HANKY-PANKY TEXAS POLICE CHIEF BEING SUED FOR HAVING HIS LOVER’S HUSBAND ARRESTED

Former Princeton Texas, now Kyle, Texas police chief had doctor harassed and arrested while having an affair with the physician’s wife

Chief Jeffery Barnett apparently continued to have an affair with Dr. Glen Hurlston’s wife as he moved up from the thriving metropolis of Princeton, population 7,500, to the even more thriving metropolis of Kyle, population 31,000.

FEDERAL LAWSUIT: TEXAS POLICE CHIEF TORMENTED MAN DURING AFFAIR WITH HIS WIFE
By Carol Christian

Houston Chronicle
January 2, 2014

A Louisiana physician who claims he endured police harassment while his wife was having an affair with a Texas police chief is suing a group of officials in federal court.

Dr. Glen W. Hurlston, of Vernon Parish, La., filed the suit Dec. 27 in U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Texas, in Sherman.

Named as defendants are Jeffery Barnett, former police chief of Princeton, Texas, and now chief of the Kyle Police Department; Lt. Robert Mitchnik and other unnamed officers in the Princeton Police Department; and the cities of Princeton and Kyle.

According to Hurlston's complaint, his wife, Suzanne Hurlston, had an affair with Barnett for several years and bore him a son. At times, she fraudulently claimed the child was Hurlston's, the suit states.

Hurlston claims in the lawsuit that Barnett used his position as Princeton police chief to instruct other officers, including Mitchnik, to harass him.

According to the complaint, Mitchnik and other officers arrested Hurlston Jan. 1, 2012, on a charge of domestic abuse battery "without substantial evidence."

The charge was later reduced to a minor misdemeanor, to which Hurlston pleaded no contest, the suit states.

Hurlston claims he wouldn't have been arrested if it hadn't been for his wife's relationship with Princeton officers and their former chief.

Barnett, who left Princeton in May 2011 to become chief in Kyle, said the Kyle city attorney had advised him not to comment on the litigation because he had not yet been served with the suit.

In the complaint, Hurlston said the Princeton police department's harassment over the next year included numerous threats that he would be arrested if he "showed his face" in Collin County, for telephoning and texting his wife and her new boyfriend.

As for his wife, Hurlston's complaint states that she has "waxed hot and cold" since January 2012, going along with him as long as he provided money for her support, including paying for a photography course in Paris, France.

Hurlston is seeking unspecified damages and attorney fees. He is represented by attorney James B. Doyle of Lake Charles, La.

Officials at the city of Princeton did not immediately return calls Thursday seeking comment.