The City of Sedona has filed what it describes as an unsubstantiated lien against former Sedona City Council members, city attorneys, city magistrates, and senior city law enforcement officers. I am suing six people.

On June 3, 2022, Sherry Evans sued Deputy Mayor Sandy Moriarty on behalf of Donna Joy Barney, Alyssa and Charles Tyler, Gail Beingo and Teresa Voss, according to the city’s complaint. , filed a notice of loss of ties with the Coconino County Registrar’s Office. Mayor Scott Jabrough, City Councilmen Kathy Kinsella, Tom Lamkin, Holly Ploog, John Thompson, Jessica Williamson and City Attorney Kurt Christianson.

The notice states that these officials violated the property rights of claimants, misled the public, acted contrary to their oaths of office, and engaged in “conspiracies against civil rights” to bring 141 charges against the U.S. Constitution. claimed to have committed an offence.

The notice was intended to create a commercial lien against performance bonds filed by the city on behalf of those officials, and called for payment of $11.2 million for those breaches.

On July 15, 2022, Evans filed a nearly identical complaint on her behalf against Justice of the Peace Paul Schlegel and Law Enforcement Officer Brian Armstrong, accusing them of violating her property and He allegedly defamed and demanded $1.1 million in allegedly unconstitutional lawsuits against 111 people. violation.

Coconino County Attorney William P. Ring notified the Registrar on Sept. 22 that the lien was not registered pursuant to a court order and is presumed void.

After Evans and his associates refused to release their lien, the city filed a complaint against them in Coconino County Superior Court on April 20.

“It is a crime to harass a public official by filing baseless, non-consensual liens,” the city said in its complaint. According to the complaint, the city does not issue bonds for the performance of public servants, instead insuring them through the City of Arizona’s Risk Retention Pool.

“These filings are nothing more than an attempt to bully, harass, and intimidate these officials,” the city’s complaint states. “The purpose of this lawsuit is to publicly expose defendants’ paper terrorism to obtain redress for defendants’ misconduct and to expunge these unsubstantiated submissions from public record.”

The City’s complaint seeks damages, a judicial declaration that the distress notice is void, consensual and without basis, attorneys’ fees and costs. Coconino County Registrar Patti Hansen is named in the lawsuit as an additional defendant in public capacity.

Defendant is still in prison. The full story of this incident will be published in the Wednesday, May 3 edition. sedona red rock news.