Sulphur Times Democrat

FBI nabs jailer

Sulphur —  

A Murray County jailer was arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation after he allegedly stole money from an inmate’s bank account.

John Jim White Jr., 30, Sulphur, was arrested after allegedly stealing $24,681 from the bank account of a former inmate, according to FBI Special Agent Clay Simmonds.

The former inmate, Richard Stateler, 53, was arrested June 3, 2010, in Murray County for trafficking in methamphetamine, Simmonds said. 

He was transferred to Lexington Prison to serve a 15-year sentence.

“(Stateler) states in an affidavit, when he was being transferred to Lexington, ... (he asked) a male Murray County Detention Center employee only known as Big John, to mail his belongings to his brother in Kansas,” Simmonds said.

Agents believe that is when White acquired the debit card.

Simmonds said from Nov. 29, 2010 to March 5, 2011, White used the debit card to withdraw money from various local banks.

Stateler complained to the FBI who then began an investigation. White was released after posting a $10,000 bond.

According to the Sulphur Times-Democrat, White is the third Murray County jailer to face felony charges in less than a year.

In September 2010, two county jailers were charged and subsequently pleaded guilty to allowing an inmate to run at large.

Roger D. Huffman, 21, Dougherty, and Tel Ryan Loper, 24, Wynnewood, were arrested after a trustee told Murray County Deputy Jason Conyer that a jail inmate had been beaten up by three men at a Sulphur home the night before. 

The trustee indicated in an affidavit that Huffman and Loper allowed the inmate, Brandon Burkhalter, to go to his wife’s house and it wasn’t the first time they had allowed him out of jail.

Huffman and Loper were fired, given a two-year deferred sentence and ordered to pay court costs.

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