Snarky Media Report

CLICK TO READ ARTICLE An editorial in October 1, 2015 edition of the Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette blasts Attorney General Leslie Rutledge for trying to cover up information about tainted ABC Enforcement Director Boyce Hamlet. The editorial states: "Leslie Rutledge sees things differently. Faced with an Arkansas State Police decision to release information from Boyce Hamlet's personnel files explaining why he was fired 15 years ago, Rutledge issued a finding that stifled the agency's plan. Hamlet's personnel records from so long ago, when he was a state police recruit, can't be of compelling public interest today, Rutledge argued. The State Police had to shift gears and deny an Arkansan's request for the information.   Pulaski County Circuit Judge Mackie Pierce concluded the personnel records regarding Hamlet's firing touch on issues of honesty and trustworthiness that are sufficient for public disclosure. Rejecting Rutledge's argument that the ...

According to a reliable source, ABC Enforcement Rickey Carrol Endsley had a medical/psychological issue that prevented him from carrying a weapon when he joined the ABC.  This issue happened when Endsley was employed by the Texarkana Arkansas Police Department and preceded his sudden retirement from that department on September 18, 2010.  Endsley started at the ABC on September 19, 2010.   For some reason the ABC decided that they did not have to follow a state law that requires them to file documents with the Arkansas Commission on Law Enforcement Standards and Training ("CLEST")...        and that form would be a CLEST Form F-1, Initial Employment Report indicating that they had hired Endsley.  Perhaps this was because Endsley was not cleared by his doctor to carry or possess a weapon. If that is the case then Endsley should not have been hired and his continued employment should be questioned, especially if the ABC is going to be the best ...

A page was missing from the documents that Hamlet and fellow Republican, Leslie Rutledge, did not want anybody to see.  The missing page has since been located. The page has Hamlet's admission that after one of the two trips he made to the restroom during an exam, where he discussed test questions and then upon returning to the room, he changed his answers to questions. Hamlet admits to changing an answer about the 17 digit VIN (vehicle identification number). Hamlet and other troopers in training, were cautioned before each weekly examination that when they were finished with the exam they were to place their paper face down on their desk and to not turn it over until it was to be graded. In the missing page, Hamlet admits to changing the question about the 17 digit VIN number after returning from the restroom. As part of the internal investigation Hamlet took a polygraph test.  In that test Hamlet was asked if he changed the answer to the question about the 17 digit VIN num...

The Arkansas State Police investigation file that Boyce Hamlet and Leslie Rutledge did not want anyone to see is unbelievable. No wonder Judge Pierce looked so disgusted when reading it in the hearing that sought and obtained it's release on September 24, 2015. The file clearly demonstrates the character, or lack thereof, of Boyce Hamlet. There is no way possible that Hamlet will be able to hang on to the position he was only able to obtain as a political appointee after the entire state of Arkansas takes a look at it. CLICK TO VIEW THE ASP INVESTIGATION FILE OF HAMLET The story starts when Hamlet was selected to be an Arkansas State Trooper back in 2000. Hamlet is taking a weekly test, ironically the test covered in part the Arkansas Freedom of Information Act, and is instructed that when the test is completed to turn if face down and not touch it again until it is ready to be graded. Hamlet gets up to take one of his eight or nine daily restroom visits (from his own word...

JUDGE PIERCE SAID RUTLEDGE MADE INCORRECT DECISION In an unexpected turn of events for Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge, Pulaski County Circuit Court Judge Mackie Pierce found that she made an incorrect decision when she recommended that the Arkansas State Police not release an investigative file from August 2000 on Boyce Hamlet, a trooper recruit at the time. Hamlet was the subject of an internal investigation that led to his dismissal from employment with the Arkansas State Police. The investigation centered on allegations of cheating on an examination and multiple admitted incidents of lying to internal investigators.  Hamlet currently holds the position of Enforcement Director of  Alcoholic Beverage Control, a division of the Department of Finance and Administration, which is a political appointment. Evidence was introduced in the case that Hamlet had carried out a 15 year scheme to hide his Arkansas State Police employment and termination. Hamlet obtained jobs in...