Citizen Report No. 1678580620 - 596923545

News coverage is unclear as to McDowell's direct role in the 2009 theft at the Super 8 Motel, however, the US Attorney's office places him on the scene.

"Based on information provided to Gray by the cooperating witness on May 18, 2009, Tulsa Police officers JJ Gray, Harold Wells, Nick DeBruin, Bruce Bonham, John McDowell, and Eric Hill all went to the hotel where the undercover agent was staying. The officers all believed the undercover agent either had drugs and/or money inside the hotel room based on information provided by the cooperating witness. At the hotel, the officers took the undercover agent into custody. The undercover agent then gave the officers consent to search the undercover agent’s hotel room. Wells and Gray went in to search the room and the video recording shows Gray, on two separate occasions during the search of the room, placing a portion of the cash into his back pants pocket. During the search, Gray contacted the cooperating witness and reported that he had discovered $8,000 cash in the room, as opposed to the total of $13,000 actually found.

The money that was taken during the search of the hotel room was divided among some of the officers present, including Officers Gray, DeBruin, Bonham, and Wells. However, after finding the cash in the hotel room, other TPD officers stationed outside the hotel room located a DOJ-OIG agent on surveillance. Upon learning of the discovery of the OIG agent, Gray, Wells and the other TPD officers became suspicious that the situation may be a sting operation. As a result of this suspicion, the money that had previously been taken by the officers was accumulated later that evening and combined with the rest that had been turned in from the hotel room. Eventually, all funds were reported by the officers and turned into TPD." - US Attorney's Office

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