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DFA/ABC ENFORCEMENT AGENT KENNY HEROMAN AND HIS WIFE On September 17, 2012 the Department of Finance & Administration filed a Certificate of Indebtedness against Kenneth and Sharon Williams-Heroman for non payment of income taxes in the amount of $1,126.12 for the period of 12/31/2010 through 12/31/2011. The Heroman's finally paid their tax obligation and obtained a release on November 27, 2012. Heroman has worked for the ABC since 1999 and his wife at the time was a certified court reporter. Both appear to have had above average incomes for Arkansas. At the time Kenny's state salary was over $50,000.00 a year and Lydia's income was over $40,000 a year ( Court Report Salary in Arkansas ). The Arkansas per capita income in 2011 was $33,740.00. The Heroman's owned two homes at the time (and still do), one in Pine Bluff... and the other in East End... Heroman more than likely receives retirement benefits from the Pine Bluff Police Department. He might have had some inc

Shortly after Boyce Hamlet was appointed as director of ABC Enforcement, he held face-to-face meetings with the 18 agents employed at the time and got a lot of input from them about how the department should be run. Apparently the agents had issues with the ABC Administration, believing that the director of ABC Administration made decisions based on political motives which sometimes conflicted with their enforcement procedures (more on that in a future post). Hamlet, with no previous leadership, administrative or management experience and very little real law enforcement experience knew that he could not run ABC Enforcement without having a lot of help. After the meetings one of the agents, Rickey Endsley, sent Hamlet an email in which he touted his law enforcement administrative experience. Too bad Endsley didn't know that Hamlet had been fired by the Arkansas State Police for cheating on an exam and lying multiple times to investigators and that he had previously submitted false

CRISMAN (on left,no longer with ABC), ROBINSON (center)  & BOKKER (on right, no longer with ABC)  In April 2013, ABC Enforcement agents failed to discover that a church was located within 1000 feet of the proposed location for the liquor store of Kym Reeves d/b/a 102 Liquors.  Had these seasoned law enforcement agents conducted their investigation properly, Reeves application would have been denied because it was too close (approximately 673 feet) to the Filadelfia Llamada Final N.W. Arkansas Church. Ark. Code Ann. § 3-4-206(b)(1) states no new permit to sell liquor will  be issued if the location is within 1000 feet of any church or school. The Filadelfia Llamada Final NWA church's Facebook page has activity as far back as 2009 CLICK TO VIEW THE CHURCH'S FACEBOOK PAGE According to the church's website they have been in Rogers since 2008 CLICK TO VIEW THE CHURCH'S WEBSITE The church also obtained a Certificate of Occupancy from the City of Rogers on October 28, 2011

We are working on a story involving questionable position changes and salary changes at the ABC.  We are having difficulty in obtaining information from the Department of Finance & Administration, specifically, Amy Valentine, the DFA Human Resources Manager. AMY K. VALENTINE - DFA HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGER Valentine has refused to answer questions posed to her verbally and in writing, in an apparent violation of the Department of Finance & Administration Code of Ethics. DFA employees, including Valentine, are to "respond promptly and accurately to all requests for information and complaints regardless of the source". With our without cooperation from Valentine and the DFA our story will go out next week. If you have time, why not ask Amy what is she hiding? Email her at  amy.valentine@dfa.arkansas.gov, or call her at 501-371-6009.

Very few acts of misconduct are as damaging to a law enforcement officer's career than that of lying.  Courts have noted time and again that integrity is a fundamental job requirement.  For example, the courts stated in Kolender v. San Diego County Civil Service Commission (2005) 132 Cal. App. 4th 716: A deputy sheriff's job is a position of trust and the public has the right to the highest standard of behavior from those they invest with the power and authority of a law enforcement officer. Honesty, credibility, and temperament are crucial to the performance of an officer's duties. Dishonesty is incompatible with the public trust. Common sense tells you that to effectively prosecute crimes, officer credibility is critical.  Often, the officer's word is taken over that of a civilian, with both judges and juries frequently awarding a "tie" in a "he said, she said" or "swearing contest" to the officer based on "honesty" and "in

According to documents obtained from the Faulkner County Prosecuting Attorney's Office, Boyce Hamlet provided false information regarding his actual dates of employment with the Arkansas Department of Correction to hide his employment and termination from the Arkansas State Police. In a child like, semi-literate scrawl on his application for employment with the Faulkner County Prosecuting Attorney, Hamlet listed that he began employment with the Arkansas Department of Community Correction in January 2000 and his employment there ended in January 2007.    CLICK TO VIEW HAMLET'S FAULKNER CO. APPLICATION According to information obtained from the Arkansas Department of Community Correction (DCC) spokesman Dina Tyler, Hamlet was actually employed there in 2004 through 2007. DCC no longer has his personnel file due to the expiration of the required retention period. In a post on June 1, 2015, we revealed that Hamlet was employed by the Arkansas State Police (ASP) as a trooper on Jul