LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) – Michigan State Police leadership assigned then-rookie trooper Megan Symonds to be trained by an officer they knew had a reputation for “womanizing,” and a “negative history with women,” a supervisor reveals in a witness interview newly provided to 6 News Investigates.

Sgt. Scott Ziesman told an investigator during an internal review that supervisors at the MSP’s Lakeview Post made a calculated decision in 2016 when they named Trooper Trevin Antcliff as the field training officer (FTO) for the woman we now know as Megan Moryc, then 31, one of only two female probationary troopers in her class.

That decision, which a legal expert suggested could leave the MSP liable under federal civil rights law, ultimately put Moryc and Antcliff on a path to a personal relationshi

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