The Grady County Gambling Raid case came to a logical conclusion Friday when former Grady County Sheriff Kieran McMullen, his wife Helen McMullen and two former deputies Delmer Barthelme and Robert Cacy pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of willful neglect of duty for allowing illegal gambling at the Chickasha Elks Lodge.
The plea deal between [...]
Preliminary Hearings For: Barthelme, Peek and Parks
Preliminary hearings for those accused in the Grady County Gambling Raid case were set for January 4th and 5th. At a preliminary hearing, the state must present enough evidence to show probable cause that a crime was committed and that the defendants probably committed that crime. [...]
Case Updates - October, 2006:
Undersheriff Irene Perske is reportedly doing well in her recovery from her recent brush with death, an incident wherein she somehow managed to shoot herself in the neck with a .40 caliber Glock.
Richard Coy Cochran Jr., a state’s witness in the Elks Lodge gambling case, was arrested on an old ‘poaching [...]
The legal battle arising from the raid on the Chickasha, OK Elks Club is polarizing both the city of Chickasha and Grady County, with most government officials siding with the Elks Lodge and Sheriff McMullen against DA Bret Burns.
The legal wrangling between District Attorney Bret Burns and Grady County Sheriff Kieran McMullen took a turn [...]
The Grady County gambling scandal is the result of a raid on the Chickasha Elks Lodge on September 6, 2006 by agents of the state Alcoholic Beverage Laws Enforcement Commission (ABLE) and Oklahoma Highway Patrol troopers. The raid was conducted at the behest of newly appointed District Attorney Bret Burns.
The raid culminated a year [...]
