Citizen Report No. 1678568559 - 893280338

Wells was hired by the Tulsa Police Department Oct. 1, 1975 and retired in May 2010 shortly before his indictment.

In a Federal indictment, former Tulsa Police officer Harold Wells and current Tulsa Police officers Nick DeBruin and Earnest Bruce Bonham were charged with a drug conspiracy and a civil rights conspiracy stemming from allegations that these officers and others planted drug evidence on suspects they arrested.

Wells was indicted on ten(10) counts: three(3) related to civil rights violations, three(3) related to drugs, two(2) related to theft of U.S. funds, one(1) firearms count and one(1) count of using a telephone to commit a felony.

Each is also charged with possessing a firearm during and in relation to a drug trafficking offense. These three officers were also charged in a conspiracy to steal government funds and theft of government funds. DeBruin is separately charged with depriving Cody Weavel of his civil rights by depriving Weavel of property without due process of law. Wells is charged in a civil rights conspiracy involving the theft of money from Hugo Gutierrez during the execution of a search warrant in January 2008. The indictment lists co-conspirators in the Gutierrez matter as James K. Gray, a former TPD officer; Callison Kaiser, a former TPD officer, a United States Secret Service agent; and Eric Hill, a current Tulsa Police officer. Wells is also charged in a substantive civil rights deprivation count involving Gutierrez; with distribution of methamphetamine; use of a telephone in connection with a drug trafficking offense; and in a separate drug conspiracy alleging that Wells conspired with Gray to distribute methamphetamine. 

During Wells' trial, prosecutors played eight taped telephone calls and one taped meeting between Wells and an undercover FBI agent posing as a drug dealer named "Joker." Wells discussed allowing the dealer to come to Tulsa and sell methamphetamine to customers who would not be arrested, provided that the dealer allowed one customer to be arrested.

Wells was convicted June 10, 2011 of drug conspiracy and stealing funds during an FBI sting in May 2009. U.S. District Judge Bruce Black of New Mexico gave retired Cpl. Harold R. Wells, 60, the longest term of three officers: 10 years in prison and five years probation.

See also:  Sean "Sticks" Larkins, Mike Cawiezelle, Brandon McFadden, Bill Yelton, Jeff Henderson, Sean Hickey, Frank Khalil, Nick Debruin, Earnest Bruce Bonham, John K. "J.J." Gray, Eric Hill, Callison Kaiser, John McDowell