WOOD TV breaks news of sentencing.
What I'd like to know is, where was he selling it? Veterinarian use, or - ?
Former Corewell worker ordered to pay $2.4M in restitution for bone graft theft
John Hogan | Nov 6, 2025
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — A former Corewell Health employee was sentenced Wednesday to probation and hit with a hefty restitution order for stealing medical bone grafts from the health care giant’s Walker warehouse.
Stephen Jacobsen of Allendale pleaded guilty in September to embezzlement over $50,000 but under $100,000, a step down from the original charge.
A judge on Wednesday placed Jacobsen on probation for three years and ordered that he pay $2.4 million in restitution, according to Kent County Prosecutor Chris Becker.
Jacobsen, 40, was captured on video surveillance taking bone grafts and other supplies and loading them into a pickup truck, according to a police report.
Corewell Health worker accused of stealing nearly $700,000 in bone grafts
Jacobsen was a longtime employee of the warehouse.Walker police said he admitted to stealing — and selling — the items over several months in fall of 2024 for his own monetary gain.
Medical bone grafts are processed bone fragments used in surgeries.
No one every pays their restitution in Michigan. Restitution is a polite fraud by the "justice" system in Michigan on the victims of crime in Michigan.
Stephen Jacobsen of Allendale was selling the stolen bone grafts out of state. The FBI was informed by Walker police in 2024, but did nothing. Probably too busy trying to rig the 2024 elections:
https://www.woodtv.com/news/kent-county/police-id-suspected-buyer-of-stolen-bone-grafts/
Police ID suspected buyer of stolen bone grafts
By Ken Kolker - November 27, 2024WALKER, Mich. (WOOD) — Detectives investigating the thefts of hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of bone grafts from a Corewell Health warehouse have identified a possible buyer, police said on Wednesday.
Walker police said they’ve turned over that part of the investigation to the FBI because the suspected buyer is from out of state. They wouldn’t provide any more details.
The FBI in Detroit confirmed to News 8 that it was contacted by police but wouldn’t say whether it has launched its own investigation.
Former Corewell employee Stephen Jacobsen, of Allendale, was arraigned Tuesday on a charge of embezzling bone grafts from the warehouse where he worked in Walker.
According to court records, Jacobsen confessed to the thefts and to selling the grafts and other medical supplies.
The records don’t say who was buying the stolen grafts.
A police report obtained by Target 8 shows Corewell security caught him in the act on Oct. 24 after setting up surveillance cameras in the warehouse. They showed him loading boxes of grafts into a bigger box, then loading them into his pickup truck.
He’s accused of taking $693,000 worth of bone grafts and other medical supplies this fall. He later admitted it had been going on for six or seven years, according to the police report.
Bone grafts are processed bone fragments used in orthopedic and spine surgeries.
Jacobsen, who is free on a $25,000 cash bond, is expected back in court in December for a hearing to determine if there’s enough evidence for trial. If convicted, he could face up to 20 years in prison.
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