On January 16, 2025, a single phone call set in motion a chain of events that would end the law-enforcement career of Joshua Jayme Olivarez in less than twenty-four hours. According to an internal memorandum later placed into his personnel file, Bee County Sheriff’s Office Chief Deputy Russell Kirk received a call from San Patricio County Sheriff’s Office Sgt. Investigator Rose Ramos. Ramos advised that, during an unrelated background investigation, she had learned “in an unknown way” that Joshua Olivarez was allegedly pending criminal indictment stemming from an incident in Wilson County.

The memo makes clear that the information did not originate from Bee County, nor from any official charging document. Instead, it arrived informally, described as a “courtesy between law enforcement agencies,” and was based on hearsay rather than verified court records. What followed next, however, would rely heavily on representations made by senior law-enforcement officials outside Bee County—representations that a newly filed civil lawsuit now alleges were false.

From Courtesy Call to Confirmation Effort

After receiving the call from Sgt. Ramos, Russell Kirk did not contact a court, prosecutor’s office, or clerk to confirm whether any indictment existed. Instead, he reached out directly to Wilson County Sheriff’s Office Chief Deputy Clinton Dale Garza. According to Kirk’s written account, Clinton Garza told him that when Joshua Olivarez previously worked for the Wilson County Attorney’s Office, he had been involved in the arrest of a Wilson County Sheriff’s Office lieutenant and that there was controversy surrounding the legality of that arrest.

Garza then directed Kirk to speak with Texas Attorney General investigator Gregory Todd Dickerman, stating that Dickerman was “currently handling the investigation and change of venue.” That assertion would later become central to the civil lawsuit, which alleges that no such active investigation existed at the time of these communications and that any prior investigation had concluded months earlier.

Still operating without independent verification, Kirk contacted Gregory Dickerman the same day. The contents of that conversation, memorialized in the Bee County memorandum, would ultimately form the basis for the employment decision made the following day.

Allegations of an Investigation That Did Not Exist

According to the Bee County Sheriff’s Office memo dated January 16, 2025, Gregory Dickerman told Russell Kirk that Joshua Olivarez was “indeed the target of a criminal investigation” involving the arrest of a Wilson County Sheriff’s Office lieutenant. Dickerman reportedly stated that Olivarez had signed an affidavit related to that arrest based on a civil accusation rather than a criminal charge, yet simultaneously claimed that the criminal case against Olivarez was pending grand jury indictment in Comal County after a change of venue.

No indictment was produced. No case number was cited. No court was identified. Despite that, the statements were recorded as factual findings within Bee County’s internal documentation.

The next day, January 17, 2025, Bee County Sheriff Randy Aguirre was briefed on what were described as “internal investigative findings.” The memorandum states that Aguirre was informed Joshua Olivarez had failed to disclose his involvement as a suspect in a Texas Attorney General criminal investigation on his employment application. A meeting followed, and Olivarez resigned from his position, terminating his employment with the Bee County Sheriff’s Office.

What the Records Later Showed

Months after Olivarez’s resignation, official records from Comal County would paint a sharply different picture. Documents released by the Comal County Criminal District Attorney’s Office in mid-2025 state explicitly that no criminal charges were being filed and no grand jury presentments were being made against any individual connected to the matters arising out of the Wilson County investigations, including Joshua Olivarez.

Those records confirm that any investigative work conducted by the Texas Attorney General’s Office had concluded well before January 2025. The investigative report prepared by Gregory Dickerman was completed in May 2024, received supervisory approval on May 24, 2024, and was printed and delivered to prosecutors on June 3, 2024. There is no evidence of investigative activity beyond that date.

In July 2025, Comal County officials formally stated that no indictment existed and no criminal case was pending. By that time, Joshua Olivarez had already lost his job and professional standing based on statements that, according to the records, were untrue.

The Arrest at the Center of the Dispute

The background of the dispute traces back to the arrest of Wilson County Sheriff’s Office Lieutenant Joseph Dubs in 2023. That arrest arose from a broader conflict involving the Wilson County Attorney’s Office, the Wilson County Sheriff’s Office, and a series of investigations into alleged official misconduct.

Gregory Dickerman, assigned by the Texas Attorney General’s Office, investigated allegations of official oppression and related offenses tied to those events. His report, later reviewed by Comal County prosecutors, concluded that there was not probable cause to support criminal charges against multiple individuals, including Joshua Olivarez. The analysis specifically questioned the legality of the arrest of Joseph Dubs and concluded that the charge of false statement to a peace officer was not supported by the evidence.

Despite those conclusions, the civil lawsuit alleges that Clinton Garza and Gregory Dickerman later portrayed Joshua Olivarez as the target of a criminal investigation that was supposedly active and headed toward indictment. The lawsuit asserts that those statements were made without authority, without disclosure of conflicts, and without any factual basis at the time they were communicated.

A Civil Lawsuit Reframes the Timeline

In January 2026, Joshua Jayme Olivarez filed a civil lawsuit in Wilson County District Court that brings together the Bee County memorandum, the Comal County records, and the earlier investigation timeline into a single narrative. The lawsuit alleges that Clinton Dale Garza and Gregory Todd Dickerman made false statements of fact to Bee County officials, stating that Olivarez was under criminal investigation and pending indictment when no such case existed.

The lawsuit further alleges that these statements were not made as part of any legitimate law-enforcement duty. Instead, they are described as informal, off-system communications conducted outside official channels, with no reports, recordings, or documentation created through their respective agencies.

Significantly, the attorney representing Joshua Olivarez is Tom Caldwell, the former Wilson County Attorney whose office was deeply involved in the original Dubs matter. That fact alone underscores the unusual procedural posture of the case and highlights how intertwined the underlying disputes have become.

Conflicts, Authority, and Silence

According to the lawsuit, Clinton Garza was a fact witness in the Dubs investigation and was aware that the investigation had concluded months earlier. Gregory Dickerman, the lawsuit alleges, no longer had investigative authority in January 2025 and knew that no charging decision had been made.

The lawsuit claims neither man disclosed those facts to Bee County officials. It further alleges that neither advised Bee County to independently verify the claims by contacting prosecutors, court clerks, or prior supervisors. Instead, Bee County relied on the representations as verified fact, placing them into Olivarez’s personnel file and using them as the basis for determining he had been dishonest on his employment application.

The lawsuit asserts that these representations directly caused Olivarez’s forced resignation and the damage to his professional reputation.

A Resignation Based on Words Alone

In sworn testimony given later, Bee County Sheriff Randy Aguirre acknowledged that no document showed Joshua Olivarez was under criminal investigation and that no one confirmed Olivarez had ever been told he was a suspect. The employment decision rested on verbal representations made by outside officials, which were accepted as fact.

By the time official records contradicted those representations, the damage had already been done. Olivarez’s law-enforcement career was effectively ended, and the stigma of an alleged criminal investigation lingered without any formal charges to resolve it.

The Broader Implications

Beyond the personal consequences, the case raises broader questions about how informal law-enforcement communications are treated as authoritative, even when unsupported by official records. It also highlights how easily reputations can be destroyed through off-the-record statements passed between agencies without verification.

The lawsuit now places those questions squarely before a jury. It asks whether senior officials can be held accountable when informal statements carry the weight of official action, and whether truth matters when careers hang in the balance.

As the case proceeds, it will likely draw attention far beyond Wilson and Bee counties. At stake is not only the reputation of Joshua Jayme Olivarez, but the integrity of inter-agency trust itself—and whether unchecked authority can quietly override documented fact.

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