A married Texas police chief was arrested on Thursday for allegedly falsifying an annulment document to make his lover believe they would be married soon. When she tried to verify the document, she went viral and discovered that he was dating another woman who was not his wife.
After a series of twists worthy of a soap opera, former Stinnett police chief Jason Collier, a 41-year-old ordained minister married with four children, is accused of tampering with a government document intended to defraud, a crime, according to the local KACR station.
The Stinnett city government put him on administrative leave on Wednesday, and his resignation came shortly after, according to several Facebook posts by city officials. He got out of prison.
Public Security Sergeant Cindy Barkley said in a statement: “Collier allegedly sent a text message to the victim with a fraudulent government record attached. The document was a fraudulent marriage annulment. According to Collier’s former employer, the Borger Police Department, he is also an ordained minister.
The saga started when an Amarillo woman named Cecily Steinmetz said it was Collier‘The mistress posted about her alleged engagement on Facebook on Tuesday. The post prompted Kristi Shaffer, another woman who said she was involved with Collier, to speak up and reveal that the boss had proposed to her as well. Collier’s own Facebook page has since disappeared.
Steinmetz wrote on Facebook: “Chief Jason Collier is leading a double / triple life. I was his girlfriend until yesterday. He lied to me and presented me with false annulment documents when I found out he was married. I also found out about a second girlfriend, Kristi, last night. He lied to us, our children, and asked us both to marry him ”.
She said he would visit her in Amarillo while working as a police officer. To convince her that they were really about to get married, the police chief sent Steinmetz a photo of an annulment via Instagram, according to a screenshot. When she checked with the 108th District Court, where Collier claimed he had filed the case, the court had no record.
Steinmetz told KACR, “He said, ‘Well, you know, I’m going to get it overturned’, and he said, ‘Just wait.’ I was like, ‘Okay, you know, let me see then’, and he sent me. And I said to him, I said, ‘Well, I’m not going to take that at face value. “
Speaking to KACR, Judge 108th District Doug Woodburn said: “There is no correspondence with that name or cause number. Our case numbers are completely different … My court is followed by the letter E. It is a scam. “