KTRE-TV reported last night that federal court documents recently released names former Tenaha City Marshal and Shelby County Constable Fred Walker as a co-conspirator to an alleged drug theft that occurred at his office in August 2010.

 

The news story says that Walker and Tenaha businessman Roderrete McClure stole drugs and firearms from the evidence room in Walker’s city office over several months. McClure is serving three years in federal prison from charges stemming from the investigation to the theft.

 

Court documents state an FBI agent was asked to investigate an extortion letter turned in to the Shelby County’s District Attorney’s office by Walker from a person by the name of “Jack Frost” that claimed to know about Walker and McClure and wanted $70,000.

 

The letter was traced to a man in the Dallas area that said he was hired by McClure and Walker to help sell the drugs that they had stolen from the evidence locker.

 

The report says that paperwork claims 500 pounds and over 2,000 grams of prescription drugs in pill form had been stolen.

 

The man said McClure also staged a burglary of Walker’s office to cover his tracks, and allegedly purchased a rifle at Center Walmart and shot the glass door out of the constable’s office in Tenaha and stole 20 pounds of marijuana, cocaine, prescription drugs, and seven guns that were thrown into Flat Fork Creek in Shelby County.

 

He and a co-conspirator also ransacked the evidence room, and left documents and a map to make it appear the break-in was performed by members of a Mexican drug organization.

 

The report says there’s no record of any case against Walker at this time.

 

Fred Walker