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Yahoo
4 days ago
- Yahoo
Former St. George Police Officer charged with alleged child abuse
Charges are allegations only. All arrested persons are presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. ST. GEORGE, Utah () — A St. George City Police officer was charged with child abuse on April 14, 2025. He is no longer employed at the police department. Eric John Trombley, 46, has been charged with third-degree felony aggravated child abuse. According to the charging document, on February 21, 2025, Trombley committed the felony. Little information is available about what occurred, only that the charge was given the 'reckless' enhancement. Salt Lake Police Officer charged with stalking ex-girlfriend According to the St. George Police Department, Trombley is no longer with the department. ABC4 has reached out to the city for more information on when he left. On May 29, 2025, Judge Jay Winward from the fifth district court voluntarily recused himself from the case after Trombley's initial appearance on May 27. The case was reassigned to Judge Ryan Christiansen, also in the fifth district court. Trombley has a preliminary waiver hearing scheduled on June 17, later this month. He is not being held in jail, and was booked and released last month before his first court date. Securing the Utah Pride Festival: What's allowed in and what must stay out Former St. George Police Officer charged with alleged child abuse Trump orders probe of Biden mental state, executive actions in office The Ritz-Carlton Maui, Kapalua – experience the tropical magic for yourself Al Pastor Glazed Beef Flat Iron Steak Sandwich Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
16-05-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Hughes to appoint Trombley as police chief
PLATTSBURGH — Mayor Wendell Hughes plans to introduce Plattsburgh City Police Lt. Jarrod Trombley as the city's new police chief Thursday night during a Common Council meeting. Trombley's appointment, if approved by the council, will likely not be without controversy. Trombley was suspended and placed on administrative leave in September of 2024 by former Mayor Chris Rosenquest for two charges relating to misconduct, incompetence, insubordination and falsifying the numbers of hours worked, according to city documents obtained through a Freedom of Information Law request. Trombley eventually opted to sign a disciplinary settlement agreement with the city before retiring from the department Sept. 20, 2024. When Hughes took office in January after winning the November election, reinstating Trombley as lieutenant was one of the first moves he made. In February, the city hired an outside agency to lead an investigation into its police department and last fall's allegations against Tromley. The agency's findings have not yet been made available. Hughes said he was not worried about naming Trombley as police chief before he had the results of that investigation. 'Fully confident in what we've done at this point,' he told the media at a news conference Wednesday. 'I wouldn't do it if I didn't feel confident.' 'There were some charges that were put on him last year and he chose to retire … he never had his day,' Hughes added. 'But I'm fully confident in what we've done, and I know where we're at with all those allegations. I wouldn't make the recommendation if I didn't feel I was justified in doing it.' Hughes said he is putting his reputation out there for Trombley, something he wouldn't do unless he knew 'what the facts were.' 'I haven't got a final (report on the investigation), but not to say we haven't got a little oversight in some of what they saw,' he said. 'There's nothing egregious that they saw. We did some secondary stuff on our own, too. I have a new Corporation Counsel, and he was very involved in making sure the city was protected, too.' Trombley is one of three lieutenants in the department and has effectively been leading it since his reinstatement in January because there is no permanent police chief. The previous chief, Peter Mitchell, retired suddenly in September of 2024 after less than a year in the position. Shortly after Trombley's return, the search for a new police chief began and the city put out a call for applications. A committee, consisting of former Mayor James Calnon; Mayor Pro-Tem Julie Baughn; Clinton County Director of Mental Health Richele Gregory; DSS Attorney Patrick McFarlin; Former Village of Champlain Mayor/City of Plattsburgh Councilor Jeff Moore; and retired federal officer Scott Ewing, was formed to review any and all applicants received. A city news release Wednesday said 'Many inquiries were received and resulted in four Clinton County Civil Service qualified applicants. Two applicants withdrew for personal reasons and two applicants moved on in the process to be interviewed by a Police Chief search Committee.' The two finalists were Trombley and another person Hughes declined to name when asked Wednesday. Hughes said Wednesday the second finalist was not a member of the Plattsburgh City Police Department. The search committee held interviews with both candidates on May 7 then the committee met with Hughes and reviewed them. Hughes said he chose Trombley as his candidate for police chief. Additionally, Hughes is also hoping to appoint Joel Vassar as the department's new captain. 'I expect Lieutenant Trombley will prove to be an exemplary Chief for our City. He has over 20 years with the City Police Department and with the able assistance of our new Police Captain, Joel Vassar's leadership will move the department forward,' Hughes said in a statement. 'I thank them both for their willingness to serve and very much look forward to working with them as we improve Community Policing and assist those in our community facing mental health and addiction issues.' If appointments are approved by the Common Council during Thursday's meeting in the Common Council Chambers, Trombley and Vassar's new duties will begin May 16. Hughes said he 'truly' hopes to get full council support on his appointments. If approved, he said Trombley's appointment would be considered permanent since he has already passed the civil service chief test but he would be on probation for a year. Vassar's appointment would be provisional.
Boston Globe
14-04-2025
- Health
- Boston Globe
Everyone agrees the VA needs an overhaul. Are Trump's layoffs the answer?
Advertisement Trombley is among a rapidly rising percentage of vets receiving such compensation from the VA, a proud institution now sagging under the sheer volume of health care, disability benefits, and other services its sprawling system provides to at least 9 million vets. Many, like Trombley, are living with more disabilities than ever before. With over 470,000 staffers, the government's second-largest workforce, the VA reaches into every corner of American life, with all the services, excesses, and shortcomings people love and hate in private health care. Its size has placed it in the crosshairs of a budget-cutting president. The Trump administration last month announced plans to wrestle the VA's $336 billion budget — which has more than doubled since 2015 — into submission. The plans include Advertisement 'I can see some trimming of fat, but the VA as a whole works pretty good,' said Trombley, who has experienced the department's best and worst: struggling in earlier days to make medical appointments in the VA's notoriously delayed system, 'a horror show,' as he describes it, yet also winning access through the VA to top-notch cancer care. The planned cuts are sparking backlash from some lawmakers and advocates who say such steep reductions will inevitably sharply curtail services, a contention the VA denies. 'We've asked career subject-matter expert employees and senior executives for recommendations on how to improve care and benefits for veterans without cutting care and benefits,' VA press secretary Peter Kasperowicz said in a statement. But debate over the large-scale terminations sidesteps several inescapable facts that fuel the department's dramatic growth, according to interviews with current and former VA employees, outside analysts, and internal documents shared with the Globe. The documents show that for nearly half a century, from 1950 till nearly 2000, the average degree of disability among the nation's veterans remained constant, at roughly 30 percent. Since then, it has skyrocketed to 63 percent. Thanks to scientific advances, more people are surviving battlefield wounds that would have been lethal just a few decades ago. For instance, battlefield fatalities in Afghanistan and Iraq were roughly halved from around 20 percent in 2001 to about 9 or 10 percent by 2017, internal data show. That means many who survived are now living with significant disabilities, and that's adding to the numbers who receive monthly disability compensation. Advertisement 'There are more veterans surviving that otherwise would have died and now require greater health care and benefit support,' said one former senior VA official who asked to remain anonymous for fear of retribution from the Trump administration. At the same time, veterans who don't have war-related disabilities are generally living longer and requiring more age-related health care, he said. And there's also the generation of aging Vietnam vets, like Trombley, who need increasingly more care. The debate about downsizing staff also sidesteps another inescapable factor: Congress in the past decade has greatly expanded the benefits the VA is now required to provide, and that, too, has swelled costs. The expansion was sparked by Since then, the portion of the Veterans Health Administration budget that pays for community care outside the VA has Advertisement Yet Dr. as the VA's undersecretary for health in the 1990s, is credited with modernizing and streamlining the department. 'Community care is a necessary part of VA care, but you have to have the infrastructure in place to manage that,' such as sufficient staff to review claims, he said. 'The VA has not done an adequate job putting in place those mechanisms to ensure the dollars are being spent prudently,' he said. Still another mandate by Congress, the bipartisan At the same time, the VA has chipped away at its mountainous backlog of disability claims, but it's still swamped Recommendations on how to corral the VA's ballooning budget widely diverge. Some say the department needs more staffing, not less, to better manage all the claims and coverage mandated by Congress. Others say it's time for the government to exit the VA business and turn it over to private companies. 'Instead of sending veterans to private-sector emergency rooms where the care Advertisement But Ray Trombley at his residence at the Northampton VA Medical Center. Suzanne Kreiter/Globe Staff 'They should take all the VA facilities, all the capital, the buildings, the land, equipment, and they should turn it over to a shareholder corporation, give it to veterans who would own it, and control it, and it would serve them and not the politicians who currently control the VA,' he said. Trombley, the veteran dying of liver cancer, doesn't think privatizing the VA is the answer. He also worries that large-scale staff terminations might close regional offices like the one he depends on in Northampton. But mostly he's focused on patching things up with his wife and moving back home to Greenfield from transitional housing where he's been staying at Frail, but clear-eyed, he candidly said cancer will likely claim him before the health care system that has helped keep him alive figures out how to save itself. But he gives it his blessing. 'The VA through all the bashing it gets, it deals with the clientele,' Trombley said. 'They know their clientele like no one else's business.' Kay Lazar can be reached at
