Joseph Thomas

Heres some of the things he confronted his admin about or other agencies, which lead to his departure from the Sheriff's Office and the same invsetigated and arressted him. Deputy S A- Poaching, now a has been promoted, also made threats outside his cell after arrest. Deputy C B- Crashed patrol Veh, no report, made threats outside cell after arrest. Also took posession of his K-9 partner, Later JT was told the K-9 was ruined, just made a pet, bad handler. Deputy/Dispatchers- Several sending Ambulances wrong direction costing lives- nothing done.Also giving daily reports of his where a bouts etc to his ex-wife while he was on duty. As well as confidential information regarding calls of service, trainings , etc. Sgt. JL was harrassing Jts gorlfriend, continually asking for provacative pictures, stopping at his house when he wasnt there, etc. Cpl. Now a Sgt. GW- Several fires were started by a female subject over several weeks time, JT was able to catch the subject in the act, at this time JT was a regular deputy not a CPL yet, this Cpl advised him to let her go, doing an informational report about possible person of interest, after JT saw her do this. He also let a minor who was intoxicated drive away from a traffic stop, shortly after said minor crashed vehicle, nothing was done. Several “use of force” were witnessed by Jt, when he wrote a diciplanary report the Patrol Lt at the time, would not approve them, this happened on several occassions. Same Lt. Advised Jt and another Deputy of a friend of the Lts, an attorney who advised him of a client admitting to murdering a man, cutting his head off and disposing of his body within there county. Jt continually pressed this issue, leading to several heated exchanges between him and the Lt as well as the Chief Deputy at the time, they would not look into this story, later JT was made aware of a possible suspect, this suspect was also being prosecuted at this time for a murder in the area, Jt also found out the subjects family had ties to a land deal that had gone bad, and several County employees, ranging from the sitting sheriff to commisioner as well as the subjects family members were all involved. Shortyly before this trial, JT took a call for service of a possible firearm found in the river, along the same route believed to have been driven by the subject. Jt took this firearm to the Lewiston PD, he was advised they didnt want to look at it, even though no weapon was ever found. JT not only advised his admin , but later two attorneys directly involved in this mans case. Nothing to this day has ever been done about this. A death of a infant, aprx 8 months of age was filed as aSIDS death, JT was part of the CSI team, he stated to them he believed it was not a SIDS death by the evidence he found at the scene, he was told he didnt need to do a report on the matter, it had been decided all ready. Jt responded to a possible suicide, on arrival he found anelderly man sitting in a chair with a handgun in his hand, appeared to have shot himself through the mouth , pointed upwards, the investigator at the time, took over and rulled it within minutes without finding any bloodsplatter, projectile, etc and JT noting the odd position og the mans body, he was tld it wasnt his case and it was ruled a suicide. This same investigator, while part of a team investigating drugs and counterfit money, started dating , later marrying the main subject.Shorty after he was reasigned to patrol, was divorced and shorty again married a none felon involved in area drug transactions. This Deputy, had a child with her, County Deputies were called numerous times to domestic dispuits at said residence. A call was placed to 911, this Deputy reported that his 1 year old daughter found her mother/his wife, had committed suicide, from a self inflicted gunshot wound. Numerous deputies voiced suspicions of his story, believing he had something to do with her death. JT was said deputies Cpl. At this time, he was told to “leave it be”, The Deputy returned aprx only 1 week after his wifes death to normal patrol, he responded to a noise complaint call, on arrival JT witnessed the Deputy throw the subject to the ground for pointing at him, then he saw this Deputy step out of his way to crush the subjects seeing glasses. JT wrote a “use of force complaint” on the Deputy, the above LT again would not approve the complaint. While being a Evidence Tech and custodian, JT witnessed destruction of evidence on numerous occassions, later on several of the cases, viewing reports by all ranks stating the evidence didnt exsist. One such instance related to the above murder case where a Sgt and a Cpl were involved in a highspeed pursuit, they fired numerous rounds from a long rifle at the suspect vehicle, at speeds over 80 mph in residential areas. This video when investigated by State Police was said to not exsist! Although it was viewed on the night of the pursuit by several Sheriff's office personal. Said Cpl above had numerous run in with other agencies, never until several FUI arrests was relieved of duties. He also was said to have been “stalking” an ex-girlfriend, who told numerous co-workers in the emergency room she worked at, when JT learned of this he went to his LT, the LT state “No report, No crime”, “leave it be”. JT on several occassions questioned and made complaints regarding what he thought was missapropriated funds by the Sheriff and other staff members, nothing was done about this. JT was told to “stay out of and mind his own business” after the termination of a Sgt who was a good friend of his. He was terminated then pursuied by the county for civil violations, Jt told his chain of command and the Sheriff directly he didnt believe the Sgt was guilty of the reason for termination, again he was told to leave it alone. The Prosecutor was also involved and mistakenly gave another cases information to the Sgts family member confucing it with his case, this lead the family member to believe JT had something to do with the termination, which he did not, but then lead to harrassment by this friends family. Jt arrived at work for a morning shift, was told by a Sgt and Cpl of a possible missing person, they had “blown it off” to a drunken night or something to the effect, not going and patolling the area that the family had said the person may have been heading too. Jt had to argue with the Chief Deputy to get a Air Posse unit to go up and look around the area, also arguing to be able to go with his K-9 to search the possible are, after numerous hoursthe Chief Deputy authorized the search, the vehicle in question was found later to have crashed, killing one subject and seriuosly injuring two others. JT was one of if not the only County Sheriffs Deputies made aware of an ongoing investigation into the current Sheriff, later to have a marshalls warrant placed out for him, he went on the run, this after not only Jt , but numerous Deputies had made complaints about the Sheriff and his ongoing actions, again told to leave it be “hes your Sheriff”. Jt had never received any negative disciplanary reports or marks, he originaly resigned due to the stress of a divorce and being a single father as well as the ongoings of the Sheriffs dept, he was never given his k-9 contract and the county took his dog from him, even though he and his family paid for the majority of the cost. He was later terminated for loosing a dog he had to take from a vehicle that he discovered pounds of marijuana, counterfiet monnies and was given numerous names ettc to northwest dealers and counterfiet money makers. JT later learned that numerous officers and deputies had ongoing affairs with his ex-wife , the current sheriff being one of them. A County Commissioner who is a close family friend of Jts ex-wifes family has continually ben involved in trying to have his new attorneys removed from his current case. The Prosecutors Office has tried to use his Parental rights as a barganing tool against him, The Pas are family friends of Jts exs family as well.