An Arkansas County woman says she made a shocking discovery in 2016. Her boyfriend at the time shared illicit photos and videos of her — that she didn’t know he had taken — with his bank loan officer so the banker would use his position to help cover the boyfriend’s debts at the bank, Kaylee Johnson says.
Johnson leveled the allegations in a lawsuit filed against her ex-boyfriend, Clayton Dillion, and the banker, Phillip Edwards, a vice president at Arkansas County Bank. The bank was also named as a defendant.
This month her lawsuit became part of Dillion’s Chapter 7 bankruptcy filing. Johnson wants a bankruptcy judge to prevent Dillion, a Hazen police officer, from discharging any debts tied to his conduct in the case, which is pending in Arkansas County Circuit Court.
Johnson said in her lawsuit that Dillion owed money to Arkansas County Bank in 2016. (Although the lawsuit didn’t say how much, Dillion’s bankruptcy filing in June showed $25,000 of his $64,000 in liabilities was owed to the bank. He listed $11,000 in assets.)
At some point in 2016, Johnson alleged, Edwards and Dillion created a scheme in which Dillion would take the illicit images of Johnson and then pass them to Edwards. In return, Edwards would use his position at the bank to “pay” Dillion’s loans or debts at the bank, according to the lawsuit, filed by attorney Michael Ray of Crossett.
The exact details of the alleged transaction still are being investigated, Ray told Whispers last week.
Johnson and Dillion had been dating for about two years at the point at which she discovered text messages between Edwards and Dillion allegedly discussing the scheme to deliver the photos and videos.
She said she suffered “severe and permanent emotional distress, embarrassment, past and future expenses for mental health therapy and counseling.”
Johnson has asked for at least $500,000 in damages.
Dillion, Edwards and an attorney for the bank, Guy Murphy Jr. of Little Rock, declined to comment on the case.
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