For nearly five years, Lois Laroe — an elderly Ionia County resident — has experienced documented harassment by her neighbor, Michigan DOC Training Officer Casey Wagner, including repeated discharging of firearms and detonation of explosive devices from his property. She has sustained permanent hearing loss and been diagnosed with PTSD. The Ionia County Sheriff, Prosecutor, and Representative Gina Johnsen have declined to act, stating there is nothing they can do. Insurance and mortgage companies have not remedied documented property damage. This article documents what the official record shows — and what it does not.
What Lois Laroe Has Experienced
Lois Laroe has lived adjacent to Michigan DOC Training Officer Casey Wagner for approximately five years. During that period, she has documented a sustained pattern of harassment that includes repeated firearm discharge and detonation of explosive devices from Wagner’s property. She has received no advance warning before these events. As a neighbor, she has had no ability to use hearing protection or take other precautions — despite the fact that hunters and sport shooters are routinely advised that the noise generated by firearm discharge creates significant hearing risk and requires protection.
The documented health consequences are severe: permanent hearing loss and a diagnosis of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. These are not claimed injuries without documented basis — they are medical findings resulting from sustained exposure to the conditions created by her neighbor’s conduct. Laroe has also sustained property damage for which insurance and mortgage companies have declined to provide adequate remedy.
The exercise of a right does not extend to conduct that infringes upon the rights of others. The right to keep and bear arms does not include a right to discharge firearms or detonate explosive devices in ways that destroy a neighbor’s hearing, trigger PTSD, and damage property. The conduct documented in Laroe’s case is not primarily a gun rights question. It is a responsible ownership question — and specifically, a question about what official accountability looks like when an individual’s conduct injures neighbors and the relevant institutions decline to respond. This is about noise pollution. About environmental impact on adjacent properties. About the treatment of people with documented disabilities. And about why official actors in Ionia County are not acting.
The Pattern of Official Inaction
Lois Laroe has sought assistance from the Ionia County Sheriff, the Ionia County Prosecutor, and Representative Gina Johnsen. Each has indicated there is nothing that can be done. Insurance and mortgage companies responsible for remedying property damage have been similarly non-responsive.
Clutch Justice’s ongoing investigation into Casey Wagner examines the network of political relationships that may explain why official actors with the authority to respond to documented harassment and property damage have declined to exercise it. The pattern of non-response — across the Sheriff’s office, the Prosecutor’s office, an elected representative, and insurance entities — is more consistent with institutional protection of a politically connected individual than with a genuine absence of legal or regulatory options. The investigation will address, in forthcoming coverage, the campaign contribution record and the question of which officials received money from entities connected to the Wagner family and why that may have affected official responsiveness.
How to Support Lois Laroe
Lois Laroe has sustained documented property damage — including to her windows — for which institutional remedies have not been provided. A GoFundMe campaign is active to support repair costs. Clutch Justice is providing this link as a documented resource for readers who wish to support a victim of documented official inaction: Help Lois Replace Damaged Windows — GoFundMe
Sources and Prior Coverage
Rita Williams, Ionia County Harassment Case: Lois Laroe, Casey Wagner, and Official Inaction, Clutch Justice (June 19, 2025), https://clutchjustice.com/2025/06/19/lois-laroe-ionia-county-harassment-case/.
Williams, R. (2025, June 19). Ionia County harassment case: Lois Laroe, Casey Wagner, and official inaction. Clutch Justice. https://clutchjustice.com/2025/06/19/lois-laroe-ionia-county-harassment-case/
Williams, Rita. “Ionia County Harassment Case: Lois Laroe, Casey Wagner, and Official Inaction.” Clutch Justice, 19 June 2025, clutchjustice.com/2025/06/19/lois-laroe-ionia-county-harassment-case/.
Williams, Rita. “Ionia County Harassment Case: Lois Laroe, Casey Wagner, and Official Inaction.” Clutch Justice, June 19, 2025. https://clutchjustice.com/2025/06/19/lois-laroe-ionia-county-harassment-case/.
