PULASKI COUNTY AND NORTH LITTLE ROCK ANIMAL SERVICES "SCREWED THE POOCH" IN CASE OF A MISSING DOG

Darryl Lunon purchased a German Shepherd puppy from a breeder in Montana early last year.

BIBI VON SONNENBERG  - LUNON'S PRIDE AND JOY

 
He named her Bibi and had big plans for her. Lunon was training her to be a show dog and hoped she would one day breed future show dogs.

 

Then in February the 10-month old pup ran off Lunon's five acres in east Little Rock. 

Lunon called Little Rock and Pulaski county animal control...both said they had not picked her up. He put up flyers everywhere...only to later learn that Pulaski county animal control had picked Bibi up...and delivered her to North Little Rock Animal Control.

But nobody called Lunon.

"They had three different ways,” Lunon told reporters. “There was a collar with her name and my last name and phone number, there was a microchip and then she also had a tattoo in her right ear. And so part of the procedures for North Little Rock and Pulaski county was to look for the collar or a microchip. So Pulaski county failed to do that. And so did North Little Rock."

North Little Rock intake paperwork show that the dog was wearing a red collar when it arrived.

But five days later Bibi was spayed. And a week after that she was adopted.

"My goal now is to get the dog back so I can continue the schitzon training,” says Lunon. “And also...I love the dog. I mean...I am a dog lover. And so I love the dog dearly. And the clubs that I'm in…we all are devastated."

DARYL LUNON & BIBI

Lunon says he plans to file suit next week to get Bibi back.

Lunon says he paid over $2,000.00 for his dog from a breeder out of Montana. Bibi’s uncle was a world champion show dog. He estimates the lost breeding fees alone will total tens of thousands of dollars.

We hope that both Pulaski County and North Little Rock Animal Services pays (money and job sanctions) for their colossal screw up.

Lunon might be able to get criminal charges filed using Arkansas Code Annotated § 5-36-105:

Both Pulaski County and North Little Rock Animal Services refused to comment.

Stay tuned for updates.

DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES FOSTER PARENT FAILURES

Two incredible stories of the failure of DHS to protect children in their custody from foster parents.

Check out the post on our Bad Arkansas Department of Human Services blog:http://badarkdhs.blogspot.com/2017/06/department-of-human-services-foster.html

JOHNSON COUNTY GONE WILD

CIRCUIT COURT JUDGE "WILD BILL" PEARSON BACK ON THE BENCH AFTER GETTING THE GOOD OLE BOY TREATMENT IN CONNECTION WITH HIS DWI CASE AND JUDICIAL DISCIPLINE & DISABILITY COMMISSION INVESTIGATION

In April we had several posts (see links below) about Johnson County Circuit Court Judge "Wild Bill" Pearson and the results of his criminal DWI case and the investigation conducted by the Arkansas Judicial and Disability Commission.

He basically received a slap on the back, errr..... hand.  That's how the Good Ole Boy System works.





Wild Bill was not the only Johnson County public employee that recently had some legal problems with criminal behavior.

Two Johnson County Sheriff's deputies were accused of sexual assault, in different instances, one will be serving six years probation (more of the Good Ole Boy System at work) and the other... we'll get to that in a minute.

Instead of being fired by Sheriff Larry Jones, they were graciously allowed to resign, a move many law enforcement officers take when accused of a crime in a means to escape accountability and prevent the public from having information about their wrong doing (if fired, documents concerning their termination and what they did to get fired is subject to release under the Arkansas Freedom of Information Act; if they resign it is not).

JOHNSON COUNTY SHERIFF LARRY JONES

No wonder public opinion and confidence about law enforcement organizations and officers is at a all time low.

The first instance involves now former deputy and convicted felon Robert Gregory Retford.

ROBERT G. RETFORD - CONVICTED SEXUAL OFFENDER

Retford is a piece of work and a prime example of how broken the law enforcement certification system is in Arkansas (more on that later in the post).

Retford was accused of engaging in deviant sexual activity while in a deputy uniform in Sept. 10, 2016.

Sheriff Jones suspended Retford and a few days later Retford resigned.

What exactly did Deputy Retfort do?  Well, take a look at the affidavit for his arrest. 

Retford was facing up to 10 years in prison. 

So he worked out a negotiated plea deal in which he would plead guilty, have to register as a sex offender and only have to be on probation for six years.  

That Good Ole Boy System membership has its perks.

Not a bad deal for $100.  That's how much it cost Retford to get a public defender.

According to news reports, Prosecuting Attorney David Gibbons said the sentence was fair as Retford had no prior criminal records and that the victim was fine with Retford only getting probation.

The voters in Johnson County need to elect a new prosecuting attorney. While they are at it they need a new circuit court judge too.

While Retford may not have a previous criminal record, he certainly had a sketchy career in law enforcement.

As you can see Retford was fired three times and he resigned six other times (not including his most recent one from JCSD). Remember what we said about law enforcement officers resigning -
"a move many law enforcement officers take when accused of a crime in a means to escape accountability and prevent the public from having information about their wrong doing (if fired, documents concerning their termination and what they did to get fired is subject to release under the Arkansas Freedom of Information Act; if they resign it is not)".

We were not able to get a lot of details as to why he was fired so many times.

The only good thing to come out of this is that Retford can never abuse his position as a law enforcement officer again as a convicted felon cannot be certified as a law enforcement

The second instance involves another deputy, Lt. Jeff Wood.

JEFFERY R. WOOD - HEAD OF JCSD CID UNIT - ANOTHER JOHNSON COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPUTY THAT RESIGNED WHILE UNDER INVESTIGATION FOR SEXUAL ASSAULT

In March of this year, Wood, a married man, was reported to have been in a sexual relationship with a female named Carrie Box beginning back in 2016. Wood was also reported to have used his position as a deputy to provide favors to Box. 

Box made photos and videos of her and Wood engaging in sexual acts and shared them with several other individuals. These individuals then shared the photos and videos with their friends.  The videos were seen by just about everyone in Johnson County, including Prosecuting Attorney David Gibbons.

Gibbons requested that the Arkansas State Police look into the matter.

Let's take a look at the report that the ASP sent Gibbons.

Wood did write a letter to help get Box's boyfriend paroled.

 

WOOD FORGOT TO MENTION THAT IN ADDITION TO LETTERS FROM BOX HE ALSO GOT A BJ

So David Gibbons, the fine Prosecuting Attorney, did not consider the facts or evidence that Wood was involved in some hanky panky with Box and that extramarital activity resulted in some questionable favors for her.  Gibbons did not think that Box head on Wood's crotch was of concern, and the fact the Woods had her cellphone destroyed (the one with all the pictures of them doing the nasty) and then bought her a new one was suspicious.

DAVID GIBBONS - 5th JUDICIAL DISTRICT PROSECUTING ATTORNEY

To make good on her scheme to get her boyfriend out of prison, Box told ASP investigators that she and Wood never had sex.  After all a deal is a deal.

Gibbons determined that there was not enough evidence to get a conviction and dropped the matter.

CLICK TO VIEW THE ENTIRE ASP FILE ON WOOD

Not too long after Wood resigned from the Johnson County Sheriff's Department, he landed another job in law enforcement, at nearby Franklin County in their CID Unit.  The cycle continues.

These scumbags along with tainted ABC Enforcement Director Boyce Hamlet, are prime examples of why the Commission on Law Enforcement Standards and Training needs an overhaul.  Other licensing agencies (medical, dental, insurance, etc.)  have procedures for the public to make complaints about individuals that are licensed or certified by that agency. CLEST needs to be empowered to do the same. That empowerment would prevent the passing on from one agency to another crooks and creeps that have no business wearing a badge and carrying a gun and being in a position of authority.

Another issue with the CLEST and certification is that before any law enforcement agency hires an individual to be an officer, they are required under Arkansas Code Annotated §12-9-602 to do the following:

This almost never happens. In all the files we have obtained from CLEST we have never found such a request by an agency. Never, not one.

Law enforcement agencies are also required in this same statute to:

The Personnel Change-In-Status form (F4) has it clearly stated that the form needs to be sent in within 10 days any changes.

That is often not done as well.  One file we obtained from CLEST had an F4 form submitted a couple of years after a termination.

In the Retford case, Sheriff Jones failed to follow the law and this was his excuse:

 

Oh, we almost forgot to tell you that Judge Wild Bill Pearson had his hand in these cases.  Maybe that explains what he said to deputies when they were trying to book him for that DWI charge.  Wild Bill told the deputies that he didn't need to tell them who he was.  Wild Bill knew that the deputies had knowledge that he took care of the members of the Good Ole Boy Club and he expected the same in return.

That also explains why there was no mug shot taken of Wild Bill and he was permitted to carry on like he did.

Good Ole Boy System perks.


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Our previous posts about Judge "Wild Bill" Pearson:

http://badgovernmentinarkansas.blogspot.com/2017/04/judge-fails-to-stop-at-checkpoint-is.html

http://badgovernmentinarkansas.blogspot.com/2017/04/judge-pearson-gets-sweet-deal-in-his.html

http://badgovernmentinarkansas.blogspot.com/2017/04/new-videos-obtained-of-judge-wild-bill.html

http://badgovernmentinarkansas.blogspot.com/2017/04/drunk-beligerant-intimidating-judge.html

http://badgovernmentinarkansas.blogspot.com/2017/04/watch-video-of-drunk-judge-wild-bill.html


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Thanks to the reader from Clarksville that sent us a letter about Wood  last week.  As you can tell, we had been working on this for a while before we received your letter.

FORMER PULASKI COUNTY JAILER PLEADS GUILTY TO CHARGE OF LYING TO FBI AGENTS - CHARGES OF SEXUAL ABUSE OF INMATE DROPPED DESPITE PENDING CIVIL SUIT

SCOTT HAZEL - SEXUALLY ASSAULTED FEMALE INMATE AND LIED TO FBI AGENTS

 

 

Scott Hazel, a former supervisor at the Pulaski County jail pleaded guilty Friday to a charge of making a false statement to FBI agents during a civil-rights investigation into a report that he had sexually abused Jessica Linda Suarez, a female inmate in 2014 and 2015.

JESSICA LINDA SUAREZ

In return for his guilty plea to the newly filed charge, an original charge of sexual abuse of Suarez that Scott Hazel had faced since his indictment on December 2, 2015, was dropped.  A jury trial on the sexual abuse charge had been set to begin June 12 in the courtroom of Chief U.S. District Judge Brian Miller.

CHIEF U.S. DISTRICT JUDGE BRIAN MILLER

However, a civil lawsuit filed on behalf of Suarez, the woman Hazel is accused of forcibly having sex with in the jail on numerous occasions, is to begin September 12th before U.S. District Judge Billy Roy Wilson. 

U.S. DISTRICT JUDGE BILLY ROY WILSON

The lawsuit accuses Hazel of battery, sexual assault and wrongful imprisonment. It alleges that the county and Holladay failed to exercise their constitutional duty to protect Suarez by creating "an atmosphere where illegal and unconstitutional behavior is tolerated and accepted."

The lawsuit seeks compensatory and punitive damages and attorney's fees.

Hazel, accompanied by defense attorney Ron Davis of Little Rock, stood before Miller on Friday morning and listened to Assistant U.S. Attorney Julie Peters read a set of stipulated facts in the criminal case that Hazel then agreed were correct.

According to those facts, which are contained in a written plea agreement, the FBI was investigating Hazel, a classification sergeant at the jail, in connection with allegations that he had deprived Suarez, a federal inmate, of her civil rights while she was being held at the jail. In an interview on Sept. 15, 2015, agents asked Hazel about an incident on the evening of Feb. 6, 2015, when he checked Suarez out of her assigned place of detention and took her to a private office.

Hazel told the agents Suarez was a confidential informant and that he took her to the private office to show her photographs of potentially corrupt guards, according to the stipulation. "In fact," the document states, "Hazel was not using Suarez as a confidential informant, and Hazel did not show Suarez photos of guards. When Hazel made this statement, he knew it was false."
Lt. Cody Burk, a spokesman for the sheriff's office, said Friday that Hazel resigned Oct. 13, 2015, while under investigation. 

 

LT. CODY BURK - PRANKSTER AND PUBLIC RELATIONS PURVEYOR

A resignation keeps Hazel's personnel file from prying eyes.  Shenanigans.

The plea agreement stipulates that when Hazel is sentenced, he will face a six-level enhancement under federal sentencing guidelines "because the offense was committed under the color of law."
 

Federal sentencing table indicates Hazel is facing at least six months in prison. However, the agreement also states that the government won't oppose a probationary sentence if the judge determines one is appropriate.

In the civil case, attorneys Kathryn Hudson and Justin Huett of Little Rock said Suarez was subjected to civil-rights violations beginning April 18, 2014, while being held in the jail as a federal inmate.

KATHRYN HUDSON & JUSTIN HUETT - ATTORNEYS FOR SEXUALLY ASSAULTED INMATE

Suarez was eventually transferred to a federal prison to begin serving a five-year sentence for conspiring to distribute methamphetamine. She is to be released in October 23rd.

The lawsuit alleges that in November 2014, Hazel entered Suarez's cell and attempted to touch her sexually, but she refused his advances, and he instructed another jailer to move her to a different cell. It states, "Over the course of several months ... Hazel engaged in forced sexual intercourse with" Suarez.

During that time, the suit alleges, "Hazel threatened Suarez with harm if she reported him, and continually transferred Suarez between units at the Pulaski County Detention Center."

As a result, it says, she has suffered physical and emotional injuries, as well as medical expenses.

The lawsuit contends that jailers have a "code of silence" in which they won't report each other's misconduct and fail to take steps to stop it. As a result, it says, "deputies act unconstitutionally without fear of discipline."

 
That "Code of Silence" is an integral component of the Good Ole Boy System.

SOURCE REPORTS ABC ADMINISTRATIVE DIRECTOR BUD ROBERTS WAS FIRED - ARKANSAS STATE POLICE INVESTIGATING ALLEGED KICK-BACK SCHEME INVOLVING MEDICAL MARIJUANA PERMITS

IS BUD ROBERTS THE SUBJECT OF A CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION?

We broke the story of the triple resignation bombshell at the Arkansas Alcoholic Beverage Control agency last week and the naming of one of the staff attorneys that resigned as Interim Director of ABC Administration.

http://badaralcoholcontol.blogspot.com/2017/05/breaking-news-resignations-at-abc.html

http://badaralcoholcontol.blogspot.com/2017/05/abc-attorney-says-abc-administration.html

http://badaralcoholcontol.blogspot.com/2017/05/abc-attorney-who-resigned-named-as.html

Yesterday afternoon, we learned from a highly credible source that the Arkansas State Police is conducting a criminal investigation into allegations that Roberts was involved in a kick-back scheme with applicants for Medical Marijuana permits and that the probe also involves the Roberts Law Firm, headed by Bud's brother Mike Roberts.
 

Mike Roberts was appointed by Governor Hutchinson in 2015 to a third term as a commissioner on the Economic Development Commission.  Mike Roberts currently serves as Vice Charmian.

The Roberts Law Firm at one time employed the Governor's son, Asa III, but he quickly left the firm after his third DWI arrest and a drug arrest at an Alabama music festival.

We sought comments from the Department of Finance and Administration (parent agency for the ABC), the Arkansas State Police, the Governor's Office and Mike Roberts.  No responses have been received.

Bud Roberts has been unavailable since his termination/resignation last week.

Stay tuned for updates.

*** UPDATE - 6/2/17 9:22 AM ***
We were able to reach Jake Bleed, DFA Director of Communications by telephone and asked him for comments concerning the report of the State Police Investigation of Roberts.  

Bleed's response was "we do not have a comment, ahhh, ehhh, ...I just don't have anything we can add on that".

JAKE BLEED - DFA DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATION

 



The lack of a denial of the report is telling.