MISSOURI STATE HIGHWAY PATROL
a division of the
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY

Troop A, 504 SE Blue Parkway, Lee's Summit, MO 64063


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For further information please contact: Sgt. Collin Stosberg
(816) 622-0800 ext. 3149
A2012-23
June 25, 2012

EMPHASIS: Captain Powell Announces Promotion Of Trooper Joshua C. Utz


Captain Robert L. Powell, commanding officer of Troop A, Lee's Summit, announces the following promotion effective June 1, 2012:

Trooper Joshua C. Utz was promoted to the rank of corporal and designated the assistant zone supervisor of Zone 11, Cass County. Utz was appointed to the Patrol on January 7, 2007, as a member of the 86th Recruit Class. Upon graduating from the Patrol’s Law Enforcement Academy in Jefferson City, he was assigned to Troop A, Zone 9, Lafayette County.

Utz was born in St. Joseph, Missouri. He graduated from East Buchanan High School in Gower, Missouri, in 1999. He earned a bachelor's of science degree in criminal justice from Missouri Western State University in St. Joseph, Missouri, in 2002. Utz worked for the former Missouri State Water Patrol before joining the Highway Patrol. Corporal Utz is engaged to Annie Hotmer, formerly of Odessa, Missouri.

(Photograph available upon request.)

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