Galveston Tyrants Exposed (and a whole lot more)
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October 7, 2025 8:05 am
On August 11, 2023, a routine drive across the causeway into Galveston turned into something far more sinister. Just after 2 a.m., investigative journalist and constitutional rights activist Matthew Reardon was pulled over by Galveston Police Department officers. Within minutes, what began as a traffic stop became a felony DWI investigation and arrest.
The officers claimed to smell alcohol. Reardon, who had not consumed a drop in years, immediately denied it and demanded a breathalyzerāthe most direct way to prove sobriety. Officers refused. Instead, I they pushed for field sobriety tests that he declined, citing their unreliability, and then arrested him anyway.
At the hospital, the refusal to administer a breathalyzer escalated to something darker: a forced blood draw. Nearly a dozen officers restrained him while he was handcuffed, puncturing his arm multiple times with needles. No warrant was shown. Toxicology results (PDF) later confirmed what Reardon had said all along: no alcohol in his system.
The arrest did not stop at Galvestonās borders. While in booking, Reardon overheard his arresting officer on the phone with Lafayette County, Mississippi Deputy Kandace Beaversāan officer who had previously testified against him in a 2021 DUI case now under appeal.
That case remains pending before the Mississippi Court of Appeals (Case No. 2024-KA-00839-COA). Crucial evidence in that trial ādisappearedā before the court ever saw it. Less than a year later, it was Beaversā testimony in a separate, unrelated matterānow alleged and demonstrated as perjuryāwhich sent Reardon to prison for a year.
On August 2, 2023, just one day after being released from prison, Reardon published a video exposƩ showing undeniable proof that Beavers intentionally lied under oath to send him to prison. Her voice surfacing again just 9 days later on August 11, 2023. This time through a phone call to Galveston Police officer William Osteen, pointing now to something bigger, much bigger: a cross-state conspiracy to escalate charges and silence a critic.
The call recordings couldnāt be clearer. The FBI had an obligation and responsibility to intervene, by acknowledging communication with me, that I did exactly as I was advised in trying to report law enforcement corruption involving the Lafayette County Sheriffās Department. Silence is complicity and in this case, culpability. They knew she lied and they chose to stay silent despite direct involvement. And because of their intent in not intervening and allowing such an unconscionable injustice to manifest, Beavers attacked again, and this time far worse. To this day, not a word out of the FBI. There is no question this is neglect to prevent. This nightmare has malicious intent all over it. Both by Beavers and the FBI. -Matthew Reardon
At the center of the Galveston arrest was Officer William Osteen. His body-worn camera footage captured him asking, within minutes of the stop: āYou an auditor man?ā, telling one officer āthis oneās an auditor, I got this oneā, and then claiming to yet another officer that he could āgo off slurred speech and the smellā to justify an arrest.
The record shows contradiction after contradiction. In his sworn affidavit, Osteen marked āodor of alcoholic beverage on breath: moderate,ā but later admitted he never smelled alcohol on Reardonās breath. He testified to both ādilated pupilsā and āpinpoint pupilsā in separate hearings. And most damning, he falsely told the court that toxicology results showed alcohol in Reardonās system when they did not.
On February 25, 2025, Reardonās attorney, Ben Campagna, filed a Motion for Franks Hearing (PDF) ā a constitutional proceeding held when an officer inserts falsehoods or omits critical facts from a warrant application. If the lies are removed, there was never probable cause for the arrest.
This September, Reardon returned to Galvestonānot in custody, but standing outside the police department with cameras rolling. His livestreams drew national attention, part of a broader push to hold the same officers accountable who once staged his arrest.
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