4/1/2024 POLK COUNTY
HON HERO HUMILIATES HON
Just another Lee Hon lie has come to the surface recently in a Polk County courtroom. Hon used his position to prevent his buddy, Grady Woods from being prosecuted for interferring with child custody and parental alienation for over three years. Even after the courts ORDERED that Woods not interfere, Woods' crimes were ignored and he kept on keeping on.
That trial finally came to court and it was revealed that Hon's Hero is really a LOSER. It was reported to The Sentinel that after the hearing and the following being entered into evidence,, Grady Woods ran out of the court house to his vehicle. It was reported that None of his family even knew the following:
9/11/2018 AUSTIN
RANGERS RESPOND
A letter received from the DPS Counsel's office in response to a Sentinel open records request states that a diligent search has been made but they do not have a single document responsive to my request that shows their agency ever received or responded to a request for an investigation in the alleged aggravated assault committed by Lima on April 21st. This letter refutes the claim that Chief Lyons "turned it over" to The Rangers.
UPDATE 9/6/2018
COLEMAN SEEKS OAG OPINION
On the 11th business day after The Sentinel submitted the open records request noted below, Asst DA Coleman penned a letter requesting an open records opinion from the OAG regarding the evidence we are seeking. In that letter, Coleman seeks to withold entire documents because they may contain an officer's address, a birth date, a DL number, motor vehicle info, Social Security number and such. We are fully aware that those personal identifiers are not public and addressed that point in the request with the language limiting our request to, "information available by public information laws". That one line excludes the personal identifiers that are commonly known to be unavailable under the open records laws. Coleman knows that, I know that so it seems that the OAG needs to give Coleman a crash course on how to REDACT that information from an other wise public document. Take an incident report for instance. Coleman needs to redact the DL number, the address of the officer if the crime occured at his home and his birthdate and release the rest of the document. Coleman makes the asinine (and time wasting ie: stalling) argument to the OAG that the entire document needs to be witheld because of two lines of entry in the form. He knows better. The most ludicrous objection of all that Coleman makes in his effort to thwart the public's right to know is that the entire Lima file (404 pages) is of, "no legitimate concern to the public." The subject of the open records request was the April 21st incident regarding the allegations listed below plus any complaints filed against Lima for the last 10 years and/or any 'non prosecution' forms signed by anyone in favor or not prosecuting Lima for the last ten years. In respect for Byron Lyons getting all the documents to the DA quickly and for the work load on the DA's office, I have changed the below headline from "Violates Law" to "Stall"
LIVINGSTON 9/3/2018
POLK COUNTY OFFICIALS STALL
Fully aware that the Texas Office of Attorney General will write all kind of letters ordering the release of records requested but apparently has no teeth they are willing to use on enforcement, Polk County officials have decided to stall on the open records requests from The Sentinel United Alliance when delivery of the records could prove more corruption.
In April of this year, Corrigan Detective, Chris Lima was cited for three counts of disorderly conduct by the Onalaska PD. Lima was scheduled for trial in August but pled out to Public Intoxication before his trial date. The Onalaska PD incident reports from that night included a narrative alleging not only that Chris Lima held a gun to a man's head and actually fired off some shots at his home in County jurisdiction but that the Polk County S.O. Sargent not only dismissed the allegations against Lima but requried the alleged victim of his alleged gun play antics to sign a 'non prosection' form before letting him leave the scene.
The Sentinel submitted an open records request for those specific documents August 20th and that request has been illegally and totally ignored. According to Chief Lyons, that request was turned over to Asst DA Tommy Coleman and the investigation of the incident was turned over to the Texas Rangers. We will follow up on that claim with DPS.
The Sentinel has reached out to the alleged victim for comment but has not heard back. Chris Lima claims he had proof to show he was not guilty that would come out at his jury trial but then he pled to Public Intoxication instead. It seems that Polk County does not want to release the non prosecution forms if they exist.