Black Shirt Busted

Posted May 14 2020

We've got a Black Shirt Badge that manages to get her name in the news on a fairly regular basis. Here comes the latest on newbee Badge Hayley Morris.





  After scoring high on the Civil Service test, and  with the recommendation of Sheriff Donnie Triplett, Clay County Commission hired Hayley Morris earlier this year. On first blush, Ms Morris appears to be a healthy, young female with good hygiene and best of all, has a good brain.
  Those first impressions don't always pan out.
   On the same day she was hired for Black Shirt duties, Morris wrecked  a side by side causing shoulder injuries requiring medical treatment and reduced work loads.  In that incident, Facebook photos prior the crash showed beer as a factor in the wreck.
   A couple weeks back we heard the first coffeehouse rumors of Hayley allowing others to drive her assigned cruiser.
  And now, we have this hidden citation. We say hidden because the infraction happened in Dec 2019. Why so long in finding the public file? Answer is, the citation does not show up on public Magistrate records until the fine is paid or the offender is picked up.
  Based on the citation, sounds like Brown Shirt Stuart Simms ( he's the same guy that caught the Green Shirt shooting Robo Deer) found Morris with the deer in her possession but did not see her pull the trigger. Hunting without a license, that's the charge, is also a serious and costly crime.
  Maybe Morris thought the ticket would just disappear or otherwise just go away. It did get into a holding pattern while Donnie Triplett was in the Top Badge position.
  That changed as soon as the new guy got wind of the problem.
  Our understanding is, Holcomb marched Hayley Morris over to the Magistrate office and had her pay the citation in full.
  Partying the night you get a new job. That's common. Partying to you crash, that's dumb. If the stories of Morris allowing others to drive her badge mobile, that's down right dumb. And now this problem.
   Every adult in the county knows, hunting requires a license. Hunting out of season, that too shows lack of judgement. Burying the citation in  hopes it would just disappear, maybe get a favor on the transgression, in our book, that's worst of all.
  It's time for our newest Badge to show some mental growth.
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