Written by John Face
June 1, 2023
Photo by John Face
City Watch News reports that Albion Colleges Chief Financial Officer (CFO), Gary Black, is no longer employed by the college, effective June 1, 2023. Black came to Albion College as a new hire of former Albion College President Mat Johnson in February of 2021. Currently, there has been no official notification of Blacks leaving the college. Black came from Finlandia University that closed its doors permanently at the end of this current school year.
City Watch sources state that Black has not been in his office since Saturday, May 13, 2023. The Albion Department of Public Safety received a report from an Albion College employee of a jeep in the “yard area” behind W.G. Construction located at 101 S. Monroe, the old lumber yard.
That call came in at 8:32 A.M., and police responded. They found Black and another unidentified man in the rear area working inside one of the storage areas in the southeast corner of the property. Black advised the officer that, as CFO, he was allowed to be there.
According to the police incident report, which City Watch received via a Freedom of Information Act request, police called the employee who placed the call and advised who was on the property. According to police, the caller told them someone had been “infiltrating the cameras at the business and deleting footage.” The police left the scene.
Calhoun County dispatch received another call from the original caller at 9:21 A.M., stating that there was a red Ford Escape in the yard and that he did not know who it was. Police again responded and found the same two individuals in the property’s southeast corner. According to officers, “they appeared (Black and unidentified man) to be cutting up something but unknown what.”
City Watch was contacted about the incident, and this writer went to W.G. Construction later in the morning and found the gate to the yard unlocked and open. I drove around the front of the business on Monroe Street.
I walked up to a locked gate near the street, observed a parked car, and heard what sounded like sawing or drilling. I was using my phone to take pictures when a man appeared from the storage area. One of those pictures shows a man, later identified as Gary Black, and his vehicle, walking carrying a drill.
Notice the car in the picture is not a Jeep. That means that he used three different vehicles that morning. City Watch shared the photo with some individuals who identified Gary Black in the picture.
City Watch has learned that Black has not been in his office since the day of this picture.
Black, along with Jeff Ott, have been the primary people who worked with the Michigan Attorney General during the investigation of the college.
City Watch will update this story when needed.
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