The Bombing at Konawa
On or about January 6, 2021, at approximately 9:00 a.m., I received a telephone call from David Fleck, the neighbor to the north of my wife Dreama Sue Walker‑McDermott's fifty‑acre property located at 14177 D 1411, Konawa, Oklahoma 74849. He stated, "Your home just blew up."
Minutes after the explosion, the Konawa Fire Department arrived, headed by Fire Chief Tim Coffey. The first home had been destroyed by an explosive device. While the department was extinguishing the first fire, a second home across the circle drive was destroyed by a second explosion. We lost in excess of five hundred thousand dollars in property, including roughly one hundred thousand dollars in cash improvements and forty thousand dollars in tools purchased months earlier. We carried no insurance, our homeowner's policy having been cancelled months before after repeated break‑ins. It is my sworn account that Chief Coffey thereafter misrepresented facts to the American Red Cross, and that my family received no assistance whatsoever.
The Charge and the Arrest
On or about January 29, 2021, a criminal charge was initiated against me alleging threatening text messages. The probable‑cause affidavit was filed January 29, 2021, and refiled on or about August 9, 2022, becoming Case No. CM‑2022‑150. It is my position that this charge followed, and was motivated by, my decades of protected speech and public commentary concerning official conduct.
On or about August 8, 2022, I was arrested on the private property of Joe Akers, located in Mounds, Okmulgee County — outside Seminole County — by a deputy of the Okmulgee County Sheriff's Office, who announced that I was under arrest on a Seminole County warrant. It is my sworn position that the arrest of a person for a misdemeanor upon private property, by an out‑of‑county officer and without the judicial authorization our rules require, was unlawful. I was jailed approximately eighteen days before posting a bond of $103,500.
The Court Proceedings
After appearances and continuances, and after a matter concerning the withdrawal of my retained counsel, I appeared before the court. When I sought to proceed and to assert my rights, my bond was revoked and I was ordered into segregated confinement. I spent approximately eighteen days in a segregation cell — solitary confinement — as a person not yet adjudicated of any offense, and suffered severe distress as a result.
When the bond company stood ready to reinstate the bond I had already paid, reinstatement was refused, compelling a new and costlier bond. A longtime friend loaned the funds necessary for my release. My total non‑adjudicated incarceration on this misdemeanor matter amounted to approximately twenty‑six days.
It is my sworn account that an assistant district attorney sought repeatedly to revoke my bond, and that these efforts were pursued not in good faith but to punish and silence me. A prosecutor is entitled to strike hard blows, but not foul ones. Berger v. United States, 295 U.S. 78, 88 (1935).
Verification
The foregoing is a true and correct statement of facts and circumstances within my personal knowledge, sworn under penalty of law pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 1001.
Respectfully submitted,
David Bruce McDermott II
Affiant, Pro Se