An Oklahoma woman just learned the hard way why you shouldn’t blackmail people.
19-year-old mother of two Haley B. Adkerson (pictured) is charged with counts of blackmail, conspiracy to commit a felony, and child neglect after she and her boyfriend threatened to out a former classmate as “a homosexual” if he didn’t pay them $500 in cash.
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The incident happened in Enid, Oklahoma (pop. 50,725) earlier this month. According to an affidavit, police received a call on July 6 from a man who claimed someone was threatening to reveal his secret “homosexual lifestyle on Facebook.”
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That “someone” was Adkerson’s boyfriend, whose name has not been released.
Sgt. Bryan Hart was assigned the investigate the matter. When Hart followed up with the victim, he learned the alleged blackmailer was a former high school classmate of the man who initially contacted him on Facebook earlier in the year and had been harassing him for months.
In addition to sending threatening Facebook messages, the victim told Hart that he had also received text messages and a creepy handwritten note in his mailbox.
Hart then used the victim’s phone to communicate with the alleged blackmailer/boyfriend. They arranged a meeting at a local United Supermarket on July 8, where the boyfriend instructed the victim to “give the money to my partner” (aka Haley B. Adkerson).
Little did he or Adkerson know, the whole thing was a sting operation.
When Adkerson pulled up at the scene to collect the 500 smackeroos, she was met by two Narcotics Unit members, who arrested her on the spot. Her two children, ages 3 and 5, were in the car with her.
Adkerson admitted to delivering the handwritten note, but she told police that she was simply following her boyfriend’s instructions. Unfortunately for her, authorities weren’t convinced. She now faces up to life in prison plus a $5,000 fine for child neglect, up to five years in prison and a $10,000 fine for blackmail, and up to 10 years in prison and a $5,000 fine for conspiracy. The boyfriend has also been arrested and is currently being held in the Jefferson County jail.
The moral of the story: Don’t fuck with the gays.
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h/t: Enid News
Brent Wilson
Um. “Sting”, not “string”
Brent Wilson
“Forget it, Jake—–it’s Oklahoma.”
Mike Jasinski
19. “Mother” of 2, ages 5 and 3. Slut got knocked up when she was 14. Who’s the real ass bag here?!
Pete Trebesch
I’d be surprised if anyone serves jail time.
Austin Matthew
Godsmack !!
Ladbrook
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
I’m wondering if her idiot boyfriend ever caught an episode of HBO’s Oz.
Southstguy
Anyone who has multiple kids in high school is a dumbass. One unplanned baby is an accident. Any more is complete stupidity.
DistingueTraces
For 500 bucks you throw your life away?
She won’t get anything like the maximum sentence, but a felony conviction is going to follow her forever.
That’s actually really depressing.
meghanada
Cvnt.
Harley
What’s her scream “Christian persecution” and set up a GoFundMe site.
Harley
Watch. Damn autocorrect.
Stephen Meeks
Ha Ha
Terry Purdue
This is crazy
Frank Swilling
Ok, she’s an a-hole, but life in prison? That’s a little harsh, don’t you think?
Glücklich
Don’t you just love when bad things happen to worse people?
@Mike Jasinski:
Who’s the real assbag? Well, it’s Oklahoma so it’s probably Cousin-papa on the first one. The second? Sleeveless tee under the bleachers at the spring monster truck rally after a few swigs of moonshine. Or Uncle Brother.
Oddly, Norman, OK is home a fairly well-respected university.
Kevin J Desmond
I hope she gets life without parole !!!
Rimminit
Same thing happened to me years ago. As a health care professional, I risked public humiliation and professional exclusion if outed. After the the 3rd blackmail payment (they don’t go away), I threatened to go to the authorities. Never heard from him again. Lesson learned: Never placate these low life’s! Immediately turn them in!
Doug Lia
Let her learn that other people have feelings–besides the ones SHE has between her legs!!!
Milton Appleby
No matter how far we have come their is still a stigma of being called a homosexual. It’s such a shame that sexuality can be used to blackmail someone.
mcflyer54
So much of this screams stupidity but come on $500 … seriously? $500 … no wonder she had a kid at 14 and 16, she’s dumber than a bag of rocks … $500 …. I mean, if you’re gonna blackmail someone at lease ask for enough money to make jail time worthwhile if you get caught.
natriley
I’m glad the blackmail was stopped but totally depressed that such harsh penalties are allowed. I think it’s a mistake to let the urge to protect ourselves turn into vindictiveness.. Oklahoma should be ashamed of itself.
Michael Little
Remove the children from her permanently.
BigG
she’s an idiot but I’m more concerned with the guy who was harassing him for months I hope he gets it twice as bad as she does.
Bad Ass Biker
“The moral of the story: Don’t fuck with the gays.” OR never mess with a queen. But really what kind of trailer trash is she to have a five year old kid when she is only 19? Must be a cousin to the Palins.
russellhm
Ah, lovely Enid, OK. Ya know how it got its name? Around the time of the opening of the land rush for settlers, a chap was eating in a little cafe with the word “Dine” painted on the front window. And he thought, reading it backwards would be Enid! Also, the home of Halliburton. And just the greatest little religious values on earth are spawned here and nurtured. And of course, gays “are an abomination” to these religious trolls but maybe we can still make money off them by blackmail. And boy, did this couple go for the gold—$500.00 to protect his sexual orientation. “And the wavin’ wheat, can sure smell sweet, when the wind comes right behind the rain. . . We know we belong to the land (NOT ANYMORE!) and the land we belong to is grand. . .”
William C Grenillo
Hey a gay got like 50 something year’s for black mail..That’s all I’m saying
dvlaries
Haley, if you wanted it to work, you needed to find a married, closet-case Republican office holder. Even Oklahoma must have its little Dennis Hasterts.
M J Martinez Crogan
Life for blackmail ? Lock up the funcking judge and prosecution
Merv
A whole $500?! Apparently the sky is the limit in Oklahoma. They’d never even heard of that much money in one place before.
money718
Oklahoma? Community service at best.
mike51295
Trouble is it happened in Oklohoma. If it goes to a trial the jury will most likely be anti gay.
Gerald GeeLocke Panuthos
I WISH A BITCH WOULD
Ororo Munroe
Yall petty for this headline
Will L
Enid – big enough to be a small city but country all the way. I can see this.
I’ve lived to see marriage legalized. I just hope that I live long enough that we have to explain to youngsters that this sort of thing happened. We aren’t such an easy target anymore.
notevenwrong
Can we agree that the punitive sentencing laws in this country are out of control? We are the laughing stock of the Western world.
Chris Tan
What I don’t understand is that why are there so many gay men who still chose to be in the closet and are afraid to be out when gay marriage has been legalized on a federal level? What progress can the gay movement make if all of us chose to be in the closet?
Ogre Magi
@Mike Jasinski: and yet they look down on us
money718
@Chris Tan: Family, religion, location.
Tony Rizzi
You can’t call women “cunts” anymore–but this evil bitch is a predatory cunt.
Tony Rizzi
And she’s ugly!
Chris DeMay
Justice!!
Jacob23
*Sigh* She is not going to get a life sentence. What happens is that the press release from the DA or the police lists the charges and then includes a routine description of the penalty ranges. Bad journalists then seize on the maximum penalty and report that the “defendant faces up to X years.” It’s totally misleading. Most likely they get 6-12 months plus a period of supervision.
John P Farinhas
what a whore
Liam
She has boobs and a vagina – she won’t serve much if any time.
Misty Bolling
What a horrible thing to teach her children
Rochelle Flores
The kids will be better off without her and the boyfriend.
Vallin
I always make passes at cute girls in glasses because I think they’re smart. But this is one stupid bitch! Life in jail for only asking $500. Her fine is 10 times that! Gawd…small-town criminals!
Bob LaBlah
This girl is what is referred to as poor white trash. I bet you any money this ol’ whore was friends with the gay guy during grammar school and as soon as she got banged good in junior high she started distancing herself from her friend, the gay guy. I know. Been there. Done that.
Vincent Milligan
Good. Bye , Felicia
Raphael
Burn.
Michael Martinez
Good. Maybe if “straight” people understand there are consequences fr victimizing someone over their sexuality, they will think twice about doing it.
dubstepskater
Ok… So she’s 19 and has a 5 y/o? And she thinks being gay is bad? Lol… I guess being a 14 y/o Ho is better right? Lol
Glücklich
@dubstepskater:
She had to have been an obligatory guest on Maury or Jerry. Just gross.
“Yeah, lemme take a look around and see how well droppin’ a litter before 18 has worked out for the rest of the welfare recipients and Klanswomen up in this trailer park, generation after generation, because I know it will be different for me!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yiQXPOO1Yo
Chris Tan
If that gay guy is NOT a wimp, he would not be that vulnerable and have to go through this hassle. We do NOT need any wimpy and closeted gay guys in the gay community anymore!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Bauhaus
@Glücklich:
That video! You know they’re my peeps, right? Haven’t laughed so hard in a long time. Thanks for that.
Glücklich
@Bauhaus:
Oh good, for a sec I thought I was going to be persona non grata around here for not, y’now, incorporating skywriting as part of my coming out. What bullshit. Even as a proud complete fucking idiot, though, I am disappointed I wasn’t able to wrest the “World’s Worst Gay” title from Ian Reisner.
Now I know how Cate Blanchett felt getting slapped around as she cries “I’m a Nazi AND a Jew!” in “The Good German”. Fuckin’ A!
Bauhaus
@Glücklich:
Are you kidding me? YOU were a gentleman, your equanimity admirable! Sorry if the comment I made seemed ambiguous in my support for you, and for not making it clear sooner. Fuckin’ A right!
adrianjurado310
anything I put on Facebook.com should be hung from a plane and flown and please try to sell it too if you can. If you think you will be blackmailed or have other unexpected consequences do not do it. I don’t think that info really is worth $500 dollars, or anything. no one cares about that but it is illegal to contact someone that way threatingly so she should go to prison for that crime.