GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) – A Grand Rapids officer is off the force for how he handled an alcohol-related crash involving a former assistant prosecutor.
The city announced Lt. Matthew Janiskee’s firing Friday. A city spokesperson said city manager Greg Sundstrom made the decision based on the findings presented at Janiskee’s termination hearing.
The firing is retroactive to Jan. 27, which is the day the city suspended Janiskee without pay, along with two other officers who handled the Nov. 19 wrong-way crash caused by then-Kent County assistant prosecutor Joshua Kuiper.
Kuiper was leaving a retirement party for then-prosecutor William Forsyth when he drove the wrong way on Union Avenue SE in Grand Rapids — going 41 mph in a 25 mph zone, according to court documents — and hit a parked car. The car’s owner, Daniel Empson, was injured in the crash.
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