Thanatos Report This Comment Date: April 18, 2008 03:29AM
Custer County Sheriff Mike Burgess resigned Wednesday April 17, 2008, 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.
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.
shaDEz Report This Comment Date: April 18, 2008 03:43AM
prosecuter James
Boring
shaDEz Report This Comment Date: April 18, 2008 03:44AM
btw, what a fuck head
woberto Report This Comment Date: April 18, 2008 05:40AM
Check out the hat, it's gotta be Oklahoma...
Anonymous Report This Comment Date: April 18, 2008 08:32AM
woberto Wrote:
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> Check out the hat, it's gotta be Oklahoma...
I was going to say Texas. Are Oklahoma hats any different ? Anyway, you're right
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Anonymous Report This Comment Date: April 18, 2008 08:38AM
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Anonymous Report This Comment Date: April 18, 2008 11:14AM
What in tarnation is an "undersheriff" ? Don't you Yanks have
"deputy sheriffs" any more ?
tjbustem Report This Comment Date: April 18, 2008 02:34PM
Texas doesn't have a Custer County.
blinkermann Report This Comment Date: April 18, 2008 04:26PM
Just a good ole boy in Oklahoma . . . one day he thought, there is a lot of
snatch in the county jail just going to waste . . . hmmmm