🔎 Trial Moved: All Okaloosa County judges recused themselves from the case against former jail director Nolan Weeks, who is accused of impersonating a law enforcement officer.
🚔 Badge Dispute: The charge stems from a traffic stop in which Weeks allegedly displayed a badge resembling one used by active deputies.
🏥 Past Scrutiny: Weeks resigned in 2024 amid a county investigation into his ties to a company enrolling inmates in healthcare plans.
The trial of former Okaloosa County Jail Director and Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office Sergeant Nolan Weeks for impersonating a law enforcement officer won’t take place in Okaloosa County.
A Shalimar police officer pulled Weeks over after he allegedly failed to stop for a funeral procession. The police officer conducting the stop did not arrest Weeks at the time of the incident.
According to an arrest affidavit filed by the Shalimar Police Department, the day after the incident, Weeks showed a law enforcement badge similar to one used by Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Deputies. The arrest affidavit alleges Weeks impersonated an active-duty law enforcement officer during the stop.
According to a court filing by Weeks’s lawyer, the badge that the former jail director and Okaloosa County sheriff’s deputy showed clearly displayed that he was a retired law enforcement officer.
Court records show all county judges in Okaloosa have recused themselves from the case. The records did not give a reason why the judges refused themselves.
Weeks worked as an Okaloosa County Sheriff deputy in two stints over the last two decades. In 2023, he was hired by the Okaloosa County Board of County Commissioners as their jail operations manager. He was promoted to the top job at the Okaloosa County Jail after the former jail director, Eric Esmond, resigned under mysterious circumstances.
Weeks resigned his position in November 2024 after Okaloosa County conducted an investigation into his relationship with the company owned by his brother. The company called HealthCred Care, signs up inmates at county jails across the state of Florida for healthcare, which reduces the risk that the county will be held liable for large medical bills.
Okaloosa County had several negative experiences in the 2010s with inmate healthcare. Several times, one or two inmates would rack up a bill of hundreds of thousands of dollars, which the county was held liable for due to the inmates’ inability to pay and their lack of health insurance.
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