Michael Schoener gave
mastermind police badge, handcuffs, officials say\
DEDHAM, Mass. —A Dedham police
officer was arrested in connection with the kidnapping of an Avon man earlier
this year.
David Robertson remembers
watching the silver Toyota drive away, his son James J. Robertson, 37, in the
back seat accompanied by two men with badges and guns.
Officer Michael Schoener, 40,
of Dedham, was held on $5,000 bail after he pleading not guilty to being an
accessory before the fact of kidnapping in the case of James Robertson, who was
last seen on Jan. 1.
Officials said Schoener gave
his Dedham Police Department issued badge, handcuffs and empty holster to the
mastermind of the kidnapping, James Feeney.
Schoener also allegedly used
department equipment to provide Feeney with a photograph and board of probation
record of Robertson.
Robertson, who was on
probation, was last seen when two people posing as constables came to his home
in Avon and kidnapped him under the guise of Robertson having to be drug tested
by probation.
Robertson has not been seen
from since that encounter and is presumed dead.
Schoener has been placed on
leave from the Dedham Police Department. He will also be on a GPS monitor and
subject to random drug and alcohol testing.
