This article is based on public docket extracts, prior Clutch Justice reporting, a preserved Michigan State Police biography of D/Sgt. Bryan Fuller, WBCH reporting summarized in research notes reviewed by Clutch Justice, contemporaneous WOOD TV8 reporting on the McCann v. Fuller complaint, and public records identifying SWET as a southwest Michigan multijurisdictional narcotics task force. Some WBCH pages were not independently reachable through ordinary public search at the time this draft was prepared, so the article identifies those items as WBCH reporting and treats them as leads for archival confirmation. A defense attorney’s connection between the 2019 Hastings batch and a separate 2020 Barry County case, initially flagged as unconfirmed, has since been verified against the Braddum docket and is reported below as a confirmed finding.
This article does not claim that every SWET prosecution was invalid, that every SWET or Fuller-touched officer committed misconduct, or that every Barry County drug conviction should automatically be vacated. It argues that the SWET case universe, and Fuller’s broader Hastings docket, requires an independent Brady/Giglio and evidence-integrity audit because of the documented Fuller and Criger record, the kind of evidence SWET cases rely on, the public docket pattern visible in Barry County, and a press record naming Fuller in connection with the Parrack case as early as 2016.
Clutch Justice discloses a personal stake in Barry County’s institutional record. A family member has a separate Barry County case that included a Fuller-linked evidence handling dispute, raised in writing with Barry County prosecutors and the court. That matter is not detailed in this article and no name connected to it is used here. It is disclosed only because it is part of why this office has been documenting Fuller’s footprint so closely.
Bryan Fuller’s own Michigan State Police biography shows he was assigned to the Hastings Post immediately after recruit school in 1995, moved into an undercover SWET assignment from 2008 to 2010, then returned briefly to the Hastings Post before his January 2011 transfer to the Fifth District Cold Case Team. SWET’s Barry County footprint includes controlled buys, confidential informants, undercover work, sheriff staffing, courthouse-adjacent corruption investigations, meth prosecutions, and plea-driven felony cases. Fuller was not a name that passed through SWET on the way to somewhere else. He was Hastings-based on both sides of it, and his Hastings docket, including cases unrelated to narcotics, kept running years later under the same judge while McCann v. Fuller was pending in federal court.
Fuller’s preserved Michigan State Police biography places him at the Hastings Post immediately after the 111th Trooper Recruit School in 1995, in an undercover SWET assignment from 2008 to 2010, and back at the Hastings Post before his January 2011 move to the Fifth District Cold Case Team, the same team that reopened the Jodi Parrack case.
Public records and reporting describe SWET as a long-running southwest Michigan multijurisdictional narcotics task force, with origins described around 1980 or 1981 and a regional footprint that includes Barry and Allegan Counties.
The strongest direct Barry County batch identified so far is the 2019 Hastings meth-ring prosecution. WBCH reported that SWET conducted a months-long investigation and the Barry County Prosecutor’s Office charged eight people. MiCOURT records reviewed by Clutch Justice show seven named defendants in related 5th Circuit Court cases assigned to Judge Michael L. Schipper, with several represented by the same defense attorney, Carol Jones Dwyer.
WOOD TV8 named Fuller in Parrack coverage as early as March 1, 2016, named him again in a December 7, 2017 article tied to the false surveillance-video testimony the day his conviction was set aside, and named both Fuller and Shane Criger on December 9, 2019, three days after the federal complaint was filed. The Hastings meth-ring arraignments did not even begin until August 2019, meaning every part of that batch moved through a courthouse where Fuller’s credibility problem was already a matter of public record.
SWET’s Barry County footprint is not limited to street-level drug work. WBCH reporting also places SWET in the Greg Kotrba controlled-buy and controlled-delivery investigation involving a former Barry County juvenile probation officer, students, prescription drugs, and a conflict referral.
Fuller’s Hastings docket did not stop at SWET or at 2010. MiCOURT and public reporting place him as the named detective in two more 5th Circuit Court cases in 2020, an armed robbery investigation and a multi-county storage-facility burglary investigation, both assigned to Judge Schipper.
Fuller is not a line detective whose credibility only mattered when he personally testified. His own MSP biography describes him as a detective sergeant who oversees and provides investigative guidance to troopers at his post and sits on the district-wide investigative response team responsible for officer-involved shootings, a role that extends his credibility exposure well beyond cases where he wrote a report or took the stand.
Fuller’s cold-case résumé is not abstract. He is a named, on-camera figure in Netflix’s Into the Fire: The Lost Daughter and in WOOD TV8 coverage of the Aundria Bowman case, credited with the genealogy-testing break that led to Dennis Bowman’s murder convictions in both Michigan and Virginia. His role, if any, in the 2022 Joseph Nagle officer-involved-shooting investigation is not confirmed by any public source reviewed here and remains an open records question.
Shane Criger’s appellate record adds a separate evidence-integrity warning. In People v. Przewoznik, the Court of Appeals documented Criger’s testimony in a meth-lab case where much of the physical evidence was destroyed under MSP hazardous-materials policy. The court did not find bad faith, but the destroyed-evidence record belongs in the map.
What is SWET?
SWET is the Southwest Enforcement Team, a multijurisdictional narcotics task force operating in southwest Michigan. The records reviewed here place it in drug investigations, controlled buys, confidential-informant work, sheriff staffing, and prosecutor-facing felony cases.
Why does the Hastings Post detail matter?
It changes Fuller from a detective who was once assigned to SWET into a detective whose entire Barry County career was Hastings-centered, before, during, and after SWET. That makes his Hastings casework, narcotics and otherwise, a necessary review target, not a side note.
Did the public know about Fuller’s credibility problem while these cases were moving?
WOOD TV8 named Fuller in Parrack coverage as early as March 1, 2016, and again on December 7, 2017 in connection with the false surveillance-video testimony. It named both Fuller and Criger on December 9, 2019, three days after the federal complaint was filed. The Hastings meth-ring batch did not even begin until August 2019, well after Fuller’s name was already tied to disputed evidence in the press.
What should be pulled next?
The next records should be SWET rosters, Fuller’s complete Hastings Post assignment file from 2008 to 2010, controlled-buy logs, informant indexes where legally releasable, defense attorney records connecting the 2019 batch to later Fuller-touched Hastings cases, forfeiture records, and prosecutor referrals.
The Hastings Post Never Let Go of Bryan Fuller
The Fuller problem has been easy for institutions to shrink. Treat it as a cold-case problem. Treat it as a McCann problem. Treat it as one detective’s later misconduct, contained to one federal verdict, one settlement, one file. That frame was already too small. A preserved copy of Fuller’s own Michigan State Police biography makes it smaller still to hold onto.
The biography states that Fuller enlisted in January 1995 as a member of the 111th Michigan State Police Trooper Recruit School and was assigned to the Hastings Post upon graduation. In 2008, he began an undercover assignment with the Southwest Enforcement Team, where he remained until 2010. Upon completion of that assignment, the biography states, Fuller briefly returned to the Hastings Post, and in January 2011 began an assignment with the Fifth District Cold Case Team, the same team that reopened the Jodi Parrack investigation that would later produce the wrongful conviction of Ray McCann II.
That sequence matters because it removes any distance between Fuller and Barry County. He was not parachuted into SWET from somewhere else and then moved on. He was Hastings Post before SWET, undercover with SWET inside the same regional footprint, and Hastings Post again immediately after. Narcotics task forces are not ordinary paper trails. They are case machines built out of informants, controlled buys, undercover work, surveillance, search warrants, lab submissions, seizure and forfeiture files, and plea leverage. They depend heavily on officer credibility because the public record often does not show the underlying informant file, buy money trail, pre-buy search, post-buy search, recording quality, surveillance gaps, lab chain, or prosecutor communications. A detective whose entire early career was rooted in that same courthouse and that same regional task force is not a peripheral name in the Barry County record. He is the record.
The question is not simply whether Fuller worked at SWET. The question is what cases, informants, warrants, controlled buys, forfeitures, lab submissions, police reports, and prosecutor referrals he touched across his entire Hastings-centered career, and whether any later prosecutor disclosed his McCann credibility history when his work remained relevant to a defendant’s case.
The 2019 Hastings Meth-Ring Batch
The most useful direct Barry County SWET hit identified so far is the 2019 Hastings crystal-meth prosecution. WBCH reported that SWET conducted a months-long investigation into a meth-trafficking organization in the City of Hastings. According to that reporting, the Barry County Prosecutor’s Office charged eight people with 15 delivery-of-meth counts. WBCH also reported that SWET-North was newly formed to serve Allegan and Barry Counties and described SWET as a multijurisdictional task force operating in southwest Michigan since 1981.
The docket pattern matters because it is clean. Same broad investigation. Same task force. Same prosecutor’s office. Same courthouse. Same judge of record across the records reviewed. Same controlled-substance charge code appearing repeatedly. MiCOURT extracts pulled directly for three of the defendants also add a detail worth flagging: Kevin Duiane Abbott and Gary Robert Willavize Jr. were both represented by the same defense attorney, Carol Jones Dwyer. Tina Marie Noble was represented by Steven R. Simkins. That is exactly the kind of batch that can be audited for informant material, buy reports, surveillance, recordings, lab testing, plea negotiations, officer witness lists, and Brady/Giglio disclosures, and it is exactly the kind of batch where a single defense attorney appearing across multiple Fuller-adjacent Hastings cases becomes a useful thread to pull.
The date sequence is important. These cases were charged before or around the December 6, 2019 filing of McCann v. Fuller, and every plea and sentencing in the batch happened after that filing, and after WOOD TV8 named Fuller and Criger in its December 9, 2019 coverage of the complaint. Some pleas and sentencings happened in January, February, March, April, and June 2020. That means this batch sits exactly where a disclosure audit should start: open Barry County drug cases, built from SWET investigative work, moving through plea and sentencing while a fabricated-evidence lawsuit against the lead investigator’s professional network was already in the local press.
The public MiCOURT extracts reviewed here do not show whether any Brady/Giglio disclosure about Fuller, Criger, SWET, informant reliability, destroyed evidence policies, or task-force credibility problems was made in the Hastings batch. That absence is not proof that nothing was privately disclosed. It is proof that the public docket alone is not enough. The discovery files, plea correspondence, prosecutor notes, witness lists, and police reports have to be pulled, and the attorney overlap identified in the Abbott and Willavize records is a reasonable starting thread.
The Press Record Barry County Cannot Claim It Missed
Barry County cannot frame this as information nobody could have known, and the timeline is longer than the federal complaint alone. WOOD TV8 tied Fuller to the Parrack investigation as early as March 1, 2016, in a Target 8 piece describing McCann’s cold-case interrogations by Fuller in April and July 2011.
On December 7, 2017, the same day McCann’s conviction was set aside, WOOD reported that Fuller had testified surveillance video showed McCann was not where he claimed, testimony the Innocence Clinic later showed rested on a camera that was never aimed where police said it was. Then, on December 9, 2019, three days after Ray McCann II filed the federal complaint, WOOD named both Michigan State Police Detective Bryan Fuller and MSP Detective Lt. Shane Criger directly and described the malicious prosecution, due process, and civil conspiracy claims against them.
That is three separate points in the public record, two years apart at minimum, tying Fuller’s name to disputed evidence in the same case, before the Hastings meth-ring batch was ever charged. The Hastings arraignments did not begin until August 2019. Pleas moved through October, November, and December 2019 and into January and February 2020. Sentences were handed down from January through June 2020. Every one of those hearings sat inside a courthouse and a prosecutor’s office that had access to regional television coverage naming Fuller in connection with fabricated evidence going back to 2017, two years before the first Hastings defendant was even arraigned.
Clutch Justice courses walk you through the same records literacy used to build this piece, from FOIA requests to judicial accountability frameworks to reading MiCOURT extracts for what they leave out.
Browse Courses ?This does not mean every plea in the batch would have gone differently with disclosure. It means the disclosure question was never abstract or speculative. The record shows a live regional news story naming the detectives, running in parallel with an active docket of cases those detectives’ professional network helped build. No prosecutor’s office gets to treat that as an unforeseeable coincidence.
Kotrba Shows SWET Inside the Courthouse Ecosystem
The Greg Kotrba case makes the map uglier because it places SWET inside the Barry County courthouse and juvenile-drug-court ecosystem, not only on the street. WBCH reported that SWET and the Barry County Sheriff’s Office coordinated a controlled buy or controlled delivery involving a confidential informant or student, Vyvanse, Norco, and Kotrba, a former Barry County juvenile probation officer. WBCH later reported that Kotrba had been charged with keeping and buying drugs prescribed to Delton Kellogg Academy students enrolled in Juvenile Drug Court, and that SWET coordinated the controlled delivery before deputies arrested him.
The case was assigned to Calhoun County Prosecutor David Gilbert because of conflict concerns, according to the WBCH reporting summarized in the notes. That conflict referral is the point. SWET was not merely an outside narcotics unit helping Barry County with drugs. SWET was used in an investigation involving a court employee, juvenile probation, students, prescription medications, and a drug-court-adjacent environment. That is not a side lane. That is the courthouse’s own nervous system.
Kotrba shows that SWET’s Barry County role reached into cases where law enforcement, probation, students, court programming, controlled delivery, and conflict prosecution overlapped. That makes SWET part of the institutional accountability map, not just the drug-enforcement map.
Yonkers Shows SWET’s Undercover Problem Was Older
The Chris Yonkers line-of-duty dispute is another warning light. WBCH reported that Barry County Deputy Christopher Yonkers was assigned to SWET, described as an undercover drug-investigation unit, when he died in a 2008 motorcycle crash. The dispute was whether he was working undercover and on duty, or on personal time, because that affected line-of-duty death benefits. WBCH reported conflicting law-enforcement accounts and FBI involvement after a challenge by Thin Blue Line. Yonkers’ obituary also states that he was assigned as an undercover narcotics officer to the Michigan State Police Southwest Enforcement Team.
That matters because Fuller’s SWET assignment window begins around the same period, and his own biography confirms he was already Hastings-based before it started. If Fuller began his SWET assignment in 2008, then his SWET years overlap with an era when the Barry County SWET footprint included undercover narcotics work and a serious dispute about what a SWET-assigned deputy was actually doing at the time of his death.
The Yonkers record does not prove misconduct by Fuller. It does something narrower. It shows that during the Fuller assignment era, SWET’s Barry County presence involved undercover narcotics work, cross-agency ambiguity, and internal factual disputes serious enough to affect line-of-duty benefits. That is precisely the kind of environment where assignment records, rosters, supervisor chains, duty logs, and case lists matter.
The Hastings Docket Kept Running Past SWET
Fuller’s Hastings Post presence did not end when SWET did, and it was not limited to narcotics work. Clutch Justice’s prior Written Notice reporting documented two additional 5th Circuit Court cases tied directly to Fuller in 2020, both assigned to Judge Michael Schipper, the same judge presiding over the Hastings meth-ring batch. A public Hastings Banner post dated January 9, 2020 identified Detective Sgt. Bryan Fuller of the MSP Hastings detachment in connection with an armed robbery investigation, offense date January 6, 2020. MiCOURT records for State of Michigan v. Jacob Wilhelm Braddum, Case No. 2020-0000000193-FH, PIN 52-0084-20, filed March 11, 2020, confirm the resulting armed robbery charge was assigned to Judge Schipper, with arraignment January 8, 2020, a guilty plea entered March 25, 2020, and sentencing June 17, 2020 to 24 to 240 months in the Michigan Department of Corrections. Carol Jones Dwyer is listed as Braddum’s attorney of record at bindover and at sentencing. A different attorney, Kerri Lynn Selleck, is listed as handling the March 25, 2020 plea hearing itself.
Separately, public reporting from May 22, 2020 identified Fuller speaking about a multi-county storage-facility burglary investigation involving Hastings, Middleville, Dowling, and Delton locations. MiCOURT records for State of Michigan v. Eric James Morgan, Case No. 2020-0000000482-FH, show another 5th Circuit Court case from that investigation, also assigned to Judge Schipper, with discovery filed August 11, 2020 and a nolle prosequi dismissal on August 19, 2020 tied to a plea in a related file.
Carol Jones Dwyer represented Kevin Abbott and Gary Willavize in the 2019 Hastings meth-ring batch, and MiCOURT records now confirm she is also listed as Jacob Braddum’s attorney of record at his bindover and at his sentencing in the 2020 armed-robbery case, a separate Fuller-touched Hastings prosecution. A different attorney, Kerri Lynn Selleck, handled Braddum’s actual plea hearing, so the record shows an attorney substitution mid-case rather than one continuous representation. Across all four defendants reviewed here, Clutch Justice has found no docket entry raising a Brady/Giglio challenge tied to Fuller’s credibility. That absence, across a repeated defense attorney, a repeated judge, and a repeated MSP detective, is now a documented pattern worth a formal records request, not a hypothesis.
Neither of these cases proves personal bias by Fuller or Schipper. What they show is a repeated public footprint: the same detective, the same judge, the same small Barry County courthouse ecosystem, running well past SWET and well past 2010, and continuing to run in 2020 while a fabricated-evidence verdict against that same detective was still years away but the underlying federal complaint, and the press naming him in connection with it, already existed.
Fuller Was Not a Witness. He Was Investigative Infrastructure.
Fuller’s current role, per the same preserved biography, is not that of a line detective who occasionally takes the stand. The biography states he oversees and provides investigative guidance to the troopers at his post, and that he is a member of the district-wide investigative response team responsible for investigating officer-involved shootings. His listed casework includes homicide, criminal sexual assault, narcotics trafficking, money laundering, and public corruption, along with the St. Joseph County child homicide cold case and investigative assistance on the Aundria Bowman cold case.
That changes the shape of the Brady/Giglio question. A detective whose credibility problem only mattered when he personally testified is one kind of disclosure issue. A detective sergeant who supervises other troopers’ investigative work, provides guidance on active cases, and sits on the district’s own review body for officer-involved shootings is a different and larger one. His credibility exposure does not stop at the witness stand. It extends to whatever direction, review, or guidance he gave on cases he did not personally sign.
MSP has publicly described Fuller as a detective sergeant who provides investigative guidance to troopers and participates in district-wide officer-involved-shooting response. That means his credibility problem is not confined to cases where he personally wrote a report or took the stand. It extends to evidence development, witness handling, and charging recommendations in any case where he supervised, reviewed, or guided the work, a scope no public disclosure audit has attempted to map.
The Bowman Case Confirms the Reach. Nagle Remains an Open Question.
The Aundria Bowman line in Fuller’s biography is not a vague credential. It is a documented, on-record case. Aundria Bowman disappeared from her family’s Hamilton, Michigan home in 1989 at age 14. The case went cold for decades until a genealogy break connected her adoptive father, Dennis Bowman, to an unsolved 1980 murder in Norfolk, Virginia. WOOD TV8 reported that MSP Detective Bryan Fuller told reporters he was already familiar with Aundria’s case when Norfolk Police Detective Jon Smith approached him at a 2019 Regional Homicide Investigators Association conference. Fuller is also a named, on-camera participant in the Netflix documentary Into the Fire: The Lost Daughter, where he describes helping engineer the ruse used to obtain a DNA sample from Dennis Bowman’s coffee cup, the sample that matched the Norfolk homicide and ultimately led to Dennis Bowman’s arrest, his guilty plea to that Virginia murder in 2020, and his no-contest plea to second-degree murder in Aundria’s death in Allegan County in December 2021.
This article makes no claim of misconduct in the Bowman case. Genealogical DNA identification is a different investigative discipline than the fabricated-evidence allegations at the center of McCann v. Fuller, and nothing here suggests the Bowman prosecution rested on Fuller’s word the way the McCann perjury charge did. What the Bowman case establishes is narrower and still worth stating plainly: Fuller’s cold-case résumé is not an abstraction. It produced a Netflix documentary, a homicide conviction, and public credit to Fuller by name. If MSP holds up that résumé as a credential, defense counsel in that case were entitled to know the same detective’s name was already tied to a fabricated-evidence lawsuit that had been in the press since 2017, two years before the Norfolk conference where Fuller helped break the case open.
Joseph Nagle’s case is different, and this article is careful not to overstate it. Nagle, 22, was shot and killed by an Allegan County Sheriff’s deputy during a June 2022 traffic stop. Public reporting attributes the investigation to MSP’s Fifth District Special Investigations Section, without naming an individual lead detective. Fuller’s own biography places him on the district-wide investigative response team responsible for officer-involved shootings, which makes the question of whether he touched the Nagle file a fair one to ask. It is not, on the current public record, a confirmed one. No article reviewed for this piece names Fuller in connection with Nagle’s case specifically. Criger’s reported lead role on Nagle, and the disclosure record around the McCann, Braddum, Morgan, and Nagle cases together, is covered in a separate Clutch Justice piece on MSP and Attorney General accountability, linked in the series navigation above.
Fuller’s role in the Aundria Bowman case is confirmed by his own on-camera statements and contemporaneous press coverage. Fuller’s role, if any, in the Joseph Nagle officer-involved-shooting investigation is not confirmed by any public source reviewed here. The next records request should go to Michigan State Police for the Fifth District Special Investigations Section’s assignment roster and case file index for the Nagle investigation, to determine whether Fuller was assigned, consulted, or provided investigative guidance on that case, consistent with his stated role on the district-wide response team.
These were not throwaway cases. Bowman is the one MSP would put in front of a camera. A cold-case homicide, a Netflix deal, a name attached to the win. That is exactly the problem. The credibility exposure does not sit only in the cases nobody remembers. It sits in the ones MSP is proudest of, and in the ones where a family is still waiting to find out whether the detective’s word was ever actually good.
Criger’s Destroyed-Evidence Record Belongs Here
Shane Criger is already part of the Fuller/McCann accountability record. Prison Legal News reported that Criger worked with Fuller in the McCann investigation, including the process that produced McCann’s sworn statement before the perjury charge. Criger also appears in Clutch Justice’s review of the Joseph Nagle fatal police-shooting record. But his public appellate footprint predates both.
In People v. Przewoznik, Michigan Court of Appeals No. 258010, the defendant argued that he was denied due process because police destroyed much of the material and equipment allegedly used to produce methamphetamine. The destroyed items included jars, salt, a blender, tubing, Coleman fuel, lithium batteries, coffee filters, a propane tank, wrenches, and other tools. The Court of Appeals wrote that both Detective Craig Gardiner and Detective Shane Criger testified that the items were destroyed under state police hazardous-material policy. Criger testified that meth-production chemicals were volatile and hazardous and that all items would be destroyed because hazardous material can attach to nearby surfaces. The Court of Appeals did not find bad faith and affirmed the conviction.
That last sentence matters. The court did not find bad faith. This article is not rewriting the 2006 holding. But the record still documents Criger, in a meth-lab prosecution, testifying in a case where physical evidence had been destroyed before trial. When that same professional orbit later includes McCann, Fuller, and a fatal police-shooting review, the destroyed-evidence record belongs in the evidence-integrity map.
The question is not whether Przewoznik proves misconduct. It does not. The question is how many MSP and SWET-linked drug cases depended on destroyed physical evidence, hazardous-material exceptions, unrecorded or partially recorded statements, confidential informants, controlled buys, and officer testimony that the defense could not fully test because the original evidence was gone, sealed, or summarized.
MSP’s Own Policy Confirms What Should Have Happened
Michigan State Police now has a written procedure that says the quiet part in official language. MSP Procedure Manual 14-05, effective October 23, 2024, establishes department procedures for disclosing potential Brady information related to member misconduct to prosecutors. It recognizes that Brady/Giglio obligations include information that may impeach government witnesses, including police officers, and that MSP members are part of the prosecution team with a constitutional duty to make material case information available to prosecuting officials. The policy’s listed categories, intentional false statements, misstated or omitted facts in reports, mishandled evidence, intentional failures to secure or document evidence, and conduct that could reasonably affect a member’s credibility or reliability, map directly onto the fabricated-evidence allegations at the center of McCann v. Fuller.
That policy postdates the 2019 and 2020 Hastings cases discussed here, and this article does not claim MSP violated a written procedure that did not yet exist at the time. What it establishes is narrower and still important: MSP’s current policy confirms the department’s own understanding that the kind of misconduct alleged against Fuller is exactly the category of information prosecutors need before they use a detective’s work to charge, plead, sentence, or defend a criminal case. If that principle is obvious enough for MSP to write it into policy in 2024, it was not a novel or unforeseeable standard in 2019 and 2020.
How the Actors Connect
This story runs through a small set of repeating names and offices. Click a node to see how each one connects to the rest.
The Network
One detective, one task force, one courthouse, one defense attorney.
Fuller
Schipper
Prosecutor’s Office
Dwyer
Criger
Post
Bryan Fuller
MSP detective sergeant. Hastings Post before and after his 2008 to 2010 SWET assignment. Named defendant in McCann v. Fuller. Named detective in the Braddum and Morgan Hastings cases in 2020. On-camera figure in the Aundria Bowman investigation.
Scoring the Disclosure Record
What Needs to Be Pulled
The first records request should go to Michigan State Police for Fuller’s complete Hastings Post and SWET assignment records from 1995 through 2011, including assignment orders, duty station records, team rosters, supervisor chain, incident numbers, arrest lists, search-warrant lists, controlled-buy documentation, reports authored or reviewed, prosecutor referrals, forfeiture files, and any index of confidential-informant matters where legally releasable or capable of being logged without exposing protected identity information.
The second request should seek SWET policy manuals, memoranda of understanding, evidence-handling policies, informant policies, controlled-buy policies, audio and video recording policies, buy-money procedures, hazardous-material destruction policies, lab-submission policies, and prosecutor-referral procedures from the Fuller assignment period and the current period. A Western Michigan University project-paper listing identified a 1987 Southwest Enforcement Team policy manual, which means older policy architecture may exist and should not be treated as impossible to locate.
The third request should go county by county. Barry, Allegan, Kalamazoo, Calhoun, Berrien, St. Joseph, Van Buren, Branch, and Cass prosecutors should be asked for cases from 1995 through 2020 where Bryan Fuller, D/Sgt. Fuller, Trooper Fuller, SWET, or Southwest Enforcement Team appears in police reports, warrants, complaints, informations, bindovers, plea agreements, forfeiture records, witness lists, or prosecutor notes. Barry and Allegan should also be asked for SWET-North cases from 2019 forward. A fourth, narrower request should pull Carol Jones Dwyer’s complete Barry County caseload going back to 2019, now that her attorney-of-record status is confirmed across the Abbott, Willavize, and Braddum files, to determine whether the pattern of no Brady/Giglio challenge extends further.
The fifth request should target forfeiture separately. Drug task forces often leave clearer trails in seized cash, vehicles, firearms, phones, and property than in searchable court summaries. A defendant may plead to one count while the forfeiture file tells the larger story of the investigation, the seizure, the agency split, and the task-force role.
A sixth request, unrelated to narcotics, should go to MSP’s Fifth District Special Investigations Section for the assignment roster and case file index in the Joseph Nagle officer-involved-shooting investigation, to confirm or rule out Fuller’s involvement given his stated role on the district-wide officer-involved-shooting response team.
At a minimum, Barry County prosecutors and law-enforcement partners had public, searchable notice by December 2017 that Fuller was tied to the failed McCann perjury case. By December 2019, they had public notice that Fuller and Criger were named defendants in a federal civil-rights lawsuit alleging fabricated evidence, false reports, false information to prosecutors, malicious prosecution, due-process violations, and conspiracy. If Barry County later used Fuller-touched or Criger-touched cases without disclosing that credibility history, the nondisclosure problem was not hidden by lack of public information. Barry County should not be allowed to treat SWET, or Fuller’s broader Hastings docket, as background noise. If SWET cases were prosecuted by the Barry County Prosecutor’s Office, and if those cases depended on informants, controlled buys, undercover work, or MSP credibility, the county should produce a public inventory showing which cases involved SWET, Fuller, or Criger, which officers were material witnesses, and whether Brady/Giglio disclosures were made.
The Point
SWET turns the Fuller problem into something larger than one detective and one wrongful conviction. It creates a regional case universe. That universe includes meth-lab enforcement, destroyed-evidence doctrine, undercover narcotics work, controlled buys, confidential informants, courthouse-adjacent corruption investigations, sheriff staffing, Barry County prosecutions, and plea-driven felony outcomes. Fuller’s own biography adds a second universe on top of it: a Hastings-centered career that surrounds SWET on both sides and continues well past it, into cases that have nothing to do with narcotics at all.
That is why the Hastings batch matters, and why the Braddum and Morgan cases matter alongside it. None of it is the whole story. It is the first clean pull. A set of named defendants, public dockets, a reported SWET investigation, a prosecutor’s office already under scrutiny, a repeated defense attorney, a repeated judge, and cases that were still moving after regional television had already named the detective at the center of a fabricated-evidence lawsuit. If there were disclosures, the files should show them. If there were not, the files should show that too.
Fuller’s Hastings Post assignment does not prove every case he touched is contaminated. It proves the opposite of what officials would prefer: no one gets to assume the cases are clean without opening the files.
Official RecordPreserved Michigan State Police biography of D/Sgt. Bryan Fuller, documenting his 1995 assignment to the Hastings Post, his 2008 to 2010 undercover SWET assignment, his return to the Hastings Post, and his January 2011 transfer to the Fifth District Cold Case Team. Screenshot on file with Clutch Justice.
Court RecordsMiCOURT Case Search extracts reviewed by Clutch Justice for 5th Circuit Court – Hastings cases: State of Michigan v. Timothy Stube, Case No. 2019-0000000750-FH; State of Michigan v. Marc Wright, Case No. 2019-0000000844-FH; State of Michigan v. Michelle Otoole, Case No. 2019-0000000818-FH; State of Michigan v. Gary Willavize, Case No. 2019-0000000664-FH; State of Michigan v. Kevin Abbott, Case No. 2019-0000000749-FH; State of Michigan v. Nicholas McClelland, Case No. 2019-0000000783-FH; and State of Michigan v. Tina Noble, Case No. 2019-0000000914-FH.
Court RecordsMiCOURT Case Search, State of Michigan v. Jacob Wilhelm Braddum, Case No. 2020-0000000193-FH, PIN 52-0084-20, and State of Michigan v. Eric James Morgan, Case No. 2020-0000000482-FH, both 5th Circuit Court – Hastings, both assigned to Judge Michael L. Schipper.
Local ReportingWBCH reporting summarized in research notes reviewed by Clutch Justice concerning the 2019 Hastings meth-ring prosecution, SWET-North, the Greg Kotrba controlled-delivery investigation, the Christopher Yonkers line-of-duty dispute, and Barry County Sheriff’s Office staffing references to a deputy on the Southwest Enforcement Team.
Press CoverageWOOD TV8, “Jodi’s murder: Making a monster,” March 1, 2016, describing Fuller’s April and July 2011 cold-case interrogations of Ray McCann II.
Press CoverageWOOD TV8, “Man clears name decade after Jodi Parrack murder,” December 7, 2017, naming Fuller in connection with disputed surveillance-video testimony the day McCann’s conviction was set aside.
Press CoverageWOOD TV8, “Man wrongfully convicted in Parrack case sues police,” December 9, 2019, naming Michigan State Police Detective Bryan Fuller and MSP Detective Lt. Shane Criger as defendants three days after the federal complaint was filed.
Task Force RecordsMichigan State Police multijurisdictional narcotics task-force information and grant-record summaries reviewed in research notes describing SWET’s southwest Michigan footprint, long-running structure, and prosecutor-facing task-force design.
Federal CaseMcCann v. Fuller, Case No. 1:19-cv-01032, U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan; complaint filed December 6, 2019; jury verdict entered September 19, 2023; settlement reported October 17, 2023.
MSP PolicyMichigan State Police, Procedure Manual 14-05, “Disclosure of Potential Impeachment Information Related to Member Misconduct,” effective October 23, 2024.
Press CoverageWOOD TV8, “Man to be sentenced in daughter’s 1989 murder,” February 2022, quoting MSP Detective Bryan Fuller on the genealogy-testing break in the Aundria Bowman case and his 2019 meeting with Norfolk Police Detective Jon Smith.
DocumentaryInto the Fire: The Lost Daughter, Netflix, 2024, featuring on-camera participation by MSP Detective Sgt. Bryan Fuller describing his role in the Aundria Bowman and Kathleen Doyle investigations.
Press CoverageMultiple outlets, including WZZM13, FOX 2 Detroit, and ABC News, June through September 2022, reporting on the fatal shooting of Joseph Nagle by an Allegan County Sheriff’s deputy and MSP’s Fifth District Special Investigations Section investigation. No outlet reviewed names an individual lead detective.
Legal NewsDavid M. Reutter, “$11 Million Settlement for Exonerated Michigan Prisoner,” Prison Legal News, August 2024, reporting on Ray McCann, MSP Sgt. Bryan Fuller, Det. Shane Criger, the McCann investigation, the federal verdict, and the settlement. prisonlegalnews.org/news/2024/aug/15/11-million-settlement-exonerated-michigan-prisoner/
Court OpinionPeople v. Przewoznik, Michigan Court of Appeals No. 258010, unpublished opinion issued January 12, 2006. Documents defendant’s due-process challenge to destroyed meth-lab evidence and Detective Shane Criger’s testimony that the materials were destroyed under MSP hazardous-materials policy. courts.michigan.gov/siteassets/case-documents/uploads/opinions/final/coa/20060112_c258010_34_258010.opn.pdf
Prior CoverageClutch Justice prior reporting on MSP Sgt. Bryan Fuller, Barry County written notice, McCann v. Fuller, prosecutor disclosure duties, Shane Criger, the Elsworth and Norg Kalamazoo record, and the Joseph Nagle fatal police-shooting record. See also Clutch Justice’s companion piece on MSP and Attorney General accountability for the Criger/Nagle disclosure scorecard and full relationship map, linked in the series navigation above.
Bluebook: Williams, Rita. SWET Was Not a Resume Footnote. Fuller Was Hastings Post Before It, During It, and After It., Clutch Justice (July 2, 2026), https://clutchjustice.com/2026/07/02/swet-hastings-post-fuller-barry-county/.
APA 7: Williams, R. (2026, July 2). SWET was not a resume footnote. Fuller was Hastings Post before it, during it, and after it. Clutch Justice. https://clutchjustice.com/2026/07/02/swet-hastings-post-fuller-barry-county/
MLA 9: Williams, Rita. “SWET Was Not a Resume Footnote. Fuller Was Hastings Post Before It, During It, and After It.” Clutch Justice, 2 July 2026, clutchjustice.com/2026/07/02/swet-hastings-post-fuller-barry-county/.
Chicago: Williams, Rita. “SWET Was Not a Resume Footnote. Fuller Was Hastings Post Before It, During It, and After It.” Clutch Justice, July 2, 2026. https://clutchjustice.com/2026/07/02/swet-hastings-post-fuller-barry-county/.
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