Deputy Noah Noble, the Savage

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Ex-LPD Officer and currently Mason County Sheriff's Deputy Noah Noble has been making a name for himself among the people he interacts with, and that name is unprintable in most newspapers.  This is because he has acted in ways that defy ethical police conduct, far from noble, and he appears to be getting free passes wherever he 'serves'.  A brief recap of the questionable police work he has been involved with:

August 2023:  Unlawful arrest assist, excessive use of force, violation of rights

December 2023:  Sharkman arrest, Noble lies on police report, arrests man w/o probable cause, misuse of LEIN

March 2024:  Deer cull gaffes, multiple LPD policy violations culminating in unlawful issuing of a letter of trespass for a public park 

June 2024:  Ofc Mendez DUI Coverup, violated multiple policies, destroyed records by intentionally shutting off BWC and escorting his drunk fellow officer home after a traffic stop

[Resignation as an LPD officer in July 2024 to become a MCSO deputy]

November 2024:  Unlawful arrest and false charges eventually dropped in Hamlin voting debacle

August 2025:  Destroying records again, abusing authority

We have yet to see any instance where Deputy Noble has lived by his name-- or just followed established police policy or respect the rights of those he interacts with.  The Ludington Torch covered the last instance listed above obliquely, but we have received permission from the wrongfully felony-accused victim to use the body worn camera (BWC) footage of her harassment by Deputy Noble, with complicity by Deputy Luke Postma, a school resource officer who sees nothing wrong with covering up his own BWC while scheming with his colleague.  Would you trust your children around an armed law officer with such lax morals?  But let's focus more on the true villain in this case, and others, Noah Noble.

County Brown versus Kayla Brown

What follows is the unedited footage that the defendant, Kayla Brown, in this case was given through her discovery demand.  It is quite revealing in many ways as to how this power-crazed cop behaves even when he knows that he is being recorded.  We have seen the intentional muting and covering of his BWC, exactly like he did in the Mendez DUI stop, actions caught on camera and acknowledged by his superiors as wrong.  But he did not receive any kind of disciplinary action in that case, and he will likely have it overlooked in this case, even now after the felony charge he dropped on Kayla Brown has been surprisingly dropped by Judge Susan Sniegowski as a charge that never should have been made, or prosecuted.  A review of the footage will show that to be objectively true to any reasonably fair person:

Some things you may have noticed while watching the above video and coming to the conclusion that this deputy doesn't deserve to be on the road patrol due to his lack of following policies, following the law, or respecting the rights of others.  This isn't a poorly trained cop; this is a cop that willfully and intentionally disrespects his training and the expectations of his profession.  Any self-respecting police agency, especially one that markets itself as being honorable, would release such a cop that has a deep history of instability while on duty. 

One thing you notice is the multiple times he nullifies his BWC by muting it and covering the lens up, we will see this tactic mimicked by SRO Postma who does the same thing indicating that this is endemic to this police agency.  Once an incident begins, normal policy is to have the BWC run to the end of it, with few exceptions, none that applied here.  This is destruction of evidence, and such conduct should be aggressively confronted by sheriff administrators if they want to maintain the illusion that they are a 'constitutional sheriff's office'.  If you thought that we were making a big deal about this in the first article, it is a big deal, and now you are able to see it in real time.

Another thing you will notice is that Noble uses LEIN and dispatch, extending the traffic stop by more than a dozen minutes, in a vain effort to figure out the identity of the passenger in the truck that was stopped.  The only probable cause that Noble claims existed to harass the passenger like he did was that the passenger refused to show him his ID, which is within his rights, especially since as a passenger he isn't required to have any form of ID with him at any given time; this isn't a 'show me your papers' state or country.

The dialog shows what a corrupt and/or poorly trained deputy that Noah Noble is.  Here is his first interaction with the male passenger done just after he was given the traffic-stop-relevant documents of Brown, 1:30 into the video:

Noble:  Do you have an ID on you today, sir?

Male passenger:  Yeah.

NN:  Can I see that?

MP:  No, sir.

NN:  Just asking.  (cross-talk) OK, what's your name?

MP:  You don't... I'm not driving.

NN:  OK, (to Brown) here's that for you.  Alright, how about coming back here for a second.

Kayla Brown:  No

NN:  Yes.

KB:  I don't need to do that. 

NN:  Yes, you do.  If I say hop out, you hop out.

KB:  No, I don't need to do that.

NN:  Ok you have two options:  you can come out and talk with me, or you can go to jail.

We see that Kayla chose the third option after this threat of arrest for a crime yet to be specified, as driving around with a minor crack on your windshield does not rise to an arrestable offense.  We would later find out after reading the police report and reading the preliminary exam's transcript that the sole reason he wanted her to the back of the vehicle was to grill her on her passenger's identity.  It appears that Deputy Noble is so butthurt by the refusal of the man's ID that he is willing to arrest someone for not separating herself from his presence; the abuse of authority continues:

KB:  I don't need to hop out of my truck.

NN:  I am just asking to talk with you, OK?

KB:  Right, you can do that right here.

NN:  And I'm asking to talk to you back here.

KB:  No, please.

NN:  (on radio) 23 from 32, can you point in this direction.

Noble calls for backup from Deputy Postma on what should have been an already concluded traffic stop.  This would seem to indicate that he believes Postma would be fine with continuing Noble's abuse of power on these people doing a favor for their friends and otherwise being comfortable in knowing their rights during a traffic stop, a whole lot better than what Noble would continue showing his ignorance of.  

NN:  Kayla (cross-talk)

KB:  I'm being completely cooperative...

NN:  No, you are not.

KB:  You are not getting me out of my vehicle, sir.

NN: (on radio) can you point in my direction, at your convenience. (off radio) So listen, the law states that if I ask you to step out of your vehicle, you do have to.

KB:  No, I do not.

NN:  If you don't, that is obstructing.

KB:  That's not true... so please ask for your supervisor.

NN:  He's on his way.

Noble does not have his supervisor coming, he is lying about this just as he is lying about the obstruction charge for his attempt at separating the two vehicle occupants by trying to get her out of the vehicle for no other reason.  While the Supreme Court allowed an officer to lawfully order a driver or passenger to exit a vehicle in Pennsylvania v. Mimms (1977) and Maryland v. Wilson (1997) in many situations, those were not met in this case, where Noble did so admittedly for purposes beyond the scope of the traffic stop.

You don’t have to get out of your vehicle in every situation that you are pulled over by police, according to Lt. David Scott from Wayne State University police. If you’re under arrest you have an obligation to get out of your vehicle. For example, if the officer suspects you’re drinking and driving and asks you to exit the vehicle and you refuse, you could be charged with resisting the officer. If the officer asks you to leave your vehicle but you don’t feel safe in the area you’re in, and the officer hasn’t said you’re under arrest, you don’t necessarily have to leave the vehicle. You can let the officer know you do not want to leave your vehicle.

NN:  So listen, the law states that if I ask you to step out of your vehicle, you do have to...

KB:  No, I do not.

NN:  If you don't that is obstructing, OK?

KB:  That is not true.  So please ask for your supervisor.

NN:  He is on his way.  [Repeating the outright lie] If you don't want to step out, you can go to jail today.

KB:  That's fine, I'll go to the jail.

NN:  You would rather risk going to jail than just talking to me?!

That should tell you what a popular person you are, Deputy Noble, that people will rather go to jail than hearing your BS applications of laws you pervert and the lies you talk about in regard to your supervisor arriving.  Later in the video, we hear his supervisor asking about whether his presence was needed at the traffic stop still in progress, but rather than abide by Ms. Brown's repeated wishes, Noble tells him that he is not needed there.

KB:  Yeah, if your supervisor puts me in jail, that's fine.

MP:  Are you writing the law?

NN:  I'm not writing the law, all I'm asking is for you to step out of the vehicle so that you can talk with me.  it's that easy.

KB:  Nope.

MP:  (cross talk) There's no need.  Over 20 years on the fire department without salary...

NN:  I get that.  I'm not addicted to power; all I'm telling you Kayla is that I'm asking you to come out of the vehicle.

KB:  I'm just so frustrated, I've been pulled over so many times and I've been searched, pulled over because of this nonsense (points to windshield), no ticket, you guys are harassing me, just give me a ticket for this shit and I'll go to court and get it over with.

NN:  OK, Kayla, I just want to explain to you some stuff, can you do that for me, can you give me that?  

KB:  Back here, what?

NN:  Behind your car, we can talk right behind your car.

KB:  No, I feel comfortable doing it right here, in front of Jason and myself.

NN:  Kayla, I'm telling you right now that if you don't get out of the vehicle when I'm asking you to, you are obstructing...

KB:  You're going to put me in jail, I heard you.

NN:  And you would rather risk that than just talking with me back there.

KB:  You don't need to repeat yourself; I'm waiting for your supervisor.  I am being completely cooperative otherwise.

Kayla Brown is being cooperative in the legal sense throughout all of the time she was being harassed by Deputy Noble, we will review the language being used throughout this full encounter and come to the same conclusion as our normally prosecutor-cuddling circuit court judge did in her opinion dismissing the case.  We will also see that she gets no ticket for her windshield or tint, the two reasons behind the traffic stop, just for the imaginary act of obstruction.

NN:  Is it really like you, that hard, to give me the courtesy of talking to you without him here?

KB:  I'm calling my friend to see whether she could pick up my dogs and take them to my house.  I'm not getting out of the vehicle; there's no reason to. (cross talk)

NN:  What's that?  I am, I asked her to come talk with me back there.  I haven't pulled her out of the vehicle, and I have every right to at this point.

MP:  For what?

NN:  Because she's obstructing, I've asked her to step out of the vehicle, and she doesn't want to (cross talk) It's case law.

MP:  It's not case law.

NN:  Yes, it is.  Hang tight (moves aside with freshly arriving Deputy Postma) I just asked her to get out of the vehicle to talk to me, she... (BWC audio muted, lens covered for both deputies)

There's one of the crimes recorded for posterity in this encounter that accrues to both deputies:  destroying evidence.  There is no evidence supporting the crime of obstruction by Kayla Brown because if you have been paying attention to the video up to this point, she has always been asked to get out, never ordered to.  Consider this AI overview of the relevance of the language used by a police officer:

There was no lawful order made by Deputy Noah Noble, only asks all the way through, which can be ignored voluntarily just like the passenger did when he was asked to provide an ID and later a name.  This is the full transcript of the interaction that preceded the felony charge of obstruction and it shows a masterful ignorance of the law on Deputy Noble's part, a dangerous weapon in the hands of someone who threatened violence saying they had the right to pull someone out of their car and illegally detain them, then imprison them for refusing an arbitrary request.  

Noble Gas-lighting Continues

We see a period where Noble goes inside his cruiser for 13 minutes starting at 6:00 into the video, observe him trying to figure out the mystery of the passenger's name going through multiple databases including using LEIN and the dispatcher in what turns out to be a fruitless quest that withheld these travelers for much longer than they should have been.  Had the cowardly nature of Noah Noble not been so fully on display, knowing that the passenger knew a lot more about law than him, he would have likely found some pretense to rip them out of their passenger seat and imprison them.  Viewing this section of the BWC footage, one is left wondering what motivates this cop to do such things, but we get a hint when he goes back with a fix-it ticket for the windshield and a bonus at 19:10 into the footage, after her friend has come to pick up the dogs:

NN:  So here's the deal today... I am not taking you down to jail today, because then I would have to tow your car, we would have to find your dogs a home, OK?  What I am going to do, what I am going to do, because you have refused to obey the order of me to step out of the vehicle, which is a lawful order, you should do your homework when you get home and I'm going to send a warrant request to the prosecutor, OK, and I'm going to ask for a warrant for your arrest for obstruction, OK?

KB:  Yup.

Total prick mode has been activated.  Noah Noble would be violating state laws and policies by towing her vehicle and finding her dogs a home, when she had others who could drive the vehicle away lawfully and when she had made special accommodations to pick up the dogs when Noble's power trip began.  He now claims for the first time his prior consensual asks were commands or orders, when anyone who can look at and hear the video can tell they were not.  Even if they had been, the authority to do so would have been in question since the only reason he wanted to take her to the back of the vehicle was because he wanted them separated as he couldn't keep up with two people who had actually done their homework about the extent of their rights.  

Judge Sniegowski would affirm that the dog ate Deputy Noble's own homework, but only after severe damage to the reputation of Kayla Brown and the waste of the court's time in sifting through a prosecution that should never have been taken up, if not for a prosecutor who has left all discretion at home.  After lying once more about his supervisor that he earlier shooed away during his unlawful research of the learned passenger, Noble gets one last comeuppance from the driver that he falsely charged a felony to and the passenger that he was dearly afraid of

MP:  You can't give her a citation for obstructing an investigation when there was no investigation...

NN:  Actually, I could and I could also take you down to the jail, but then I would have to tow your car, and you'd have to get your car impounded, Ok?

KB:  My car would not be impounded, and neither would my dogs.

MP:  You haven't been out long enough, have you?

NN:  Do you really want to push this, because I am cutting you guys a huge break today, OK?

MP:  But you're not, that's the thing.

NN:  I am, look it up.

MP:  You think that we're stupid but we're not.

NN:  You should look it up; you should do your homework.

MP:  Ok, I already have.

NN:  Sir, sir, listen to me.  The primary reason I am not arresting her today, is that she's taking advice from you, which is not smart.  She is wrong, she is going to get a warrant and...

KB:  Even if he was not here, just to let you know, it would have gone down the same way.

NN:  OK, I would recommend you guys go home and check into that, you're wrong.

Apparently, Judge Sniegowski got it wrong too when she came to the only legal conclusion one could reach when presented with the facts of this case.  Deputy Noble is a federal lawsuit waiting to happen if he believes he has the authority to destroy evidence as he has on multiple traffic stops, use police resources for conducting a fishing expedition for finding a guiltless passenger's identity, towing a vehicle when multiple other options are available and outright dog-napping. 

Deputy Do-your-homework would only further embarrass himself by calling a court precedent a "federal state law", before ending the encounter, forever cementing his legacy of ignorance, coupled with his legacy of abusing power as he has done famously here and in the five other cases we have been alerted to.  He needs to move on to a more humbling occupation and not attempt to ruin the lives of law-abiding, tax-paying citizens nor cover up the unlawful actions of his peers.

See Deputy Luke Postma's video here, to catch Deputy Noble doing ignoble things.  Contact your school administrators if you are concerned with his complicity with Noble in this case.