Description 0' Incident: Jacob wetterling vanished In October of 1985. Mv complainx deal with the investigation of this aime. I believe I have "done what's right" and gone beyond what was expute helping and the crime's investigation. Law enforcement and their circle of protection have yioiateo my family 5 mi rights as well as mine. They have abused the priwleges of their power by crushing the rights of any innocent law abiding United States Citizen. They have been extremely slow and ciumsy in dealing With the serious nature of their Investigatloni They have confused, changed, and "lost" criticai witness accounts directiy linked to this case. They have made which not only destroyed my life as I knew It but quite destroyed Jacob's chances of ever coming home! They have physicaiiy assaulted my Mom and have made deliberate verbal attacks on my Dad to overwhelm him with svess and pain. They have "stoien" and damaged property beionging to us With warrants fuli of questions but no answers. They have not been honest with my parents, myseil, media, and the puoiic. They refuse to return a box of lflformauan my Witness accounts and has lnfurmatlon which heips me deal With the Situation they created. They know i plan on a iawsult against a TV news Statan but refuse to turn over my research/property, They have used tachcs to defame my name aiong With my famiiy's name i believe they have done much of this out of retaliation towards me for sticking With my original witness accounts and for being Critical of their dishonest actions and statements. I realize many of my compiaints may not even be of concern to your department but i find it impossible to state one thing Without the other. Steam: county Attorney Janelle P. Kendall '5 office heard my complaints in early June of 2011 about what the Stearris County Sheriff, the Minnesota ECAparents, ramiiy, and to myself. My complaints were "flushed" away Without hesitation or further questions, in fact, the only action Attorney Kendail's office took was to report everything 1 said to the Sroarns County Sheriff Department Within the hour. In a letter from Attorney Kendall dated June 15, 2011, Attorney Kendail informed me that since she advises the Stearns County Sheriff orhce, my inquiries regarding the investigation must go directly to the Shenst office. She states "my office does not conduct further or additionai investigation into active matters. This responsibility iies solely With the Sherlff's Office." 1: is alarming to think of all tsie knowledge at power The Steams County Attorney's Office has in regards to law and how it ls enforced and that's all my stearns County Attorney could tell me?! The average citixen trusls them to "do the right thing" no matter who comes fomard other than the sheriff! My complaint With Attorney Kendall centers around her supporting the Sheriff's office Without question even after 1 alerted her office to "alleged wrong doing and physical BSSant." Judge Vicki Landwehr is the judge who Signed off on at least one of the Search warrants used to gain access to my parent's property. Ifa person with such power is totally trusting of what the MN BCA/FBl/Sheriff Office present her, WHY BOTHERR Law enforcement can come up with the needed "evidence" or "statements" in "cm of context whatever" easy enough. It has hecome clear law enforcement took my emails, private mnvefsatlofls, and discussions with them and presented them out of context to Judge Vicki Lartdwehr. Apparentiy law enforcement has every legal right to lie, fabricate, retaliate, ouily, harass, and physically assault a victim of circumstance if they choose to du S0. When law enforcement met with me, they even tried to put doubt in my mind with ali kinds of out of context quotes, videos, and at my own domg. So I can easily understand haw misleading they could be With a Judge using information the Judge isn't keenly aware on i would hope a Judge would attempt to get some information from the party in question before signing off on a warrant. As a Judge, if you have 100% trust in law enforcement, WE ALL HAVE BIG 1 would hope the judge would stand as a sort of pillar of justice for all citizens! For Judge Landwehr to indicate "probable cause" in signing off on the warrant(s) is in itself evidence of not getting the full honest story behind law enforcement?s ?awed investigation! Sheriff John Sanner is the Stearns County Sheriff. Sheriff Sanner allowed everything to happen without putting a stop to it as it got more and more out of hand. It is my belief that Sheriff Sanner's staff, the MN-BCA, and the FBI misrepresented my private public statements and were behind questionable tactics including a "press leak" to Channel 9 News in early 2004. In speaking with him on July 1, 2010 in our farmyard, it became 100% clear that my family and I were being retaliated against for me being honest with Patty Wetterling and informing her how law enforcement has been. Sheriff Sanner SAID "This is what happens when you talk." He stated this exact statement twice. He refused to exnlain more about his statement. He has been a Sheriff too long to pretend that he is naive or ignorant about how the press works and how the public would react to the "farm invasion" on June 30 July 1, 2010. For Sheriff Sanner to allow this to all happen to my family defies logic and the rights of law abiding Stearns County Citizens! If anything, law enforcement could have called me in as in the past and discussed my comments! Stearns County Captain Pam Jensen. Almost everything Capt. Jensen has said to me can't be trusted. I have too many examples to go through here but my examples portray a scary scenario. For example, Capt. Jensen left me a phone message on July 23, 2010 stating we would get a car and driver situation figured out, but she NEVER followed through and then when I pursued that issue in June of 2011, all she could do was get extremely upset I wouldn't let the issue die! I believe it is the game plan of law enforcement to change the facts of the case in order to stir up new leads. (BECAUSE this scenario involves a cover-up beyond belief, it is a critical point of their game plan to have me go along with changing the facts of this case even though it points fingers at me!) I have listed several areas of concern below that happened on our farm on June 30 July 1, 2010 when Captain Pam Jensen was in charge. *My Dad was treated like he had two loaded guns pointed at the police! He still is ovenNhelmed by the unbelievable tactics the police used when he made a comment about a TV news reporter. *My Mom was physically assaulted within our house by MN-BCA Agent Kenneth McDonald. *My parents and myself were threatened with arrest: during a disturbing "house break?in" carried out by law enforcement. *We were forced to leave our farm without any type of due process. It was total chaos on the part of law enforcement. was allowed to handle weapons and secure them in my car. *All weapons should have been collected first thing on June 30th, 2010. Obviously, this was not done. *Several statements were made by Captain Pam Jensen that were proven later to just not be truthful. *Law enforcement labeled me as Person Of Interest". Capt. Jensen called me a "Suspect". Should they have allowed me to roam about and handle weapons as several unarmed law enforcement people relaxed for breaks/lunch? *Law enforcement didn?t protect their own interests. I obtained DNA samples from most of the agents on our farm July 1, 2010. *Promises were made to my parents and myself about the search that never were honored. *Huge areas of the farm along with Specific spots were not searched. Why search if you are going to be so "haphazard" about it? *On the first day of the surprise search, I was not home the whole day. A lapse in planning? Kenneth McDonald is the MN BCA Agent who interviewed me on February 7, 2004 in The Stearns County Law Enforcement Center with Capt. Pam Jensen present. He had my past statements of all kinds that were intended to help solve the case. He turned them upside? down 8: backwards 8: out of context and used them against me. He selected his "ideas" from hours of tapes/files,l reports and information intended to be used to solve the crime, not to send it off down the wrong road. He twisted my witness reports and injected them into his new ideas or theories. He has taken my accounts, dismissed them, and replaced them with false accounts which never have been clari?ed to me! On July 1, 2010, Kenneth McDonald was the person who physically assaulted kitchen chair. She was pulled off the chair by Kenneth McDonald and dragged to the floor for a short distance and then pushed out of her house. Her left arm was black and blue for a week afterwards. i am filled with trepidation in thinking about what Kenneth McDonald could be capable of if he goes unchecked from here on out! The FBI was represented by Shane A. Ball. Shane is the only FBI person to give me his card and chat with me a bit. I have no complaints directly against Shane A. Ballinvolved with such a disaster of an investigation? Maybe i watch too much TV or something, but has anyone out there heard of the telephone where you just call up a person to get information instead of tapping their phone line/emails/and making them go through what a real criminal would go through? Because all of this is so crazy, I can't hardly bring myself to believe the FBI is involved. My comments below re?ect basic issues connected to my complaints. *My witness accounts have been abused, forgotten, changed, and have never really been put to the true test of helping solve this crime! The ironic twist: revolves around law enforcement changing up the whole car theory which they never got right to begin with! They never gave me any indication they truly understood and remembered what I witnessed. To make matters worse, law enforcement can't tell me all kinds of details about the car they insist I saw. They have refused to clear this rather simple but case altering detail with me! I have even told them how it can be cleared up and they only get extremely upset with me for being persistent about what I witnessed. It is of my 100% belief, the two cars I witnessed in our farm yard on Sunday - October 19, 1989 were responsible for Jacob Wetterling?s disappearance. The two different cars were de?nitely driven by the same driver. *I've reminded law enforcement of how wrong they are. For it to come to this mess is unbelievable! This isn't just a misunderstanding. This is law enforcement in the U.S.A. being a BULLY and trying to force a witness to agree with their theory. (They now insist Jacob was taken by someone on foot and Jacob wasn?t transported in a car. Thus, the person who kidnapped Jacob must live within a short distance.) The details about the cars involved are quite simple but can seem complicated if all the facts are not put on the table at once! Law enforcement continues to completely miss basic facts and track down what I've been telling them for over 22 years. When I go public again, I do not intend on being supportive of law enforcement and their circle of protection. Can't anyone in these organizations get it together and get the details correct? Can't anyone be what an American should be and step forward into the realm of what is real without changing the facts? I handed law enforcement everything I could and have found they LOST IT and have destroyed my life as I knew it. No innocent witness should ever have to go through what I have gone through with my family. In other words, I'm not ?ghting for just myself and my family! I will ?ght law enforcement and their protective circle in order to achieve the freedom American's are promised to have under the constitution. That freedom has been destroyed by law enforcement's power to lie, cheat, threaten, harass, bully, steal, invade privacy, verbally and physically assault, and to ruin a person's life without due process. The irony here is how freedom's ring has been silenced by the people entrusted to uphold freedom! This is NOT The American I do realize under the law the police are allowed to lie when questioning me. However, are they allowed to lie to the public or give a false perception to the public/media at my expense when I?m innocenti? Is it considered legal for law enforcement to give the public the perception I am guilty of something when I'm not?! Is law enforcement allowed to create a horrible environment for me to work live in and not come through with a quick conclusive verdict regarding my involvement? To leave my family and myself hanging in the ugly winds of suspicion and evil, is a most brutal harassment on a daily basis! This is NOT rocket science or Twilight Zone or some sort of CSI episode that never ends! This is a family's real life and time has run out for law enforcement to realize it has committed a horrific injustice! And if that isn't enough, what about Jacob? If not just for the Wetterlings, can we please get the facts straight and start from the beginning? Is there anyone out there willing to realize the pathetic mess law enforcement has created!? Is there anyone who can come forward and help me - help them? I believe law enforcement is partly responsible for creating the monster news story in February-March of 2004. False perceptions were created by this investigative report" with just lots of spliced diced editing. The reporter did this without my knowledge after I spend 2.5 hours with her and explained why I didn't wish to go on air with my story. 1 also explained how my witness accounts were only known (I thought!?) by law enforcement. It was obvious, this reporter got what I would call private information from law enforcement. All of her editing involved recordings I didn't know existed. Her story created hell for me even back in 2004 and goes on to the present. Fast forward to the Fall of 2009 when Patty Wetterling and law enforcement set up a meeting with me. I believe Patty watched this false TV news story several times over the years and anyone who doesn't know the truth would almost have to conclude from the investigative report that I was a very strong suspect! To my knowledge, law enforcement made no attempt to correct this investigative news story. So, with that, Patty doesn't realize I am maybe the only person that can help her ?nd Jacob at this point and what does she do? She participates in a set?up with law enforcement designed to obtain sound bits that can be spliced and diced to suit law enforcement wishes! The set-up was discovered because law enforcement was clumsy and just too predictable. Law enforcement has talked to many people I know and have followed so many disturbing theories in their questions, it's downright embarrassing! If you can, imagine a bit how it feels to be me, an innocent person learning of authority figures going around asking all kinds of troubling questions about me as well as about my family, friends, and colleagues. It tears me apart inside and makes my head spin as to how law enforcement seems to be going unchecked in this type of practice. NO one has truly come forward and used my witness accounts about the two cars to Jacob's advantage! Not one sheriff, NOT one FBI Agent, NOT one detective, NOT one person came forward and acted on my information! NOT even the Channel 9 News investigative reporter that defamed me! Instead, they dug up our farm just because a dog picked up on my imagination or my talk with Patty was taken the wrong way? GOT TO BE I've heard of incompetence, mistakes, misunderstandings, sloppy police work, or whatever you want to call it, but this whole investigation is not just a nightmare! It is also reality for my family and myself. It is rare that a night passes, I don't wake up thinking about it. There has to be someone in the world of law enforcement that can get this investigation on the trail of the kidnapper and not on a simple witness who did what was right! If you read all of this and have become confused, picture this if you can. As I type this over 22 years after the kidnapping happened, I can't imagine the pain the Wetterlings still feel. If the Wetterlings truly understood what has happened to this investigation, they would realize so much more pain. I don't think they can imagine the pain that has been in?icted into our family. I believe law enforcement realizes but will deny how their actions have in?icted a major injustice to the Rassier family. To destroy our family's name the way they did because they had a "Hunch!" is in itself, a serious crime. Nothing can make it right now. The damage has been done. But to leave the whole thing open to speculation and open to the public's imagination is just wrong! The bottom-line is to ?nd out what happened to Jacob and this still can be accomplished but not with the current people in charge! You don't find someone by destroying others in the process. You ?nd someone by following and investigating and playing out the facts! We have had so many people on this case, they have not only lost it but also have lost Jacob. Please, I'm begging who can help? Leading questions: Should law enforcement present media with information that can be easily misintrepretated and then allow them to spin it? In other words, do you support the truth to be taken out of context, spun every which way, and in no time, everyone is confused including law enforcement? Is it right to assume probable cause when law enforcement has put out so much false information through media that people involved with the case begin to believe what they have heard through the media? Why does law enforcement and their circle of protection continue to bully others? Their job is to ?nd the guilty and go from there. Their job is not to ?nd the innocent and portray them as "suspects" and then end of story! Thus, to cover their tracks, law enforcement will rarely admit to mistakes and would rather just keep destroying their rapport with society by demonstrating this bully behavior! Sometimes it takes a video or recording to eXpose their tactics. Sometimes law enforcement will admit to wrong doing when hard evidence is discovered. What will it take for law enforcement to come forward here and correct all the wrongs they have pushed forward? For them to continue this bully type behavior just doesn't help solve the case. They have to understand they have created a wave of mistrust with not just me but many others. If nothing good comes of this complaint, at least I tried to convince someone we have serious problems in this investigation which have gone unchecked for over 22 years! Every missing child deserves a real chance to have his] her case solved no matter how late it might be. Jacob never really had his chance yet. Can we at least give him that? In our age of cyberspace and high tech magic and CSI, how can we be having this Jacob Wetterling Crime still unsolved and turning more and more into complete chaos with law enforcement being completely oblivious to it all! We need to seek out truth and justice in order to possibly solve this case. We will not solve it by pushing forth lies and theories based on what didn?t happen! Like any unsolved crime, Jacob Wetterling and his family along with the public deserve nothing less than the truth. Thank You for your attention and concern. Respectfully, Dan Rassier Addresses of Complaint Letter 2i Dan Rassier-- aw: Thu 5/31/12 1.31 PM lo Dan Rasseu -- State or Minnesota Department or Public Safety Internal Affairs/Affirmative Action 445 Minnesota Street, Suite #530 St. Paul, Minnesota 551015530 Minnesota Board of Peace Offiner Standards and Training Attention' A. Paul Monteen 1600 University Avenue Suite 200 St. Paul, Minnesota 55104-3815 Board on Judicial Standards 2025 Centre Fointe Blvd. Suite 180 Mendota Heights, Minnesota 55120 Office of Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson Suite 1400, 445 Minnesota Street st. Paul, MN 55101 Office a! Lawyers Professional Respons 15m] Landmark Towers 345 St. Peter Street St. Paul, Minnesota 55102 Stearns County Administrator George Rindelaub 705 Courthouse Square Room 121 St. Cloud, Minnesota 56303-4701 Shearns County County Commissioner Mark Bromenschenkel (Second Di trict) P. 0. Box 190 Sanell, Minnesota 56377 Office or The Governor savemor Mark Dayton 130 State Capitol 75 Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. St. Paul, Minnesota 55155 Minnesota Federal Bureau Of Investigation Special Agent In Charge Donald E. Oswald 1501 Freeway Boulevard Brooklyn Center, MN 55430 Congresswoman Michele Bachmann 110 2nd Street 5, Suite 132 Waite Park, MN 56357 320453-5931 http://by 1 70w.bay -ah4e-l lei 5/31/2012 1111!, Lvlvouubv Representative Tim O'Driseoll (R) District 14A Minnesota House Of Representatives PD. Box 225 Sartell, MN 56377 1u800~920?9984 Senator Michelle L. Fischbach (R) District 14 416 Burr Street MN 56362 320-243-7052 Senator Amy Kiobucnar 1200 Washington Avenue South Room 250 Minneapolis, MN 55415 1?888?224-9043 Senator Al Franken 916 St. Germain St. Suite 110 St. Cloud, MN 56301 320-251-2721 http://byl 1 5/31/2012