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   From: february2025@jail.time   
      
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   Joey Lamar Ellis   
      
   HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- A City of Houston park ranger has been arrested and   
   charged with official oppression following one man's hourslong ordeal at   
   Cullen Park.   
      
   Joey Lamar Ellis, 33, was booked into jail Tuesday morning. The Houston Parks   
   and Recreation Department confirms they were notified about the park ranger's   
   arrest. City records show Ellis has been employed since 2019.   
      
   According to Houston police, officers were called out to Cullen Park on Saums   
   Road at about 3 a.m. for a robbery. There, they met with Joshua Beede, who   
   talked to ABC13 on Tuesday night.   
      
   "It's not right what he (Ellis) did," Beede said.   
      
   Beede said he was sleeping in his car at the park when a man driving a truck   
   with police lights and wearing park ranger attire knocked on his window and   
   threatened him.   
      
   "He said he was going to have my car towed away. I was going to be arrested,   
   sent downtown, and see a judge the next morning," Beede rattled off.   
      
   The man had a gun in his pocket, which he referenced, Beede said, and he   
   started to make demands. First, he made video recordings of Beede admitting to   
   things he had not done, and then he told him to take off his clothes, "which   
   was super violating,"    
   Beede said.   
      
   According to Beede, Ellis took his ID, demanded cash, as well as help with   
   luring gay men to the park through a dating app, presumably, to do the same   
   thing. He says he gave the man $120 and went along with it until he could get   
   away to call 911.   
      
   "I was, like, fearful for my life, so I was doing everything he said," Beede   
   explained.   
      
   Police responded and arrested Ellis, adding they found a gun on him.   
      
   Houston Parks and Rec declined to comment about the case or Ellis' status with   
   the department.   
      
   https://abc13.com/post/man-says-houston-park-ranger-made-strap-h   
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