Posted on 09/07/2006 4:32:09 PM PDT by Osage Orange
Thu September 7, 2006
By Ron Jackson Snyder police chief’s wife at the center of scandal
Citizens angry over police chief's wife's porn
By Ron Jackson The Oklahoman
On Main Street, Snyder offers the trappings of most small towns in rural Oklahoma - a country store, a weekly newspaper office, several churches and leisurely pedestrian traffic.
The setting belies the controversy that has beseiged this town of 1,500 people in recent weeks and prompted a state investigation.
Doris Ozmun, wife of Snyder Police Chief Tod Ozmun, struggles to understand that controversy, which swirls around her adult porn Web site.
Last week, more than 70 residents crammed into the town’s tiny City Hall chambers to demand that her husband be fired. Mayor Dale Moore took a firm stand, saying Tod Ozmun would remain police chief as long as Moore remained mayor.
The debate continues to spill into the streets and into a few Sunday morning sermons.
District Attorney John Wampler, meanwhile, called the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation on Tuesday to request an investigation into the pornography.
“I can’t believe this has been blown so far out of proportion,” Doris Ozmun, 43, said Wednesday. “I don’t understand. I just don’t understand. I could if I had done something illegal, or if I had murdered someone. But this is amazing ... You know what I call this? I call this a witch-hunt.”
Ozmun said she has decided to shut down her Web site.
“This has mortified my family,” Ozmun said. “And it has caused a lot of hurt and destruction, not only for myself, but also for my husband and family.”
A number of residents contend Snyder and its people are the true victims.
“It’s embarassing,” said Carla Schulz, owner of a local cafe. “We don’t like this kind of thing. This is a quiet, churchgoing community.”
Snyder’s eight churches bear that out. Vices like alcohol, which was banned long ago, are few. A lone bar sits outside town, just beyond the city limit, where rocky hills and groves of mesquite trees dominate the landscape.
“Snyder is like most small communities,” said Jeff Flowers, pastor of the First Baptist Church. “The people here don’t take too much to outside influences coming in, like we have seen recently with this porn Web site. I don’t like that too much myself.”
Flowers offered a much stronger opinion in his weekly church bulletin. He included a four-page pamphlet that oozes conviction backed by Scripture. His pamplet read, in part: “I want it clear that if our chief of police ... is part of or responsible for the publishing of such pictures and the production of such a Web site ... or behind the camera, etc., such is a dastardly shameful act that ought indeed result in termination of service.”
Larry Dismore, owner of a downtown general store, was equally blunt.
“The mayor and police chief obviously don’t care much for this town,” said Dismore, 63. “Frankly, I just wish they would move.”
Dismore, like most residents encountered downtown, was appalled by the pornographic photographs that were downloaded from Ozmun’s Web site. Fliers of the images first began to circulate around town three weeks ago, showing nudity and penetration.
“I saw them,” said Teresa Mills, a Snyder native who strongly voiced her displeasure with the police chief and his wife. “They were disgusting.”
Wampler, the district attorney, also viewed the downloaded photographs of Ozmun on Tuesday afternoon.
“It could be illegal if it meets the Supreme Court’s definition of pornography,” Wampler said. “But it’s actually much more complex than it sounds. One question would be where were the photos taken. Are they even in Kiowa County’s jurisdiction?”
This isn’t the first time Doris Ozmun has been the focus of controversy. In November 2000, she was convicted of conspiracy to distribute a controlled dangerous substance and sentenced to 10 years in prison. At the time, Ozmun said she was dating Tod Ozmun and working as an undercover agent for the Jefferson County Narcotics Enforcement Team, where he served as director.
The OSBI investigated Tod Ozmun at the time, but no charges were ever filed.
One year later, they married while Doris Ozmun was incarcerated in Oklahoma County.
Tuesday, Tod Ozmun spent a lot of his time declining media interviews and fielding dozens of calls from anonymous men who wanted to know his wife’s Web site address. Ozmun shook his head in disbelief, gazing down at his office phone.
“I’m at work, man,” Ozmun said with a gasp of exasperation. “I just want to put this behind us and move on.”
Tuesday, Tod Ozmun spent a lot of his time declining media interviews and fielding dozens of calls from anonymous men who wanted to know his wife’s Web site address. Ozmun shook his head in disbelief, gazing down at his office phone.
"I call this a witch-hunt.”"
Someone showed her picture on another thread, I would suggest a witch hunt with an elephant gun.
Todd, you've been hodd.
Perhaps the city council could change the police chiefs job to a part time job... at one hour a week at minumum wage.
He married a real prize, there. What if they have kids?
Holy Mother of God,being married to that,I think the Chief deserves a commendation,not dismissal.
Mayor Dale Moore took a firm stand, saying Tod Ozmun would remain police chief as long as Moore remained mayor.
We are likely talking weeks? Days? Hours?
ROFLOL!
Look at all that meat and no potatoes.
I bet that is the only Porn site to ever go out of business.
Jeees!
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