The Worm Has Turned
Many stories have been written about Wagoner County and the massive corruption in the sheriff, County Commissioners office, and in the District Attorneys office. One in particular was the Tyler Paulsen case, where a young hard working businessman had County Commissioner James Hanning attempt to embezzle him out of his property and then use the power of his office, the Wagoner County Sheriff Chris Elliot's office, and the District Attorneys office to rail road the young man into prisons to prevent him from recovering his assets in a civil case.
You can read the stories in our archives starting with this story on October 6th 2019. The case kept spreading and mutating like the disease it was. Eventually the original charges were dismissed after the Sooner Tea Party newsletter published part of a taped conversation between an attorney and the Assistant District Attorney (ADA) that filed the original charges that underlaid the fraudulent charges that both Wagoner County and Mayes County tried to use to railroad the young man. On the tape the ADA named Eric Jordan admitted that he thought the original “victim” was unreliable and crazy, but like many of these cases it lead to the defendant pleading to a deal to avoid the cost of defending himself.
But Wagoner County and then Mayes County attempted to railroad the man for possessing a handgun illegally despite there being no felony conviction nor was there any gun rights lost in the plea deal. First one of the few honest ADAs in Wagoner County, one Mike Fisher, dismissed the charges after the defendant agreed to pay a $35.00 filing fee, then a few weeks later another ADA refiled the charges despite the earlier dismissal. Then a Wagoner County judge dismissed the charges again saying that it was an abuse of the man's civil rights. To this day Mayes County has not dismissed their charges despite all the underlying charges being totally dismissed. Despite the fact that the young man had his full constitutional rights to bear arms.
In all of this Sheriff Elliot, his wife, Commissioner James Hanning, Hanning's brother, and a dozen other cronies all conspired to drive the young man whose only crime was doing business with a county commissioner out of the county and indeed send him to prison using false testimony, false reports and affidavits, with the cooperation of corrupt officials in Mayes and Wagoner County.
But the worm turned last week when Tyler Paulsen filed a lawsuit against one of the corrupt cops and one of the corrupt officials involved. Case number CV-2020-109 for abuse of process, malicious prosecution, conspiracy, and interfering with Paulsen's constitutional right to bear arms.
Nathan Goddard, the arresting officer during a traffic stop in Adair, and Mellissa Heflin who is the town clerk in Adair were the defendants and we believe the first in many defendants as this process unwinds.
The case had many twists and turns so far including Commissioner Hanning's own stepdaughter admitting that Commissioner Hanning had molested her starting when she was in grade school. This came out under oath during a deposition with a sitting ADA from Wagoner County acting as Commissioner Hanning's personal attorney. They young woman had turned 24 by that point in life but it was still the admission of a felony uttered under oath in the presence of a District Attorney which required an investigation and an arrest. Yet nothing was done for months.
Until the Sooner Tea Party Newsletter on October 20th 2019 where we outed the molestation case. That caused some action and an investigation.
A week or so later the victim posted on Facebook confirming the molestation had occurred and her outright relief at the truth being revealed. And in that facebook post addressed to her mother, Commissioner James Hanning's wife, the young victim alleges that the molestation started when she was four years old.
Four years old......
There was also an series of posts on a site called Wagoner 411 where an assortment of Wagoner County deputies laid into Commissioner Hanning, demanding that justice be served, only to allegedly be told by the Wagoner County Sheriff Chris Elliot to shut down the discussion. A sitting County Sheriff protecting an accused child molester. Then earlier this year Sheriff Chris Elliot was named the Sheriff of the Year by the Oklahoma Sheriffs Association. Makes you wonder how bad the rest of them must have been.....
The day after our initial story were were asked to do an open records request to the Wagoner County D.A. Office and indeed they turned over a letter to the OSBI that can be read in that last newsletter link. Yet a year later and it appears that the young woman victim has lost heart as the OSBI has refused to do anything, nor has Wagoner County D.A. Jack Thorpe, nor has the A.G. Office done anything.
We rightly worry about corruption in the voter fraud states and yet there is so much right here in Oklahoma that needs rooted out.
