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| Sheriff Chris Elliot and Judy Elliot |
Wagoner County Sheriff Department Continues to be a Haven for Accused Wife Abusers.
Lawsuit filed over Sheriff Elliot's Hair Dragging an Inmate.
Once again Sheriff Chris Elliot is in the news after the inmate that was dragged halfway around the jail filed a federal lawsuit against Elliot and a host of other officers and officials in Wagoner County. Elliot, his wife Judy Elliot, the county commissioners, Shane Sampson, Emily Patrick, and Todd Riggs were issued summons and CJ-2020-13 in Wagoner County District Court was filed on the 9th of January.
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| Ivron Carl Stout |
You will recall the story about the horrific video documenting the abuse that was given to the Sooner Tea Party last year, showing Wagoner County Sheriff Chris Elliot and his wife confronting a woman inmate and Sheriff Elliot dragging the woman by her hair halfway across the day room, through a caged enclosure, and into a cell. The video appears to document the woman's head being slammed into the cage bars and door jambs along the way. The inmate was being punished for being attacked by another inmate and Elliot and his wife wanted to force the inmate to wear at “turtle suit” a suicide prevention suit that would have left the woman extremely vulnerable to attack by the other inmates. Previous to the video the lawsuit alleges she had been punched in the nose by jailer Todd Riggs.
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| Ingancio Saldana |
After the attack the lawsuit alleges that Sheriff Elliot and others ordered no use of force reports to be filed and the video mysteriously disappeared or was destroyed. Luckily some of the remaining decent officers working at Wagoner County managed to get a cell phone video of the attack and one of them provided it to STP.
And if that wasn't enough, two of the Wagoner County Sheriff Department finest had protective orders filed against them last week.
Officer Ivron Carl Stout had a protective order PO-2020-111 filed on him in early January by a woman he married in 2018. She filed for divorce two weeks later after just over one year of marriage. This isn't the first time that Office Stout has been the subject of a protective order, in 2004 he was brought before a judge by another spouse for PO-2004-3626 and the woman eventually asked for dismissal but she also divorced him a few years later. The Tulsa County judge ordered Stout to remain at least 100 yards away from the victim and the minor children.
Just prior to Officer Stout's being named as a woman abuser Ignacio Gil Saldana was the subject of protective order PO-2020-95 and was ordered to surrender firearms to LEO and stay 100 yards away from victim and minor children.
And this is what happens when you have a corrupt county government. Child molesting elected officials, police officers bullying spouses and children, prisoners being abused, all because a County Sheriff appears to enjoy the company of such men or condones their bad behavior. Sadly this is going to cost the Wagoner County taxpayers a lot of money and the damage will not end until either the local D.A. Jack Thorpe steps in and begins bringing criminal charges or the local voters drive Sheriff Chris Elliot out of office.
