GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — The city of Grand Rapids has released five recorded police phone calls between Grand Rapids police officers about a former prosecutor’s wrong-way car crash.
The calls were made after a November 2016 wrong-way crash involving then-Kent County assistant prosecutor Josh Kuiper. The recordings were released Wednesday after a Michigan Court of Appeals ruled in favor of MLive Media Group, ordering the city to release the recordings.
On Nov. 19, 2016, Kuiper drove the wrong way down Union Avenue SE, hitting a parked car and injuring its driver.
The responding officer, Adam Ickes, called Grand Rapids Police Department headquarters and told then-Lt. Matthew Janiskee, who was the watch commander that night, that Kuiper was “hammered.”
Janiskee ordered Ickes to switch to line 3407. That line was marked “not recorded,” but was actually being taped — inadvertently, the city says.
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