Former Oklahoma Senator Gene Stipe has once again managed to avoid a criminal trial – surprise, surprise.
On Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Ronald White for the second time ruled Stipe mentally incompetent to stand trial on a four-count federal indictment that accuses him of continued political corruption and bribery.
Judge White said, “It would be an understatement [...]
Midwest City, OK police officer Larry Schones had to catch the school bus Friday morning.
Not that Officer Schones was going back to school.
He did however catch the school bus carrying about 30 students to Star Spencer High School in Oklahoma City and driven by this man, Anthony Dewitt Atchison, 25.
When Officer Schones caught the school [...]
Vicki Leigh Chiles has been convicted of the first-degree murder of two-year-old Joshua Minton on May 17, 2007.
After deliberating for about 3-1/2 hours, an eight-woman, four-man Tulsa County jury found Chiles guilty as charged and recommended a sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole.
Chiles did not testify in her own defense [...]
Meet 18-year-old Cory Ray Sisson.
Cory may well become the “Poster Boy For Stupid”.
This owing to his remarkable record for, well, for stupid.
And it is a remarkable record, considering that Cory has managed to rack up a total of five felony arrests and two felony convictions since his 18th birthday on October 2, 2007.
Court records indicate [...]
The 2007 homicide death toll for Tulsa is 64. Not a new record, but not far from it either as the record for homicides in Tulsa is 69, set in 2003 during a major “gang war”.
Tulsa’s oldest homicide victim of 2007 was 68 and the youngest was not born yet.
Here’s the breakdown of homicides [...]
On January 4, 2008 Roy Albert Smith Jr. 22, of Gore, Oklahoma in a plea deal with prosecutors pleaded guilty to child abuse and neglect and received a 10-year prison sentence.
As part of the plea deal between Smith and prosecutors, a provision was included for a judicial review in December to determine if he is [...]
