LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) – A girl in a blue jacket is seen leaving a house in Greenville, whereas a male voice repeatedly says, “I’m going to shoot you.”
The voice is former Michigan State Police Trooper Trevin Antcliff, and the girl was recognized as his then-girlfriend. He’s heard in a single piece of video proof associated to home violence incidents on Dec. 4-5, 2023, during which Antcliff, who was a trooper on the time, was charged criminally two days later, on Dec. 7.
Going through a misdemeanor home violence cost in Montcalm County and a pending felony perjury cost from former Newaygo County Prosecutor Ellsworth Keep and incoming appointed Newaygo County Prosecutor Rachel Robinson, Antcliff resigned from the Michigan State Police in January 10, 2024, ending an almost two-decade lengthy profession that had begun on July 18, 2004, one throughout which he grew to become entwined in a years-long authorized dispute involving a former officer who had grow to be his lover and finally was fired due to all that.
A particular plea deal that allowed Antcliff to confess guilt, serve a time period of probation and see his conviction disappear was accredited by a course of approved underneath a particular Michigan regulation that allows first-time perpetrators of home violence to keep away from a prison file.
Screenshot of electronic mail between Michigan State Police Skilled Requirements Part investigator and then-Newaygo County Prosecutor Ellsworth ‘Value’ Keep on decision of former MSP Trooper Trevin Antcliff’s home violence plea settlement. (Obtained through FOIA by Megan Moryc and shared with 6 Information Investigates. WLNS)
In trade, the Newaygo County Prosecutor’s Workplace agreed to not cost him with perjury stemming from his testimony on Oct. 9, 2018, throughout his divorce listening to in a Montcalm Circuit Courtroom.
As a result of he was allowed to resign and keep away from felony prosecution or a public misdemeanor conviction, Antcliff walked away along with his state pension intact, a male officer given a possibility {that a} former feminine colleague could not have been afforded.
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Moryc tells 6 Information she was by no means supplied a possibility to resign throughout her 2021 or 2025 disciplinary hearings or investigations. Her class was the primary to start a 401K retirement program quite than a conventional pension, as Antcliff certified for.
Screenshot of a portion of an inner investigation carried out by the Michigan State Police Skilled Requirements Part. The investigation was into sexual harassment — particularly quid professional quo — sexual harassment had occurred between then-MSP Subject Coaching Officer and Trooper Trevin Antcliff of the Lakeview Publish and MSP Trainee and Trooper Megan Moryc. (Report obtained by way of FOIA by Megan Moryc and supplied to six Information Investigates. WLNS)
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MSP brass had recognized for years that Antcliff was a threat to ladies, inner reviews present. A Skilled Requirements Part report expressed issues about assigning Antcliff as a coaching supervisor for a feminine probationary officer as a result of he was a “womanizer” with a “negative reputation with women.”
However that didn’t cease officers from putting probationary trooper Megan Symonds underneath his supervision throughout her second part of discipline coaching officer and shadow part officer. The rationale, the report reveals, was that she, now often known as Megan Moryc, was married. That was in 2016.
Undated pictures of former Michigan State Police Trooper Trevin Antcliff in uniform. (Courtesy Picture. WLNS)
And her marital standing and Antcliff’s supervisory position apparently didn’t matter. They developed a friendship that rapidly grew to become sexual. It might later grow to be romantic. Moryc was finally divorced and testified at Antcliff’s divorce trial, for which each of them have been accused of perjury. They at one level lived collectively. That relationship resulted in 2023, when Antcliff moved out of the house the 2 shared in Ionia. His transfer was supervised for hours by a lieutenant from his publish.
And their relationship is without doubt one of the key points on the coronary heart of an almost 5-year authorized dispute as Moryc, 40, tries to earn again a job and profession the MSP ended as a result of it says she broke the regulation and violated coverage.
She says her job was taken from her due to intercourse discrimination and harassment in 2021. She appealed that call, however command workers within the sixth District, positioned in Grand Rapids, fired her a second time, in February 2025.
The 6 Information Investigates Group has been investigating since August 2024, the continued battle between Moryc and the MSP. The Group has reviewed tons of of pages of inner investigations, court docket filings, court docket opinions, emails and prosecutorial communications.
Moryc has sat for hours of on-camera interviews, however officers for the state of Michigan have declined to reply to particular questions from the 6 Information Investigates Group.
She additionally submitted to a prolonged follow-up interview in December. She has additionally willingly responded to telephone calls and textual content messages to make clear particulars raised by this reporting, in addition to associated to the investigation and police requirements as she understood them.
Antcliff didn’t reply to repeated messages left on a voicemail related to a lawn-care enterprise he began after he resigned from the MSP.
This dispute, which at one level reached the Michigan Supreme Courtroom, is chronicled on this ongoing report by 6 Information Investigates a few sexualized “big boys’ club” on the Lakeview Publish of the Michigan State Police.
Moryc’s first firing, in 2021, got here after she was charged with two counts of assault and battery and two counts of prison sexual conduct 4th diploma stemming from a drunken incident with fellow troopers in Traverse Metropolis in October 2020. She entered a “no contest” plea to the 2 counts of assault and battery, a plea the place a defendant accepts conviction however doesn’t admit guilt. The prison sexual expenses have been dismissed as a part of the deal.
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She spent 21 days in jail and was promptly fired by the division when state attorneys argued she was a menace to the protection of different officers.
An arbitrator and, finally, state courts, cited overreach within the expenses and ordered the MSP to reinstate Moryc, however officers in early 2024 discovered a brand new cause to fireplace her.
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Although a prosecutor declined to cost Moryc with perjury, an inner investigation, resumed the day she was re-enrolled on state payroll, discovered she had lied throughout Antcliff’s divorce from his then-wife, Nina Antcliff, which started in 2017 and was finalized Oct. 29, 2018.
Courtroom information led the MSP to say Moryc had dedicated perjury throughout that divorce trial as a result of she and Antcliff had developed a sexual relationship, however didn’t admit that underneath oath. After a listening to in January, she was fired in February. That firing stays in authorized dispute.
Willpower on the finish of an investigation into allegations that then-Michigan State Police Trooper and Lakeview Publish Subject Coaching Officer Trevin Antcliff dedicated sexual harassment and perjury. (Report obtained by way of FOIA and shared by Megan Moryc with 6 Information Investigates. WLNS)
Michigan State Police Sgt. Scott Ziesman. (Courtesy MSP. Obtained through FOIA. WLNS)
What isn’t disputed is that MSP officers finally discovered Antcliff had violated sexual harassment and discrimination legal guidelines in his supervision of Moryc. He resigned shortly after, whereas dealing with felony perjury expenses and a misdemeanor home violence cost.
A popularity
Michigan State Police Trooper Trevin S. Antcliff. (Picture courtesy MSP. WLNS)
In 2023, Nina Antcliff advised an investigator from the MSP she was shocked her husband was overseeing a feminine trainee.
“So when he told me that he had a female trainee because of the whole thing with the counselor that she had told him, ‘You do not possess the ability to not sleep with anyone that’s nice to you,” Nina Antcliff mentioned. “You cannot have female friends. And then he came home one day, and he was like, I have a new trainee.”
Official portrait of Michigan State Police Trooper Megan Symonds when she graduated from the MSP Academy in August 2016. (Courtesy MSP, obtained by way of FOIA by WLNS)
That trainee was Moryc, who grew to become a trooper with MSP in August 2016.
Inside weeks of Antcliff’s coaching supervision of Moryc, he was pressuring her for intercourse, a number of inner investigation reviews reveal.
In the course of the Antcliffs’ divorce, Moryc mentioned she realized he had been recognized with a sexual dependancy in February 2013 by David UitdeFlesch, a psychologist then with Pine Relaxation Christian Psychological Well being Providers in Grand Rapids. Moryc supplied the 6 Information Investigates staff with progress notes from UitdeFlesch, which she obtained whereas she and Antcliff have been residing collectively starting in September 2018.
Divorce information in Antcliff’s case additionally reveal that he had left his spouse and younger youngsters for one more girl for a number of days in 2013.
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‘Big Boys’ Membership’: Discontent within the Michigan State Police
‘Big Boys’ Membership’: ‘Wolf in the hen house’
‘Big Boys’ Membership’: ‘I never wanted to cheat on my husband’
Violation of rights
Wendy Murphy, a professor at New England Regulation in Boston and the chief of the Girls and Kids’s Advocacy Undertaking on the college. (Courtesy Picture. WLNS)
Wendy Murphy, a professor at New England Regulation in Boston and chief of the Girls and Kids’s Advocacy Undertaking on the college, says the scenario with Antcliff and Moryc throughout the coaching part is against the law underneath civil rights legal guidelines.
“Quid pro quo sexual harassment doesn’t involve a question of wantedness,” Murphy mentioned. “It’s per se improper.”
She mentioned the specter of ending the profession of a subordinate is “inherent in the relationship.”
MSP officers decided in September 2023 that Antcliff had dedicated quid professional quo sexual harassment when he engaged in a sexual relationship with Moryc.
“After review of the attached PSS Investigation, there are several Official Order violations to include Sexual Harassment (Quid Pro Quo), impairing the efficiency of the agency, and the below code of conduct,” the charging doc states.
Michigan State Police Sgt. Aaron McCormick. (Courtesy MSP. Obtained by way of FOIA. WLNS)
MSP information reveal Sgt. Aaron McCormick, who had served as Moryc’s first FTO, had warned Antcliff and publish management of the rumors of a relationship between Antcliff and Moryc.
“We had heard some rumors from the other guys on day shift that they were having a relationship,” McCormick acknowledged in a recorded interview on Aug. 11, 2023. “And I’ll tell you that I made a phone call to him and this kind of ruined our friendship – which, whatever. It’s a great sign, obviously, but I told him, ‘There’s rumors going on about you and the cub. Don’t know if they’re true. You need to know if it is true. Can you stop?’ OK?”
McCormick reported that Antcliff grew to become offended with him, accusing him of spreading the rumor. McCormick mentioned the 2 by no means spoke once more, but additionally mentioned that Antcliff by no means instantly denied an inappropriate relationship with Moryc. He by no means admitted it, both, McCormick mentioned.
An MSP investigation decided Antcliff’s statements to investigators about his interplay with McCormick have been “untrue.” McCormick did inform the investigator that command workers on the publish knew concerning the – as then-investigator Kandace Herr referred to as them – “rumors, rumblings, scuttlebutt” about Antcliff and Moryc having intercourse.
“I think everyone at the post was aware,” McCormick mentioned within the interview. He additionally mentioned publish management had “not handled” the scenario “very well.”
“We felt that we can’t consider what are essentially rumors and conjecture in how we do our assignments,” Lt. Rob Davis advised investigators about assigning Moryc to Antcliff.
Davis mentioned {that a} command workers member referred to the scenario as “putting a wolf in the hen house or something like that.”
The regulation professor Murphy mentioned the acknowledgment by MSP management of Antcliff’s being a “womanizer” meant that they had an obligation to maintain him away from ladies, “interval.” By failing to take action, they opened up a authorized drawback underneath federal civil rights regulation, often known as Title VII, she mentioned.
“What you’re really saying is these regulations under Title VII and under state civil rights laws, they’re very explicit that you have a duty once you are on notice, you have a duty to take reasonable steps to prevent the harm from happening again,” Murphy mentioned. “Not only to the individual that it happened to the first time, but to people in that class. So not just to that one woman, but to all women. So really it opens up another layer of liability.”
Murphy mentioned it doesn’t matter if the “notice” is “rumor,” as Davis instructed.
“If the rumor is specific about who it is, what the person did – the credibility of the information is corroborated by awareness of other similar problems,” she mentioned. “It’s not just a rumor. It’s really a highly credible package of information. We use the word rumor loosely, sometimes to dismiss things we know about.”
A file of home expenses
Antcliff’s arrest on Dec. 7, 2023, on expenses of home violence was not the primary allegations of home violence – or worse – leveled towards him by intimate companions.
On Might 23, 2017, Antcliff was accused by his then-wife, Nina Antcliff, of assaulting her within the car parking zone of Grandville Excessive College and later at their residence.
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A report by MSP inner affairs investigators alleged Antcliff “became involved in an altercation with your wife in the parking lot of Grandville High School, calling her profane names and arguing with her. During this altercation, you committed battery by throwing items you found in her vehicle (nipple clamps and crotchless underwear) at her, striking her.”
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Montcalm County Circuit Courtroom Choose Suzanne Hoseth Kreeger decided the objects in query had been positioned in Nina Antcliff’s automotive in an effort by her to show Trevin Antcliff was going by way of her automotive.
Nina Antcliff advised Particular Lt. Christopher Tuckey throughout an inner investigation into allegations of perjury towards Moryc that there have been different instances she and her youngsters had referred to as regulation enforcement due to her husband’s alleged violence.
“But all the ones [investigators] that I met during the divorce, even the ones that showed up at my house and put in their report that he was wrong, still backed him,” she advised Tuckey in a recorded interview, referring to regulation enforcement dispatched to the marital residence the Antcliffs shared with 4 youngsters.
She accused regulation enforcement of refusing to research the allegations, alleging a conspiracy of “back-the-blue” considering.
“Like when I called 911, they told me not to call them anymore, that he was one of you,” she advised Tuckey.
She finally withdrew from aiding the perjury investigation.
A five-day suspension for Antcliff was really helpful, which he served. The interior doc reveals he additionally had served a 10-day suspension in 2006, however the causes for that suspension have been unclear.
The divorce and Moryc
Michigan State Police Troopers Trevin Antcliff and Megan Moryc. (Courtesy picture. WLNS)
Filings within the Antcliffs’ divorce proceedings, which started on March 10, 2017, reveal they accused one another of violence throughout their relationship. Trevin Antcliff went as far as to hunt a private safety order from the court docket, arguing she was violent in the direction of him and the youngsters. That order was denied.
After that they had grow to be sexual throughout her coaching interval, Moryc, who went on to divorce her husband Christopher Symonds, and Trevin Antcliff moved in September 2018 into a house she had bought in Ionia. As a result of the duo had grow to be public about their relationship, they have been assigned to totally different squads. However in 2017, when Moryc had accomplished her coaching and he or she was assigned a shift reverse of Antcliff’s, their sexual intimacy was nonetheless a secret.
Moryc has constantly contended that the friendship between the 2 didn’t grow to be “romantic” or “dating” till not less than December 2017, once they started to debate shifting in with one another.
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She says their preliminary interactions have been as “best friends” who occurred to have intercourse, usually initiated whereas they have been drunk and preceded by wrestling, which concerned utilizing self-defense techniques on one another.
Trevin Antcliff had denied for years that the duo had been concerned in any inappropriate interactions. On the similar time, he was her discipline coaching officer, however in an interview on Oct. 11, 2023, he reversed that place.
“I guess you could say romantic, dating, yes,” he mentioned in a report from Det. Sgt. Kailee Schuett throughout a prison investigation into whether or not he and Moryc had dedicated perjury throughout that divorce listening to on Oct. 9, 2018.
Display screen seize of interview with former Michigan State Police Trooper Trevin Antcliff during which he admits to a “romantic” relationship along with his then-trainee Megan Moryc. Moryc denied the connection was something however “friends with benefits” in 2017. (Screenshot from MSP Skilled Requirements Report obtained by Megan Moryc and shared with 6 Information Investigates. WLNS)
Each Moryc and Antcliff testified that the connection was a friendship and an expert one, transcripts from the listening to and investigatory reviews reveal.
The testimony targeted on an incident in late January 2017 when Nina Antcliff mentioned she returned to her marital residence and located Trevin Antcliff and Moryc of their lengthy underwear. They testified that they had been at a scene the place a suspect shot and killed himself. They have been coated in blood, they mentioned, and had gone to the Antcliffs’ residence to vary out of their bloody uniforms.
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All through their ensuing relationship, Moryc had raised issues about Antcliff’s ingesting and abuse with Sgt. Scott Ziesman.
No prosecution
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Textual content messages between Moryc and Ziesman, contained in one of many PSS investigations, reveal Ziesman had intervened between the duo on a number of events concerning violence and extreme alcohol consumption.
Det. Sgt. Kandyce Herr. (Courtesy MSP. Obtained by way of FOIA. WLNS)
Moryc didn’t report, formally, the violence she was alleging till April 9, 2023, and Det. Sgt. Kandyce Herr investigated Moryc’s allegations that Antcliff had bodily and sexually assaulted her throughout their relationship.
“I’m still struggling, and I feel shame, too, that I let things go on for so long,” Moryc advised Herr throughout an interview. She alleged a number of situations of violence by Ancliff and her efforts to battle him off.
Photographs of Megan Moryc’s face after what she says was home violence perpetrated by her then-lover and MSP Trooper Trevin Antcliff. (From a number of sources together with MSP reviews and shared by Moryc with 6 Information Investigates. WLNS)
Photographs of Megan Moryc’s face after what she says was home violence perpetrated by her then-lover and MSP Trooper Trevin Antcliff. (From a number of sources together with MSP reviews and shared by Moryc with 6 Information Investigates. WLNS)
Herr referred the case to the Ionia County Prosecutor’s Workplace for a cost of nonaggravated assault. The cost sought didn’t embrace a home violence cost or sexual assault expenses, as Moryc had accused Antcliiff of repeatedly sexually assaulting her whereas they have been residing collectively. To keep away from a battle of curiosity, Ionia County officers referred the case to the Division of the Michigan Legal professional Normal, which assigned the Barry County Prosecutor’s Workplace to evaluate prosecutorial choices.
However that workplace on April 27, 2023, denied prosecution, citing in its report that there have been “no witnesses; no confession; lengthy delay in reporting; given facts/circumstances, cannot be proven BRD [beyond a reasonable doubt] by jury.”
‘Sleep sex’ or assault?
Interview (above) with Megan Moryc about allegations of sexual assault towards her former boyfriend and Michigan State Police Trooper Trevin Antcliff. This interview was subsequently utilized in establishing a timeline to pursue allegations of perjury towards each Antcliff and Moryc for testimony they supplied throughout a 2018 divorce continuing. (Courtesy Megan Moryc. WLNS)
Particular Lt. Ryan Tabaczka of the Skilled Requirements Part. (Courtesy MSP. Obtained by way of FOIA. WLNS)
Later that 12 months, on Aug. 17, Moryc alleged further sexual assault and home violence throughout an interview with Particular Lt. Ryan Tabaczka of the Skilled Requirements Part. She advised Tabaczka that when their relationship started falling aside, Antcliff started what he referred to as “sleep sex,” when she can be woke up within the night time with Antcliff trying to penetrate her.
“I woke up in pain because he was trying to penetrate me, and I had to hit him to get him off of me, and he, you know, blamed it on sleep sex, or he said he didn’t recall,” Moryc advised Tabaczka.
This was not the primary time Antcliff was accused of this “sleep sex.” His ex-wife Nina, in divorce proceedings, accused him of “sleep sex,” which she attributed to his use of “Ambien,” a robust sleep help. Counseling progress notes supplied by Moryc to the 6 Information Investigates Group reveal Trevin Antcliff admitted to the “sleep sex” as early as 2011 in counseling.
These progress notes point out he would view pornography, then have interaction within the so-called “sleep sex.” The notes reveal Nina Antcliff had characterised the incidents as assaults. The progress notes additionally point out Trevin had admitted the “sleep sex” incidents have been aggressive and tough.
Moryc additionally accused Antcliff of sexually assaulting her within the couple’s shared Ionia residence. She was sick, vomiting in the bathroom, she advised investigators, however Antcliff demanded intercourse. She refused, and he responded by making an attempt to drag her from the toilet. She mentioned she grabbed and kicked his groin to cease the assault.
In an administrative interview carried out by PSS investigators, Trevin Antcliff was requested particularly concerning the lavatory incident with Moryc. He neither confirmed nor denied the incident, as an alternative specializing in what he mentioned was an error within the date of the incident.
Neither Herr nor Tabaczka investigated the sexual assault complaints in any depth, the reviews reveal. And no prosecutor was requested to evaluate Moryc’s sexual assault allegations for prison expenses.
Katherine Redmond is the manager director of WeLead, a nationwide nonprofit devoted to ending sexual violence typically, however with sports activities notably.
“The investigator needs to investigate fully and without bias,” Redmond mentioned. “This is a serious issue in law enforcement where the fact that sexual assault is not charged much of the time has contributed to an epidemic of sex assault in this country.”
“Law enforcement has a culture of minimizing violence against women. Does it provide further proof? Absolutely. Will anyone step up and hold them accountable? Based on decades of the same behavior, likely no.”
The investigation
Moryc says she was invited in August 2023 to the PSS investigation underneath the guise that she was there to debate her sexual assault and home violence allegations. She supplied textual content messages to help her assertion.
As an alternative, Tabaczka’s investigation targeted on establishing a timeline of the connection between Moryc and Antcliff, an audio recording of the interview and the ultimate report reveal.
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As MSP investigators have been reviewing Moryc’s complaints, and increasing their investigation into allegations of perjury towards her and Antcliff, attorneys for the company have been in court docket combating the Michigan State Police Trooper Affiliation over Moryc’s firing in 2021 after the division accused her of sexually assaulting three of her fellow troopers and assaulting them, throughout a drunken outing at a union-sponsored occasion in Traverse Metropolis in 2020.
Michigan State Police Communications Director Shanon Banner. (Courtesy Picture, MSP. WLNS)
Shanon Banner, a spokesperson for the Michigan State Police, declined to reply particular questions from the 6 Information Investigates Group concerning Moryc or different inner investigations.
She issued the next assertion in response to a collection of questions:“The Michigan State Police is committed to fostering a work environment free from all forms of harassment, and will not tolerate, condone, or allow harassment by members. All allegations made known to the MSP by Trooper Moryc, to include allegations of harassment and discrimination, were investigated by the Professional Standards Section at the time the allegations were made in 2020.”
HELP IS AVAILABLE
If you happen to or somebody you realize is experiencing home or sexual violence, there may be assist.
If you’re in speedy hazard, name 911 or your native regulation enforcement company.
For help associated to home violence, name: 1-800-799-7233
For help associated to sexual assault, name: 800-656-HOPE (4673)
6 Information Digital Producer Shajaka Shelton and 6 Information Digital Content material Supervisor Duncan Phenix contributed to this report.
