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Henry County Sheriff, deputy of the Malicious Projugation Demand

Henry County Sheriff, deputy of the Malicious Projugation Demand

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Clark Kauffman
| Iowa capital office

A family from Henry County is demanding the Sheriff for false arrest and malicious prosecution, claiming that the county has fought a campaign of “Western Justice of the Savage” against them.

Curtis and Lori Wagler are demanding Sheriff Rich McNamee, the deputy of the Henry County, Carlos López and the County of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Iowa. They allege López’s conduct “so clearly abusive and in violation of the law that won the way to be the only member of the Brady-Giglio list of the County of the law known by prosecutors who have not been false in the course of their police work.

The lawsuit, originally filed in the State Court before being transferred last week to the Federal Court, says that the Waglers have a family wood called outdoor tradition. On April 21, 2023, it is alleged that López and seven other police arrived at Wagler’s house to execute a search warrant that allows them to confiscate financial records related to the outdoor tradition. The couple and their 20 -year -old son, Owen, were arrested in 10 serious crimes, the demand affirms, and tanks was allegedly submitted to two searches for body cavity.

The Waglers were released later that day and returned home to find “their belongings were all over the floor”, with the “started” cabinets and their house looted by the police, says the demand. He also alleges that López later “began a smear campaign against the Waglers” and contacted the couple’s clients claiming that they were being cheated and frauded. At the beginning of November 2023, the criminal case against the Waglers was dismissed by Henry County prosecutor, Darin Stater, according to the lawsuit.

According to the lawsuit, Stater said in a letter linked to his decision to dismiss the case that “my office struggled to determine the legitimacy of 30 positions for serious crimes without a single report or no notification that Deputy Lopez intended to take any of these actions … After informing the deputy director López that did not give me the presentation of the charges of reprobation, the press release was distributed by the county of Henry, Henry County, the Sheriff, the Sheriff, Henry’s companion, had been the position of Henry.

The prosecutor’s letter allegedly continues to say that “it turns out that my decision to dismiss the charges was the right thing.” The deputy of Deputy López not only did not include evidence in support of criminal charges, but there is information that shows that at least one of the affidavit of Deputy Lopez contains a false statement. To date, no evidence has been presented to my office to support any criminal charge in any of the Waglers. ”

In December 2023, Stater placed López on the Brady-Giglio list of County, citing the incident of April 21. Since then, the lawsuit states, the Sheriff’s office has publicly affirmed that the Waglers are being “actively investigated” and has continued to imply that they are involved in criminal activities.

Demand seeks not specified by illegal arrest, illegal search, assault, aggression and malicious prosecution. The county has not yet submitted an answer to the accusations, and Sheriff McNamee declined to comment on the case. In addition to the county, the Sheriff and the deputy López, the lawsuit appoints as the defendant deputy Chad Doak and the employee of the Zach White county.

The judicial records show that the request for the registration order completed by López suggests that the criminal investigation into the Waglers arose from at least six complaints filed by individuals and several companies that alleged that they had paid $ 3,000 to $ 54,000 for wood products that were never delivered.

The 2017 search order records show that the Henry County Sheriff’s Office began investigating Curtis Wagler that year for the alleged theft of employee wages. In 2020, Wagler was accused of perjury for allegedly giving false testimony in a case on a falsified document. Henry County prosecutors then dismissed that position at the expense of the State.

In the case of 2021 bankruptcy of Curtis and Lori Wagler, a bank that acted as a lender for the couple alleged that the Waglers had reorganized a failed business, the manufacture of Wagler, such as the newly formed outdoor tradition, which the bank said it was the property of the couple, two of which were minors.

The Bank characterized that reorganization as an attempt to “terminate” around bankruptcy laws, made in an alleged effort to protect assets “with the intention of defrauding” the creditors of the Waglers. Subsequently, the Waglers agreed to be considered 100% owners of outdoor traditions for the purposes of the bankruptcy case, which remains open.

In a bankruptcy presentation of 2024, the couple listed $ 133,000 in assets and $ 3.5 million in debts and liabilities.

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