GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Attorneys for a man injured in a crash with a former prosecutor say the first police officer on the scene lied to them in a deposition months ago.
The client, Daniel Empson, was getting into his car when former Kent County Assistant Prosecutor Joshua Kuiper — who was driving the wrong way on a one-way street — crashed into the vehicle just after midnight on Nov. 19, 2016. The crash sent Empson flying down the street, put him in the hospital and kept him out of work for weeks.
Last week, the city released recordings of phone calls between the responding officer, Adam Ickes, then-Sgt. Thomas Warwick and former Lt. Matthew Janiskee in which they talked about how to minimize the crash even though Kuiper had apparently admitted he had been drinking. The officers thought the phone line they were using was not being recorded, but it was.
Empson is suing Kuiper and three bars he was apparently drinking at before the crash. One of Empson’s attorneys at Johnson Law, Brian Molde, said Ickes lied under oath while being deposed in May.
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