The Luke Wenke Files

Because People Deserve to Know

Category: FOIL/FOIA requests

  • Luke Wenke | Orleans County Jail Records | 2023–2024

    Orleans County mugshot of Luke Wenke wearing glasses and facing the camera.

    The following records, obtained through New York State’s Freedom of Information Law (FOIL), document Luke Wenke’s detention at the Orleans County Jail in Albion, New York, from December 14, 2023, through August 16, 2024. During this period, Wenke was being held on federal remand in…


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  • Luke Wenke | 2023 Olean Police Reports & Records

    Satirical painting of Luke Wenke holding a Virgin Mary statue and handwritten note while an older man watches suspiciously through a window.

    The following public records contain Olean Police Department reports and incident documentation involving Luke Wenke during 2023, following his release from federal prison. The records were obtained in September 2025 through freedom of information laws. The reports document several separate encounters and complaints involving Wenke…


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  • Email: Police Reject Luke Wenke’s Pellet Stove Fingerprint Request

    Illustration of an angry, disheveled man using a tape measure on a stove inside a cluttered and deteriorating home.

    Luke Wenke sent the following two emails to the federal courthouse in Buffalo, New York, on October 29, 2025. In them, he discusses his allegations of a break-in at his condemned home in Olean and claims that police are preparing to collect fingerprint evidence as…


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