Arrest Warrants Issued For Former Community Corrections Director Anna Bailey, 2 Others
December 17, 2019 at 5:10 p.m.
By Amanda Bridgman-
Warrants issued Tuesday call for Bailey, 41, of 69309 Walnut Road, Walkerton, to answer to charges of obstruction of justice and official misconduct, both Level 6 felonies; for Gasaway, 29, of 101 E. Main St., Syracuse, to answer to a Level 6 felony charge of escape; and Pagan, 23, of 2236 E. CR 600S, Warsaw, to answer to a charge of aiding, inducing or causing escape, a Level 6 felony.
Pagan turned herself in and was booked in the Kosciusko County Jail at 1:34 p.m. Tuesday. She immediately posted $5,250 and bonded out.
According to the probable cause affidavit filed Tuesday in Kosciusko Superior Court III, on Oct. 25 an officer with the Syracuse Police Department was contacted by two KCCC home detention officers who said Bailey may be engaging in violations of KCCC policy and possibly criminal activity.
KCCC officer Matt Newman told the police he had been assigned as Gasaway’s supervisor until early October, when Bailey, without giving any reason, assumed responsibility as Gasaway’s supervisor, court papers state.
According to KCCC records, including SCRAM GPS records, Gasaway was spending time, including overnight visits, at Pagan’s residence.
At 6:19 a.m. Oct. 30, police went to Gasaway’s residence and observed Pagan’s vehicle there, court papers state. At 7:30 a.m., Pagan exited Gasaway’s residence. Police security video also shows Pagan entering Gasaway’s residence at 11:58 p.m. Oct. 29, Gasaway leaving at 4:15 a.m. Oct. 30, and Pagan leaving at 7:30 a.m. Oct. 30.
When police spoke with Pagan, she admitted she was at Gasaway’s apartment and that Gasaway has been spending the night at her residence on the weekends, according to the probable cause affidavit.
Police then spoke with Gasaway, who asked police if Bailey knew police were talking to him. Later that day, Gasaway was “very frantic” and told Newman he had tried several times to reach Bailey on her work and personal phones.
Newman then told police that Bailey asked him to meet and record their conversation.
In the conversation, according to court papers, Bailey told Newman that Pagan and Gasaway have been in a relationship for the past month and that the police have seized Pagan’s work cellphone. Bailey told Newman she is mad that the police have been following Pagan, and says, “I don’t know what the f***’s going on but now it’s time to toe the f****** line with every f****** person because if they’re following my f****** admin, what the f*** is going on?”
Newman then told Bailey that Gasaway was coming in for a meeting. Between Oct. 30 and Oct. 31, Newman recorded several conversations between him and Bailey and Gasaway, according to court documents. In those recordings, Bailey would advise Gasaway on what to say to stay out of trouble, and “focused on how Gasaway could have continuously absconded from his approved locations without KCCC knowledge, how that could be explained or justified and how it can be covered up. Much effort was put into coordinating their stories, coloring their testimony and covering up possible evidence,” the affidavit states. Bailey also asked Gasaway if Pagan had deleted the messages on her cellphone.
In conversations between Bailey and Newman, according to court papers, Bailey was concerned that the pass she signed for Gasaway to go to Pagan’s residence would get them in trouble because one of the rules is they cannot go to a personal residence. The rule is identified on the back of the pass, page 2 of three pages. Bailey then talks about eliminating page 2 so no one will know about that rule.
The Kosciusko County Prosecutor’s Office requested copies of Gasaway’s file on Nov. 13, and Bailey told the prosecutor’s office his file was missing but supplied copies of his file. The file was missing page 2, according to the probable cause affidavit.
On Dec. 10, police spoke with KCCC officer Joshua Johnson, who told police that sometime in early November, Bailey assigned him to supervise Gasaway and directed him to take some documents from Gasaway’s file to Johnson’s personal residence “to keep it safe.”
When police reviewed the documents Bailey requested Johnson take home, they were Gasaway’s schedules, three passes that contained all three pages of rules and copies of the three passes stapled together with page 2 missing.
SCRAM GPS reports not only indicated that Gasaway was at Pagan’s residence, but shows him in unapproved vicinities on eight separate occasions, which is against KCCC home detention rules, court papers state.
Warrants issued Tuesday call for Bailey, 41, of 69309 Walnut Road, Walkerton, to answer to charges of obstruction of justice and official misconduct, both Level 6 felonies; for Gasaway, 29, of 101 E. Main St., Syracuse, to answer to a Level 6 felony charge of escape; and Pagan, 23, of 2236 E. CR 600S, Warsaw, to answer to a charge of aiding, inducing or causing escape, a Level 6 felony.
Pagan turned herself in and was booked in the Kosciusko County Jail at 1:34 p.m. Tuesday. She immediately posted $5,250 and bonded out.
According to the probable cause affidavit filed Tuesday in Kosciusko Superior Court III, on Oct. 25 an officer with the Syracuse Police Department was contacted by two KCCC home detention officers who said Bailey may be engaging in violations of KCCC policy and possibly criminal activity.
KCCC officer Matt Newman told the police he had been assigned as Gasaway’s supervisor until early October, when Bailey, without giving any reason, assumed responsibility as Gasaway’s supervisor, court papers state.
According to KCCC records, including SCRAM GPS records, Gasaway was spending time, including overnight visits, at Pagan’s residence.
At 6:19 a.m. Oct. 30, police went to Gasaway’s residence and observed Pagan’s vehicle there, court papers state. At 7:30 a.m., Pagan exited Gasaway’s residence. Police security video also shows Pagan entering Gasaway’s residence at 11:58 p.m. Oct. 29, Gasaway leaving at 4:15 a.m. Oct. 30, and Pagan leaving at 7:30 a.m. Oct. 30.
When police spoke with Pagan, she admitted she was at Gasaway’s apartment and that Gasaway has been spending the night at her residence on the weekends, according to the probable cause affidavit.
Police then spoke with Gasaway, who asked police if Bailey knew police were talking to him. Later that day, Gasaway was “very frantic” and told Newman he had tried several times to reach Bailey on her work and personal phones.
Newman then told police that Bailey asked him to meet and record their conversation.
In the conversation, according to court papers, Bailey told Newman that Pagan and Gasaway have been in a relationship for the past month and that the police have seized Pagan’s work cellphone. Bailey told Newman she is mad that the police have been following Pagan, and says, “I don’t know what the f***’s going on but now it’s time to toe the f****** line with every f****** person because if they’re following my f****** admin, what the f*** is going on?”
Newman then told Bailey that Gasaway was coming in for a meeting. Between Oct. 30 and Oct. 31, Newman recorded several conversations between him and Bailey and Gasaway, according to court documents. In those recordings, Bailey would advise Gasaway on what to say to stay out of trouble, and “focused on how Gasaway could have continuously absconded from his approved locations without KCCC knowledge, how that could be explained or justified and how it can be covered up. Much effort was put into coordinating their stories, coloring their testimony and covering up possible evidence,” the affidavit states. Bailey also asked Gasaway if Pagan had deleted the messages on her cellphone.
In conversations between Bailey and Newman, according to court papers, Bailey was concerned that the pass she signed for Gasaway to go to Pagan’s residence would get them in trouble because one of the rules is they cannot go to a personal residence. The rule is identified on the back of the pass, page 2 of three pages. Bailey then talks about eliminating page 2 so no one will know about that rule.
The Kosciusko County Prosecutor’s Office requested copies of Gasaway’s file on Nov. 13, and Bailey told the prosecutor’s office his file was missing but supplied copies of his file. The file was missing page 2, according to the probable cause affidavit.
On Dec. 10, police spoke with KCCC officer Joshua Johnson, who told police that sometime in early November, Bailey assigned him to supervise Gasaway and directed him to take some documents from Gasaway’s file to Johnson’s personal residence “to keep it safe.”
When police reviewed the documents Bailey requested Johnson take home, they were Gasaway’s schedules, three passes that contained all three pages of rules and copies of the three passes stapled together with page 2 missing.
SCRAM GPS reports not only indicated that Gasaway was at Pagan’s residence, but shows him in unapproved vicinities on eight separate occasions, which is against KCCC home detention rules, court papers state.
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