MAYSVILLE, Okla. (The Oklahoma Post) Jan. 11, 2026
Former Assistant Police Chief Details Pattern of Misconduct in Small Oklahoma Town
A former assistant police chief in Maysville, Oklahoma has come forward with allegations of widespread corruption, pension fraud, and systematic retaliation after she attempted to expose misconduct within the department and town government.
Melissa Varney, one of the publicly known whistle blowers who served as assistant chief before her termination in April 2025, claims Police Chief Doug Jolly orchestrated a pattern of illegal conduct that includes destroying evidence, falsifying police reports, fabricating search warrants, withholding employee retirement contributions, and discriminating against female officers. Text messages, court documents, and sworn complaints obtained by The Oklahoma Post corroborate key aspects of her account. Multiple current and former officers have described similar experiences, painting a picture of a small town department where accountability mechanisms have completely broken down.
Missing Pension Contributions Confirmed
Perhaps the most straightforward allegation involves pension fraud. Documents obtained by The Oklahoma Post confirm that the Oklahoma Police Pension and Retirement System (OPPRS) sent a memorandum dated October 23, 2024, to the former officer stating that OPPRS “has not received any retirement contributions associated with your employment with the Maysville Police Department.”
The memorandum, signed by OPPRS Deputy Director Sean Ruark, specifically notes that “OPPRS has made multiple requests for these missing payroll submissions and retirement contributions but have yet to receive them.”
According to the whistleblower, the town withheld pension contributions from officer paychecks for years but never forwarded the money to OPPRS. Documentation shows that from July 2022 through April 2025, 71 paychecks had OPPRS deductions totaling $5,023.59 withheld, with records showing $8,357.11 in withheld contributions overall.
The last contribution was allegedly made on February 17, 2023, with the first withheld contribution occurring on November 29, 2023. Under Oklahoma law, participating municipalities are required to contribute 14% of base salary while officers contribute 9%.
The whistleblower says similar issues occurred with employee health insurance premiums. “They didn’t pay our insurance,” she stated in a recorded conversation. “I have a stack of doctor bills that were never covered because they didn’t pay our insurance, including my police pension physical.”. Other former officers had similar complaints, but those officers had their problems solved quickly.
Town meeting minutes from October 2025 obtained by The Oklahoma Post show that the Maysville Board of Trustees acknowledged the pension and federal tax problems in an official public meeting. Board members discussed moving money out of the Street Improvement account “to cover Pension and Federal taxes due to no ordinance or resolution findings on said account.”
Mayor White made a motion to “let the attorney file the petition and see what happens,” which was seconded and carried by board members Forkner, Uhles, White, and Taylor. The meeting minutes confirm that town leadership was aware they had improperly taken pension and tax money without proper legal authorization, and were attempting to cover the shortfall from other municipal accounts.
This acknowledgment in official minutes directly contradicts any potential claim by town officials that they were unaware of the pension fraud or that it was an administrative oversight.
Criminal Case Dismissed After Chief’s Misconduct Report
Court records tell a story that reads like a small town corruption playbook: an officer who cuts corners on a drug bust, a police chief who reports the misconduct, and a dismissal that tanks a major trafficking case.
On October 21, 2022, Assistant District Attorney Corey L. Miner filed a “Dismissal Without Prejudice” in State of Oklahoma v. Dustin Barnes (Case No. CF 22 0231). The dismissal didn’t mince words. The district attorney’s office had received a letter from Maysville’s police chief detailing “behavior by the arresting officer which, if not improper, has the appearance of impropriety.” The result? The DA’s office stated it had “a low degree of confidence in the veracity of both the investigation and the arresting officer.”
That arresting officer was Doug Jolly, then serving as assistant chief.
The letter came from Police Chief Avery Jones, dated October 14, 2022. Jones laid out how Jolly had orchestrated a controlled drug buy using a confidential informant named Melvin Teague, who contacted Dustin Barnes to bring “a pound of meth” to Maysville. When Barnes arrived and was stopped, Jolly’s police report left out critical details. According to Jones, Jolly’s report “does not mention the informant calling Dispatch to contact the Chief of Police.” Instead, “Jolly just puts in the police report about stopping this car [and] doesn’t put that it was a setup or any of that.”
Jones made his position clear: “As Chief of Police for the Town of Maysville, it is my duty to inform the district attorney of my concerns in reference to case number 22 0124 due to Officer Jolley excluding critical information from his report.”
According to a News 9 report from October 4, 2022, Barnes was stopped on October 1, 2022, by Maysville police, who found expired tags on his vehicle. Officers discovered methamphetamine hidden under the hood, along with needles, marijuana, and a bag containing stolen property.
Here’s where it gets even more interesting. Chief Avery Jones, who had the integrity to report his own officer’s misconduct, didn’t last long after writing that letter. Jones had been hired as police chief in January 2022, as reported by the Garvin County News Star. Less than a year later, he was gone.
According to Varney, Jolly orchestrated Jones’ termination. And who got promoted to chief after Jones left? Doug Jolly.
Communication of Fabricated Search Warrants and Evidence Tampering
Text messages obtained by The Oklahoma Post reveal what appears to be Chief Jolly directing the fabrication of search warrants and tampering with evidence. In a text conversation dated January 21, 2025, between Jolly and the whistleblower, the chief complains about staff at a mechanic shop yelling at him when he drives by.
“Jolly tells the whistleblower to get evidence out of the cabinet, stating he would take care of the rest. The whistleblower then receives a follow-up message from Jolly: “Type up a warrant on his phone. Let’s just see how far we can take it.
The exchange suggests the chief was directing his assistant to create a search warrant as retaliation against someone who had upset him, rather than based on probable cause or legitimate investigative grounds.
Another officer, identified in text messages as Josh, later contacted the whistleblower stating: “Well I promise I had nothing to do with the search warrant. I didn’t know anything about it.” When the whistleblower replied “I told the chief I lied,” Josh responded: “Yea he said he seen the video you had Ari take of us at the cemetery.”
The whistleblower denied having any such video, stating: “I never had a video the only video of us was me leaned up against Millard’s vehicle.” This exchange suggests Jolly was making false accusations against his own officers to create leverage or intimidate them.
Attempted Destruction of Court Records
An order dated August 18, 2025, and signed by Garvin County District Judge Leah Edwards, authorized the destruction of multiple court cases. The order specifically lists cases including CF 22 0231 (the Barnes case), along with several others: CF 22 118, 119, 133, 167, 191, 193, and CF 23 199, 309, 804, 819, 821.
The whistleblower believes this was an attempt to destroy evidence of the problematic Barnes case. “He tried to get them to destroy that court record because that’s the only record on that guy’s long history that they tried to destroy,” she stated.
Under Oklahoma law, courts may order destruction of certain records after specific time periods, but the timing of this order, coming after serious allegations of misconduct, raises questions about whether appropriate procedures were followed.
Mayor’s Substance Abuse and Family Preferential Treatment
Text messages between the whistleblower and Mayor Cindy White show the mayor asking about drug testing availability. In one exchange dated February 26, 2025, Mayor White texts: “I need a drug test lol” and “Do we have any over at the PD.” When the whistleblower asks what drug, the mayor responds: “Meth.” The whistleblower then tells the mayor: “Yeah Doug should have some in his office.”
The context and nature of these requests raise questions about whether the mayor was seeking drug tests for legitimate municipal purposes or for personal reasons.
Court records reveal that the mayor’s sister, Brandi Shea Bolles (also known as Brandi Shea Taylor), was arrested by Chief Doug Jolley on January 4, 2024, and charged with possession of methamphetamine and drug paraphernalia in Garvin County.
According to court documents, Bolles pleaded no contest the following day and received a deferred sentence of six months despite the felony level charges. The expedited court proceeding and favorable plea arrangement raised questions about whether the mayor’s family received preferential treatment.
The whistleblower alleges that a former male Maysville officer, now with another department, had previously attempted to arrest the mayor’s sister for driving under the influence, and that Mayor White intervened to prevent the arrest. According to the whistleblower, this incident contributed to the officer’s decision to leave the department. The departure followed a pattern of officers leaving after conflicts with town leadership over enforcement actions involving politically connected individuals.
Court records also show that Bolles was arrested again in September 2024 by the Oklahoma Highway Patrol in McClain County on traffic charges. As of January 31, 2025, a bench warrant had been issued for her failure to appear in that case.
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Police Chief’s Son and Violent Crime Allegations
Text messages reveal that Chief Jolly’s son was involved in a serious violent incident that resulted in criminal charges being dropped after the chief allegedly paid $10,000 for legal representation. In a text conversation with an unidentified contact labeled “Doug Jolley PD Phone,” the sender discusses an individual named “Beau” who appears to be the chief’s son.
According to the message, “Jessie burnt beaus house down so beau went and found him. Jessie pulled a knife so beau shot at him with a 45. Jessie threw the knife down and took off running so beau threw a golf club and hit him. He fell down so beau stomped him till he quit moving. They hauled Jessie off in an ambulance and he was unconscious for two days.”
The message continues: “I paid a really good lawyer 10k and the charges got dropped.”
This incident appears to be separate from but related to the marijuana allegations involving the chief’s son that the whistleblower previously reported to federal authorities.
Text messages obtained by The Oklahoma Post reveal a pattern of violent behavior by Chief Jolly predating his career in law enforcement. According to another former Maysville officer who served under Jolly, he had direct knowledge of Jolly’s capacity for violence before Jolly became a police officer.
“I dealt with him here before he was a cop. I already knew how he’d be,” the officer stated in a text message. The officer described responding to a call near Maysville where Jolly’s brother’s four-wheeler had been stolen. “Doug pistol whipped this guy to the point he was nearly dead,” the officer recounted.
“I wrote up the report on it because it was extremely excessive and next thing I knew ‘OSBI’ was taking it over and nothing ever happened.”
The officer’s account suggests that even before becoming a police officer, Jolly engaged in extreme violence without facing consequences, and that the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation intervened in the case with no apparent results.
Evidence Tampering in Drug Cases
Perhaps among the most serious allegations involve evidence tampering in drug cases. The whistleblower claims that in July 2024, a search warrant was executed at the residence of S. Hunter following complaints she had been providing drugs to minors. Hunter was arrested for drug possession and child endangerment charges.
According to the whistleblower, Hunter told investigators she had been engaged in a sexual relationship with Officer Josh Smith while he was on duty. Hunter provided her phone with the password. The phone contained text messages between Hunter and Smith, along with pictures and videos of them together, including footage from encounters at the Maysville cemetery. “We go in her phone, there’s messages and stuff between them proving what she said is true, pictures, videos,” the whistleblower recounted. “The Chief takes her phone and deletes all the messages and pictures.”
When asked why he deleted the evidence, Jolly allegedly replied: “I did it for all of us, so the police department doesn’t get a black eye.”
Smith was never disciplined for this alleged conduct. When Smith was later arrested for child abuse by strangulation, Jolly allegedly allowed him to continue working, moving him to the maintenance department “so you can still get paid, man.”
Even more troubling are allegations involving large scale marijuana trafficking. According to the whistleblower, in July 2024, Jolly’s son Bo was arrested with 23 pounds of marijuana. In September 2024, Jolly allegedly used a drone to locate several hundred additional pounds of marijuana that he claimed had been stolen from an illegal grow operation by his son and David Stakely, the town’s maintenance supervisor.
The whistleblower states she accompanied Jolly to recover the marijuana from property belonging to Mayor Cindy White. “We go to the mayor’s property, we get out, we walk through these woods, I’m all cut up, and we find the trailer with probably 300 pounds of marijuana on it,” she stated. “The chief loads it up in the back of his truck, takes it to the sewage lagoons in town and hides it because only he has access back there because it’s got a lock on it.”
Jolly later allegedly told the whistleblower that a maintenance worker found the stash while mowing and that he had the worker “dig a hole and bury it.” The whistleblower reported these incidents to the FBI.
Text messages between former officers reveal widespread community knowledge of the chief’s alleged practice of protecting his son. “I don’t doubt that at all. I bet he takes drugs from people for his son,” one message states. “Wouldn’t surprise me one bit if ‘evidence’ goes missing for him. Everyone in [The County] is scared of the Jolley’s because there’s so many of them and they will go after everyone you love. It’s insane!”
The whistleblower confirmed this assessment: “Yeah, I’m aware that’s why he has the attitude he has that he can do what he wants and get away with it. Because he’s always gotten away with everything.”
The messages suggest that intimidation by the Jolley family extends beyond the Maysville Police Department and has created a climate of fear in the surrounding community.
Illegal Work Hour Violations
The whistleblower also alleges systematic violations of Oklahoma law governing reserve police officers. Oklahoma statutes and CLEET regulations clearly state that “a reserve officer shall serve not more than one hundred forty (140) hours per calendar month.”
According to the whistleblower, she was hired in August 2022 with only reserve certification, which should have limited her to 140 hours per month (approximately 35 hours per week). Instead, she claims Jolly forced her to work 120 hours every two weeks, amounting to 240 hours per month, far exceeding legal limits.
“He tells me if I report any of this or try to do anything, he’s gonna charge me with embezzlement,” she stated. When she questioned the excessive hours, Jolly allegedly told her to falsify time records.
“You can go ahead and work, but we’re just gonna do like just go 10 10 and like, you know, kind of do stuff around the office or do code enforcement that way if we get audited they won’t see your hours.”
The violations continued even after the town placed her on “probation” for a social media post. “Their punishment to me for posting on social media [was] they pulled me out of the police academy that I was set to go to, they knocked me down to quote unquote part time,” she explained. “However, the chief still forces me to work full time. And I have the copies of the schedules to prove it.”
Discrimination and Hostile Work Environment
The whistleblower has filed complaints with the Oklahoma Attorney General’s office detailing a pattern of discrimination and hostile work environment. She alleges that as an openly gay woman, she faced constant harassment from both Jolly and Mayor Cindy White.
“Chief Doug Jolly, in my presence, made sexist, homophobic, and racist remarks,” she stated in documents provided to The Oklahoma Post. According to her complaint, Jolly made derogatory comments about her sexual orientation, stating “When I was dating a girl, she ain’t going to be no good munch … she could go back to her husband.” She claims he also referred to LGBTQ individuals as “faggots” in her presence and “repeatedly called a gay business owner ‘bird cage.'”
The whistleblower also alleges that Jolly made racist comments, including that “a video circulated in which his child repeated racial slurs.” She states these remarks “were overheard by officers, dispatch personnel, and council members, and contributed to a hostile work environment and reputational harm.”
Mayor White allegedly engaged in inappropriate conduct as well, including “exposing a tattoo of lips on her buttocks in Town Hall and sending me text messages inviting me out drinking with her.”
The whistleblower claims she was subjected to different standards than male officers. “Only the female officers had to complete like FTOs or anything. None of the male officers did. And the male officers were paid more,” she stated.
The complaint also details discriminatory hiring and compensation practices. Officer Cody Galaviz, who according to the complaint “lacked proper credentials and experience,” was hired at a higher pay rate than the whistleblower despite her certification and years of law enforcement experience. The whistleblower states that Galaviz was not required to pass a drug test, despite being in inpatient drug rehabilitation in 2023 through 2024 and having a 2024 search warrant executed at his residence resulting in drug trafficking charges against other residents.
In a sworn complaint filed with the Oklahoma Attorney General’s office, the whistleblower detailed additional incidents of abuse and retaliation. On February 28, 2023, Chief Jolly released a suspect who had assaulted the whistleblower and then began berating her in front of that suspect and other witnesses. The complaint states this conduct “constitutes abusive treatment and contributes to a hostile work environment.”
When she raised concerns about being paid less than less experienced male officers, she was terminated. “I go to the board member, she agrees with me, she’s like, no, you’re the only one ever working. You’re, you should have been paid more,” the whistleblower recounted. “Well, she goes to the mayor and she tells the mayor about it. Well, she tells the chief and then the chief jumps my ass and says I’m going behind his back talking to council members. And so he terminates me.”
According to documents filed with the Oklahoma Attorney General’s Civil Rights Enforcement Unit, the whistleblower is alleging violations of both the Oklahoma Anti Discrimination Act and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act.
Pattern of Retaliation and Officer Intimidation
Beyond her own termination, the whistleblower alleges that Chief Jolly engaged in a pattern of intimidation and retaliation against officers who questioned his conduct. Text messages show that after she began cooperating with investigators, Jolly made false claims about other officers to create fear and leverage.
In one exchange, Officer Josh tells the whistleblower that the chief claimed she had someone named “Ari” record them at a cemetery. The whistleblower denies this, but the allegation appears designed to turn officers against each other and discourage cooperation with investigations.
The whistleblower now works at a different police department where her current chief “supports me 100%” and previous attempts to damage her reputation with the Victim Protection Order (VPO) and “spreading lies” have failed. The whistleblower stated: “My chief now supports me 100%; they have already tried to ruin me with the VPO and spreading lies, but I’m not going to back down or be scared to tell the truth. I can find a new career but I refuse to go quietly!”
She added: “My chief now see’s through them, he figured out quick it was a witch hunt when they tried to involve my job in the VPO he told them they were out of line and unprofessional.”
Legal Vindication: Retaliatory VPO Dismissed
A legal demand letter obtained by The Oklahoma Post provides additional evidence of the retaliation campaign against the whistleblower. The letter, dated November 26, 2025, and prepared by attorney Alexandra Towler Bliss of Culture Connection Law, demands $5,000 in attorney fees from Kayla Webster for filing a protective order in bad faith.
It is clear from the information provided to The Oklahoma Post that the VPO was a fraud. Kayla lied and in fact the whistleblower was assaulted by the alleged victim.
According to the demand letter, Webster filed a Victim Protective Order against the whistleblower on June 17, 2025, in Garvin County. The VPO was dismissed on September 19, 2025, confirming the allegations were without merit.
The letter details a timeline showing retaliatory intent. The last physical contact between the two occurred on April 8, 2025, with communications continuing until June 12, 2025, when the whistleblower formally requested all contact cease and informed Webster she was seeing someone else.
Three days later, on June 15, 2025, Webster called the whistleblower’s grandmother’s phone, despite being blocked on all platforms, and demanded the identity of her new partner. The demand letter states this conversation, witnessed by two individuals, included Webster’s admission “that you were acting under pressure from others in the town of Maysville to make allegations against Ms. Varney.”
The following day, June 16, 2025, Webster again called while intoxicated, making false claims of stalking and interference. On June 17, 2025, she filed the VPO citing an alleged assault from January 18, 2025.
The demand letter states the assault allegation is “directly contradicted by” witnesses who can confirm the whistleblower’s location at the time, text messages showing consensual interaction and no threats, and evidence that Webster misrepresented a traffic stop incident.
According to the whistleblower, Chief Jolly was aware of Webster’s history of making false accusations. The whistleblower stated that Jolly told her Webster “has a pattern of leaving her husband for women and then playing the victim and crawling back to him.” The whistleblower says Jolly made this statement while drawing on her arm and referred to Webster with a derogatory term.
The letter concludes that the filing “demonstrates that your filing was frivolous, malicious, and intended to intimidate and embarrass Ms. Varney, rather than protect anyone from legitimate harm.”
This document corroborates the whistleblower’s claims that after she began exposing corruption in Maysville, coordinated efforts were made to discredit and harass her, including pressure on associates to file false complaints against her.
Attempts To Silence
The complaint states that after she raised concerns about the chief’s conduct to a council member, “the Chief engaged in retaliatory actions, including pressuring my former girlfriend to file a frivolous VPO, threatening me with embezzlement charges if I continued to pursue my claim, and pressuring town members to make false complaints against me.”
According to the whistleblower, after she was terminated and hired an attorney, town officials made an unusual offer. During an executive session at a town council meeting, they allegedly told her attorney they would “make things right” with her, including having the chief stop “running [her] name down,” giving her what they owed, and fixing her termination, but only if she would “sign an agreement not to testify against them in criminal proceedings.”
The whistleblower recorded a conversation with a board member who confirmed the offer. “I call up my friend a few, like I wait a little bit, my friend on the board, and I’m like, dude, that’s fucked up,” she recounted. “I’m like, so which board member said that shit? And she’s like, David [Uhles], he just told them that we shouldn’t, we should not if we give in and make things right with you, that it’s gonna be worse on us in the end.”
Her attorney declined the offer.
Town’s Pattern of Dysfunction
The allegations come amid other documented problems with Maysville’s town government. For years, the town has struggled with a water crisis, with residents dealing with brown water that led to extended boil orders. Mayor White told news outlets in 2023 that the water problems had persisted since she was 14 years old.
The town has also experienced significant turnover in leadership positions. Court records and news reports document multiple police chiefs and frequent changes in the town clerk treasurer position. In May 2023, the Maysville Board of Trustees clashed publicly over the resignation of town clerk treasurer Sandra Albright, who wrote in her resignation letter that she had been “repeatedly questioned, accused, and treated with disrespect” with “constant interruptions and procedural changes.”
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Federal and State Investigations
The whistleblower states she reported the marijuana incident and other allegations to FBI Special Agent David Cole of the Oklahoma City office after testifying in an unrelated federal case. She provided photographic evidence, which she claims was time stamped and could be corroborated by phone location data.
“Take my phone and you will see the day these pictures are taken because they’re time stamped,” she told FBI agents. “You see these pictures are taken at 6:30. Ten minutes prior, I told him I’m ready for him to pick me up. It’s a 10 minute drive from where he picked me up to where these are. Like it all matches up. Like you can get the pings off our phones.”
While the FBI declined to comment on the specifics of any ongoing investigation, the whistleblower’s account suggests federal authorities are aware of the allegations.
The whistleblower met with an investigator from the Oklahoma Attorney General’s office in November 2024 regarding her civil rights complaint. She states she is currently waiting for a “right to sue” letter, which would allow her to file a private lawsuit.
“They’ve lost the wage and labor [case], but all this comes down to they haven’t paid employees federal taxes for 2 or 3 years,” the whistleblower stated. “They haven’t been audited for years. They are not in compliance and they will not hold him accountable.”
When asked about the status of criminal investigations, the whistleblower said she filed a separate citizen’s complaint with the Attorney General’s office regarding the alleged criminal conduct, but has not received an update despite multiple follow up calls.
The Oklahoma Attorney General’s office declined to comment on any ongoing investigations.
Calls for Accountability
These allegations raise serious questions about oversight and accountability in small town Oklahoma. When local officials are accused of systemic corruption and illegal conduct, who holds them accountable?
“I always want people to know who they’re dealing with,” the whistleblower stated. “This has been out, people see it and they’re just like, well, we got his back. That’s their answer.”
The allegations also highlight potential gaps in state oversight. Despite documented pension fraud, evidence tampering, violations of police officer work hour regulations, and text messages suggesting fabricated search warrants, the town appears to have faced little consequence.
The case remains under investigation by both state and potentially federal authorities. For now, a former officer who says she tried to do the right thing is left fighting for accountability in a system that she claims is designed to protect wrongdoers.
This is a developing story and will be updated as more information becomes available.
The Oklahoma Post attempted to reach Mayor Cindy White, Police Chief Doug Jolly, and members of the Maysville Board of Trustees for comment. None responded professionally to requests.
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Audio 2. I did not follow up on the dog pound shootings…but geez louis. AG Drummonds office and OSBI should be doing their jobs. Even his civil rights agency blocked complaints. Wowzers.
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Editor’s Notes: The Oklahoma Post has reviewed court documents, OPPRS correspondence, police reports, text messages, town meeting minutes, and other documentation supporting the whistleblower’s account. We have also verified the whistleblower’s employment history and service with the Maysville Police Department. The allegations in this story represent serious accusations that have not been fully adjudicated in a court of law. All parties are presumed innocent until proven guilty.
Writing By: Robbie Robertson | Editing by Robbie Robertson
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