A Sheriff’s Cover-Up: How Oconee County Law Enforcement Weaponized a False Report to Sabotage a Court Case
On March 14, while off duty, Jimmy Dixon and Berry Owens visit the Pierce Estate to protect their friends from a damming Affidavit.
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A Sheriff’s Cover-Up: How Oconee County Law Enforcement Weaponized a False Report to Sabotage a Court Case
On March 14, 2024, an unmarked SUV rolled up to the estate of Doyle Pierce, stopping at a distance up and outside the gate. Inside the vehicle were two men, Jimmy Dixon and Berry Owens, officers with the Oconee County Sheriff’s Office. They claimed they were there in response to a missing child report—but their actions that day, and the cover-up that followed, reveal a disturbing abuse of power, falsified records, and an effort to obstruct a critical court proceeding.
A Conveniently Timed “Missing Child” Report
The timing of this so-called “child welfare check” was highly suspicious. Mrs. Pierce had court hearings scheduled all day on March 14, where she intended to submit a damning affidavit from Sandra Pierce—a document that threatened to expose serious misconduct by those in power.
During a brief recess, Dorothy returned home for lunch, facing strict deadlines to prepare for the afternoon court session. At approximately 11:30 a.m., as I, Jason Boyle, was unlocking the gate at the entrance of the estate, an unmarked police SUV pulled in behind me. The officers inside made no attempt to engage with me initially, which raised immediate red flags.
Realizing they were hesitant to approach, I walked to them. The driver identified himself as Jimmy Dixon, with Berry Owens sitting in the passenger seat. Dixon claimed that three days prior, someone had reported our child missing.
But their actions proved the missing child claim was a pretext—a fabricated excuse to justify an unannounced, off-the-record visit meant to intimidate Dorothy just hours before her critical court appearance.
Dixon never asked to see the child.
Dixon refused my offer to bring the child to the station for verification.
As soon as I denied them access to the property and offered to meet at the sheriff’s office instead, Dixon and Owens suddenly lost interest and left without any further questions.
A real child welfare concern would have required immediate verification. Yet, these officers never intended to verify anything—because the report wasn’t real.
A Fabricated Call That Never Existed
After the incident, Mrs. Pierce and I went to the Oconee County Sheriff’s Office to file a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to obtain information on who had reported their child missing.
The response we received confirmed our worst fears—there was no record of a call, no documentation of a report, and no official record that Dixon and Owens had ever visited the estate.
When I asked for information at the front desk, an officer responded with something shocking:
“That’s impossible. Jimmy Dixon wasn’t even on duty that day.”
This meant that:
The visit wasn’t officially logged.
There was no legitimate dispatch call that brought Dixon and Owens to the estate.
They were operating off the record, weaponizing law enforcement outside of official duties.
Refusing to accept such a blatant cover-up, I filed another FOIA request for all communications and records of phone calls to and from his phone from March 14 through March 20—a period in which I had called Oconee County dispatch three times regarding this issue.
When I returned to retrieve the records, another disturbing revelation emerged:
None of the three calls he made to dispatch appeared in the official record.
No record of Dixon’s call to men from the “4111” number existed.
No record of Sheriff Mike Crenshaw’s call to me existed.
Every trace of communication regarding the March 14 intimidation attempt had been completely erased from the system.
This was not incompetence. This was deliberate destruction of evidence.
Police reports claim that Jimmy Dixon and Berry Owens visited the Pierce estate on March 13.
The police report that was produced by Jimmy Dixon was incredibly vague and did not include a statement about how the missing child report was obtained. the report did say that the caller reported the child missing 3 days before the welfare check was made. This alone seems atrocious if the missing child report is to be considered real. Additionally, the report produced stated that the visit to the Pierce Estate was made on March 13, a day before the actual event. It is assumed that this change in date is to cover up the fact that Jimmy Dixon was off duty at the time of the visit. It is important to note that on March 13 I was in Greenville all day, more than an hour way, and could not have been at my gate at 11:30 as Jimmy Dixons report states. I have text messages between contractors and coworkers that clearly show that I was working in Grenville all day on March 13, 2024.
Sheriff Mike Crenshaw’s Cover-Up
The manufactured nature of the March 14 incident pointed to a deeper issue: Sheriff Mike Crenshaw’s direct involvement in the cover-up.
Crenshaw originally claimed that the missing child report came in through dispatch and was forwarded to him. But here’s the problem:
Dispatch and front desk officers confirmed there was no record of any such call.
Crenshaw later claimed the report came from a man he did not know, who was anonymous to him, yet this unknown caller requested to speak with Crenshaw personally.
When pressed, Crenshaw pivoted and claimed the report may have come from the Department of Child Services (DCS)—another unverified and shifting claim.
These contradictions reveal that Crenshaw was not only complicit in the cover-up but was directly orchestrating it.
Crenshaw was using his position to protect Dixon, Owens, and the network of corrupt officers who engaged in an illegal, off-the-record intimidation operation.
Erasing a Hate Crime From the Record
This isn’t the first time Crenshaw has erased crimes from the record to protect his allies.
On September 15, 2020, Adam Pierce, a known criminal in the county, chased Mrs. Pierce through her yard, screaming racial slurs, calling her a “N****r”, and threatening to kill her and bury her in the woods where no one would ever find her.
Two 911 calls were placed regarding this violent hate crime:
One from Tammy Youngblood, who witnessed the attack.
One from Mrs. Pierce herself, reporting the assault.
Despite clear evidence of a death threat and racial violence, the Oconee County Sheriff’s Office refused to document the incident.
No police report was ever made.
No investigation was ever conducted.
No charges were ever filed.
Mrs. Pierce repeatedly requested that a report be filed—Crenshaw ignored her.
His refusal to act emboldened violent individuals, signaling that they could terrorize citizens without consequence as long as they had Crenshaw’s protection, and that is exactly what happened. If this crime would have been prosecuted, these same criminals would not have continued to terrorize Mrs. Pierce for all these years. Breaking into her factory and defaming her to her customers and partners. When the police cover for their friends, it creates a violent and targeted storm. These bands of criminals have been given full permission by Mike Crenshaw to do as they please with the most vulnerable demographic of citizens of Oconee County.
The Blueprint of a Cover-Up
The March 14 visit to the Doyle Pierce estate and the erasure of public records fit a pattern of corruption, intimidation, and obstruction under Sheriff Mike Crenshaw’s leadership.
Weaponizing fabricated reports to harass individuals before court dates.
Erasing public records to obstruct investigations.
Refusing to document hate crimes to protect violent offenders.
The people of Oconee County must wake up to the corruption at play. Crenshaw is not just allowing these crimes to happen—he is ensuring that those responsible face no consequences.
If this is what his department is willing to erase from the record, how many more crimes have been buried?
Oconee County Deserves Accountability
Sheriff Crenshaw and his corrupt officers have gone unchecked for far too long.
It is time for an independent investigation into:
The fabricated March 14 missing child report and the erasure of records.
The orchestrated intimidation tactics against Dorothy and Jason.
The cover-up of a racially motivated death threat.
Oconee County deserves transparency, not a sheriff who protects criminals while abusing innocent citizens.
It’s time to expose the truth.
Mr. Boyle filed complaints against Mike Crenshaw, Jimmy Dixon and Jordi Jamison in April of 2024. It is believed that these complaints were destroyed to protect these criminal cops and their closest allies. I filed the reports gain on February 14, 2025.