Last week news broke of a TPD investigation into one of their own.1 A police officer is accused of going into a woman’s hotel room after meeting her walking down the street. The inference is rape by fear as there is no mention of physical force throughout the probable cause (PC) affidavit. Somehow the Officers body camera happened to ‘still be on’ after responding to a prior call. Only ‘a minute’ of their conversation is caught on tape according to Lt. Det. Darin Ehrenrich (Ehrenrich). (Pronounced Aryan-Reich)
What I as an anonymous author found as a huge unexplained ‘red flag’ reading this PC affidavit besides the fact that it was written by Ehrenrich, a man who could not tell the truth if his life depended on it, was that it does not report on how the alleged victim identified as MB notified authorities.
The affidavit begins with six weeks later alleged victim comes to meet with Detective. In fact the news articles shows that Officers contacted her and not the other way around.2 So in June detectives plural are calling the woman after watching the body camera and seeing that the phone number is said. Timeline included in the above cited report, enclosed:
April 17
Reyes meets the victim, uses his department computer to search her records.
Reyes contacts the victim while still on duty.
Reyes tells the victim he found her criminal record. The pair have sex.
He flushes the condom and leaves.
June 2
Detectives with the Special Victims Unit uncovers the incident, contacts the victim.
(emphasis added)
June 5
SVU detectives meet with Reyes after obtaining a warrant.
Reyes’ phone is taken as evidence.
He gives an initial interview.. . . Id.
This tactic of contacting prostitutes and drug addicts and asking them to testify against police officers is nothing new.
1Propable Cause Affidavit
2 https://www.fox23.com/news/local/svu-detectives-release-details-timeline-alleged-rapecommitted-by-tpd-officer/462LKOOOOBATLECTJ2MKIBKTGA/
In Oklahoma City the Police Department there investigated one of their own and a jury gave Daniel Holtzclaw over (250) two hundred and fifty years for allegedly raping women during his shifts.3 Ironically in that case jurors gave the most years for an elderly black woman who testified her attacker was a short black man, Id. Holtzclaw is approximately 6’2 Asian man. She could not even ID Holtzclaw. So this begs the question, are the police culling the herd or is this the Officers doubling down on their own arrogance. Is TPD creating false flags so they can say they are hard on corruption?
There is a rumor that ADA Nix has a new rape allegation against a TPD Detective. Is this false flag so the city can say they are tough on crime but not liars? In Reyes, basically the officer ‘hollars’ at a gal that is not a working gal but has some type of ‘history’ and is staying at a by the night motel without explanation. TPD detectives, plural, for some unknown reason contact the allege victim June 5th according to the press release. Id. It sounds like Officers contacted her and asked her to be a witness. There is no report of a SANE exam, force, or anything more than a he said, she said after detectives (plural) contacted her (6) six weeks later.
How can TPD investigate their own but they fight an office of independent monitor.
Why is it time and again we see the Tulsa County District Attorney’s Office (Krigel, Nix matter) recuse but their subordinates or agents the police department do not. Why is it they recuse for them not Betty Shelby, Bob Bates or now DeAngelo Reyes. But they do recuse for Marcus Harper. Oklahoma attorney rules of ethics say that the the District Attorney’s office can not ask their agents to do something they themselves can not ethically do. The PC affidavit notes that Ehrenrich already had the Defendant’s (Reyes) phone number, they obviously are buddies. In Courts of law the appearance of impropriety is enough.
How then does Ehrenrich keep ‘investigating his own’ in a time that the Tulsa Police Department is fighting the Office of the Independent Monitor. The TPD is asking for 2.5 million next year for real time cameras but can not have an independent monitor. TPD investigating their own is them culling the herd not of the guilty but for the most vulnerable, most disposable.
The Tulsa World articles indicate that the Office of Independent Monitor (OIM) would cost less than a million dollars and that the mayor has proposed it since 2019.4 The TPD budget
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3 https://www.holtzclawtrial.com/untold-story
4 https://tulsaworld.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/nearly-3-years-after-mayors-proposalwhere-is-tulsa-on-police-oversight/article_e3e17436-0754-11ec-86b0-67ef1e2d8cab.html
And
https://tulsaworld.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/push-for-police-oversight-fundingcontinues-as-councilors-prepare-to-vote-on-fy-2023-budget/article_fa1164c6-
eb35-11ec-85b4-6307288a31ca.html
And
https://theblackwallsttimes.com/2019/07/17/tulsa-chief-of-police-discredits-tulsa-fraternalorder-of-police/
is over 150 million. Mayor GT Bynum proposed the OIM as part of his platform 2016 to get elected and withdrew his support to avoid the Tulsa Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) running a candidate against him. In 2017 when Chief Jordan resigned he called our Fraternal Order of Police a terrorist organization.
In the Reyes matter, the idea of someone staying at a hotel/motel and this being routine is breezed over as ordinary. I can not say this is a ‘set up’ but do note that prior relationships of the Officer seem to already be diving onto social media for their ‘I told you so’s,’ attached. Ehrenrich has been accused of coaching victims testimony previously. In the matter of Paul Tay he accused Tay of kidnapping the woman although no evidence of any such ‘kidnapping.’ Is alleged to have occurred. Tulsa County CF-21-3343. Ehrenrich alleges rape but no insertion of a penis into a vagina is alleged.
Is Ehrenrich developing a ‘false rape’ accusation pattern?
In the Attorney Jeff Krigel matter Ehrenrich is currently being sued for calling Krigel a ‘serial’ rapist in a case with only one count, Krigel’s three year live in girlfriend who claims she ‘drank water’ and ‘doesn’t remember’ inferring nonconsensual sex. Tulsa County, CJ-2022-1790. In that case Ehrenrich is accused of defamation and intentionally trying to destroy the Defendant’s chances of a fair trial.
Krigel has been charged for over a year and the case still has not gone to Preliminary Hearing. Ironically Krigel was arrested June 11, 2021 and Officer DeAngelo Reyes June 10, 2022, both a Friday. In the Krigel matter the Tulsa DA office has recused for cause as has the entire Tulsa County Judiciary after Krigel proved they could not be fair and impartial to his matter. Previously Judge Jim Huber, a former criminal defense attorney, could not be fair and impartial. Tulsa County, FD-15-2846. In Reyes the judiciary nor the District Attorney’s office have yet to recuse or be asked to.
In May 2021 Krigel sent DA Kunzweiler an email saying he had just seen ADA Ashley Nix out in public at last call belligerently drunk the weekend before her continued rape preliminary hearing making out with one of her attorney supervisors, not ADA Elmore. Previously Ada Nix alleged herself raped in September 2020 to allegedly avoid inter office discipline for sleeping with her boss, ADA Elmore.
At the April 2021 hearing Nix was allowed to testify in a ‘closed door’ or private hearing. In May 2021 her SANE nurse was to testify and Krigel saw the alleged victim ADA Nix in an alcoholic blackout making out with yet another John,’ this time a supervisor. Ehrenrich is believed to have targeted Krigel for reporting this and a Facebook post in October 2020 that drew ire. In the end, the jury believed ADA Nix to be in an alcoholic blackout and walked that Defendant April 2022. Krigel still can’t get a single hearing, his case has not been heard in (7) seven months.
Ehrenrich is believed to have targeted Krigel in order to steal custody of his minor child with Attorney Stephanie Duran. Duran worked with Nix in 2017 at the Tulsa County District Attorneys Office. Flash forward (5) five years and Duran and Nix are both cases prosecuted by Darin Ehrenrich. Duran has disobeyed a subpoena for over a year in the Krigel matter asking for all her messages with ADA Nix.
Ehrenrich previously let go by TPD
Ehrenrich was previously fired from Tulsa Police Department (TPD) as what was described as budget constraints.5 For some reason he was brought back onto the force after TPD received a grant.6 In Krigel’s CJ lawsuit he alleges that by fact or belief Ehrenrich was arrested in academy for some type of alcohol related arrest. In the same petition he alleges that by fact or belief the Detective to be in a prior romantic relationship with ADA Nix.
Ehrenrich is a guy who graduated OSU around 2010, married his college sweetheart and the relationship appears to not have lasted longer than a year and a half. According to OSCN.NET the two file for divorce twice within a year of the marriage, the second time divorcing by fill in the blank ‘pay less’ do it yourself divorce forms. His ex appears to be a veterinarian in Tulsa Oklahoma. Anyone with knowledge of or past encounters with Detective Ehrenrich are invited to write into this page. If anyone has any information on anyone else in this article including the Tulsa Fraternal Order of Police, Tulsa District Attorney’s Office, or anyone else, are welcome to write here.
I have no knowledge of what Reyes did or did not do in this case. What I can tell you is if it has Lt. Det. Darin Ehrenrich’s name on it, it is not worth the paper it is written on.
5 TPD Ehrenrich Budget constraints: https://www.news9.com/story/11392169/thirty-seven-tulsa-cityemployees-get-pink-slips?redirected=true
6 TPD brings Ehrenrich back: https://www.newson6.com/story/11429678/eighteen-laid-off-tulsa-policeofficers-will-be-rehired?redirected=true