Another Busted Sheriff
Michael Burgess was the Custer County, Oklahoma Sheriff from 1994 until just last week when he resigned as yet another sex slave scandal swept yet another Oklahoma Sheriff from office.
On April 17, 2008 Michael Burgess joined former Latimer County Sheriff Melvin Holly in being accused of turning female inmates into “sex slaves” for his personal enjoyment. Holly is now serving “hard time” in federal prison for his sex slave operation. Burgess may ultimately do hard time in a state prison.
Burgess resigned the day he was charged with 35 felony counts including 14 counts of second-degree rape, seven counts of forcible oral sodomy and five counts of bribery by a public official.
If convicted of all counts of which he is accused Burgess could be sentenced to a total of 467 years in prison.
Burgess came to the attention of other law enforcement officials when four female inmates sued Burgess in federal court in October, 2007 on claims that he had sexually abused them between October 2005 and April 2007. The women claimed that in some instances Burgess threatened them to force them to comply with sexual demands and that other times he offered them favorable treatment in exchange for sexual favors.
When the scandal broke, the Custer County District Attorney’s office said it would be a conflict of interest to investigate Burgess and the Oklahoma Attorney General’s office appointed James Boring, a district attorney in Texas County, Oklahoma to take control of the Burgess investigation.
Among the allegations against Burgess, that he forced inmates under his supervision to perform oral, vaginal and anal sex in his office, his official sheriff’s vehicle, local motels and hotels, a truck stop, and houses belonging to inmates and friends.
It is further alleged that he took a female drug court inmate to Oklahoma City in April 2006 to take part in a “legislative” initiative, took the woman to his room at the Biltmore Hotel and engaged in multiple acts of sexual intercourse with her. The woman claims that Burgess offered to “protect her” from having to return to jail. She failed a drug test that was required as part of her release from jail.
And apparently even the sheriff’s employees were not immune to his alleged evil ways. A former sheriff’s office employee has accused Burgess of inappropriately touching her at a restaurant, in a courtroom and while she tried on her sheriff’s office uniform.
In yet another allegation, 12 former inmates claim sheriff’s employees had them engage in wet T-shirt contests and offered cigarettes to women who exposed their breasts.
Unlike Latimer county Sheriff Melvin Holly who was charged in federal court, Michael Burgess has been charged in Custer County District Court. Interested parties you can follow the case via the court records via this search.
Or if one likes, they can follow the case via the numerous on-line news reports, including this one out of China…
Don’t it just make you proud to be an Okie???
give it 20 years, ex Sherriff Mike burgess will be know as “THE FATHER” of custer county
You think this is bad? I have a home in Cimarron County, just west of Texas County. If you had the time to read it all, I have dozens of pages of facts, photos, etc. showing how the local Sheriff, Undersheriff, Commissioners, Judge, DA, ADA and others conspired to steal my personal property and bust up my home! They wanted me shut up because I turned in a commissioner for misappropriation of FEMA funds and embezzling county money. They made up some bogus charges for a ficticious crime and tried to blame it on me. They violated several of my civil rights, physically threatened me, committed breaking and entering, criminal trespass, destruction of private property and more, ALL WITH A BOGUS WARRANT! There are a minimum of 16 completely false statements on their warrant, the worst of which it states we have a white, one-story house with a red roof, when in fact it’s a brown, 2-story house with a brown roof. It also states we live 24 miles north of Highway 64 (instead of the 2 miles in reality), which would put us about 12 miles into the state of Colorado. Many other false statements such as building sizes, building locations, etc. Look up “Shipman versus The State of Oklahoma” on the internet and the first paragraph reads: Where authority to search is based upon a search warrant, such warrant MUST describe the place with such reasonable certainty that the officer to whom it is directed can ascertain from it the place to be searched, and NO discretion as to the place is left to such officer! Does this sound like their warrant describes our home with “reasonable” certainty? I think not. They refuse to return our property or pay for the damages they caused. They WILL NOT answer email, certified letters or phone calls. All these Podunk imbeciles band together in these two counties and think they’re untouchable. Any attornies out there that want to sue their asses off, please contact me. You can keep the money, I just want to see the smug, smart asses wiped out in court! loveladyrick@yahoo.com