2 cops revoked for POSSESSION or USE OF STEROIDS in 2024.
Robert Arteche-Nunez and Benjamin Noah Shelnutt of the LaGrange Police Department in Georgia. prior to them there was only one other cop revoked for this reason. So to say it is rare is an understatement.
We all assume cops do steroids, but we never really knew until now! We not really because there are issues with the open records, as you would imagine.
There are no news articles about this at all. Nothing, it was quietly swept under the rug! Until now! Poor wittle news people don’t want to step on the cops toes! I will tho!
Robert Arteche-Nunez and Benjamin Noah Shelnutt – POSSESSION or USE OF STEROIDS DECERTIFIED 2024
First I requested their certs so I can see where they have been assigned and start doing open records requests on them from previous agencies to gain leverage and tell a much bigger story. Most of my videos are like this. I spend a lot of time and money investigating these bad cops!
We need to know who they are, see if there are images and information on Facebook just to start things off as sometimes the agency will scrub a bad cop and getting an image may be more difficult.
In the image below you see one of them has already ran for the state line and has become a cop in Florida. My first question is, do they know about his past?
Reference for images St. Lucie FB LaGrange Police FB
We need to find out so I start doing open records requests.
The first one went to the St. Lucie County Sheriff’s Office on Robert Arteche-Nunez. Open records request for St. Lucie
The request: I am kindly requesting records related to Robert Arteche-Nunez personnel file all public complaints disciplinary file application for employment
The fee was $25.00
Note the body cam requires a $100 non-refundable deposit!! If they try me on that I will immediately report them to the AG!
Upfront payment $500 ONLY if the total is over $500 can they demand any up front money AND they have to get your permission to agree to pay any fee before they produce the records. I always pay after, rarely do I pay up front unless I have dealt with the agency before.
50-18-71 (d) In any instance in which the estimated costs for production of the records exceeds $500.00, an agency may insist on prepayment of the costs prior to beginning search, retrieval, review, or production of the records. Whenever any person who has requested to inspect or copy a public record has not paid the cost for search, retrieval, redaction, or copying of such records when such charges have been lawfully incurred, an agency may require prepayment for compliance with all future requests for production of records from that person until the costs for the prior production of records have been paid or the dispute regarding payment resolved.
Records from the St. Lucie request. His reason for leaving and his questionnaire are the key points. They both resigned while under investigation.
I did attempt to call IA at St. Lucie to inquire about this cop and his lies but they were all out to lunch. 2.24.25 at 12:09 PM
This is Nunez at the Lagrange PD
Here is Nunez being sworn in at the St. Lucie Sheriff’s Office in Florida
Benjamin Shelnutt (Pictured below)
So now I want to do a multipart request for both officers at the LaGrange Police Department. Now it starts to get interesting. This is where things go downhill …
The initial request to Lagrange PD
I am requesting files related to the following officers Robert Arteche-Nunez, BENJAMIN NOAH SHELNUTT
I am asking for the case files for the IA investigation that got them both decertified for POSSESSION or USE OF STEROIDS, Any Garrity Warnings, Any Miranda Warnings, Image on file / service photo
| Reference No: | P000118-022325 |
Both requests were submitted on 2.23.25
The followup request
Captain Jeremy Butler
706.883.2681
Good day,
I am contacting you in regards to a recent open records request I submitted through your portal that you responded to. I did call and the person I spoke to stated you may have gotten the names confused.
Here is my request again
I am requesting files related to the following officers Robert Arteche-Nunez BENJAMIN NOAH SHELNUTT I am asking for the case files for the IA investigation that got them both decertified for POSSESSION or USE OF STEROIDS Any Garrity Warnings Any Miranda Warnings Image on file / service photo
I am modifying my request as I know they worked there. I am attaching the Ga POST certs.
I am now asking for the following for both officers
All public complaints
Disciplinary file
Any Garrity or Miranda on file
Image on file / service photo
§ 50-18-74. Penalty for violations; procedure for commencement of prosecution.
(a) Any person or entity knowingly and willfully violating the provisions of this article by failing or refusing to provide access to records not subject to exemption from this article, by knowingly and willingly failing or refusing to provide access to such records within the time limits set forth in this article, or by knowingly and willingly frustrating or attempting to frustrate the access to records by intentionally making records difficult to obtain or review shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be punished by a fine not to exceed $1,000.00 for the first violation. Alternatively, a civil penalty may be imposed by the court in any civil action brought pursuant to this article against any person who negligently violates the terms of this article in an amount not to exceed $1,000.00 for the first violation. A civil penalty or criminal fine not to exceed $2,500.00 per violation may be imposed for each additional violation that the violator commits within a 12 month period from the date the first penalty or fine was imposed. It shall be a defense to any criminal action under this Code section that a person has acted in good faith in his or her actions. In addition, persons or entities that destroy records for the purpose of preventing their disclosure under this article may be subject to prosecution under Code Section
Thank you
Billy Blume
So I tried to call Jeremy Butler, here’s how that went
Guess who really investigated this? That’s right, they did!! In fact, chief Fiveash himself was involved with the investigation!! This case has been over for years!
I Either keep getting run through to an answering service or they don’t answer calls from my number. I have tried several numbers too. But it’s ok, I just received the investigative files from the Georgia POST. You will soon hear the interviews, it’s all audio. Looks like I found a corrupt agency!
The issue here is that letter the captain wrote vs. the audio recordings I have.
Just to be fair, I also made a request to the GBI to see if there really is an ongoing case.
Much more to come…