ROCHESTER, N.Y. — A former Ogden Police officer and Orleans County Sheriff’s deputy pleaded guilty Thursday to reckless endangerment after being accused of threatening an FBI agent.
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According to authorities, Steven Ploof had left posters with threatening messages on the porch of an FBI agent assigned to FBI’s Rochester Resident Agency.
While executing a state search warrant, Greece Police officers also found a threatening message towards the FBI written on Ploof’s bedroom wall.
On Sept. 15, GPD officers saw Ploof and did a welfare check. During the check, police say Ploof tried to hit them with his car, tried to make a spray can into a makeshift torch, and had a machete.
The officers tased Ploof in response, detained him, and brought him to Rochester General Hospital. The next day, Sept. 16, Ploof had escaped from the hospital, which prompted a lockdown.
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According to a criminal complaint, Ploof had also threatened his own family members, and made threats at his apartment complex.
Ploof served as an Odgen Police Officer from 2005-2021. He was also briefly a deputy with the Orleans County Sheriff’s Department. The complaint shows Ploof resigned in 2023 after being put on administrative leave relating to suspected drug use.
Ploof is set to be sentenced in February.
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