County Dispatcher Charged After Leaking 40 Victims' Home Addresses for Cash

In March 2026, Marcus Lindqvist — a three-year dispatcher with the Whitlock County Emergency Communications District in Cedar Hollow, Washington — was charged with three counts including unlawful disclosure of confidential information, computer trespass under Wash. Rev. Code § 9A.90.040, and commercial bribery after investigators audited the District's confidential-records system and discovered forty protected-address lookups attributed solely to Lindqvist's login, none of them connected to any corresponding 911 call or dispatch incident. The Whitlock County Superior Court filing alleges Lindqvist accepted between $200 and $500 per address over an eighteen-month period, with payments routed through gift-card reloads and a cash-app account registered under a nickname, from buyers whose identities remain under investigation. The scheme came to light after a protected individual, identified in court filings only as J.T., reported being located by someone who should not have known her new address; an audit of every user who had queried her confidential record returned a single name. Lindqvist has not entered a plea and is awaiting trial. The victim count of roughly forty is described by prosecutors as preliminary, subject to revision as the audit continues. J.T. had relocated, filed the correct paperwork, and done everything the system required to stay hidden — and was found anyway. Disclaimer: This video is a dramatization based on real events. Some visual content was created with artificial intelligence assistance. Some details have been fictionalized and all names have been changed to protect the privacy of those involved.