Four Chickasaw State Park employees, who were informants nearly a year ago for a police gambling bust of seven men on Chickasaw grounds, are suing the state and several park employees for employment retaliation.
Of the seven men fined last February for gambling in a poker game in a Chickasaw cabin, two were Chickasaw employees — former park manager Guy Garner and park ranger Donald Earl Holmes.
Since then, park employees Doris Siler, Roy Burkeens, Gaylon Rowland and Kathy Maness say they have been retaliated against in the workplace for giving police the information needed to raid the poker game.
On Friday, the four filed a lawsuit against Garner; Holmes; the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation; the department's regional manager, Randy Smalley; George Larry ''Buddy'' Smith, a Chickasaw supervisor; Mike Carlton, director of park operations; and Mary Simpson Tims, a Chickasaw park ranger, according to the complaint filed in Chester County Circuit Court.
None of the named defendants could be reached for comment. Speaking on behalf of TDEC, spokesman David Owenby said he had not seen the lawsuit when contacted Tuesday and reserved comment until reading it.
— Jamie Page, The Jackson Sun
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