IWA Special For Friday 041808

Don't Defecate Where You Eat

Hey folks,

It's FRIDAY. Time, this week, for the IWA. As some of you know, for 7 years of my like I working in the Security and Law Enforcement fields. For three and a half of those years, I worked for Chief George Rowley. One of the MANY things that he was famous for saying is that you NEVER Sh-- Uh, defecate, where you eat. In other words, you do not do bad things where you work or live. Why? Because you will always get caught.

This is not an exclusive Chief Rowley phrase. It has been around just about as long as "Don't bite the hand that feeds you." It is pretty well known in the normal society circles, but is VERY well known in Law Enforcement. This guy? Well, he should have known better.

According to the AP - Oklahoma sheriff charged with using inmates as sex slaves
By JUSTIN JUOZAPAVICIUS, Associated Press Writer

Authorities have charged a western Oklahoma sheriff with coercing and bribing female inmates so he could use them in a sex-slave operation run out of his jail.

Custer County Sheriff Mike Burgess resigned Wednesday just as state prosecutors filed 35 felony charges against him, including 14 counts of second-degree rape, seven counts of forcible oral sodomy and five counts of bribery by a public official.

Burgess, the top officer in the county of 26,000 since 1994, appeared in court Wednesday was released after posting $50,000 bail.

"We are stunned," Undersheriff Kenneth Tidwell said Thursday.

Really? You were the Under Sheriff. You had no idea?

Attorney Steve Huddleston said that he has not had a chance to review all the allegations against his client, but that "Mr. Burgess is anxious to go to court and clear his name."

Among other things, Burgess is accused of having sex with a female drug court participant who was in his custody. The crimes are to have occurred between October 2005 and April 2007.

A federal lawsuit filed in October claims Burgess told one drug court participant he would have her sent to prison if she didn't comply with his sexual demands.

The lawsuit, filed by 12 former inmates, alleges the sheriff's employees had them engage in wet T-shirt contests and offered cigarettes to those who would flash their breasts.

One prisoner alleged she became a jail trusty with more freedom after agreeing to perform a sex act on Burgess, but lost that status when she later refused.

Burgess also faces two counts each of sexual battery, rape by instrumentation and subornation of perjury, and one count each of engaging in a pattern of criminal offenses, indecent exposure and kidnapping.

He could be sentenced to 467 years in prison if convicted on all counts, special prosecutor James Boring said, though a lesser sentence would be more likely.

No one else from the sheriff's department appears to be implicated, Tidwell said.

"The circumstances are certainly regretful," he said.

I guarantee you more people knew about it. I, wait a second, READ THAT AGAIN!

The lawsuit, filed by 12 former inmates, alleges the sheriff's employees had them engage in wet T-shirt contests and offered cigarettes to those who would flash their breasts.

Then this? No one else from the sheriff's department appears to be implicated?

I hope this investigation is ongoing. But as for the good Sheriff? Did you really think that you were never going to get caught? Absolute power corrupts absolutely. And for the fact that you forgot that old familiar saying, "Don't, you know, where you eat," you ARE the Idiot of the Week. I got some advice for you Sheriff. If you do get convicted, get ready to do the things you were forcing prisoners to do, because when they find out who you are, they are going to have fun with you.
Peter