Sad Day at the Cleveland County Courthouse!!! Two well thought of Courthouse Employees Arrested today! Trafficking in Opium or Heroin!!! Felony Charges!! The Devil is in the Details–I Smell a RAT!!! School Board Lawsuit against Sheriff Involvement??? Report, gossip and arguendo by Robert A. Williams

The short story here is two female Courthouse employees were arrested yesterday for Trafficking in Opium or Heroin. The charges are felonies with high bail and likely prison time. But there is more to this story, so I am not going to release the names of the former Courthouse employees at this time. Or, maybe ever.

A closer look at the court documents and courthouse gossip is pain pills were involved and the offense occurred on Courthouse property. Right under Sheriff Alan Norman’s nose. And the arresting officers were Shelby Police Department officers working for Shelby Police Department Chief Jeff Ledford. This is where I smelled a rat.

A little history.

School Board member Phillip “Bully” Glover, a former State Highway Patrol Officer is said to be very interested in running for the office of Sheriff, which is currently held by Sheriff Alan Norman. Some, including myself, believe that is what the School Board’s $300 Million lawsuit against Sheriff Alan Norman was all about. Bad publicity aimed toward Sheriff Alan Norman to tarnish his image with the citizens of Cleveland County at some future re-election time. Maybe 2022.

Then the School Board, including Bully Glover, had some bad publicity over an alleged sex crime situation at Cleveland County Schools that was reported for investigation to a Shelby Police Department Officer Wampner, who was the husband of CCS Assistant Superintendent Jennifer Wampner. SPD Officer Wampner’s investigation found that no crime had been committed. Then a report went to the Sheriff’s Department and within hours a criminal warrant for prosecution was issued. A black eye for SPD Police Chief Jeff Ledford and Cleveland County Schools, including Bully Glover.

Now, Shelby Police Department Officers issues felony criminal warrants against two well thought of female Courthouse employees for felony drug charges, trafficking of Opium of Heroin, (pain pills) allegedly committed right under the nose of Sheriff Alan Norman.

Let’s remember a fact here. Opioid pain pill addiction is a crisis in the United States fight now. Killing many. It has affected people of all walks of life and at every station. Just about

It is also a well believed “fact” that law enforcement, lawyers, judges and others around the Courthouse also consider themselves one big happy family and under normal circumstances would bend the rules to take care of one of their own.

I am not saying “bending the rules” is right in these circumstances. Everybody walking through the courthouse doors should have the same rights and punishments for doing something wrong as everybody else. Preferential treatment at the Courthouse is always wrong. But we all know it happens.

The problem in the case of these two well thought of female courthouse employees is that the feuding going on down at the at the courthouse has polarized and divided the various factions that all sides are not totally afraid NOT to file and prosecute maximum charges and seek maximum punishments in order to cover their own asses. Throw these women to the wolves to protect themselves.

In the meantime, all us “pee-ons”, regular people who also got picked up in this big drug-bust will also be charged and prosecuted to the maximum.

Right now, bondsmen (like School Board member Richard Hooker) are raking in big fees bailing out people. Lawyers are counting their money all the way to the bank. Law and order will be the cry all around.

My prediction is these two former female courthouse employees will eventually be released on bond, deals cut so they won’t go to prison, everybody else will pay heavily and it will soon be business as usual down at the courthouse. And the Sheriff’s race will continue to 2020 as planned.

The School Board is another matter. The problems, schemes, conspiracies, conniving, wasteful spending, lies and more lies and the altogether bad behavior on the school board can be stopped on Election Day-November 3, 2020. This is my recommended candidates as shown on a cut from the 2020 School Board sample ballot