Sheriff Cole's New Message on the Southern Border

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Our little town of Ludington made the national news again, but it wasn't any kind of feel-good story unless you're on the side of pointless resistance against the forces of law and order.  Ryan Louis Mosqueda, whose official address is just outside the Ludington city limits in PM Township, reportedly ambushed and opened fire on border patrol agents and other law enforcement in McAllen, Texas, injuring at least one in the process, and getting killed for the effort.  Mosqueda, 27, has a deep connection to Mason County lasting many years, where he went to school in Ludington and worked at local businesses.

                           Mason County Sheriff Kim Cole and alleged border patrol ambusher, Ryan Louis Mosqueda

In WOOD TV, WPBN, and the Mason County Press, we learn a little of the motivations and actions of Mosqueda, where family members reveal that he has had mental issues of late and was fixated on corporate media when not playing video games and doing little else.  This seems to have fostered the impetus behind his irrational and suicidal ambush against officials whose actions would likely not be affecting the livelihood of him or his family.  Each of the three media sources attributed a reply by Mason County Sheriff Kim Cole as to additional information about Mosqueda, and these were all consistent:

According to these sources, parroted throughout some other outlets, Cole said his sheriff's department:  "had no interactions with him", had no record of ever coming in contact with him, and "had no contact" with him, respectively.  

Now, Sheriff Cole has been in that position since 2013, has been on the sheriff's department well back into the prior century for more years than Mosqueda had been alive.  And while we are not aware of whether Mosqueda had a juvenile record, we found that court records from the 79th District Court fully indicate that Ryan Louis Mosqueda had at least two contacts/interactions with Sheriff Cole's department in 2019 and 2021, in particular with Deputy Warmuskerken and Sergeant Dennert for traffic related offenses:

Sheriff Kim Cole lied about Ryan Mosqueda's past interactions with his department for some reason not readily evident, with the unscrubbed record showing two iterations of his error.  This isn't a new behavior by the sheriff, he lied to this reporter twice last year over a more serious crime, he lied about Corey Beekman repeatedly in order to taint the jury pool when his department's investigation was mostly exculpatory towards Beekman.  He has done the same painting and tainting with others accused and later found to be innocent of any crime, like a school coach.  

Let's wonder why he would lie about this at the same time we're wondering about why he isn't using this moment to forward his own viewpoints on illegal immigration-- he was very vocal about it late last year, going to the Stearns Hotel and the Peterson Auditorium to talk about how important it was to have secure borders and to support border patrol and ICE agents.  The Ludington Torch attended the latter presentation, and the message he offered then would be even more relevant now with one of his county's individuals going down to Texas to ambush border patrol agents.  Held about a month before the 2024 election, the meetings were just politics to this sheriff, nothing more. 

Instead, Kim defends the guy who just shot at multiple law enforcement officers by lying about the shooter's record of interactions with his own department and fails to condemn Mosqueda shooting at those entrusted with enforcing law and order at the border.