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Chris West Jr. Sex/Alcohol Scandal

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Chris West Jr. from his Facebook page

“About a month after the event Long and her husband had a domestic confrontation at their home over the sexual activity that had occurred with the husband calling in fellow troopers to assist him with the confrontation.”

 

 

 

Did Daddy Pull Some Strings?

Camp Gruber Chris West Jr. Sex/Alcohol  Scandal

Did Sheriff Chris West provide influence to get his son Chris West Jr. reinstated as a State Trooper after he resigned after an internal investigation?

In October of 2015 word leaked out about wild partying including hard drinking and extramarital sex that led to the firing of one Highway Patrol trooper, the resignations of two others, and three other troopers and a female game warden being suspended.  The troopers had attended a narcotics assault training program put on at Camp Gruber by the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs Control agency. Some of the discipline was for excessive drinking; others were rebuked for sexual activities including the wife of a state trooper who was the female game warden. The husband was not present at the training.

OHP leadership made it sound like it was a bunch of young men making bad choices but the behavior occurred over a ten day period in May of 2015 when around 50 law enforcement officers participated in the training.  After a four month investigation six members were disciplined or had resigned of the eight troopers that attended the event.

Canadian County Sheriff Chris West had a son involved in the inappropriate behavior but it has always been a secret as to what he did but we do know that it was serious enough that Chris West Jr. and Jason Henson resigned Oct of 2015.  Trooper Ricky Ellis was fired over his behavior which including drinking till intoxicated and having sex with the married female game warden in the barracks and shower, claiming it was an “accident”.  Ellis was also married at the time and knew the female game warden was married to another trooper.  Ellis admitted to drinking to the point of memory loss on one occasion.
Trooper Jason Henson resigned and went on to study to be a registered nurse and appears to have made that his new career choice. 

Trooper Mathew Wilczek was suspended for 13 days for drinking until intoxicated and recording video of the female game warden flashing the other troopers on the opening day of the training session.   

 

 

Game Warden Emily Long

Wilczek was an eight year veteran of the force and had sent copies of the video to other troopers.   Another trooper, Willian Hayden, admitted to drinking to the point of intoxication twice and other drinking bouts and was suspended for five days.  Hayden was a three year veteran of the OHP.   Another veteran trooper, Mathew Villines, admitted to drinking to the point he couldn’t perform his duties had his team been called out in an emergency and received a one day suspension.  

The female game warden, Emily Long, was suspended for 15 days and six months probation for unprofessional conduct, negligence of duty, and conduct unbecoming of a public employee.  Long was a five year veteran of the wild life agency. About a month after the event Long and her husband had a domestic confrontation at their home over the sexual activity that had occurred with the husband calling in fellow troopers to assist him with the confrontation.  No incident report is being made public on this matter.  

Trooper Chris West Jr. and Jason Henson resigned so their deeds must have been at the top of the pile but OHP has refused to divulge what the pair did to garner being ordered to resign.

But the mystery here is why Jason Henson was not allowed to return to the OHP but Canadian County Sheriff Chris West’s son Chris West Jr. was allowed to be reinstated a few months later.  You can view Chris West Jr.’s Facebook profile here to see that he currently works for OHP.  West was a high ranking officer prior to his resignation and served as a public spokesperson for the OHP for years.   His father Sheriff Chris West retired from the OHP which is likely how he had the pull to sneak his son back onto the force.  The link to Chris West Jr.’s Facebook page is below as well as a link to the news story on the scandal.   

People do make mistakes and justice was served well with the majority of the people involved in the scandal but it makes no sense how one man, Chris West Jr., could escape punishment and full disclosure of his actions by resigning and being reinstated a few months later yet other troopers were forced into other career fields.

Scandal News Story

Chris West Jr. Facebook profile

 

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The Pirates of I-40

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Hmong Americans

“It doesn’t make sense,” West said. “It’s either drug money or it’s not. If it’s not, then give them the money back. Why would someone want to do a 50-50 split? Why are we cutting deals with drug people?”  Sheriff Chris West from the Oklahoma Watch article

 

 

 

Shakedown Law Abiding Citizens

The Pirates of I-40

Moua and Chao Yang were driving West on I-40 in a rental car in March of 2009 and were stopped by a Canadian County Deputy for exceeding the speed limit by six miles per hour.  In the back was $25,000 in cash, the two men were on their way to a wedding in California.  Why so much cash?  It is a traditional wedding present in the Hmong tribe, gathered from friends and family members who learned not to trust banks in their native country. 

The Yangs gave permission to search the car and the Canadian County Deputy found the cash, claimed it had drug residue on it, and seized the cash for being tied to drug trafficking without ever filing a criminal case against the two men.

The case dragged on four years before Canadian County struck a deal to return half of the cash in return for dropping a lawsuit.

The real problem with these cases is that well meaning efforts to control drug money laundering turn into profit centers for police departments and prosecutor offices without any proof of crimes being committed other than a traffic offense.  The traffic offense is used as a pretext for stopping and questioning a vehicle, usually profiled for having out of state tags which most rental cars will have, then probing and probing until the officer finds a pretext to search the vehicle.

Law enforcement officers must have probable cause to stop someone and officers have learned to jump through logical and legal hoops to fabricate suspicions for demanding to search the vehicles.

The other red flag is this; if the money was suspected of being drug money, why return half to the Yangs and why pay off their Oklahoma attorney?  As for the drug residue, OSBI testing returned a negative result for any drug residue on the money or on anything from the car.

An American monument to Hmong Tribe warriors in the Vietnam war

 

The Yangs were from the Hmong people, native to Laos, Cambodia, China, and Vietnam.  These people were allies in the Vietnam war because the North Vietnamese had persecuted these hill and forest clans. Many fled the region after the U.S. had pulled out and became refugees.The Canadian County Deputy claimed he became suspicious of the two men and he separated the father from the son, questioning each about their travel plans, something that no one has to divulge on a traffic stop.  The men were traveling to California through New Mexico on the Southern route to California, to the wedding of their sister/daughter.

The pretext used by the deputy was that California was less than a day’s drive, if you drove 24 hours straight, and the Yangs were allowing themselves four days to make it to the Saturday wedding and stay two days.  But how many people are going to drive 24 hours straight or drive across the country and not arrive early to visit or help prepare for the wedding?

In fact there is nothing suspicious about family driving across the country to attend a wedding nor are police even supposed to be asking questions about someone’s travel plans unless there is evidence of a crime for a traffic stop.

Had the men planned on taking stops the approximately 1400 mile journey would have taken two to three days and allowing an extra day before the wedding counted as the planned four day’s time before the event.

After running background checks on the men the deputy found an old assault charge over a fight where the younger Yang had used pepper spray on his assailant.  The deputy wrote a speeding ticket and then asked if they were transporting in drugs, weapons, or cash in the car and demanded to search the vehicle after Moua Yang had said there were not drugs, weapons, or cash in the vehicle.

The deputy found the cash, fabricated a claim that the money smelled of marijuana, called out a K-9 unit that “reacted” to the money (they train their dogs to do this on command), but the subsequent OSBI testing showed no evidence of drug residue.

Three days after this lucrative haul the deputy  goes before the local County Commissioners requesting permission to purchase $40,000 in new bullet proof vests using money from the Civil Asset Forfeiture fund.

No drugs were found in the vehicle, the Yangs had never had any drug related arrests, and no charges were ever filed other than the speeding ticket.

 

 

An American monument to Hmong Tribe warriors in the service of the U.S. Army during the Vietnam war

 

Local prosecutors claimed that “unidentified law enforcement records about international drug shipments” caused them to believe that the money was intended to purchase drugs so they decided to keep the money.
The case dragged on from 2009 till 2013 when the Canadian County Sheriff Department agreed to return half of the money and to pay the local attorney for legal costs involved.
The cost of defending the lawsuit would have cost far more than the loss of $12,000.00 and law enforcement depends on using tax payer dollars to drag out cases and wear down the rightful owners of the property 

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Since the seizure of the wedding present funds the deputy involved has been vocal in his support of the Civil Asset Forfeiture program and has lashed out against Senator Kyle Loveless’s legislation that would put checks and balances in place regarding seizure and the spending of the stolen cash.

As far as a tool that is used to defeat drug money laundering, the average seizure is around $800.00 here in Oklahoma if you leave out the cases where drugs and money were found in the vehicle.

Oklahoma Watch Story on this Piracy

 

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Preserving Your Constitutional Rights by Building a Police State

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“Does this vehicle serve to protect protesters exercising their First Amendment right? Will the Sheriff deploy this armored beast to aide in citizens wishing to vote, or perhaps, to shelter his fellow Oklahomans who decide to use their Second Amendment right? .”   Kevin Hayden TruthisTreason.net

 

 

 

Military Vehicles for a Military Force

Sheriff Chris West Protects your Freedoms….?

Chris West was Under Sheriff when the current Sheriff Randal Edwards bought a 25 ton armored vehicle and a military Humvee, placing signage on both proclaiming the property of Canadian County Sheriff Department and “Protecting Your Constitutional Rights.

We aren’t certain how a 50,000 pound vehicle designed to seat five passengers and protect them from battle rifle fire, rocked propelled grenades, and road side bombs is going to be used in rural Canadian County much less how it is going to help protect our Constitutional rights.

An article written by Kevin Hayden, a former New Orleans police officer and a survivor of the Hurricane Katrina collapse lays out the case against current Sheriff Chris West for his part in procuring military equipment that can be used to quell demonstrations in a rural area that likely has never had a demonstration since the beginning of recorded history .

Hayden makes the case that while there might be uses for a RPG proof war wagon capable of driving through buildings while holding five heavily armed soldiers he can’t think of a single Constitutional right that might be maintained by using a bomb proof vehicle.  Perhaps Sheriff West is planning on  using the sniper platform on the MRAP to assassinate an out of control judge after driving through the courthouse?   

Police departments like to justify the purchase and maintenance of these 25 ton vehicles by using them for SWAT team raids to bust pot users or to quell public demonstrations.   As for disaster work the far more common and far less expensive to maintain M35 military cargo truck has better off road ground clearance and triple the carrying capacity and isn’t likely to collapse culverts and small bridges.

MRAP Story on TruthisTreason.net

 

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