Married Texas police chief resigns following arrest linked to cheating scandal Jessica Schladebeck
A Texas police chief accused of cheating on his wife with at least two women resigned after he was arrested for showing one of his paramours a phony marriage annulment.
The city of Stinnett announced Chief Jason Collier’s resignation “effective immediately,” in a statement posted on its Facebook page on Thursday. The married father-of-four was arrested earlier in the day on one count of tampering with a government document with the intent to defraud, Texas Department of Public Safety Sgt. Cindy Barkley told KAMR.
“Collier allegedly sent a text message to the victim with a fraudulent government record attached,” Barkley said. “The document was a fraudulent marriage annulment.”
Stinnett Police Chief Arrested by Texas Rangers Resigns After Facebook Post Goes Viral An Amarillo woman s Facebook post calling out the Stinnett police chief has set off a chain of events that ended with his resignation By Kaley Green, KAMR-TV •
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Now former Stinnett Police Chief Jason Collier was arrested by Texas Rangers Thursday after being placed on administrative leave Wednesday. The City of Stinnett Facebook page confirmed Collier has resigned.
Texas Department of Public Safety Sgt. Cindy Barkley said on Tuesday, the Hutchinson County District Attorney’s office asked the Texas Rangers to conduct a criminal investigation into Collier.
The story goes that Collier is married to a woman named Opal, with whom he raised his two children and two step-children. In November, he proposed to his girlfriend, Cecily Steinmetz from Amarillo. And, one month later, he proposed to a Kansas woman named Kristi Shaffer, according to statements from the women made on social media and to local reporters.
The women believed they each were in a monogamous relationship until his love quadrangle was found out, of course, on Facebook.
Collier ran the Stinnett Police Department’s Facebook page (which now appears to be shut down); one of his fiancées, Shaffer, left some comments on the page. One of Steinmetz’s friends saw Shaffer’s comments and noticed Collier in her profile picture. She creeped Shaffer’s profile and discovered Shaffer was also engaged to her friend’s fiancé.
6 killed In head-on crash in South Texas 6 Killed In Head-On Crash In South Texas (Source: KMZU) By Associated Press | January 25, 2021 at 10:23 AM CST - Updated January 26 at 12:58 AM
MATHIS, Texas (AP) - Texas state police say six people were killed and three others seriously injured in a head-on collision in south Texas.
Texas Department of Public Safety Sgt. Nathan Brandley says in a news release that a vehicle carrying four men was southbound early Saturday in the northbound lanes of Interstate 37 near Mathis, about 20 miles north of Corpus Christi, when it collided with a northbound vehicle carrying five people.
Brandley says all four men in the southbound vehicle and one man and one woman in the northbound vehicle have died of injuries suffered in the crash.