## [Citizen Report No. 1682444431 - 492058092](/citizen-report-no-1682444431-492058092) [![](/sites/default/files/styles/square_500_x_500_/public/2023-04/Ian.Wilkerson.PNG?itok=HWp8VwT8)](/individual/ian-%20wilkerson)Ian Wilkerson **[McCurtain County Sheriff's Office](/oklahoma/mccurtain-county-sheriffs-office)** 108 North Central Avenue Idabel, Oklahoma 74745 [https://mccurtain.o…](https://mccurtain.okcounties.org/offices/county-sheriff) [![McCurtain County Sheriff's Office](/sites/default/files/styles/max_325x325/public/2022-04/download%20-%202022-04-29T135520.385.png?itok=Lsuy2SlZ "McCurtain County Sheriff's Office")](/oklahoma/mccurtain-county-sheriffs-office) ## Date of Offense October 31, 2021 ## Offense(s) [Cooperative Misconduct](/duty/cooperative-misconduct) [Fraud](/duty/fraud) ## Supporting Document(s) [McCurtain County Gazette Article](/sites/default/files/2023-04/mccurtaingazettenews.com-Dog%20used%20by%20sheriffs%20office%20banned%20from%20Texas%20after%20attack%20%281%29.pdf "mccurtaingazettenews.com-Dog used by sheriffs office banned from Texas after attack (1).pdf") [Bevo & Wilkerson FB Video](/sites/default/files/2023-04/%282%29%20K-9%20Bevo%20_%20Facebook_0.mp4 "(2) K-9 Bevo _ Facebook_0.mp4") ## Statement Deputy Ian Wilkerson was unable to properly contain his [K9 Unit, "Bevo"](https://giglio-bradylist.com/citizen-report-no-1682444135-933066675), while reportedly visiting an Allen, TX residential neighborhood, where the dog escaped, resulting in a child being hospitalized after sustaining multiple bite injuries. A Collin County Judge declared the K9 to be a dangerous animal and banned the dog from Texas for the remainder of his life. [Read more...](https://giglio-bradylist.com/citizen-report-no-1682444135-933066675) Statements made by [Sheriff Kevin Clardy](https://giglio-bradylist.com/individual/kevin-%20clardy) and investigative reporting by [The McCurtain Gazette](https://mccurtaingazettenews.com/dog-used-by-sheriffs-office-banned-from-texas-after-attack/) indicate that the Sheriff told the public that the dog is privately owned by Wilkerson, however, the local newspaper uncovered that the County had paid for vet visits and food for the maintenance and upkeep of the animal that would constitute a misappropriation of assets and noncompliance of state statutes, since the dog is not owned by the county. --- [![Citizens Overseeing Police Oklahoma](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/2025-07/Citizens%20Overseeing%20OK%20Logo%20%28250%20x%20250%20px%29%20%281%29.png?itok=DZqGUclc "Citizens Overseeing Police Oklahoma")](/oklahoma/citizens-overseeing-police-oklahoma) ***We will not stand by as our brothers and sisters are brutalized, criminalized, and silenced.*** We reject a world where the powerful profit from our poverty and our lives are treated as expendable. We will not wait for justice to be handed down from above. We will organize, resist, and take it for ourselves. **WE ARE NO LONGER ASKING...** \#ReformIsNotARequest [Learn more >>>](/oklahoma/citizens-overseeing-police-oklahoma)