active murder trial crossed the line into criminal conduct.

If Maynard didn't withdraw from the political race, those allegations would be made public, dealing a heavy blow to the prosecution's murder case against Corey Richens.

Within half an hour, Bates got a call from Park City Police Chief Wade Carpenter.

She expressed feeling ambushed, and per the affidavit, Carpenter warned that the accusations could compromise the Richens trial.

Both men strongly encouraged her to pass the information along to the county attorney prosecuting the case.

These two men share a long history.

Rigby previously served as deputy under Edmunds, and when Rigby's 2023 nomination to lead P.O.S.T., Utah's, uh, p- uh, police standards agency is what P.O.S.T. is, it hit political snags.

Edmunds publicly vouched for him at the confirmation hearing, a council chaired by none other than Wade Carpenter.

Now, digging up political opposition research is standard practice, and it's completely legal.

This is when that anonymous letter was handed over, and in that letter, there were major allegations of misconduct by Detective Maynard, and investigators believe the purpose of the letter was to discredit Maynard's testimony at Kouri's trial.

Within thirty minutes of that meeting, Sheriff Rigby got a call from Park City Police Chief Wade Carpenter, and investigators say Carpenter told Ms. Bates the allegations against Detective Maynard could impact Kouri's trial, and the search warrant affidavit said both Carpenter and Rigby told her she should talk to the Summit County Attorney about these allegations.

According to the affidavit, Carpenter contacted Bates' chief deputy in December of twenty twenty-five to discuss Maynard's personnel records.

During that conversation, Carpenter reportedly mentioned that a public records request would be submitted to the Heber City Police Department.

Edmunds pushed for Sheriff Rigby to get that position on January nineteenth of twenty twenty-three at a POST council meeting where he said, "Jared Rigby is an exceptional man.

He worked for me as a deputy sheriff when I was the sheriff of Summit County.

Worked for me for many years, and the man does his job and does it well." Now, Park City Police Chief Wade Carpenter was POST council chair and was on the panel that interviewed candidates, but he was not a voting member of the POST council.

Sheriff Rigby's swearing in was set for January of twenty twenty-three, and it was delayed due to questions surrounding his handling of an internal investigation after a news story on the issue was done by Fox 13 Now News.

Yes, thank you for having me this morning.

Well, uh, KPCW has been reporting on a grand jury indictment against the Wasatch County Sheriff this week, and part of what has been, uh, laid out by prosecutors in the limited amount of documents that are currently public in this case, uh, was their belief that the current Park City Police Chief, Wade Carpenter, was one of those, quote, "working closely" with Sherard Rig- Sheriff Rigby to discredit one of his political opponents earlier this year.

Um, before the news Wednesday, the mayor had declared his full confidence in Chief Carpenter.

From a council perspective, has that confidence waned at all?