BRUCE MAXWELL
LAWRENCE CO. – After what appears to have been a lengthy investigation, a charge was finally filed against a former Lawrence County ambulance employee.
Bruce E. Maxwell, 57, of Bridgeport, was charged March 8, 2017, with a single count of Unauthorized Videotaping.
It’s alleged that Maxwell, who has spent the past several years working for various ambulance services in the area including as a director, had secreted a camera or even multiple cameras of some sort in locations at the new ambulance base in Lawrence, and images and even live streams were being fed into Maxwell’s office computer.
The images, it’s been unofficially reported, were of women in various stages of disrobing or undressing, as there are sleeping quarters in the ambulance base.
Who the women allegedly were remains unknown and undisclosed in court documents.
The discovery came about when Maxwell was terminated from the ambulance service, and, as he was not allowed to go back onto the premises, he couldn’t get the images nor any other material cleaned of the computer, and when these were subsequently examined, he was, in effect, “caught.”
It’s being reported that there was a camera in his office as well, but whether that was for allegedly capturing images the likes of which were reported found on his computer, or whether this was just a standard thing or even used as surveillance, also remains unknown.
Reports to Disclosure about Maxwell’s alleged activity at the ambulance barn with other employees had been coming in since late 2012. It’s reported that the actual investigation into the current charge has only been going on since late 2015.
Maxwell was terminated from the Lawrence County Ambulance Service through Lawrence County Memorial in Lawrenceville about a year and a half ago.
Previously to that, he had worked at United Life Care Ambulance out of Robinson, and at Richland Memorial Hospital in Olney.
He currently claims to be employed at Paris Community Hospital in Paris up in Edgar County, but that claim couldn’t be substantiated on deadline.
The entire matter only came to Disclosure’s attention because of sharp-eyed readers who checked it on judici after hearing of it through the grapevine and discovering it to be true. However, on judici information, dates of when these images and streams were supposed to have occurred were not available, as Lawrence County is still working on scanning in electronic documents.
While the complaint was filed on March 8, and warrant reported served on the Class 4 felony the same day, it doesn’t appear that Maxwell – if he was indeed taken into custody – had bonded out.
There is a bond date hearing set for April 19 at Lawrence County Circuit Court.