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CLACKAMAS COUNTY CORRUPTION: SCREWED AT EVERY TURNBy Tyler Allen Lofall
My name is Tyler Lofall, and I am now 39 years old, barely surviving in Portland, Oregon, trading room to stay in that’s about twice the size of a twin bed for work on an older house, so that I have time to work on these claims in this matter. In 2017, I came to Portland and took a remodel job in Damascus, Oreg on. This job had a series of unfortunate events, unrelated to my work, resulting in a fire in 2018. I ended up taking the long route but helped save the home of an autistic hoarder and now friend, Joanna Lee Bozian. I met the insurance company, remodeled much of her house, and repaired it from the fire, increasing its value from $400,000 to over $700,000 before I final invoiced. All of which I did in good faith for someone in need.
BACKGROUND
Joanna, a 66-year-old lady awaiting double hip replacement and estranged from her family, passed away before I received my assignment of benefits for the fire restoration. Due to fraud, I had my assignment intercepted in the heart of COVID in a town that did nothing to prevent it. I was convinced by estranged heirs that there was no reason to get the courts involved early, and it sounded good to me with little knowledge of the legal system and not wanting to deal with the delays. This was something I had done with over 1200 claims between 2008 and that time, as I followed Natural Disasters as a Project Manager for the decade preceding this time. They seemed friendly and honest, my work had been completed for months, and I was simply waiting for them to gain Personal Representative Status so that the mortgage company would have the inspection and endorse the proceeds payment from the insurance company since they were still partial owners of the property that I had repaired. The insurance company had approved my invoice in full, the final invoice was complete, and JP Morgan was holding the check I had sent to them awaiting the heirs to have the power to have the inspection. At this point, I needed the money because I had covered all of the costs of the repairs upfront, and the heirs had openly told me there weren’t going to be any issues between me and them in any of my work.
Honestly, I would have been better off if the laws didn’t exist at all because I wouldn’t have expected them to, causing me to wait for nothing.
In September, I had given the heirs the documentation that JP Morgan had needed to clear the check, along with my packet from the repairs, including the Approved Xactimate Scope of Loss, my bank information that was getting sent to the mortgage company, some documents that I needed to be filled out, and some documents that they had to sign to trigger the inspection.
My work was complete and had been substantially completed since Joanna had signed the Assignment of Benefits in June 2020 after a year of stalling due to her misappropriation of funds. It was this misappropriation that caused the creation of the AOB to begin with. Due to her spending the money, it already put me in a bad spot, and it made me do things like upgrade and complete the roof before it was finalized and complete the work, knowing that Joanna blew some money that she wasn’t supposed to that was agreed to be part of the renovation that she had asked me to complete because she had no means to do it. I was going to do it ahead of time. We had a contract that she fell through on payments, so I told her I’d finish the house if she had an assignment of benefits before my final invoice went in. After she could not come up with the remainder of the spent money on June 24, 2020, nearly three years after I got to the property for what was supposed to be a simple basement remodel, I was ready to leave. This Assignment was “Irrevocable” and estimated upon the date of June 8, 90% complete, and all I had left at that time was to finish a fence for Joanna because she had been run through with people always trying to dump off their problems on her for 20 years, and this fence was going to draw the line between her and them.
There were other issues unresolved at the property, none that were my issues with the fire. In fact, I had done a huge list of other repairs just killing time trying to help Joanna out while I gave her time to return the spent money, causing huge gains for the family. In October 2020, the heirs having my packet and fixing to reap the benefits of $300,000 gains in my work, who hadn’t been to the property since high school, now in their 40s, maliciously through a premeditated fraud attack on me with the help of Joseph McDonald and Brook Woods, their attorneys, staged breaking my things, setting up an eviction, and denial of my claim, meanwhile leading me to believe everything was okay until I was getting the funds released after a mortgage company inspection where they released the proceeds to my final invoice, and unbeknownst to me, being completely blocked by the heirs’ lies, and a following day notice I was getting screwed completely. Heirs coming into the house I resided at (the property), tossing my property in a huge pile in the front yard, breaking the heater, mangling the gas line to the stove, breaking my computer, and damaging my work, making it look as if I didn’t finish my job (however, it passed bank inspection). Meanwhile, on delayed notification, they took some document not meant for an estimate, put it through probate as if it was my claim, denied it, and waited so that my 60-day window had already started, making it so I was being evicted, my claim rights were running out, and my property was broken all in a bottleneck where I wasn’t paid and broke due to emptying my bank accounts to finish the house for their benefits.
In January 2021, my assignment of benefits was taken by fraud after I had paid for everything on Joanna’s house using my own retirement savings. I faced a shady eviction, WHEN NO ONE WAS EVICTABLE, where the lawyers assisted in swindling me with an eviction without pay during the ice storm of 2021. I filed a lawsuit that month, but due to the stringent requirements of the courts, their rules of not telling anyone anything, and crooked lawyers, I soon realized that these laws I thought were there to protect me were a joke, and there was no protection in Clackamas County. I had a three-day eviction set against me, and I had no idea my response to the court date bounced. With COVID requirements, I sent a half dozen emails, and no one would help me, nor did anyone know what to do. Everything was remote, and my documents were rejected, but I didn’t know until after the court date for the eviction, making me homeless and not understanding how or why. It was because the judge never even saw my response.
I filed my complaint on January 25, 2021, on what I thought was the last possible date, under extreme pressure from the hidden sneakiness of the heirs and their attorneys. Then my responses and motions for summary judgments were sent to locations where I was previously evicted (the property), then houses with no street number, ‘Ridge Road NE,’ and not ‘1907 Ridge Road NE’.
What really blew my mind is, despite proving that response statement (literally every single one) the heirs claimed on the answer and motion for summary judgment said was a lie with their own testimony, no one in the entire court system cared. The lawyers knew, the judges knew the lawyers lied on everything, knew it was making me homeless, knew I had an assignment of benefits… not one person cared. It’s not about telling the truth; apparently, it’s about who follows this magical procedural process that’s a secret, and no one tells you anything—not where it is, not what it means, not how to read what or where to look.
They committed fraud by offering to turn in my proof of AOB with my final invoice, after I had the check sent to the mortgage company… and giving the Heirs their customer completion docs that was supposed to be sent together with mine. However, physically removing my bank deposit information and inserting their own, and convinced the mortgage company I fraudulently made the Assignment, and used officers of the court to do it, to use the time to undermine my case. I invested my own retirement savings to finish the house, only to be cheated repeatedly. They funneled my eviction and the due dates for the claims, along with my broken property, so that it was all due at the same time, making it as difficult as possible for me. Then, through fraud upon the court, they lied and said I was a guest to bypass the eviction restrictions in the heart of winter… and the courts allowed it.
The DA told me to talk to the Sheriff, the Sheriff told me it was a civil matter, and the courts simply ignored the fraud, thinking that trial in 18 months from now would be justice time to prove who’s in the right.
Flat broke in an attempt to get my property out of the house, I took one of my trailers that was iffy and had a wheel fall off on my way back to Poulsbo, WA. That ended up, before all said and done, costing me everything on it and broke my transfer case trying to drag the trailer up a ramp to fix the problem, costing me truck, trailer, and load.
Then a friend came and picked up the last trailer for me, who already wasted a month helping me. He was screwed with me, costing him his home, where he caught COVID and spent four months in a coma potentially consequentially and/or avoidably.
Then, with nothing, I hustled up some money and bought a truck and was trying to sell firewood. I got a firewood permit. Almost instantly, due to the map being of the lots and showing no roads, I was cutting firewood on the wrong side of the road. I
was not only blamed for wood that wasn’t mine, as I watched a ‘logger’ later dressed in police uniform cut three trees down, they blamed on me. Apparently, selling firewood from the firewood permit is prohibited, and now facing other legal issues that supersede the reality that I was attempting to survive by cutting up downed trees that were nothing more than future forest topsoil with a permit to do so. Nonetheless, cutting firewood for ‘lunch money’ would not have even occurred had it not been for the Clackamas County corruption taking over every portion of my life and relationships like a disease.
2022
After almost four years without being substantially paid, draining my bank accounts, and having my property strung across two states trying to survive, I was staying in a friend’s basement. I was awaiting trial, diligently submitting my exhibits and critical documents. Yet, the court ignored every document I filed, no matter how much fraud was involved. The court's procedural requirements seemed designed to deny my constitutional rights if the documents weren't purchased at the correct location. Even using templates from the OSB, provided to all low-income and pro se litigants, proved futile as they failed to mention the impeckable detail their automated documents when viewing my filings is next to pointless if not ran through a paid subscription with Stylesheets, AI, and Automation…
False Arrest and Property Damage
March 4-6, 2022
My friend, driven by jealousy and substance abuse, broke out all the windows in the area I was staying in, while West Linn Police Department officers stood by and watched. They had a duty to stop it but did nothing. They coached her on how to circumvent my eviction while she held my keys, work files, pounded out the windows with a hammer, took a garden hose, and sprayed water all over my bed, electronics, computers, food, and tools. She cut the power, heat, and water, and then poured 90 pounds of flour over my property for three consecutive days. Despite their duty to intervene, West Linn Police Department did nothing. I called them on March 4th when she destroyed everything I owned and needed hospital assistance, but again, they did nothing.
Police Inaction and Theft
Similarly, Clackamas County did nothing when $111,943.56 was stolen from me, rendering me homeless. As a consequence, one of my helpers and best friends ended up in a COVID coma for four months. The police dismissed the theft by the heirs as a “civil matter” even when they physically removed over $100,000 from my grasp with fraudulent means. After a night in the low 20s, wet and cold, with no windows, what did West Linn expect? They repeatedly did nothing. The reports showed the damage was there, that Macy threatened to burn down the house. The arresting officers stepped over the broken glass to call for me. The law states I can protect my property with as much force as I believe necessary to prevent the harm. Macy was not hurt at all, yet she came at me with a hose and hammer. Despite this, the officers claimed I wasn’t allowed to protect my property when Macy was pounding out the windows for the third day in a row. Even after the police took five gallons of gasoline from her, she successfully avoided charges for Criminal Mischief committed in their line of sight. It’s documented in the West Linn dispatch report.
Defending Property and False Arrest
Since West Linn failed to do their duty and stop her from assault with a deadly weapon—because that’s what it would have been if I had attacked someone with a hammer—I had no choice but to defend my property. To stop her from further harm, I wrapped my hands around her to stop the hose and hammer she was swinging. Despite leaving her unharmed, they arrested me on false claims.
Dana Gunnarson and Catlin Blyth, officers who arrested me without a warrant or probable cause, failed to secure my property, which was spread all over the yard and driveway. They promised, yet failed to lock my property inside my truck when they unlawfully took me to jail; it remained in tubs sitting alongside it.
Despite telling Dana Gunnarson she didn’t have the right to take me to jail, she argued and continued to add false charges against me. Catlin Blyth confirmed I was right, but they didn’t let me go, instead adding more false claims.
These officers took Macy to the psychiatric ward three times that year. She even brought meth into the courthouse at my arraignment, leading to the removal of her children. Yet, she was still used as a credible witness. Dana Gunnarson and Catlin Blyth failed to secure my property, resulting in its destruction.
Court Misconduct and Fabrication
In court, they added false statements, converting my actions into stalking material, and fabricated quotes, painting a false narrative. The state’s actions and the local government’s corruption deeply impacted my life. They consistently used terms like “only” and “at” to distort the truth. For example, they claimed I “only” let her go because someone else showed up, implying my intentions were malicious, and that she sprayed water “at” my windows, ignoring that she was spraying inside where the windows used to be. Let me emphasize, it was not “at” any windows. All seven windows were blasted out with a hammer, and the cops are trying to downplay it so they had a reason to arrest me, which doesn’t seem so wrong in their distorted narrative.
Evidence Manipulation
The actions of the officers and the DA were not merely procedural missteps; they were deliberate attempts to twist facts and hide evidence to justify an arrest made without probable cause. Their manipulation of the situation was aimed at covering up the fact that they had no legal grounds for my arrest. The photos they had, which either the DA or the officers themselves should have diligently reviewed, clearly showed Macy wielding a hammer in all four pictures they sent me. If Officer Dana Gunnarson could notice that Macy looked “uncomfortable,” as she stated, in a photo showing the back of Macy’s head, then she should have also seen the hammer I was reaching for in all four pictures. Instead, they covered up this crucial detail, accusing me of pulling Macy tight to my body with a sexual demeanor. In reality, I was only trying to disarm her to protect my electronics inside the kitchen from being destroyed by the water she was spraying through the broken windows.
They owed me due diligence, and such diligence cannot be exercised in the mere 7-8 minutes they spent from arriving at the house to putting me in the cop car, as documented in the dispatch records. This rapid response clearly demonstrates a lack of thorough investigation.
Further Evidence
Further Violations and Retaliation
The false arrest on March 6th, 2022, allowed my Assignment of Benefits (AOB) to spoil as my claims went undefended when jail staff denied me access to the law library for my civil claim. Despite numerous attempts to revive the claims, they remained unaddressed. My court-appointed attorney withheld evidence showing Macy had leather work gloves on, a hammer in her hands, and a hose spraying inside the now broken-out windows. This failure to present exculpatory evidence led to my prolonged suffering.
During my time in jail, I was denied access to both the civil and criminal law libraries. Macy didn’t even qualify as a domestic violence victim, and everyone knew it. I was released briefly but with inadequate clothing in rain and hail. Trying to comply with the restraining order, I went to get clothes, only to end up in the hospital with hypothermia. The police issued me a violation of the no-contact order, causing another arrest while my core body temperature was dangerously low.
Despite notifying the DA of her liability for the loss of my civil claims and the police’s failure to secure my property, everything I had left was stolen. My car was pillaged, trailers were gone, and the remaining property was left in tubs full of water. I was rearrested on the same charge I had bailed out for, effectively subjecting me to double jeopardy. After the State’s own witness bailed me out of jail, knowing I had done nothing wrong, I found all my property abandoned, stolen, or spoiled. In this situation, you go where you can and offer help in exchange for trade. While assisting a friend in recovering a stolen vehicle, we tracked it down and recovered it. I drove a person, who turned out to be someone my friend used to rent a room to, to retrieve the missing license plate. I pulled into a parking lot and was rearrested for the same charge I had been bailed out for. During this incident, the police handed the car keys to the thief despite my protests, resulting in the car being stolen again. This incident was captured on cruiser cam footage.
Further Retaliation
The West Linn Police officers hid their evidence behind a DHS seal and changed their policy once I filed my claim to sue them. Three separate motions were filed for them to preserve evidence, one from each of the court-appointed counsels, however now they claim they don’t have the evidence.
I was forced into a cell with someone who had COVID, then someone else with an assault charge, both in retaliatory actions. Forced to catch COVID, I missed my civil trial, and this added a counter-suit of $32,599.50 on top of my $111,943.56 AOB loss.
Further Retaliation (continued)
Despite being ready for my criminal trial, dressed and at the courthouse, the DA lied, claiming I had COVID to delay the trial. My court-appointed advisor colluded with the DA and the judge, lying about my COVID status to push the trial back based on known falsehoods. On June 20th, the jail deleted records of my denied law library access, ensuring I remained at a disadvantage in court.
The DA and victim advocate leveraged Macy’s custody of her children over her testifying against me, knowing I wasn’t guilty. The systemic corruption and collusion within the judicial system have left me with nothing—years lost, friendships and relationships destroyed, homeless, health deteriorated, and experiencing repeated humiliation and harm.
Post-Release Violations
July 2022
Despite being ordered released on July 1st, 2022, I was kept in jail for an additional week. I contested my continued detention with five different guards, all of whom provided various excuses. Upon release, I pulled the jail records and discovered that they had the information to release me the entire time. During the last few days of my incarceration, I finally received a response to a grievance I had filed about COVID in May. The response dismissed my concerns, stating I just seemed "unhappy," despite my grievance about the officers deleting 62 of my court documents and files I was preparing for trial. Consequently, when I received the documentation, I only had six weeks to prepare for this lawsuit. They said I had to file state claims within six weeks of release, or else I lost my chance. My research indicated I had six months from release under federal law, but some of my claims didn’t make the cut, and I lost several defendants. This is why I am here today in federal court. Over time, it became increasingly apparent that the entire county was corrupt.
I had read in Thompson v. Clark that if a case was dismissed, I had won a malicious prosecution charge. As time went on, the police officers and their attorneys over-redacted documents, changed policies to block their liability, and repeatedly lied, cheated, and stole from me. It was all on the record, undeniable, yet the state continually used procedural errors to evade liability and keep me homeless.
Ongoing Struggles and Federal Court
For the past two years, I’ve been borderline homeless, struggling to fight for this claim. I spent 18 months fighting for my AOB, which they made me miss. Every day, I think about what I want to do to the people who turned my relatively fantastic and optimistic life into a struggle. This isn’t a fight I wanted; I didn’t sign up for the heirs using fiduciary fraud to steal an irrevocable Assignment of Benefits. If I knew then what I know now, I would have handled that myself when it happened. But I was wrong to have faith in the government and trust that they would take care of me and make things right. That was foolish because it allowed me to get buried with my hands tied. There is no separation in their powers, no supervision over incapacitated egos. Instead, they give them badges and guns and let them run wild. They catch the fact that they have no facts constituting a claim, tell them so they can go back to the alleged victim, who just did $10,000 worth of damage to her own house in front of the officers, and destroyed my property, who just got caught taking drugs into the court, and call them a credible witness. They took their kids, but they still counted as credible witnesses because it would have made it harder to object to this claim if you did let me go. Held me until the day before trial and cut me loose. I didn’t even have any charge until July 1st. Never had the underlying charge. They gave me crooked attorneys to assist me, both of them. I found out later that a victim advocate put pressure on Macy, leading her to believe her children would be more easily returned if she followed through with lies against me in court. I never touched Macy; they knew that. It was stated in earlier police reports, in Macy’s surveys, and even the officer quoted the most “violent” I had ever been was a “bear hug” when someone was erratically breaking all of my things and spraying a hose inside the residence on my electronics, my bed. It’s a joke. How am I in the wrong? Why do I have to hurry my claims up for a year, and they are allowed to escape liability by me not having my claims done in six weeks? It allowed them to push everything back, fake like they didn’t know they were having a baby until six weeks before the due date, then get paternity leave, pushing everything back past the statute of limitations. That seems fair. This is a joke, and I really hope to get this out of state court because I am losing my life and everything in it because of the actions here. They are in the wrong, and they absolutely ruined my life.
Conclusion
The systemic failures, the corruption within the West Linn Police Department, the negligence of Clackamas County, and the overall lack of justice have left me in a state of despair. My fight for justice continues, not just for myself but to expose the broader issues within the system that have affected many like me. The federal government must intervene to correct these wrongs, as the state has proven incapable of policing itself. This is a fight for justice, accountability, and the protection of constitutional rights.
Further Retaliation (continued)
Despite being ready for my criminal trial, dressed and at the courthouse, the DA lied, claiming I had COVID to delay the trial. My court-appointed advisor colluded with the DA and the judge, lying about my COVID status to push the trial back based on known falsehoods. On June 20th, the jail deleted records of my denied law library access, ensuring I remained at a disadvantage in court.
The DA and victim advocate leveraged Macy’s custody of her children over her testifying against me, knowing I wasn’t guilty. The systemic corruption and collusion within the judicial system have left me with nothing—years lost, friendships and relationships destroyed, homeless, health deteriorated, and experiencing repeated humiliation and harm.
Post-Release Violations
July 2022
Despite being ordered released on July 1st, 2022, I was kept in jail for an additional week. I contested my continued detention with five different guards, all of whom provided various excuses. Upon release, I pulled the jail records and discovered that they had the information to release me the entire time. During the last few days of my incarceration, I finally received a response to a grievance I had filed about COVID in May. The response dismissed my concerns, stating I just seemed "unhappy," despite my grievance about the officers deleting 62 of my court documents and files I was preparing for trial. Consequently, when I received the documentation, I only had six weeks to prepare for this lawsuit. They said I had to file state claims within six weeks of release, or else I lost my chance. My research indicated I had six months from release under federal law, but some of my claims didn’t make the cut, and I lost several defendants. This is why I am here today in federal court. Over time, it became increasingly apparent that the entire county was corrupt.
I had read in Thompson v. Clark that if a case was dismissed, I had won a malicious prosecution charge. As time went on, the police officers and their attorneys over-redacted documents, changed policies to block their liability, and repeatedly lied, cheated, and stole from me. It was all on the record, undeniable, yet the state continually used procedural errors to evade liability and keep me homeless.
Ongoing Struggles and Federal Court