CONFIRMED
The officers named in the raid and the related stops are public employees of American Fork City. Their names, ranks and salaries are in the Utah public-employee compensation registry; the conduct described in the records below is drawn from court filings and from the police-accountability channel LackLuster, and none of it is adjudicated.
Lt. Quinn J. Adamson was the lieutenant on the raid perimeter and the officer who interrupted and seized Ben Schneider’s recording. Two years earlier, as a sergeant, he was a named defendant in the Greenland excessive-force suit below, and was promoted to lieutenant after it ended. Ofc. Cole G. Richardson was the affiant on the search warrant that returned “no items seized.” Ofc. Joshua M. Jensen was on the raid roster. Det. Bronson T. Kitchen (a school resource officer, not a raid officer) made a stop the chief later conceded was wrong. Derek T. Cannon was an American Fork officer from 2019 to 2021, since separated, and is the “D.T. Cannon” named in the Greenland docket below.
No American Fork officer appears as an owner, officer or registered agent of any McNeff, Legally Mine or BAM entity in the business registries. The documented connection from the franchise to the police runs through the private complainant, not through any officer’s finances.
Sources: Utah public-employee compensation registry (American Fork City); LackLuster’s American Fork PD series. Per-officer detail: The takedown; the people on the connection map.
Federal court records show American Fork PD had been sued for excessive force two years before the Schneider raid: Greenland v. Cannon, No. 2:22-cv-00137-RJS (U.S. District Court, District of Utah, Judge Robert J. Shelby), filed February 28, 2022 and dismissed with prejudice on July 20, 2022. The four officer-defendants included Sgt. Q. Adamson — the same Quinn Adamson, a sergeant then, the raid lieutenant by 2026. The April 17, 2020 complaint alleges officers used force on a man kneeling with his hands raised, and that an officer turned off his audio and covered his camera while officers discussed the encounter — the same audio-muting the Schneider bodycam shows. The defendants’ Rule 68 offer was $25,000; the case ended in a stipulated dismissal with prejudice.
The fair counterpoint. These are the complaint’s allegations; the case was dismissed with prejudice without findings, and every officer is presumed innocent. What is documented is the recurrence — the same lieutenant in both incidents, and the same camera-concealment in the same court record.
Primary records (hosted here in full): the Greenland v. Cannon docket — the complaint (Dkt 2), the $25,000 Rule 68 offer (Dkt 16) and the dismissal (Dkt 19) (D. Utah, via CourtListener / PACER). More: The takedown.
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