This post concerns the issue of what local policemen were on
the scene of my brother's truck fire in Great Valley, N. Y., on September 23,
2003. Previous posts (December 31, 2011;
November 15, 2015; and December 16, 2016) noted that several local police
officers were reported to be on the scene.
However, only the presence of Gary Wind, then a Cattaraugus County
deputy sheriff, is recorded in the report of the N. Y. State Police. But he was there in his capacity as a
firefighter, and his witness statement is part of the official report [see link
on the upper right side of the blog for official documents].
It was reported to me that Robert Buchhardt, then a senior
deputy sheriff and currently undersheriff, was also on the scene. Since Great Valley does not have its own
police force, the sheriff's office would naturally have jurisdiction. Was Deputy Sheriff Buchhardt there before the
State Police arrived? If Deputy Sheriff Buchardt was present and discussed the case with
the N. Y. S. Police, there is no record of it in the State Police report on
Mark's case.
It was also reported to me that then Salamanca police officer
Steve Arrowsmith was on the scene, though it is not clear what he did there. The presence of Salamanca police on the scene is a matter
of some concern in light of not only Ofc. Mark Marowski's personal argument
with my brother at a local club that led to Mark's arrest for DWI the very day
before the fire but also Marowski's alleged affair with my brother's wife
Susan.
Three deputy sheriffs happen to have lived in that general
neighborhood in the period of Mark's truck fire. A couple of years ago, I spoke with Sidney Lindell, one of the three and the brother of Mark's close neighbor
Alana Lindell Cloud, now deceased. Mr.
Lindell, now retired from the sheriff's office, stated that at the time of the
truck fire, he lived farther up Hungry Hollow Rd. (which for a stretch runs
parallel to Whalen Rd., where my brother lived) and that he did not find out about
the fire until the next day.
The other two deputy sheriffs, however, owned houses very
close to Mark's, and yet neither is recorded in the police report as present on
the scene. According to a neighbor of
Mark's, one of them, Shawn Gregory, was in fact on the scene. Deputy Sheriff Gregory, the son-in-law of
Alana Lindell Cloud, lived just a couple of houses from Mark's on Whalen Rd.
(see post of November 15, 2015).
No one
with whom I've spoken over the years has known if the other, Drew Rozler, was
on the scene or not. But Deputy
Sheriff Rozler owned a house on Cross
Rd. in the block adjacent to my brother's.
One would assume that both individuals should have been summoned to
respond to a fatal truck fire of this nature.
In addition, if the claim made in the anonymous letter (see post of August
11, 2014) is indeed true that Marowski and my brother's wife were observed on numerous occasions
riding around together on a four-wheeler, then these two
deputy sheriffs who were also neighbors may well have seen that activity.
It was recently brought to my attention that Deputy Sheriff
Drew Rozler, who reportedly had previously worked for the Salamanca Police Department, was
a first responder in the deaths of both Tim Nye and Dale Tarapacki. One individual added that Deputy Sheriff
Rozler in fact discovered the body of Tim Nye in a very isolated location in
Great Valley and wondered why he was there at all, much less at that particular time.
