Former Missouri Sheriff, MP was dealing, now charged with several crimes

A southern Missouri Sheriff and a Member of Parliament with whom he had an affair were charged last week with crimes, including assault, robbery and harassment, according to a scenario the interim Sheriff described as "devaluing ".

The former Texas sheriff, James Sigman, 48, and second lieutenant Jennifer Tomaszewski, 38, were also charged with endangering children and using illegal drugs. A weapon

Sigman hired Tomaszewski as a jailer in December 2016. The moment they started a love story, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported, citing court records. She was later promoted to 72-bed prison administrator seven months later, according to the report.

The statement of probable cause indicated that she had not "previous experience" when she was promoted.

Under the direction of Sigman and Tomaszewski 40 sheriff's employees were fired or resigned.

"Our reaction is not necessarily a shock, but a disappointment – an extreme disappointment because the first term that Sheriff Sigman had served, I repeated it over and over again. County Commissioner Fred Stenger said. Tomaszewski declined to comment by a friend, but Sigman spoke with the newspaper and used a swear word to describe the official story.

"Everything will end up going out, it's all that that I can tell you, "said Sigman closing the door.

" Everything will eventually come out, that's all can tell you. "

– James Sigman, former sheriff of Texas County

Sigman and Tomaszewski were both released on bail, reported the KRBK Fox 5 of Missouri

Tomaszewski hit a detainee with the mental capacity of the A Missouri correctional officer told investigators that Tomaszewski had said that she was "trying" to have a punch in her back to tear off her eardrum (the inmate). "[19659014] "If we had not been there, they would have killed this boy, he was completely unconscious and his lips were turning blue," said a deputy investigator, according to the statement of probable cause.

"If we had not been there, they would have killed that boy, he was completely unconscious and his lips were turning blue."

– a deputy told the investigators

The statement says that Sigman was present during the incident and that reports on what happened have been removed from the record of the mentally handicapped inmates.

The officer wrote that Tomaszewski had also threatened to put a bullet in the head of another inmate, but that the grievance filed by the detainee was missing when a search warrant had been served this spring at the sheriff's office

. She also served as an undercover officer during the bites and served search warrants in which she held suspects, carried out searches and held other officer-only positions.

Sometimes armed with an AR-15 rifle normally used by Sigman. the soldier wrote a uniform that was indistinguishable from what the deputies wore,

While serving a search warrant, she pointed a gun at several people, including a 1-ye ar-old, who was living from across the street from the house, placing them all "in immediate danger," writes the soldier.

Tomaszewski confronted them because she thought they were filming the officers and taking pictures.

The statement also stated that a child had been taken to prison several times, helped to serve meals to detainees and had eaten with two of the detainees, including a sexually violent offender.

"Essentially accused of doing nothing to prevent his girlfriend (Tomaszweski)" from portraying himself as a peace officer, abusing detainees and endangering residents, reports Post-Dispatch [19659014]. had left the sheriff 's department early in the year 2018 because of the atmosphere.

"Everything seemed to work as if nothing had happened … Then it was as if the wheels had fallen."

– Rowdy Douglas, Interim Sheriff of Texas County

"Everything seemed run smoothly, "said Douglas, who was sworn in as acting sheriff." So, it was as if the wheels had fallen. "

Douglas said he was trying to rebuild the department

"We lost confidence in the community, I mean it's a given," said Douglas. "We'll get it back. We just have to refocus our affairs and put them back in jail.

Sigman's wife, who worked in the child defense in the Texas County Justice Center, filed for divorce, according to the report.

Texas County is about 3 hours drive southwest of St. Louis.

Associated Press contributed to this report.