Middleton ISP Report 1
Middleton ISP Report 1
Middleton ISP Report 1
Supplement No
M16000102
ORIG
Reported Date
05/18/2016
Rpt/Incident Typ
BRIBERY
Member#/Dept ID#
HOPKINS,TIMOTHY
Meridian, ID 83642
Phone
(208)884-7000
Fax
Administrative Information
Agency
Case No
M16000102
Supplement No
Reported Date
ORIG
Reported Time
05/18/2016
14:30
Status
Investigate
Rpt/Incident Typ
BRIBERY
Location
County
Region
MIDDLETON
2C2
B3
From Date
05/18/2016
From Time
Member#/Dept ID#
14:30
3417/HOPKINS,TIMOTHY
Entered By
Assignment
3417
DETECTIVE DIST 3
Assignment
RMS Transfer
Successful
Approving Officer
Approval Date
2717
05/24/2016
# Offenses
DETECTIVE DIST 3
Prop Trans Stat
Property?
Successful
None MIDDLETON PD
Approval Time
13:02:42
Offense
Description
18 1359
1
Bias
Loc
88
20
#Pr
MOE
Act
Report Title
Complaint Type
Weapon/Force
IBRS
No
510 1
AC
Use
A N
Cargo?
Person Summary
Invl
Invl No
LAW 1
Race
Sex
Invl
Invl No
LAW 2
Race
Sex
Type
Name
OFCR WALKER,STEPHEN J
MNI
DOB
Type
Name
MNI
DOB
Invl
Narrative
On May 11, 2016, Idaho State Police Detective Tim Hopkins was assigned to investigate allegations of Bribery
and Corruption occurring within the Middleton Police Department.
Report Officer
Printed At
3417/HOPKINS,TIMOTHY
07/11/2016 07:15
Page 1 of 2
MIDDLETON PD
Idaho State Police
M16000102
Supplement No
ORIG
Invl No
Type
Individual
Name
Race
Sex
OFCR WALKER,STEPHEN J
White
Male
Ethnicity
Res Status
Vic/Ofnd Age
Resident
PRN
157765
IBRS Info
Victim Invl No
Offense Codes
510
Invl No
Type
Individual
Name
Race
Sex
White
Male
Ethnicity
Res Status
Resident
Vic/Ofnd Age
PRN
157766
IBRS Info
Victim Invl No
Offense Codes
510
VICTIM 1:
Involvement
IBRS Info
Victim Invl No
Offense Codes
510
Narrative
1.On May 11, 2016, I was assigned to investigate allegations of Bribery and Corruption within the Middleton Police
Department (MIPD). The allegations are centered on MIPD Officers Steve Walker and Robert Kightlinger and a
felony domestic violence against Kevin
2.I was provided with a packet of information which included a letter from Canyon County Prosecuting Attorney
Bryan Taylor requesting the investigation; an email written by Kevin
,
alleging the
misconduct and corruption; a Canyon County Sheriff's Office (CCSO) Consolidated Police Report written by
CCSO Deputy Casey Zechmann; and a time line of events written by
.
3.All documents have been added to the case file and imported into the reporting systems E-files.
Report Officer
Printed At
3417/HOPKINS,TIMOTHY
07/11/2016 07:15
Page 2 of 2
ZIMMERMAN INTRVW
Idaho State Police
Supplement No
M16000102
0001
Reported Date
05/19/2016
Rpt/Incident Typ
BRIBERY
Member#/Dept ID#
HOPKINS,TIMOTHY
Meridian, ID 83642
Phone
(208)884-7000
Fax
Administrative Information
Agency
Case No
M16000102
Supplement No
Rpt/Incident Typ
0001
Reported Date
Reported Time
05/19/2016
15:50
Status
Investigate
Member#/Dept ID#
BRIBERY
3417/HOPKINS,TIMOTHY
Assignment
Entered By
Assignment
DETECTIVE DIST 3
3417
DETECTIVE DIST 3
Property?
Successful
Yes
RMS Transfer
Report Title
Approving Officer
Approval Date
ZIMMERMAN INTRVW
2717
06/05/2016
Approval Time
13:19:12
Summary Narrative
On May 18, 2016, Idaho State Police Detectives Bret Kessinger and Tim Hopkins interviewed Middleton Police
Department (MIPD) Chief Brian Zimmerman about the allegations of corruption made against MIPD Officers
Steven Walker and Robert Kightlinger. The interview took place at the Middleton Police Department located at
305 E. Main Street in Middleton, Idaho.
Invl No
Type
WITNESS
Individual
Name
Race
Sex
RMS Transfer
White
Male Successful
OFCR ZIMMERMAN,BRIAN
PRN
158314
Property
Prop #
Involvement
Invl Date
EVIDENCE-Non-Drug
05/19/2016
In Custody?
Security
Yes
No
Tag No
Item No
160001511
Description
1
Typ
Cat
Article
IBRS Type
Entered Date
Compact Disk
05/19/2016
Entered Time
15:52
Link
OTH
RMS Transfer
Control
Successful
Involvement
WIT
3697
0606160902
Invl No
Name
OFCR ZIMMERMAN,BRIAN
Race
Sex
DOB
Narrative
1.On May 18, 2016 at approximately 11:04 am Idaho State Police Detective Bret Kessinger and I interviewed
Middleton Police Chief Brian Zimmerman about the allegations of corruption made against Middleton Police
Officers Steven Walker and Robert Kightlinger. After the interview Chief Zimmerman gave me the following
documentation;
2.A copy of an email containing information regarding calls for service Officer Walker took on February 14, 2016;
3.A copy of an email with information of a possible witness,
4. Two Middleton Police reports, one regarding a barking dog call with
the other regarding a felony domestic violence case with
Kevin
listed as the suspect.
Printed At
3417/HOPKINS,TIMOTHY
07/11/2016 07:15
Page 1 of 5
ZIMMERMAN INTRVW
Idaho State Police
M16000102
Supplement No
0001
Narrative
7.He will try and lay down a foundation for us. The first he heard of anything was about two weeks ago. Officer
Steve Walker called him and asked him to meet with him alone and confidentially.
8.Walker told him he had been having an affair with a gale (later identified by Chief Zimmerman as
The affair started out as an emotional relationship then became a sexual relationship. Walker had sex
twice with this lady.
9. Walker met this lady while dropping his kids off at the same daycare.
10.Walker was very emotional and remorseful. Walker said he did not want to lose his job or disappoint him.
11.Walker told him the gale he was having the affair with had her husband arrested for domestic battery. Walker
said he had one sexual encounter with her before her husband was arrested and one after her husband was
arrested.
12.Walker then thought holy crap he had to get out of the relationship.
communicating through some of the social Medias.
13.He thinks Walker still had some communication with the lady because she told Walker she was going to the
press and the canyon county prosecutor's officer. She was going to complain about the Middleton Police
Department (MIPD) and about her being stalked.
14.The arresting officer on the domestic case was MIPD Officer Alan Takeuchi.
15.The next day after the arrest she went to a doc in the box and reluctantly told the nurse that her husband hit
her in the back of the head, which matches Takeuchi's interview of her.
16.The nurse called MIPD and reported a battery. Walker took the call and realized the victim was the girl he was
having an affair with. Walker gave a call to Takeuchi and told Takeuchi to handle the call when he came in.
17.He has no reason to believe Takeuchi had any knowledge of Walkers affair. They pass things on to the night
shift all the time.
18.The report talks about this lady and her husband yelling, her falling over the couch and feeling something
hitting her head, but doesn't know what from.
is the lady's name.
19.He thinks
had her friend at the house during the interview and she tracked her husband's phone.
Takeuchi realized
' husband was just down the road and had a Canyon County Deputy arrest him.
Takeuchi cleared the residence, went to the traffic stop and threw
husband in jail for felony domestic
battery.
20.Walker had one more sexual encounter with
after her husband was arrested. After that Walker threw
his arms up in the air, meaning Walker was done with
and said he was going to lose his job.
21.Walker told
he would lose his job because of the affair and told her to erase all of the text messages
between them. Walker erased all of his text messages.
22.He is pretty sure
saved everything.
23.On the side, MIPD Officer Robert Kightlinger had a dog call to
to write her a ticket for a barking dog on
behalf of a complainant. They had just changed the barking dog city code to an infraction from a misdemeanor
but Kightlinger wrote
for the misdemeanor. Walker fixed the citation for
and changed it to an
infraction, so he had more contact with her. It was the right thing to do to change the citation from a misdemeanor
to and infraction.
24.That is all the interaction Kightlinger had with
.
is claiming she had burglaries in her garage,
house, and fence and MIPD did not take reports on these incidents. He does not show any reports from
.
He had his administrative assistant check Spillman, their reporting system, for any reports and she could not find
any.
25.He recommends we ask Walker to check Spillman for us because he is an IT guy. Walker is an everything
Report Officer
Printed At
3417/HOPKINS,TIMOTHY
07/11/2016 07:15
Page 2 of 5
ZIMMERMAN INTRVW
Idaho State Police
M16000102
Supplement No
0001
Narrative
guy.
26.Walker is the best Policeman he has known within his 34 year career, aside from a little affair with the wrong
girl.
27.Apparently
has a sign around her neck that gives off signals, so Kightlinger started texting her.
Kightlinger would just not go away.
mentioned this to Walker and might have even showed Walker some
of the texts she was receiving.
28.Walker told
problems before.
she needed to stay away from Kightlinger because he is nothing but trouble and has had
30.Kightlinger started with the Nevada Highway Patrol then worked for Elko City and was a firearms instructor; he
had a lot of experience. Kightlinger's wife got her dream job in the area with the canyon county coroner's office
so they moved here.
31.Kightlinger is a black and white kind of guy, kind of socially awkward. Kightlinger has written more tickets for
MIPD than all five of the other officers combine. When it comes to social aspects Kightlinger is just a little rough
around the edges.
32.Kightlinger was patrolling and went by
' house where he saw a bunch of cars and saw
garage within shouting distance from the car. This must have been on a Saturday or Sunday.
in the
33.Kightlinger yelled to
, how come I wasn't invited? He does not know what
said to Kightlinger, but
Kightlinger ended up checking out of service, changed clothes and goes to the party. Kightlinger knows no one at
the party but
from the dog complaint, texting, and sexting. Who would do that?
34.He thinks the sexting went both ways, but he doesn't know. Eventually
35.He thinks
said Walker stopped their communication, but
her and Kightlinger.
stopped it.
stopped the communication between
36.This is so ridiculously convoluted it is going to take a diagram for him to absorb it.
37.Yesterday he delivered the administrative leave to Walker. Walker is irreplaceable, but he does not know how
this situation is survivable, but he will deal with that later. Walker has so many skills.
38.Walker said he expected the administrative leave. Walker was more prepared for it than he was.
39.Kightlinger was not emotional at all.
40.He was emotional when talking to Walker because he sees the writing on the wall and it's not looking good.
41.He told Kightlinger it was not an easy thing for him and asked if Kightlinger knew
yes he did. He had a dog call at her residence.
Printed At
3417/HOPKINS,TIMOTHY
07/11/2016 07:15
Page 3 of 5
ZIMMERMAN INTRVW
Idaho State Police
M16000102
Supplement No
0001
Narrative
46.They send a pass on email at the end of every shift which goes to all five officers, like a recap. He could
probably find the email recap that says
husband Kevin went to jail for domestic battery.
47.All the MIPD Officers know what each other are up to. They have been doing the recap since the beginning of
the department and it has worked really well. He could be in Montana and still see what all his guys are doing.
48.If no one is there all of the calls coming into MIPD go to the City Hall and they put it out in a text and in an
email, so if they are not at a desk they get the call through text and it goes out to all the officers.
49.There is no way Kightlinger didn't know Kevin
went to jail for domestic battery, but he didn't ask
Kightlinger if he knew. His interaction with Kightlinger says he heard it all.
50.This is not a line he wants his officers to cross. With
claiming her vulnerability and being a victim of
domestic violence and MIPD chasing her down and having a list of victims of domestic violence they can prey on
and have competitions who can get first proves
is a little on the crazy side. There is some truth to what
she said which is the down side, and Walker admits that.
51.He thinks
is only claiming she did not have sex with Walker until after her husband was arrested and it
was the one time. He doesn't think Walker is making it up they had sex before the arrest as well. At least Walker
is already into the relationship before the domestic. He wasn't like oh the husbands gone and now I'm going to
move in. So that is at least good for when they get their butts sued.
52.There is another gale, the neighbor,
best friend who said she could not talk to Takeuchi she would only
talk to a deputy. She has some of the emails and knows everything. He thinks her name is Shauna.
53.There is also a guy, Joe anonymous, who called and said he had a complaint about illegal activity regarding an
MIPD officer. Walker talked to the guy who said he couldn't talk to Walker because the complaint was about
Walker. Walker told the guy the Idaho State Police has the investigation and Captain Bill Gardener is the one
overseeing that investigation.
54.He called Joe anonymous to find out if the complaint was something different. He found out the complaint was
regarding the current investigation. He's pretty sure Joe is Shauna's friend.
55. He is confused on the dates of Walkers relationship with
before and after the domestic violence arrest.
had sex
57.Walker was working a Sunday for one of the other guys. When an MIPD officer takes a shift from another
officer they are on call. They respond to a call for service then go home and wait for another call.
58.Walker had done a car fire.
59.Walker was not in a class A uniform he was in what MIPD calls a coaches uniform. Walker said he was on call
for Takeuchi. This was during the last sexual encounter Walker had with
.
60.He finished his policy review, which was ISP's procedure manual, took out of bunch of crap, and delivered it to
the Mayor last year. It is still sitting on the Mayor's desk as a draft. They do have an employee handbook that is
for all city employees.
61.Walker mentioned he was pretty sure his actions were in violation of the employee handbook.
62.His question is, if you are on call and you take three calls during the day and between the call you go home
and have lunch is it ok to have sex with your wife? Sure.
63.He would not discipline a guy for that. Your home, and not on the clock. They do comp time. So what's the
difference of having sex with your mistress at the time?
64.He has a problem with the patrol car parked out front, the hiding, and the integrity.
tapped into Kevin's jail conversations.
Report Officer
Printed At
3417/HOPKINS,TIMOTHY
07/11/2016 07:15
claim is Walker
Page 4 of 5
ZIMMERMAN INTRVW
Idaho State Police
M16000102
Supplement No
0001
Narrative
65.Walkers wife, Crystal, is an investigator for the Canyon County Prosecutors Office. They have access to the
Sheriffs jail recordings. Walker, according to
s, received the password to access the phone conversations
from Crystal on the premise Walker needed to check on a Joe Blow but checked on Kevin instead.
66.He has not discussed this with Walker.
67.He does not know who Kevin was talking to.
68.He has not listened to any of the jail calls.
69.The Deputy, whose report we have, received the jail call logs from Bryan Taylors Office.
70.He thinks if the prosecutor investigators have time they will randomly listen to jail calls. He doesn't think they
are specifically targeting people.
71.The investigators do a lot of follow up for prosecutors.
72.He thinks if we ask Walker any question he will answer it. He thinks Walker will answer truthfully.
73.If Kightlinger doesn't know we know the answer to the questions we ask him, he might not answer truthfully.
He would never hire anybody he thought would do that, but Kightlinger is here. He doesn't know for sure.
74.Walker is going to own it.
75.
name is in the pass on email so Kightlinger had to have seen it. The email was sent by Takeuchi to
everyone in the department.
76.He will have to figure out how to cover shifts if these allegations are not survivable. The Mayor is leaving the
decision up to him.
77.At approximately 11:54 am the interview was concluded.
Report Officer
Printed At
3417/HOPKINS,TIMOTHY
07/11/2016 07:15
Page 5 of 5
INTERVIEW
Idaho State Police
M16000102
Supplement No
0002
Reported Date
06/02/2016
Rpt/Incident Typ
BRIBERY
Member#/Dept ID#
HOPKINS,TIMOTHY
Meridian, ID 83642
Phone
(208)884-7000
Fax
Administrative Information
Agency
Case No
M16000102
Supplement No
0002
Reported Date
Reported Time
06/02/2016
17:04
Status
Investigate
Rpt/Incident Typ
BRIBERY
Location
City
Member#/Dept ID#
Assignment
3417/HOPKINS,TIMOTHY
DETECTIVE DIST 3
Entered By
3417
Assignment
RMS Transfer
DETECTIVE DIST 3
Successful
Report Title
Approving Officer
INTERVIEW
# Offenses
Approval Date
2717
06/06/2016
Description
18 1359
Bias
Loc
88
20
#Pr
MOE
Act
Yes
Approval Time
Offense
Property?
08:48:22
Complaint Type
Weapon/Force
IBRS
No
510 1
AC
Use
C N
Cargo?
Link
DOB
Summary Narrative
On May 25, 2016, Idaho State Police Detectives Jason Horst and Tim Hopkins interviewed
about
the allegations of corruption made against Middleton Police Department (MIPD) Officers Steven Walker and
Robert Kightlinger. The interview took place at Williams Law located at
Also
present during the interview were
attorney Matthew Williams and Investigator James Bensley.
VICTIM 1:
Involvement
IBRS Info
Victim Invl No
Offense Codes
510
Property
Prop #
Involvement
Invl Date
EVIDENCE-Non-Drug
06/02/2016
In Custody?
Security
Yes
No
Tag No
Item No
160001673
Description
1
Typ
001
interview
Cat
Article
IBRS Type
Entered Date
Compact Disk
06/02/2016
Entered Time
17:08
RMS Transfer
Control
Successful
3417
0602161709
Link
DOB
Narrative
1.On May 25, 2016, at approximately 3:00 pm, Idaho State Police Detectives Jason Horst and I interviewed
about the allegations of corruption made against Middleton Police Department (MIPD) Officers
Report Officer
Printed At
3417/HOPKINS,TIMOTHY
07/11/2016 07:15
Page 1 of 9
INTERVIEW
Idaho State Police
M16000102
Supplement No
0002
Narrative
Steven Walker and Robert Kightlinger. The interview took place at Williams Law located at
. Also present during the interview were
attorney Matthew Williams and Investigator
James Bensley. During the interview
told us the following:
2.She will be using the written time line to keep her on track because so much happened in such a short amount
of time, in a horrific time. She could go all over the place without it.
3.In January, she was issued a misdemeanor dog ticket. She called MIPD and was told the code MIPD had used
was incorrect. She was told to go down to the police station and ask them to correct it.
4.On January 7th, she went to MIPD and met with MIPD Sergeant Steven Walker. She gave the ticket to Walker
and told him it was B.S. because her dog had been inside the house and either way the ticket should not be
misdemeanor.
5.Walker said he would get the ticket corrected and asked for a phone number to follow up with her.
6.She left MIPD and about an hour later, went to the daycare to pick up her daughter.
responder agencies barricading the daycare because of a possible gas leak.
7.There is a picture in the timeline from a news article about the incident corroborating the date.
8.Walker was at the daycare.
9.Walker told her they were not letting anybody into the daycare. She asked if she could at least go inside and
check on her daughter. Walker told her his daughter was in there too and everything was fine.
10.Walker asked her what room her daughter was in. Walker then went and checked on her daughter.
11.They finally let the parents in to get their children.
12.About a week later she received a text message from Walker. Walker apologized for not getting back to her
because he was sick and told her everything should be fixed with the barking dog ticket.
13.She answered back by saying it was a hot topic on facebook because she posted something about getting the
ticket during the day and her friends commented on it.
14.Walker said something back to her about wishing he could see what was on facebook. She told him you can
see it because she was on facebook. Walker searched for her, added her as a facebook friend, and read the
postings.
15.The dog ticket was originally issued by Walker, but served on her by MIPD Officer Robert Kightlinger. Walker
had tried once and left his card in the door.
16.At this point she and Walker were facebook friends. Walker said he saw on facebook she had just got married.
She told Walker things aren't what they always seem. She said she did not see any pictures of his family on
facebook. Walker told her the profile was his work facebook, not his life book.
17.She and walker continued to text back and forth talking about life in general and flirting.
18.Walkers work phone and personal phone were linked together.
19.Some of the text messages in her time line are between her and Kightlinger, and others are between her and
Walker. The timeline does not include all the text messages sent between her and Kightlinger or Walker.
20.The one page of text is all she has from Walker on her phone, because she had taken a screen shot of the
message and sent it to a friend.
21.She has the other messages from Kightlinger.
22.She did not hold on to the text messages because she was told if this came out it would affect her husband
Kevin
domestic violence case and he would never change. She was told this over the phone and over
text messages.
Report Officer
Printed At
3417/HOPKINS,TIMOTHY
07/11/2016 07:15
Page 2 of 9
INTERVIEW
Idaho State Police
M16000102
Supplement No
0002
Narrative
23.If we would be able to recover communications from her phone then we should be able to get the same
communications from Walker's phone.
24.Walker told her his wife, who is an investigator, said it was a good thing they used Iphones because they are
harder to track.
25.She does not trust anybody in law enforcement right now because it is really uncomfortable for her. She feels
like she had put plenty of things into her timeline that we could go look into, without having to violate her privacy
by getting into her phone. Walker is the one being investigated. It is hard enough for her to be brave enough for
her to bring this forward.
26.Her conversations progressed with Walker. They talked about family, kids, and continued flirting.
27.On January 21st, she and her husband, Kevin, got into a domestic dispute. The next day she texted her friend
about the argument and drove to the clinic because when she woke up that morning her head was killing her.
28.She told Kevin about her head hurting that morning neither of them knew why it was hurting.
29.After she went to the clinic, she texted Walker about what had occurred between her and Kevin the night
before, but changed the names, said it was a friend of hers who sent it to her, and asked what it was.
30.Walker went off about how victims don't say anything. They just let it go on.
31.Walker validated it so she told him it was not her friend, it was her. She remembers Walker saying something
like shit now I have to do something about this.
32.She told him no because she did not want him involved. Walker told her to wait until after 4pm to report it.
33.After she went to the clinic and got home, Sasha was there. She gave Kevin an ultimatum. Kevin left and then
the cops showed up.
34.MIPD Officer Takeuchi was the officer that arrived. Takeuchi asked her what happened. She told Takeuchi
she did not remember what happened. Sasha tracked Kevin's phone location from an app, which was kind of
weird.
35.There was a Canyon County Officer at her house with Takeuchi. The Canyon County Officer went to go find
Kevin first. Once the Canyon County Officer found Kevin Takeuchi left and went to Kevin's location.
36.Takeuchi called her and told her they were taking Kevin to jail on a felony.
37.A few minutes later she received a call from Walker. Walker told her he had gotten a call from Takeuchi who
said she did great.
38.She asked Walker how he knew Kevin had been arrested. Walker told her he may have given Takeuchi a
heads up.
39.Her husband just got hauled off to jail, and now she had to go pick up the car, all of it was a little over
whelming.
40.Walker asked if there was anything the department could do for her and explained to her his wife, Crystal, was
one of the Canyon County Investigators so she may meet with his wife, or another investigator.
41.They started joking and she said Walker better not get in trouble if his wife is an investigator.
42.Walker friend requested Sasha and the conversation ended.
43.The next morning at 5am she couldn't sleep so she was up organizing her pantry because that made sense to
her. She received a text from Walker which was sexual. The text said I hope you slept well, I'm guessing you
didn't because you had a visitor last night and it wasn't Sasha.
44.Walker's text went on to describe a sex scene in a bath tub with her wincing in pain. It was all directly related
Report Officer
Printed At
3417/HOPKINS,TIMOTHY
07/11/2016 07:15
Page 3 of 9
INTERVIEW
Idaho State Police
M16000102
Supplement No
0002
Narrative
to what had happened with Kevin.
45.The next day her and Sasha went to West Valley, Walker was also at West Valley visiting the parks and rec
employee who fell through a roof. Walker texted her he was going to a baby shower. When she went back to get
her CT scan, she left her phone. She didn't know at the time, but Sasha picked up her phone and read all of it.
46.Sasha did not say anything to her. The next day Sasha said she needed to talk to her about something.
Sasha didn't say anything about reading the phone but said she had concerns with Walker. Sasha wondered why
Walker was doing this when he is married. Sasha felt like Walker was a predator.
47.At this point with her logic, which didn't exist, made her wonder why her friend didn't want her talking to a cop.
She told Sasha she would not talk to Walker anymore. She did, however continue to talk to Walker and told him
about her conversation with Sasha. She does not remember Walker saying anything significant about it.
48.Sasha had been visiting Kevin in jail, but saying it was her husband Brad visiting Kevin. Sasha was telling her
Kevin was not concerned about her and was not asking about her. She was heartbroken over this. The last thing
that happened was her giving Kevin the ultimatum, Kevin leaving, and now Kevin's best friend Brad saying Kevin
did not give a shit about her.
49.The picture of the Verizon call log in the timeline shows where Walker called her right after Kevin was arrested.
50.Nothing was really clicking with her at the time because it was a major incident. She didn't think about what
Walker's meaning was when he said he gave Takeuchi a heads up, or Sasha visiting Kevin in jail.
51.Sasha said she could find out where Kevin was and used her own phone to track Kevin.
52.She took what Walker said as Walker just telling Takeuchi about her telling Walker about the situation. She
realizes now it might have meant something else.
53.She and Sasha started growing apart because Sasha did not want her to talk to Walker. Her house also
started getting broken into. She told Walker about all of this.
54.Kightlinger just started showing up at her house about the dog.
55.On January 31st, Kightlinger told her to go buy a bark collar and told her to make sure her garage door was
shut. Kightlinger went through a bunch of safety stuff with her.
56.Kightlinger gave her his card and told her to let him know when she got a bark collar. That day she went out
and bought the cheapest one she could find. She texted him and told him she got a bark collar. Kightlinger
responded and said good, now I'll need another reason to come visit you. She reported all of this to Walker.
57.Walker had warned her about Kightlinger being inappropriate and said Kightlinger had been investigated
before.
58.She told Walker that Kightlinger was kind of a jerk and that's when Walker said be careful because Kightlinger
had been investigated before. Walker even said watch now; Kightlinger will be facebook friends with you.
59.In addition to her house getting broken into, someone broke her fence and she came home to her dog running
around in the street. She took a picture of it which is in the timeline. She called police dispatch about it, but had
errands to run so dispatch told her to call and report it later. She told Walker about it and Walker told her not to
worry he would send somebody out.
60.Kightlinger is the one who showed up to take the report on the fence. Kightlinger made a joke about the fence
saying maybe King Kong needed a tooth pick, because the entire panel was gone.
61.During this same time, she asked a friend of hers, Stephanie, to go and take a picture of her back yard
because Kightlinger kept calling her about her dog. Stephanie did and told her the dog was not in the backyard.
Stephanie drove around the block and took video through a fence of chocolate lab, identical to hers, barking at
nothing.
Report Officer
Printed At
3417/HOPKINS,TIMOTHY
07/11/2016 07:15
Page 4 of 9
INTERVIEW
Idaho State Police
M16000102
Supplement No
0002
Narrative
62.She sent the video to Kightlinger and questioned if it was ever her dog to begin with. Kightlinger said he would
look into it. Kightlinger told her that her neighbor had a video of her back yard, which she thought was super
creepy.
63.She and Sasha's friendship was still on and off. She and Sasha were sitting in her garage smoking when
Kightlinger just walked up. Kightlinger has just walked up to her garage on more than one occasion. It happened
three or four times. She made a comment to Kightlinger about what he was doing and it being really creepy and
asked him where he parked. Kightlinger told her he parked down the road and was just catching up on his latest
gossip. Kightlinger would always be in uniform. One of the times Kightlinger showed up, her friend Lindsey Todd
was there.
64. She told Walker she thought Kightlinger was creepy. Walker told her he would watch it. Walker told her he
would watch the videos of Kightlinger at her house. She was lead to believe Walker was looking into it. Walker
said there were not a lot of videos, but Kightlinger was at her house a lot. There were people at her house that
saw Kightlinger there.
65.On January 31st, Walker was working late, which didn't usually happen. Walker said he could take a break
and go visit her. She and Walker got physical with each other, but they did not have sex. Walker's phone went off
because he was tracking Officer Takeuchi's location. Walker told her Takeuchi was in the neighborhood so
Walker quickly left. Walker was not in his full typical uniform, he was in a different type of uniform.
66.The next day Walker received notification Verizon was tracking his phone. Walker told her his wife, Crystal,
knew he was not at the office or the police station all night the night before.
67.She asked Walker if he wanted her to leave him alone. Walker told her to let him feel Crystal out.
68.A couple days later it was her friend Lindsey's birthday, they were at her house and Kightlinger showed up
again.
69.Earlier in the day Walker had called and asked her if she had any guns in the house, which she does. Walker
told her Kightlinger would try to amp up the charges by finding out if felons have guns in the house. She told
Walker she had guns in the house and Kevin had gone back to court on his previous felony charge of burglary.
Walker told her ok, that's what he thought.
70.Kightlinger showed up that night looked at the guns and said he was a dealer and he could sell the guns.
71.Walker had already warned her about Kightlinger so she was suspicious of him. Kightlinger looked at the guns
and left.
72.She and Lindsey were having a drink and laughing because the cops had been to her house so many times
about the dog it was absurd, the kids even knew about it which was sad. She texted Kightlinger and asked how
bad would it be if she threw a stuffed dog over the fence and reported a barking dog. Kightlinger texted her that
he would pay to see that and it would be hysterical. Kightlinger showed up at her house with a Pluto dog, she is
guessing came from the police station.
73.She and Lindsey were both shocked by Kightlinger showing up with the stuffed dog. Kightlinger just kind of
hung around after that. Lindsey made reference to it being awkward. She tried to laugh it off.
74.On February 9th, Walker facetimed her while his wife Crystal took her family to the airport.
75.Kightlinger tried to use the dog thing to keep conversation with her. She told Kightlinger she was not going to
do that.
76.On February 14th, Walker told her about a car fire after church. This is the day Walker went over to her house
and they had sex. Walker was in uniform and parked in the front. When Walker walked down the stairs and
passed a picture of Kevin, he flipped it off which made her stomach turn quite a bit. She wondered if Walker had a
vendetta.
77.On the 15th, she received a text from Walker about her being blocked. Walker would block her text messages
sometimes when Crystal would take Walkers phone to Verizon to get it fixed. She can tell when she has been
Report Officer
Printed At
3417/HOPKINS,TIMOTHY
07/11/2016 07:15
Page 5 of 9
INTERVIEW
Idaho State Police
M16000102
Supplement No
0002
Narrative
blocked by Walker because her messages will not send.
78.All of her kids got sick, she was off her antidepressants and she had to deal with jerk prosecuting attorney's
one of which was removed from the case for laughing about the case.
79.The day she took her son Dakota to West Valley, Sasha texted her and told her she saw all the text messages
and she wished she would have talked to her.
80.She told Walker, Sasha saw all the text messages and Walker immediately went into freak out mode. Walker
said oh my god he was going to lose his job for conduct unbecoming an officer.
81.When she told Walker about Sasha, Walker and Crystal were headed out of town to Las Vegas. Walker was
still sending her pictures of himself while in Vegas with Crystal, even though he was suppose to be rekindling with
Crystal.
82.She is slowly starting to figure this whole thing out.
83.On Feb 22nd, she came home, her door was open, and that's when the fence was broken.
84.One of the times Kightlinger came to her house, he called Walker and started talking about the use of cameras.
Walker offered to let her use MIPD's cameras for security. This is the time she realized some medications were
missing. She said no thanks to the use of the cameras.
85.She had her friend come over and set up a trail camera in her shed and faced the camera toward the door that
was always open. The camera tripped at 8:40 and you can see the door is shut, then at 11:20 the camera was
tripped and time stamped, but has a blank image.
86.She thinks she told Walker about the trail camera and it being blank.
87.She does not remember if Walker or Kightlinger knew the location of the trail camera she set up. It was in a
pretty obvious spot where you could see it. She was hoping people didn't think she was smart enough to record it.
88.The meds that were missing from her house were Norco. She had not had any conversations with Walker or
Kightlinger about Norco, or any meds being in her house.
89.Kightlinger came out the next day and took a report. She questioned whether or not he was taking the
situation seriously. This report is the only report she has ever seen and the only one she has signed. Even
thought MIPD had come out to her home several times. There should be police reports for the MIPD visits, if
that's their protocol.
90.Walker was still freaked out about losing his job, he had listened to jail calls, and he told her his wife was
pregnant. Walker said this would affect the community and Kevin's case.
91.She and Walker called back and forth and Walker told her she needed to start communicating with him on his
work phone. Walker told her to check her sent recipients on the messages sent between her and Walker to see if
the messages were being sent to anyone else. She took a picture of the recipients and sent it to Walker.
92.Walker un-synced his phones and just started using his personal phone and texting her work phone.
93.Walker listened to jail calls and figured out Sasha had told Kevin. She just assumed Sasha had told Kevin up
to that point.
94.Walker told her Sasha said she had been sexting some cop and his case was a set up.
95.She told Walker he needed to come out and be honest with his wife.
96.As soon as this happened she realized this was not her, she wanted her husband, this was not what she
needed to be doing, and they were in a bad place. Plus Walker flipping off the picture did something for her.
97.Walker confirmed everything Sasha said. Walker said he was using Crystal's login to listen to Kevin's jail calls.
Report Officer
Printed At
3417/HOPKINS,TIMOTHY
07/11/2016 07:15
Page 6 of 9
INTERVIEW
Idaho State Police
M16000102
Supplement No
0002
Narrative
98.Walker told her one day Crystal's login was no longer working so he couldn't access the jail calls anymore.
99.Walker decided to tell Crystal he was inappropriately texting somebody. Walker told her things were going ok
with Crystal.
100.Crystal told Walker she did not want to know who Walker was texting. The next day Crystal went to work,
listened to the jail calls and figured out who Walker was talking about.
101.Walker received a text from Crystal asking if he knew
102.Walker called her work phone and told her Crystal knew, because she listened to the jail calls. Walker then
had to go because Crystal was calling him.
103.Walker called her later that day and told her Crystal was upset and left work early and said she couldn't
believe Walker did this with a victim.
104.Her understanding is that the only thing Crystal thinks went on was inappropriate text messages between her
and Walker. Sasha had only seen inappropriate texts because in January when Sasha went through her phone.
She and Walker had not yet slept together.
105.Walker told her they could now only communicate through Instagram. Walker said he had deleted everything.
She and Walker essentially just stopped talking.
106.This is when Kightlinger really started putting on the pressure by texting from his regular phone. She was
pissed off because of a get together with her friends, Kightlinger showed up to.
107.Kightlinger started texting her about the area looking like a car lot. She told Kightlinger she was having a get
together. Kightlinger said "what I wasn't invited". She told Kightlinger she was in her pajamas. Kightlinger said
"why couldn't I see you in your pajamas." She doesn't remember what she said from that.
108.She told Kightlinger he was welcome to stop by and check it out. Kightlinger got off work and walked over in
his normal clothes to hang out. She was thinking Kightlinger would just stop by. Kightlinger talked to JR about
being a probation and parole officer, just small talk then it got really awkward. Everyone was on the other side of
the room and Kightlinger was standing there not leaving.
109.Casey and JR pulled her aside and asked what Kightlinger's problem was. They came up with a plan to say
they were going to start a movie in order to get Kightlinger to leave. There were plenty of people that saw the
situation was very uncomfortable.
110.JR told her he thought Kightlinger was trying to get information on her. She had already figured out what
Walker was doing and Walker had warned her about Kightlinger. They walked out and were encountered by
another MIPD cop named Chris with a flash light. At that point she was on the verge of break down because there
were cops there all the time. The MIPD cop was there because he saw a car parked in her driveway without its
lights on.
111.On Feb 29th, she purchased a car from Edmark. The sales manager, Mike, is a friend of hers so he delivered
the car to her home. They were signing papers on her dining room table, they went outside to check the vehicle
identification number and Kightlinger drove by, and then drove by again. Kighlinger parked and asked what was
going on because she hadn't texted him back. Mike was weirded out and uncomfortable because Kightlinger kept
asking questions about why Mike was there. It was like Kightlinger was mad; almost territorial. Kightlinger had
said she was just in a vulnerable situation and wanted to make sure everything was ok.
112.Kightlinger had stopped by several times and just walked into the garage. She felt like there were cops at her
house all the time. The neighbors were even use to seeing it.
113.There was one get together she had and a noise complaint was called in on her. Walker texted her about the
noise complaint. That would have been sometime in February.
114.There is a picture in the timeline of the good bye message she sent to Walker saying thanks for the good
times.
Report Officer
Printed At
3417/HOPKINS,TIMOTHY
07/11/2016 07:15
Page 7 of 9
INTERVIEW
Idaho State Police
M16000102
Supplement No
0002
Narrative
115.She freaked out and texted both Walker and Kightlinger and told them she did not want anything to do with
them or MIPD. She thought Kightlinger would back off, but he texted her about it being fine. Walker did not reply.
116.On March 15th, her daughter tried to kill herself. Kightlinger was texting her about her dog while she was at
the hospital with her daughter. Kightlinger asked if she wanted him to put her dog inside. She told Kightlinger no
her friend Stephanie would put the dog inside and wondered how Kightlinger would even put the dog inside.
117.On April 7th, she sent Justin the prosecutor an email asking why the case against her husband was a felony.
Justin said he didn't have enough information for the felony so the court date for that day was continued.
118.Justin said her statement to the police made the charge a felony. She asked what statement, and said she
had not seen the report. She told the prosecutor she did not say what was in the report. She has said from the
beginning she did not know what happened.
119.She went in to deal with the video and statement she said. Bill the new Canyon County investigator explained
thing like what Kevin was charged with get charged up because of safety. Bill said it looked like the charge was
working its way down to a misdemeanor even though Justin told her he would not charge anything less than a
felony. Now she had to defend her husband against the prosecutor in a case in which she was the victim.
120.They were listening to it and there was a statement in the report that said "Jessica stated her husband hit her
in the back of the head." She never said that.
121.The video showed the cop asking if Kevin hit her in the back of the head and her saying yeah I don't know
what happened. Then she proceeded to tell her story again about not knowing what happened.
122.She was told that didn't really matter because it didn't change how they charged the case. The police report
also said she tracked her husband's phone. There are two discrepancies she found in the officers statements.
Then she thought about what Walker said with giving Takeuchi a heads up, is that why it was charged as a felony.
Crystal was assigned as the investigator, shouldn't she have removed herself?
123.She had met with Crystal once on the first working day she was told to go in and get examined. The next
time she met with an investigator it was Bill.
124.The video of her contact with Takeuchi got turned off at one point during their contact. The entire tracking
piece is not on the video. Prior to the video being turned off,Takeuchi received a phone call. The phone call
Takeuchi took sounded like it was from Walker. You can hear the phone call on the video. Takeuchi said yeah
I'm still here, and then the video went off.
125.She is starting to figure this out.
126.Other than Kevin's phone being tracked, she does not know what happened when Takeuchi's video was shut
off. When the video was turned back on she was making popcorn for her kids.
127.She pulled Denise, the victim witness coordinator, aside and presented the hypothetical situation of her
sleeping with one of the officers involved in Kevin's case and that officer being married to Crystal and wanted to
know what that would do to the case. Denise said it wouldn't do anything because Crystal was not listed as
witness in the case.
128.She went home and sent an email to Justin.
129.She didn't hear anything from Canyon County until Friday when Denise called her. Denise told her what she
had said in the email was serious and Kevin's case had been conflicted out to Ada County.
130.She asked Denise what would happen with the other stuff that she said in the email. She asked if someone
would be contacting her about it. Denise said why it wasn't like she was a victim.
131.The Ada County Prosecutor charged Kevin with a misdemeanor.
132.She hasn't heard anything until she was contacted by the Idaho State Police. A friend of hers saw on
Report Officer
Printed At
3417/HOPKINS,TIMOTHY
07/11/2016 07:15
Page 8 of 9
INTERVIEW
Idaho State Police
M16000102
Supplement No
0002
Narrative
facebook that Walker and Kightlinger were on administrative leave. That was super great for her to hear about
from facebook.
133.Kevin's bond was set at two hundred thousand dollars and he was in custody for fifty days. Until she was in
court and raised her hand to speak even though Jackie the victim witness coordinator said she wasn't allowed to.
Kevin's bond was reduced to twenty thousand dollars after that and he was able to bond out.
134.The no contact order was in place until the day of this interview. Last Wednesday was the first and only time
the no contact order was modified.
135.The other thing that is concerning to her is she has systemic lupus and she had been off of her
antidepressant, which is also a pain blocker, the week before the incident with her husband. She gave everybody
this information, including the prosecutor.
136.Lupus fog is a diagnosis, which doesn't allow her to remember things and she gets dizzy.
137.The whole time she is wondering what happened, because she doesn't remember what happened. She tried
to explain this but nobody would listen.
138.The text Walker sent her about the visitor was a fantasy related to the incident that happened. She and
Walker had sexted a little bit before, but not to the degree the fantasy was and not about an injury.
139.The sexual contact she had with Walker was consensual. Walker had hurt his back because of the car fire he
responded to. Walker arrived at her house around 1pm and left approximately a half hour to forty five minutes
later. Walker did not say where he was going when he left, but it was Valentine's Day so Crystal was probably
wondering where Walker was.
140.She thinks she had sex with Walker because she was not in the right state of mind. She could have not made
a good choice if it was in front of her.
141.She thinks there was an aspect of safety, she felt safe. She felt like someone was looking out for her. It felt
like a safe situation. She was vulnerable; she asked did she have vulnerable stamped on her forehead.
142.She sent Walker screen shots of some of the texts between her and Kightlinger. In the beginning Kightlinger
was asking her a lot of sexual questions and she was just responding with vague answers. Kightlinger kept going
and going. She told Kightlinger it was too much for her, he wouldn't understand, and she had too much going on
so don't talk to her any more. Kightlinger didn't talk to her anymore.
143.She was told by Walker to delete everything. Even when they were communicating through Instagram he
asked if she was deleting the messages. Kightlinger did not tell her to erase anything.
144.She became so disgusted with MIPD she told them she did not want anything to do with MIPD and to be
taken off their extra patrol if that was even a true thing like she was told.
145.It felt like a game of who could get the victim first.
146.The interview was concluded at approximately 4:46pm.
Report Officer
Printed At
3417/HOPKINS,TIMOTHY
07/11/2016 07:15
Page 9 of 9
WALKER INTERVIEW
Idaho State Police
Supplement No
M16000102
0003
Reported Date
06/07/2016
Rpt/Incident Typ
BRIBERY
Member#/Dept ID#
HOPKINS,TIMOTHY
Meridian, ID 83642
Phone
(208)884-7000
Fax
Administrative Information
Agency
Case No
M16000102
Supplement No
0003
Reported Date
Reported Time
06/07/2016
14:53
Status
Investigate
Rpt/Incident Typ
BRIBERY
Location
Assignment
3417/HOPKINS,TIMOTHY
DETECTIVE DIST 3
Entered By
3417
Assignment
RMS Transfer
DETECTIVE DIST 3
Successful
Property?
Yes
Report Title
Approving Officer
Approval Date
Approval Time
WALKER INTERVIEW
2717
06/20/2016
08:39:59
Summary Narrative
On June 6, 2016, Idaho State Police Detectives Jason Horst and Tim Hopkins interviewed Middleton Police
Department (MIPD) Sergeant Stephen Walker about the allegations of corruption made against him, MIPD and
Officer Robert Kightlinger. The interview took place at the Idaho State Police District Three office located at 700
S. Stratford Dr. in Meridian, Idaho.
Invl No
Type
SUSPECT
Individual
Race
Sex
White
Male
Name
DOB
Age
Ethnicity
Juvenile?
RMS Transfer
Vic/Ofnd Age
Successful
Res Status
No
OFN_INVL
Resident
PRN
157765
Property
Prop #
Involvement
Invl Date
EVIDENCE-Non-Drug
06/07/2016
In Custody?
Security
Yes
No
Tag No
Item No
160001715
Description
1
Typ
Cat
Article
IBRS Type
Entered Date
Compact Disk
06/07/2016
Entered Time
14:54
Link
RMS Transfer
Successful
Involvement
SUS
Control
SUS
3417
0607161455
Invl No
Name
Race
Sex
DOB
Prop #
Involvement
Invl Date
EVIDENCE-Non-Drug
06/07/2016
In Custody?
Security
Yes
No
Tag No
Item No
160001715
Description
2
Typ
Cat
Article
IBRS Type
Entered Date
Compact Disk
06/07/2016
Entered Time
14:55
Link
SUS
RMS Transfer
Control
Successful
Involvement
SUS
3417
0607161455
Invl No
Name
Race
Sex
DOB
Narrative
1.On June 6, 2016, at approximately 3:44 pm, Idaho State Police Detective Jason Horst and I interviewed
Middleton Police Department (MIPD) Sergeant Stephen Walker about the allegations of corruption made against
Report Officer
Printed At
3417/HOPKINS,TIMOTHY
07/11/2016 07:15
Page 1 of 6
WALKER INTERVIEW
Idaho State Police
M16000102
Supplement No
0003
Narrative
him, MIPD and Officer Robert Kightlinger. The interview took place at the Idaho State Police District Three office
located at 700 S. Stratford Dr. in Meridian, Idaho.
2.During the interview, Sgt. Walker signed a Miranda warnings form, acknowledging he understood Miranda, and
gave permission for Idaho State Police (ISP) Detectives to download the contents of his personal cell phone. The
Download was done by ISP Cyber Crimes Unit Analyst Vincent Montoya. Montoya gave me a disk containing
the contents of Walkers cell phone. The disk has been placed into evidence.
3.During the interview Walker told Det. Horst and me the following:
4.He knows what the Miranda form says.
5.He identified photos of
, and Robert Kightlinger, but could not identify a photograph of Kevin
. He assumed the photo he couldn't identify was Jessica's husband.
6.He worked for Canyon County prior to working for MIPD.
7.It started over a barking dog complaint.
' back neighbor had called numerous times for the barking dog.
The neighbor wanted to sign a complaint for the barking dog. He filled out the citation with MIPD's Middleton City
code which was currently an infraction. He was unable to serve the citation on
because
was not
home so Officer Robert Kightlinger served the citation on
.
8
came into MIPD later asking about the citation because when she went to pay the citation it was written
as a misdemeanor, not the infraction code for $50.00.
9.He told
he would take care of the citation and make it the infraction it was suppose to be. After that
sent him a text message asking about the citation. This occurred sometime in December 2015.
10.
was texting his work phone.
got his work phone number from his business card he had given
her. He had his phones, work and personal, linked at the time. He has to have two phones on him all the time.
11.He does not know if it was later that day or that week but there was a gas odor emergency at the daycare his
kids and
kids attend. He was working the perimeter watching the doors.
asked him if she could go
see her kids. He told
no one could go in.
asked him to go check on her kids. As he did for other
parents he checked with the staff and they checked on
' kids finding no symptoms.
12.Text messages moved forward. He does not know when the text messages turned sexual but they did turn
sexual. At the time it became sexual his phones were in I message connect.
13
number.
did have his personal cell phone number. He does not remember when
14.
told him he had responded to her house when he was a Canyon County Deputy. He has no idea when
that was.
15.There were not a lot of voice calls between him and
16.Shortly after the daycare incident they became personal and started talking about kids. Their relationship was
friendly on the flirty level. It became sexual pretty quick, over a week or less.
17.They were sending sexually explicit text messages back and forth, sexting. He does not know how it started
or who started it.
18.They did not have sex until later.
19.He deleted communications between him and
on his phone. His phone is an iphone so everything
should be recoverable. He did not delete things for evidence purposes he just deletes his messages that he
would not want his wife to see. He also knew
was married.
20.He knew
was married early into their relationship. He assumed she was married.
21.They sexted a lot for a very long time. The sexting was detailed and nasty going both ways. He doesn't know if
Report Officer
Printed At
3417/HOPKINS,TIMOTHY
07/11/2016 07:15
Page 2 of 6
WALKER INTERVIEW
Idaho State Police
Supplement No
M16000102
0003
Narrative
there are pictures, there probably are some.
22.
30.He called another MIPD Officer Allen Takeuchi and told Takeuchi there was a domestic call coming in and he
didn't know anything about it. He did tell Takeuchi the domestic involved a friend of his.
31.Takeuchi is probably the only cop he trusts.
32.He called Takeuchi because Takeuchi was working the night shift. If it had been another officer working the
night shift he would have called them for the pass on instead of Takeuchi. They do pass ons quite frequently at
MIPD.
33.He was on his way back into town and saw a County Deputy with a person pulled over. He called Takeuchi to
find out what was going on. Takeuchi told him he was on his way to meet with a suspect.
34.He didn't hear anything else until he heard Takeuchi made an arrest for felony domestic battery.
35.
texted with him back and forth after her husband was arrested.
36.
called him and asked about the process related to the domestic from that point forward. He told
her husband would be arraigned then a bond would be set and she would meet with the prosecutor. Sasha
McJunkin was with
during this conversation.
37.After
husband went to jail the text messages kind of got weird. It was hit or miss if
pissy or overly flirty. The sexting continued as well.
38.He texted
would be
Printed At
3417/HOPKINS,TIMOTHY
07/11/2016 07:15
Page 3 of 6
WALKER INTERVIEW
Idaho State Police
M16000102
Supplement No
0003
Narrative
44.He was off work, but at the MIPD office working on reports. He was not in his police car. He might have been
in the Chiefs Tahoe. He remembers being in his personal Durango.
45.He was not taking calls, just writing reports. It is not unusual for him to go in for a couple hours on his off time
and work on reports.
46.He was texting
while he was working on his reports.
told him to come over and she would help
him relax. From what he recalls
told him she would give him a blow job.
47
was the only one at her house.
for him to go over there.
48
kids were at her mom's house, which is why it was a good time
residence.
53.He got to
house and she invited him in. They walked through the living room, he noticed the back door
was opened and mentioned the barking dog complaint.
grabbed his hand and took him up to her
bedroom. He was there for probably ten minutes or less. He went home afterward.
54.There was no one else at
' residence.
55
husband was in jail this whole time. They had some text conversation about her husband knowing what
was going on.
56.Their relationship was pretty much done after they had sex. Texts and conversations went on, but there was
not a whole lot of sexting.
wanted to know why he was not responding to her. He told
he needed
to stop and
told him she needed to stop.
57.
turned to church for help with the whole thing. He did as well.
missing him.
62.He put his phone on airplane mode when his wife took it to the Verizon store for him. He went through three
different phones during this time because he had problems.
63.He told
from the beginning to delete everything. He told
he would never keep anything on his
phone. He would ask if
deleted things and
would ask if he did as well.
64.At the end of their relationship they switched to communicating through instagram.
65.They had the initial conversation about deleting everything, and then the whole time through he was deleting
things off his phone and would ask if
was. When shit hit the fan he didn't have anything on his phone and
asked
if she had deleted hers. It might have come out demanding. He knows if there is history on the
phone you can still get it.
Report Officer
Printed At
3417/HOPKINS,TIMOTHY
07/11/2016 07:15
Page 4 of 6
WALKER INTERVIEW
Idaho State Police
M16000102
Supplement No
0003
Narrative
66.His wife, Crystal, is employed with the Canyon County Prosecutors office as an investigator. Her roll would be
to sit in on an initial meeting with the prosecutor and the domestic violence victim to see if there are any changes
to the story.
67.Crystal was the investigator that sat in on
' first meeting with the prosecutor. The only reason he knows
this is because
told him she met his wife Crystal and Crystal commented on her hair.
68.Crystal would not do anything further than the initial appointment. The prosecutors are just supposed to have
an investigator there in case the victim changes their story so the changes can be documented.
69.He knows Crystals login to the Canyon County jail call system Telemate. He has used it on previous
occasions.
70.He used Crystal's login to listen to a call between Sasha, her husband Brad and Kevin
Sasha seeing the texts on
phone from a Middleton officer.
71.He listened to a lot of calls, but he listened to that call because of
messages between him and
.
72.
talking about
73.He told
74.He told
their marriage.
Kevin knew something and later Kevin knew it was him, and then Kevin wanted to work on
any information from the jail calls to help her case or ruin her case.
77.He did not have Kevin arrested so he could pursue a relationship with
78.If Kevin had not been arrested he thinks the sexting with
if the relationship would have progressed.
79.With sexting, in his mind, in the end he thought it would become physical, but whether Kevin was in jail or not
wouldn't have made a difference.
80.He does not trust Robert Kightlinger.
81.
had mentioned Kightlinger in the past about how he creeps her out.
had Kightlinger in her
phone under the contact name deputy dick.
did not trust what Kightlinger was doing or saying.
82.He does not know if
had Kightlinger's work or personal number. Everyone has their work numbers
because they are on their business cards.
83.Kightlinger had come to him and said he thought Kevin was a felon with firearms.
84.Kightlinger was at
house for a different occasion, but he doesn't know why. Kightlinger wanted him to
ask
if there were firearms in the house. This firearms issue came up after Kevin was arrested.
85.He does not know who, but someone put an extra patrol on
trying to break into her house.
86.He thinks Takeuchi put the extra patrol on
' property.
house.
87.People request extra patrol or an officer can put an area on extra patrol.
88.He believes
89.
said she didn't trust Kightlinger and he reiterated that by telling
since the day he met him.
Report Officer
Printed At
3417/HOPKINS,TIMOTHY
07/11/2016 07:15
Page 5 of 6
WALKER INTERVIEW
Idaho State Police
M16000102
Supplement No
0003
Narrative
90.He thinks he talked to
on the phone about the weapons in the house and said Kightlinger just does that.
91.He does not know about investigations regarding Kightlinger. He knows Kightlinger had tested for Canyon
County numerous times and he was told Kightlinger was a brady issue.
92.
must have gotten her information about Kightlinger from him but he doesn't remember telling
about Kightlinger being investigated.
93.
started
just kept saying she was going to make things right with God and her marriage.
he could be fired for this.
102.Their department does not have a policy about having relationships with domestic violence victims, or a policy
about phone and vehicle use. They have been waiting for a year for their policy.
103.He would love to keep his job at the end of this investigation.
104.Chief Zimmerman and the Mayor have both told him they hope they get through this and they look forward to
him coming back.
105.He does not know Kightlinger's story and doesn't want to know it.
106.Kevin's domestic case is already over. He pled guilty to battery and disturbing the peace.
107.To him if there was a conspiracy then Kevin would have been innocent.
108.The outcome of the domestic violence case had no bearing on his relationship with
Report Officer
Printed At
3417/HOPKINS,TIMOTHY
07/11/2016 07:15
Page 6 of 6
DEP PHONES
Idaho State Police
Supplement No
M16000102
0004
Reported Date
06/07/2016
Rpt/Incident Typ
BRIBERY
Member#/Dept ID#
HOPKINS,TIMOTHY
Meridian, ID 83642
Phone
(208)884-7000
Fax
Administrative Information
Agency
Case No
M16000102
Supplement No
0004
Reported Date
Reported Time
06/07/2016
Status
14:56
Investigate
Rpt/Incident Typ
BRIBERY
Location
MIDDLETON PD
Member#/Dept ID#
Assignment
3417/HOPKINS,TIMOTHY
DETECTIVE DIST 3
Entered By
3417
Assignment
RMS Transfer
DETECTIVE DIST 3
Successful
Property?
Yes
Report Title
Approving Officer
Approval Date
Approval Time
DEP PHONES
2717
06/20/2016
08:40:42
Summary Narrative
On June 7, 2016, Idaho State Police Detectives Tim Hopkins and Dave Cortez collected Middleton Police
Department (MIPD) issued cell phones for Officers Stephen Walker and Robert Kightlinger from MIPD Chief Brian
Zimmerman.
Chief Zimmerman signed a consent form to allow the Idaho State Police to forensically down load the contents of
the cell phones.
Invl No
Type
SUSPECT
Individual
Race
Sex
White
Male
Name
DOB
Age
Ethnicity
Juvenile?
RMS Transfer
Vic/Ofnd Age
Successful
Res Status
No
OFN_INVL
Resident
PRN
157765
Invl No
Type
SUSPECT
Individual
Race
Sex
White
Male
Name
DOB
Age
Ethnicity
Juvenile?
RMS Transfer
Vic/Ofnd Age
Successful
Res Status
No
OFN_INVL
Resident
PRN
157766
Property
Prop #
Involvement
Invl Date
EVIDENCE-Non-Drug
06/07/2016
In Custody?
Security
Yes
No
Tag No
Item No
160001716
Description
1
Typ
Cat
Article
Cell Phone/Telephone
IBRS Type
Entered Date
Entered Time
06/07/2016
Link
SUS
Involvement
SUS
15:00
Invl No
Name
RMS Transfer
Control
Successful
3417
0607161501
Race
Sex
DOB
Report Officer
Printed At
3417/HOPKINS,TIMOTHY
07/11/2016 07:15
Page 1 of 2
DEP PHONES
Idaho State Police
Prop #
Involvement
Invl Date
EVIDENCE-Non-Drug
06/07/2016
In Custody?
Security
Yes
No
Tag No
2
Typ
A
Article
Cell Phone/Telephone
IBRS Type
Entered Date
Entered Time
06/07/2016
SUS
0004
Item No
160001716
Description
Link
Supplement No
M16000102
Involvement
SUS
15:00
RMS Transfer
Control
Successful
3417
Invl No
Name
0607161501
Race
Sex
DOB
Report Officer
Printed At
3417/HOPKINS,TIMOTHY
07/11/2016 07:15
Page 2 of 2
KIGHTLINGER INTERVW
Idaho State Police
Supplement No
M16000102
0005
Reported Date
06/08/2016
Rpt/Incident Typ
BRIBERY
Member#/Dept ID#
HOPKINS,TIMOTHY
Meridian, ID 83642
Phone
(208)884-7000
Fax
Administrative Information
Agency
Case No
M16000102
Supplement No
0005
Reported Date
Reported Time
06/08/2016
11:53
Status
Investigate
Rpt/Incident Typ
BRIBERY
Location
Assignment
3417/HOPKINS,TIMOTHY
DETECTIVE DIST 3
Entered By
3417
Assignment
RMS Transfer
DETECTIVE DIST 3
Successful
Property?
Yes
Report Title
Approving Officer
Approval Date
Approval Time
KIGHTLINGER INTERVW
2717
06/20/2016
08:43:35
Summary Narrative
On June 8, 2016 Idaho State Police Detectives Jason Horst and Tim Hopkins interviewed Middleton Police
Department (MIPD) Officer Robert Kightlinger about the allegations of corruption made against him, MIPD and
Sergeant Stephen Walker. The interview took place at the Idaho State Police District Three office located at 700
S. Stratford Dr. in Meridian, Idaho.
Invl No
Type
SUSPECT
Individual
Race
Sex
White
Male
Name
DOB
OFCR KIGHTLINGER,ROBERT
Age
Ethnicity
Juvenile?
RMS Transfer
Vic/Ofnd Age
Successful
Res Status
No
OFN_INVL
Resident
PRN
157766
Property
Prop #
Involvement
Invl Date
EVIDENCE-Non-Drug
06/08/2016
In Custody?
Security
Yes
No
Tag No
Item No
160001726
Description
1
Typ
Cat
Article
IBRS Type
Entered Date
Compact Disk
06/08/2016
Entered Time
11:54
Link
RMS Transfer
Successful
Involvement
SUS
Control
SUS
3417
0608161155
Invl No
Name
OFCR KIGHTLINGER,ROBERT
Race
Sex
DOB
Prop #
Involvement
Invl Date
EVIDENCE-Non-Drug
06/08/2016
In Custody?
Security
Yes
No
Tag No
Item No
160001726
Description
2
Typ
Cat
Article
IBRS Type
Entered Date
Compact Disk
06/08/2016
Entered Time
11:54
Link
SUS
RMS Transfer
Control
Successful
Involvement
SUS
3417
0608161155
Invl No
Name
OFCR KIGHTLINGER,ROBERT
Race
Sex
DOB
Narrative
1.On June 8, 2016 at approximately 9:33 am Idaho State Police Detectives Jason Horst and I interviewed
Middleton Police Department (MIPD) Officer Robert Kightlinger about the allegations of corruption made against
Report Officer
Printed At
3417/HOPKINS,TIMOTHY
07/11/2016 07:15
Page 1 of 5
KIGHTLINGER INTERVW
Idaho State Police
M16000102
Supplement No
0005
Narrative
him, MIPD and Sergeant Stephen Walker. The interview took place at the Idaho State Police District Three office
located at 700 S. Stratford Dr. in Meridian, Idaho.
2.During the interview Kightlinger signed a Miranda warnings form, acknowledging he understood Miranda, and
gave permission for Idaho State Police (ISP) Detectives to download the contents of his personal cell phone. The
Download was done by ISP Investigative Assistant Karen Montgomery. Montgomery gave me a disk containing
the contents of Kightlinger's cell phone. The disk has been placed into evidence.
3.During the interview Kightlinger told Det. Horst and me the following:
4.He was told he was accused of stalking somebody.
5.He has worked for MIPD for approximately two years.
6.He identified photographs of Walker and
Kevin
7.He knows
8.He was employed with Idaho Probation and Parole prior to working with MIPD.
9.He did not have a relationship with
lives on Kestrel.
12.He has
13.He did not delete anything on his phone when he was put on leave.
14.The next contact he had with
was issuing her a citation for a barking dog. He served the citation on
at her house.
paid the citation.
15.MIPD got more and more calls on
dog. Most of his interaction with
was over her dog. Her
neighbor complained about the dogs in the neighborhood and he had to figure out which dog it was.
16.All of the calls should be logged for the guy that lives behind
17.The last call at
her house.
on Harpy.
claimed her brother in law stole medications out of
18.He did a check on a suspicious truck in her drive way. He noticed the truck in her drive way with a male
walking around it. He found it was a salesman and
19.He would drive by
residence often because he lives in that area on Nugget. He has to go by
place to leave the subdivision. There are three roads out of the front of the subdivision. You can see
house from all three roads.
20.He has no idea about the domestic violence call with
because he was not working that day. All he
knows is
got punched in the back of the head. He learned that from the MIPD pass on information and
told him that during his interaction with her on the dog calls.
21.He talked to
about several things like her getting divorced and what she should do with Kevin's
property.
wanted to know about the Tahoe in the driveway because family members wanted to come get
things.
wanted to know what to do with Kevin's guns.
22.
asked him advice that was related to law enforcement and personal life.
Printed At
3417/HOPKINS,TIMOTHY
07/11/2016 07:15
Page 2 of 5
KIGHTLINGER INTERVW
Idaho State Police
M16000102
Supplement No
0005
Narrative
24.Based on his conversations with
friendship.
and her reaching out to him quite often they had developed a
25.
would reach out to him through text messages.
to take it to his personal phone.
26.His phone numbers are work,
27.He does not know when he and
and personal
started texting back and forth.
28.It started with the dog. He sent her a message saying they were getting complaints about her dog. Then
had concerns of family members going to her house and doing stuff.
29.When he was on patrol he noticed
garage door open. He sent
want to close her garage so nobody could get in.
30
was concerned Kevin's family was going to get into the house and do stuff to the house or her.
had a lab and then had a puppy that she got rid of because of the problems.
phone number until she sent it to him or she put it on a statement form. He got a
on the theft.
35.They started sharing communications when they were getting calls about her dog.
phone under her name.
36.
number is in his
38.They talked about step kids and family in both texts and personal interactions.
kids because they were step kids.
39.He gave a stuffed dog to
little girl because
does not remember what it was over.
started reaching
Printed At
3417/HOPKINS,TIMOTHY
07/11/2016 07:15
Page 3 of 5
KIGHTLINGER INTERVW
Idaho State Police
Supplement No
M16000102
0005
Narrative
her. He does not know what it was over.
48.It might have been over all the dog complaints. He knows he took her a dog to make her feel better.
49.
had a bunch of friends at her house. He was at home and
texted him and asked where he was.
He told
he was not invited. She told him to come on over to meet who she calls her brother. He walked
over and played corn hole with them, that's it. After he left
sent him messages apologizing for people being
assholes. One guy there didn't like cops because he was a felon.
50.He will take a polygraph.
51.He did not think his relationship with
52.He did not prey upon her because she was a victim of domestic violence.
53.He asked Walker to contact
over a couple issues because he knew Walker and
He needed
brother in law's name for his report.
54.Walker and
were friends.
went to the same church and their kids went to the same daycare.
55.Chief Zimmerman told him Walker was put on leave because Walker had a relationship with
that meant the relationship was sexual.
. To him
56.He likes Walker and sees him out of work once in a while. He has delivered bounce houses to Walker before.
57.He did not talk to Walker about his relationship with
house because
61.He saw the garage door open and her little car was not there. He saw the older gentleman walk out of the
garage. He peaked in and saw
wave at him. He told
he saw a strange man walking around.
told him it was a salesman from Edmunds dropping the car off because he lives out in the area. This was
around eleven o'clock at night.
62.She invited him to text her on her personal phone by answering her texts and them texting back and forth.
63.They moved to his personal phone because the conversation was not work related. This was when she started
the naughty stuff. He told
he could not do that on his work phone. The conversation went on for a couple
hours. He had no end goal. He was venting to
because he was having a hell of a year. He was not
looking for or expecting anything out of it that's why when
asked what he wanted out of it he said no
relationship just a friendship.
64.It seemed like
wanted a relationship or was expecting a relationship out of there communications.
wanted somebody there for her, maybe sexually, but it wasn't him.
65.Their relationship didn't go any further than texting. He went over to
there.
66.He was at
house once off duty and six or seven times on duty. This was over several months.
68.He thinks
is trying to get the charges against Kevin dropped.
get the charges dropped. That didn't work so she is doing this now.
69.He thinks
Report Officer
Printed At
3417/HOPKINS,TIMOTHY
07/11/2016 07:15
Page 4 of 5
KIGHTLINGER INTERVW
Idaho State Police
M16000102
Supplement No
0005
Narrative
70.He has no idea about what
75.He and
developed a friendship based on the communications they had, that was his understanding.
They had lots of things in common to share. They were both going through the same situations.
76.It's his job and status on the line. He is the one being accused of doing something criminal, so he wants to
take a polygraph.
77.The interview was concluded at approximately 10:20 am.
Report Officer
Printed At
3417/HOPKINS,TIMOTHY
07/11/2016 07:15
Page 5 of 5
WORK PHONE CD
Idaho State Police
Supplement No
M16000102
0006
Reported Date
06/21/2016
Rpt/Incident Typ
BRIBERY
Member#/Dept ID#
HOPKINS,TIMOTHY
Meridian, ID 83642
Phone
(208)884-7000
Fax
Administrative Information
Agency
Case No
M16000102
Supplement No
Reported Date
0006
Reported Time
06/21/2016
10:49
Status
Investigate
Rpt/Incident Typ
BRIBERY
Location
Assignment
3417/HOPKINS,TIMOTHY
DETECTIVE DIST 3
Assignment
RMS Transfer
DETECTIVE DIST 3
Successful
Successful
Entered By
Property?
Yes
Approving Officer
Approval Date
Approval Time
2717
07/05/2016
14:11:36
3417
Report Title
WORK PHONE CD
Summary Narrative
On June 9, 2016 Idaho State Police Detective Tim Hopkins received a CD from Idaho State Police Investigative
Assistant Karen Montgomery containing the information downloaded from Middleton Police Department Sergeant
Stephen Walker and Robert Kightlinger's department issued cell phones.
The CD has been placed into evidence.
Invl No
Type
Name
SUSPECT
Individual
OFCR WALKER,STEPHEN
Race
Sex
Ethnicity
White
Res Status
OFN_INVL
Resident
Vic/Ofnd Age
29
Property
Prop #
Involvement
Invl Date
EVIDENCE-Non-Drug
06/21/2016
In Custody?
Security
Yes
No
Tag No
Item No
160001866
Description
1
Typ
Cat
Article
IBRS Type
Entered Date
Compact Disk
06/21/2016
Entered Time
10:51
Link
SUS
RMS Transfer
Control
Successful
Involvement
SUS
3417
0621161052
Invl No
Name
OFCR WALKER,STEPHEN
Race
Sex
DOB
Report Officer
Printed At
3417/HOPKINS,TIMOTHY
07/11/2016 07:15
Page 1 of 1