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

Placelowerplace Report This Comment
Date: April 18, 2008 05:20AM

What State?

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

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> Check out the hat, it's gotta be Oklahoma...

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Anonymous Report This Comment
Date: April 18, 2008 08:38AM

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> different ? Anyway, you're right
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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