I-Team investigation: Greece accident report falsified?

This week, former Greece Police sergeant Brian Ball was charged with falsifying information in a report related to that crash which occurred in 2005 killing 17-year-old Stephanie Oliva of Greece. The driver of the car was 20-year-old Chad Kenyon.

Chad Kenyon holds many of the answers to the new questions that are arising out of the crash that occurred on November 4 2005.

He was 17 then and driving the car that pulled across oncoming traffic on Ridge Road that night, killing his girlfriend Stephanie Oliva of Greece and seriously injuring another passenger, Joseph Marini.

On Monday, former Greece Police sergeant Brian Ball was charged with falsifying information in the crash report. I-Team 10 has obtained that 24-page document that includes several witness accounts.

According to the paramedic who spoke to Kenyon at the scene, Kenyon smelled of alcohol and acknowledged having at least 10 drinks. An open beer was also found in the car next to Kenyon.

District Attorney Mike Green said, "Sergeant Ball filed a police report that contained materially false statements with regard to a significant issue in that investigation."

The page of the report in question that the DA says is falsified is signed by Brian Ball. In it, Ball concluded that alcohol was not a factor in the accident as Kenyon's blood alcohol content was .00 but I-Team 10 has learned that isn't the information police believe Ball falsified.

Sources close to the investigation tell I-Team 10 this line is partly the basis for the charge. Ball writes, that another sergeant told him the DA's office was not going to prosecute any criminal charges.

Additionally, while Ball closed out the case on November 18, the toxicology report was not completed until weeks later.

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Sources with knowledge of those findings tell us it came back positive for the presence of marijuana. Kenyon was only cited for failing to yield and driving at night with a junior license but Kenyon has a history of substance abuse and his appearance in court today was for a 2008 DWI charge as well as a petit larceny.

Coincidentally, the other surviving passenger in the crash, Joseph Marini was also in Greece court on an unrelated traffic violation, but was strongly opposed to offering any insight into what the three teens were doing prior to the crash.

Kenyon's mother wept outside court today and declined comment but yesterday, she told News 10NBC she can't understand why Ball would falsify anything in the report. "Why would he cover up for our family or for Chad when we don't know Sergeant Ball. We don't know Chief Rahn. We don't know anybody there."

Even people close to the investigation say they aren't sure what the motivation behind falsifying the report could be. Ball has pled not guilty. He was fired from the Greece Police Department last week.

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