Archive for September, 2007

Noble PD Now Hiring

The Noble, Oklahoma Police Department has hung out the “We Are Hiring” sign and who can blame them, with two open positions and four officers on administrative leave there is hardly anyone left to go out for donuts or to eat them back at the police station.
Three officers, including Officer Paul Rogers, Sgt. Robert [...]

Raye Dawn Smith Sentenced

Raye Dawn Smith, 27, was yesterday formally sentenced to 27 years in prison following her conviction by a Creek County jury on charges of enabling child abuse.
Rather than ask for mercy, Smith used her court appearance to speak to her former mother-in-law.
At sentencing Smith looked at her former mother-in-law Kathie Briggs and said, “Kathie, I [...]

Carroll Fisher In Lockup

Disgraced former Insurance Commissioner Carroll Fisher, 67, (D-Tulsa) who last Friday lost his appeal of his February 2006 conviction for embezzlement and perjury has checked into the Oklahoma County Jail to begin serving his three year sentence.

Fisher has been under house arrest at his home in Tulsa most of the time since his conviction [...]

Gene Stipe Goes To Springfield

At long last disgraced former Oklahoma state senator Gene Stipe is in the custody of the feds, if only for up to 30 days in order that he receives a mental evaluation.
He actually reported to the U.S. Medical Center for Federal Prisoners in Springfield, Missouri on Monday morning.
After his recent “performance” in federal court in [...]

For The Record – August 2007

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