Friday, October 27, 2023

Goons Ask to Delay Sentencing

Five members of the Goon Squad asked U.S. District Judge Tom Lee to postpone their sentencing next month.  

Christian Dedmon, Brett McAlpin, Jeffrey Middleton, Hunter Elward, and Joshua Hartfield filed motions to continue this week.  Daniel Opdyke submitted a request for an additional seven days to respond to the sentencing recommendation.  The Justice Department is not opposing the motions. 



Rankin County deputies Brett McAlpin, Dedmon, Elward,  Daniel Opdyke, Jeffrey Middleton, and former Richland police officer Josh Hartfield raided the home at 135 Conerly Road in Braxton on January 24, 2023 between 9:30 and 10:00 PM. Eddie Parker and Michael Jenkins lived at the home.  The deputies had no search warrant when they forcibly entered the home.

The deputies deactivated their body cameras and spirited away the home's video recording equipment.  What took place after the deputies arrived was nothing less than a night of torture for Jenkins and Perkins after the deputies handcuffed the them while accusing them of dating white women.  

Breaching their duty to protect and serve, the so-called law enforcement officers repeatedly slapped, punched, and kicked Parker and Jenkins.  They repeated called the two black men ******s and said they were members of a particular primate species.  The torture session lasted nearly two hours. 

Once the thugs grew tired of using fists and feet, they took turns firing tasers at the two men as they participated in a sadistic contest to see which taser worked the best.  Welcome to the 21st century. However, even tasing the men 17 times became boring so the defendants got more creative as they waterboarded Jenkins and Parker with milk.  They poured chocolate syrup on them as well. 

Bored with the tasing, the deputies allegedly moved on to the CIA's favorite torture trick: waterboarding but with a Rankin County twist: they used milk.  Unfortunately for Jenkins and Parker, the worst was yet to come.  Dedmon took a dildo he found at the home and tried to force it into the mouths of Jenkins and Parker but was unsuccessful.  He turned Jenkins over so he could insert the dildo from behind but found the victim had crapped on himself.  Unable to rape the men with the dildo, the deputies threw eggs at the captive men.  

 Some type of light bulb must have went off somewhere in someone's head because the deputies realized they might have gone too far and allegedly forced Parker and Jenkins to "strip naked and shower together" in an attempt to clean up the evidence of the law enforcement misdeeds.  Unfortunately for the two Braxton residents, the worst was yet to come. 

Dedmon fired his pistol twice to intimidate the two men.  The Justice Department stated in a press release: 

Elward surreptitiously removed a bullet from the chamber of his gun, forced the gun into M.J.’s mouth and pulled the trigger. The unloaded gun clicked but did not fire. Elward racked the slide, intending to dry-fire a second time. When Elward pulled the trigger, the gun discharged. The bullet lacerated M.J.’s tongue, broke his jaw and exited out of his neck.

As M.J. was bleeding on the floor, the defendants did not provide medical aid, but instead gathered outside the home to devise a false cover story and took steps to corroborate it, including: planting a gun on M.J.; destroying surveillance video, spent shell casings, and taser cartridges; submitting fraudulent drug evidence to the crime lab; filing false reports; charging M.J. with crimes he did not commit; making false statements to investigators; and pressuring witnesses to stick to the cover story. Three of the defendants admitted in court that they were members of “The Goon Squad,” a group of RCSO officers who were known for using excessive force and not reporting it.

The defendants pleaded guilty to the following charges:  

Middleton: conspiracy against rights, deprivation of rights under color of law, conspiracy to obstruct justice, obstruction of justice

Opdyke: conspiracy against rights, deprivation of rights under color of law, conspiracy to obstruct justice, obstruction of justice

Elwarddeprivation of rights under color of law

Dedmon: deprivation of rights under color of law, discharging a firearm during a crime of violence 

McAlpin:  conspiracy against rights, deprivation of rights under color of law, conspiracy to obstruct justice, obstruction of justice

Hartfield: conspiracy against rights, deprivation of rights under color of law, conspiracy to obstruct justice, obstruction of justice


The state of Mississippi is prosecuting the defendants for crimes arising out of the incident.  The Goons pleaded guilty in Rankin County Circuit Court to various charges.  See earlier post for guilty pleas.


29 comments:

They Seem Nice said...

The Goon Squad - Rankin SO's version of the KKK.

Anonymous said...

Tells me the squealing and need a little more time to continue.

Anonymous said...

They need the delay to spill their guts about Bailey.

Anonymous said...

12:41 PM

I hope they admit that he not only knew about it, he ordered them there and they literally served as his personal goon squad.

Anonymous said...

Has it actually been determined why these two victims were chosen?
This was not random and certainly not because they may or may not have been dating white women.
The victims deserved NONE of this, but something seems to be missing.

Anonymous said...

1:17, [allegedly] illegal narcotics.

Anonymous said...

1:17, this was a known drug house. Had caused a lot of problems in the neighborhood/community. There was a homicide at that house a year or so before.

Anonymous said...

Maybe they don't want to leave their jail wives which will happen when they move to prison.

Anonymous said...

Why wasn’t attempted murder on any of their pleadings? I would think shooting a hostage in the head after raping them would qualify. Also, why no gang rape charges?

Anonymous said...

@1:57 - according to who, the police? That may not be accurate given their propensity to fabricate charges against blacks particularly in Rankin county. It’s more likely the murder was a planted body that the police dropped off from one of their previous arrests or shakedown attempts.

Anonymous said...

If ever the phrase "under the jail" fit...

Anonymous said...

I hope the AGs office is actually working on this !? Prove us wrong Lynn ! The citizens want justice as bad as the victims .

Anonymous said...

To 10/26/23 at 3:06….

This is a good example. It’s almost EOD and we have less than 10 comments, none of which are volunteering to be at sentencing, hoping the judge denies the continuance motion, wishing the defendants get hammered at sentencing. Like I said previously, both are unacceptable; one just gets more negative attention than the other by over 100+ comments in a single article. I’ll give it to Monday though…

Anonymous said...

October 27, 2023 at 3:53 PM, where is 3:06? Have you been day drinking again?

Anonymous said...

Ok, so is this going to give drug dealers and criminals a green light to commit crimes and feel like they can get away with it? I’ve known for a long time that the area in Rankin County is corroded with criminals. Facts will prove that last month a theft ring was busted by the Ag Dept’s division that investigated theft of farm equipment. That area has been a den of thieves and a group of local bikers are involved. I know…I employed one. I turned him in. What we need is a clean sweep of criminals and their illicit activity. Now, you’re not going to stop the white girls from dating the black guys when the white girls are hooked on dope. So, either clean it up or let it happen. Can you imagine being an LEO and having to deal with these drug dealers? A dealer is a murderer No matter how you look at it. When the rubber hits the road and the bullet hits the bone someone has to pay and if you all in Rankin want to keep this type of criminal activity out then you have to make a decision. Past history…Torrence took care of business….whether you like it or not. You want your kids not being around this type of activity then you know what to do. The “old timers” took care of business the “old way”. Your kids and grandkids depend on you.

Anonymous said...

"...known drug house..." Known by whom?

Anonymous said...

5:43

You're going to get flamed for your comments even though you are correct on many of them. But there are two things we know for sure:

1) If the victims of the goon squad had kept themselves out of Rankin County this would not have happened.

2) If the goon squad had not existed, this would not have happened.

So where do we go from here?

This is still the USA and anyone wishing to exist in any part of it has the right to do so. However, there are some places in which outsiders are not welcomed. Right or wrong this is the way it is and self-preservation is always a good idea.

Anonymous said...

@5:43, man you sound like a criminal.

Anonymous said...

3:24, the homeowner called in the homicide.

Anonymous said...


Well, I don't see this as any Surprise at all. If You were sent to "take care of a situation"-you take Care of It. Thinking the Sheriff had No Knowledge is Juvenile thinking also-

Anonymous said...

Horrible stuff and folks need to be held accountable but are the victims completely innocent of any wrongdoing? The way it sounds in the media is that the two victims were model citizens who were terrorized simply because of their race. Is that the case or is there more to it?

Anonymous said...

8:27 - your #1 kinda conflicts with the first sentence after #2. Suggestion - delete #1 and move #2 to #1 and then you have the correct answer. It’s sad the national news hasn’t paid more attention to this. #emmittill0.5

Anonymous said...

So, they asked for a continuance and we get a two hundred page article?

Anonymous said...

Good LE sometimes has to “bend” the rules to take care of really bad situations. But this group went overboard and committed
Vile unforgivable acts.

Anonymous said...

5:43 makes good points. Sometimes extra-legal things have to be done to fix a problem. Where the Goons screwed up was being juvenile and reckless. They should have taken a strap to these guys, whipped them really well, and warned them that the next time would be much less pleasant. This is how communities used to take care of problems and it worked. But they often handled it themselves and didn’t rely on police.

Anonymous said...

The goon squad problem has been going on for a long time. About five years ago I lived next door to a drug house. There was another one a few blocks from me. People called the sheriff's office many times. Sometimes a police car would drive through the neighborhood. Everyone in the neighborhood would know when the police car would drive through as the dope boys had a friend who worked for in the sheriff's office. The dope peddlers would stand out in their front yard calling all of their friends telling them where the cop car was and where it was heading.
I finally bought the dope house and kicked them out. A few weeks after they were kicked out the sheriff came driving through the neighborhood. I happened to be out mowing my yard when a former dope dealer came by and stopped to see of they could rent the house again. The sheriff stopped and talked to us. He knew the dope peddler very well. They seemed to be good friends. I told the sheriff about the person who was working for him who called the dope boys ahead of a cop car driving through the neighborhood. He wasn't surprised but didn't want to talk about it with his dope buddy standing there.

Anonymous said...

11:14
Dope money is very influential

Kingfish said...

You know what, you are right. Nothing wrong with using some nightstick justice as you advocate. Hmmm... just one question.

Exactly did these two guys do besides being in the home?

Anonymous said...

Sometimes, Kingfish, you just gotta have walkin' around sense to figure shit out.

But it don't even take walkin' around sense to play dumb.


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