Another officer, who had advised the fired detective to arrest the nurse, is planning to appeal his demotion. Jeff Payne, the Salt Lake police detective fired Tuesday for his high-profile arrest of University Hospital nurse Alex Wubbels, wants his job back. Late Thursday, Payne and his attorney, Greg Skordas, filed an appeal of Payne’s […]
A Utah nurse says she was assaulted and illegally arrested after she stood up to a police officer’s request for a patient’s blood which he apparently didn’t have permission to take. The arrest of Alex Wubbels, a 41-year-old nurse at Salt Lake City’s University Hospital, was filmed by Salt Lake City police officer Jeff Payne’s […]