Tier 1 — County-Wide Elected Power
Sheriffs, Circuit Judges, and Circuit Clerks — the officials with the broadest institutional control over the record.
Sheriff Joey "Buddy" East
Self-investigating signatory in the $34,000 Metro Narcotics Unit shortage; blocked Reardon's car and barred him from the courthouse; sought two civil commitments in a two-week window right after Reardon requested LCLEOA financial records; testified jail parking-lot video is "selectively preserved," directly contradicting his own earlier sworn claim that DUI-stop footage was "gone forever."
Circuit Judge Grady Tollison
Presided over the Nov 2022 probation revocation built on Deputy Beavers's disputed testimony (later vacated), then presided again over the July 2024 second revocation, sentencing Reardon to 2 more years in MDOC custody based on a toxicology result tied to a felony charge already dismissed weeks earlier — over Reardon's cited Williams v. State / Elkins v. State objection.
Circuit Clerk Jeff Busby
A March 2024 letter shows he told Galveston, TX prosecutors about Reardon's DUI appeal status. A November 2025 sworn federal affidavit has him swearing under oath he never did. Both documents exist. Also implicated in the Metro Narcotics records-tampering chain — a deputy clerk who found Reardon's altered DUI file called Busby before calling anyone else.
Chief Deputy Scott Mills
Co-founder of LCLEOA alongside Sheriff East; one of the two officials who "discovered" the second $30,000 Metro Narcotics shortage in an internal review with an obvious conflict of interest. Refused to take Reardon's perjury complaint against Deputy Beavers over the phone in Aug 2023 — six days before the retaliatory Galveston arrest.
Tier 2 — Judicial & Institutional Authority
Other judges and department heads with direct control over Reardon's liberty, cases, or record.
Judge Mickey Avent
Signed the initial 2017 temporary restraining order sought by Mona Pittman on Phyllis Crowder's behalf.
Judge Kelly Luther
Denied Reardon's 2020 PCR motion without a hearing; assigned to the case after an alleged irregular judge swap from Kent Smith.
Judge Carolyn Bell
Met privately with sheriff's investigators before Reardon's May 2017 initial appearance, then set a $150,000 bond and refused to look at the bill-of-sale evidence that made the underlying charge's timeline a physical impossibility.
Sheriff Jimmy Edwards
Personally arrested Reardon June 1, 2026 for carrying a sign into the Justice Court and Courthouse; phone seized without a warrant.
Police Chief D. Shumpert
Arrested Reardon at the federal building in Aberdeen on security staff's word alone, while Reardon was trying to file a §1983 complaint; case was routed to municipal, not federal, court.
Judge Juana Marine Lombard
Signed the warrant against Reardon the same afternoon of the Nov 12, 2025 Allied Universal guard incident in which Reardon himself was struck and injured; the guard who hit him was never charged.
Chief Jeff McCutchen
Named as a defendant alongside Capt. Sessums in Reardon v. Layton City, UT (D. Utah, filed March 2025). Record is genuinely mixed, not one-sided: he personally got Reardon a same-day copy of a police report after the July 2021 US Attorney's Office incident, but was also recorded referring to AUSA Bob Norman as "blowhard Bob" on the same call — included here for completeness, not as a villain.
Tier 3 — Prosecutors & Conflicted Counsel
Prosecutors and attorneys whose decisions shaped the charges and their outcomes.
ADA Tiffany Kilpatrick
Petitioned to revoke Reardon's probation using Deputy Beavers's disputed testimony while campaigning for Lafayette County Judge — using the case, on Reardon's account, as campaign leverage.
AUSA Bob Norman
On-tape confrontation outside the Oxford U.S. Attorney's Office; an FBI-302 report tied to his office was later reported missing.
Attorney Brennan Horan
Advised Reardon in a jail consultation room that signing the Tannehill restraining order without contesting it would help secure release; that order became a load-bearing legal instrument in the 2022 case five years later.
Attorney Rhea Tannehill
The 2022 aggravated-stalking case's named victim's family; called the Metro Narcotics missing-money story "old news" to a reporter before it was ever publicly reported — a named-source, on-record claim of advance non-public knowledge.
Attorney Mitchell Driskell
Joined Rhea Tannehill's law firm in August 2022, shortly before the second stalking prosecution.
Attorney Bela J. Chain III
Represented the State's position in Reardon v. State, 2024-KM-00839-COA — reversed against the State in Feb 2026, directly contradicting Clerk Busby's own Nov 2025 federal affidavit.
Tier 4 — Officers, Deputies & Investigators
The officials who executed the stops, arrests, and testimony at the center of the record.
Deputy Kandi Beavers
Her Nov 2022 revocation testimony that she had no prior knowledge of Reardon's FBI visit is disputed by a recorded call showing she was told in advance. Also the officer in his Feb 2021 DUI stop.
Officer William Osteen
A federal magistrate's own July 2026 report and recommendation states plainly: "The record shows that Osteen lied to Judge Tollison. That is disturbing." His affidavit claimed dilated eyes/slurred speech; his own sworn testimony months later said pinpoint pupils and rapid speech. A forced blood draw showed 0.00 alcohol.
Major Alan Wilburn
One of four senior officers who arrested Reardon on the 2017 aggravated-stalking charge later disproven by a bill of sale.
Lt. Jared/Jarrett Bundren
Built the 2017 stalking case's probable-cause affidavit from Facebook screenshots five days after a public dispute; the case's core factual theory doesn't appear anywhere in his own initiating report.
Board President CJ Bright
Confronted Reardon on a public sidewalk during a First Amendment audit, admitting on camera he couldn't legally stop him — then the Board issued a preemptive profanity rule days later.
Investigator Adam Fitz/Fitts
Named by Reardon in the June 2026 Aberdeen federal-courthouse arrest sequence.
Captain "SRQ" Lee
Texted colleagues a link to Reardon's published report on his own arrest, captioned "Watch the video with us in it. Lol."
Officer Junious Grady
Swore the affidavit against Reardon after the Nov 2025 Allied Universal guard incident, relying on the guard's coworkers as witnesses.
Officer Victor Paz (#26091)
Declared Reardon "the aggressor" in the same incident where Reardon was the one hospitalized.
Officer McIver (#00625)
Booked Reardon at the Jan 2026 retaliatory-arrest sequence, on a charge that was later dismissed under disposition code "Refused — Law Enforcement Issue."
Capt. Hildon Sessums
Named defendant, Reardon v. Layton City, UT et al. (D. Utah, filed March 2025), alongside Layton PD's Lt. Richins and Mark Arrington — an Oxford, MS officer pulled into a Utah federal suit.
Tier 5 — Peripheral Actors
Lower-authority roles named in the record; included for completeness, not equivalence with the tiers above.
Tana Scoby
Claimed ignorance when a public-records request for footage of Reardon's own assault was denied.
Jerome Ard
Struck Reardon with a metal flashlight, splitting his head open — never charged.
Lt. Richins
Named defendant in Reardon v. Layton City, filed District of Utah, March 2025.
Mark Arrington
Named defendant in the same Utah federal suit.
Chad Mood
Named in connection with a courtroom incident; which specific event and year is still being confirmed.
Timmy Pruitt
Hearsay allegations regarding evidence tampering are unconfirmed and included only as a flagged, uncorroborated claim.
Vidal & Savage
Coworkers of the guard who struck Reardon with a flashlight on Nov 12, 2025; their accounts were the basis Officer Grady relied on to swear the affidavit against Reardon rather than against Ard, who was never charged.