Former police officer and sheriff’s deputy pleads guilty to reckless endangerment

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.

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…

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