Luke Wenke mailed this letter to the judge overseeing his federal criminal case while detained at the Northeast Ohio Correctional Center in Youngstown, Ohio in November 2024. In it, he states that he’ll no longer cooperate with mental evaluations moving forward. He also demands my arrest and federal imprisonment on false charges, threatens to sue his way to freedom, and orders the court to give his father a job.

Per usual, Luke Wenke accuses me of stealing his car in the letter.

Luke Wenke tells anyone who’ll listen that I stole his car. Here’s what happened:

• Following Luke Wenke’s arrest in January 2022, he asked me to care for his car while he was in jail. At the time, we had no clue how long he would be away for.

• I agreed to take care of Wenke’s car while he was in jail and picked the vehicle up at his house in Olean, along with his eyeglasses, which I later dropped off at the Niagara County Jail. (In other words, he was expecting me with the glasses, knew I had his car, and gave me full permission to drive the car.)

• The situation was intended to be mutually beneficial. Someone would be maintaining the vehicle and paying the insurance for Wenke. The car was a hybrid, which seemed like a good way to save on gas even though I already had access to a reliable vehicle.

• The insurance was extremely expensive, presumably due to Wenke’s less-than-stellar driving record. I knew the rate would drop significantly if Wenke gave me accountholder privileges, which could have been accomplished by sending the insurance company a letter from jail authorising me to manage the account.

• Luke Wenke refused to send such a letter, needlessly keeping the insurance rate sky-high and leaving his car largely unprotected in the event of a crash. He expected me to continue paying the insurance and clearly didn’t care that I was throwing money in the trash. Out of the hundreds of letters he has mailed from jails and prisons, he refused to take five minutes out of his day to do this. I even offered to cover the postage, envelope, etc. But nope.

• I also discovered that there was a lien on the vehicle and that Luke Wenke had not paid on his car note since months prior to his arrest. I knew enough to know that the nonpayment was NOT hardship-related, but more along the lines of “fuck the system, stick it to the man.”

• Paying sky-high insurance that won’t provide much actual coverage on a vehicle with a lien seemed like an incredibly stupid idea. I began talking with a family member of Wenke’s about having a relative take over the car’s care.

• In the meantime, I received a late-night phone call, text messages, and a Facebook request from a complete stranger who had just been released from the Niagara County Jail. He asked me about my “rate” and said that Wenke told him I’m a prostitute. The man also said that Wenke told him I’m a drug user and would get high with him.

• Just days earlier, I had told Wenke NOT to give out my last name, phone number, address, or other personal information to fellow inmates. He LITERALLY turned right the fuck around and did exactly that. After tolerating a lot of other mistreatment and disrespect prior to this incident, I decided to end the friendship.

• Another major factor in my decision to end the friendship was Wenke’s failure to demonstrate that he had any serious intentions of leaving people alone and getting his life together. He was still obsessing over people while contacting others who he believed could connect him to the individuals he’s obsessed with. I already had low hopes and wasn’t counting on the friendship to last, but Wenke’s actions in the weeks and months following his arrest confirmed that the runaway train would never return to the station.

• I text messaged a family member of Wenke’s, gave a deadline for getting the car out of my driveway, and ceased all contact. The car was still there past a certain date and my driveway is not a storage lot, so I contacted both the lender and a trusted business owner who I knew was qualified to advise on the situation..

• By then, I had been considering ending the friendship for several years. I had continued it because I held out foolish hope that there was a human being somewhere inside Wenke’s depraved mind. I also continued the friendship for other reasons, which I’d be fine discussing, but I have to find out if I’m legally allowed to discuss it. Anyway, the car was my last remaining tie to Wenke and I needed it out of my life ASAP.

• Until I learned otherwise, I assumed Luke Wenke’s family had retrieved the car. When I surrendered it, I figured his mother would probably get the loan current and have someone retrieve it from impound. Or maybe she wouldn’t, but that would be her choice. From my understanding, Wenke’s auto lender refused to negotiate the car’s retrieval with Wenke’s mother because she wasn’t on the ownership paperwork.

• Because of the difficulties his mother encountered, Wenke seems to think that I pulled strings to get rid of the vehicle. All I did was tell the lender that I was in possession of a car that had a lien on the title, that the owner was in jail, and to get it out of my driveway or I’d take it to an impound lot. I gave the lender the VIN number, they said they’d come for the car, and a good week passed with no activity. Assuming no one was coming for the car, I resorted to plan B and surrendered it to an experienced business owner whom I trusted to both 1. handle the situation legally and 2. keep the car safe in case Wenke’s family wanted it back.

Luke Wenke acts like he did a massive act of charity by having me care for his car. That he essentially gifted me a free vehicle. As I previously explained, I already had ample access to reliable transportation at all times before agreeing to take the car. And it was certainly no act of charity, given the insurance cost and his unexplained refusal to add me to his account. I stopped driving the car long before I got rid of it, because it made more sense to drive a vehicle without a lien and which lists me as an insured driver. No one stole Luke Wenke’s car, but he’s clearly going to cling desperately to that narrative for the rest of his life.

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Luke Wenke – #168
November 25^th, 2024

Luke Wenke #168 – Page 1

“Legalities still matter. So basically yeah, what letters from Oklahoma? I was at that Grady County facility twice.  When I left in August to go to Chicago, there was absolutely an officer there who asked me ‘How did you get in with Hamas?’ Obviously I don’t know Hamas, but you all know why he’d ask me that. So…who is he talking to? I did not spend my life lying. He absolutely did ask me that.

So while I continue to visualize the day when somebody from a disenfranchised background such as myself can come into a grand court like this and make much happier arrangements I will write about later in this letter, legalities still matter. So I will tell you about my intentions to sit in silence and Plead The Fifth if you seriously think I am going to answer to yet another psychiatric interrogation. That way it will really be an illegitimate diagnosis. So don’t even waste your own time appointing one. I guess it’s time to begin filing a ‘criminal summons’ (as I was finally told they are called) to sue Michael the prosecutor for violating a rule I learned in Chicago from one of Judge Kendall’s embezzlement defendants called ‘Rule 32’ requiring a sentencing without an inordinate delay. I will drop the lawsuit once I am ‘sent on my merry way’. I am going to repeat myself when I say you cannot send a defendant to a federal medical center unsentenced and more than 500 miles from their home. So give it up. It is clearly time for me to start finding help in hiring Richard J. Fine for his U.S. Supreme Court services. I told someone in Chicago facing 195 years for gun charges about him and his family only paid him $5000 to go to his Dec. 6^th court hearing to see if it’s time for the U.S. Supreme Court to pick it up from there unsentenced. Fascinating that a U.S. Supreme Court lawyer known for getting federal judges removed from their positions is cheaper than the Buffalo district court lawyer.

So there’s the legal options we all have at the moment. Whatever further legal subsections you all think are currently standing in the way to ending this you are all one degree away from whatever congressional judicial subcommittee…”