Archive for the 'Crime' Category
Some openly speculate that Tulsa, which recently laid-off about one-sixth of its police force, is well on its way to becoming “the Detroit of the Great Plains” and recent events tend to support that speculation. Case in point – Saturday night, well actually Sunday morning at 3:00 am on February 28, 2010. Between 75 and [...]
March 1st, 2010 | Posted in Crime, Tulsa, Weird | 2 Comments
Phillip John Ortega, 56, has been arrested in Oklahoma for allegedly exposing himself to an Oklahoma City woman. It is alleged that when Ortega approached the woman he was wearing a woman’s pink single piece swimsuit, panty hose and makeup. The alleged victim told police that she was smoking a cigarette on her porch when [...]
October 22nd, 2009 | Posted in Crime, Weird | No Comments
A Major County jury has found Former Custer County Sheriff Michael Burgess guilty on 13 felony counts, including five counts of second-degree rape and three counts of bribery by a public official, in the latest jail house sex slave scandal in Oklahoma. After eight hours of deliberation on Friday and Saturday the jury returned with [...]
January 19th, 2009 | Posted in Custer County, Law Enforcement, Sex Offenders | No Comments
Meet former Creek County, Oklahoma District Judge Donald Thompson, who we sometimes refer to as “The Masturbating Judge”. It seems that Thompson is in trouble with the law again. No, not for playing with his sex toys in public, like previously. This time Thompson was busted for allegedly driving while under the influence. This after [...]
December 6th, 2008 | Posted in Courts and Judges, Creek County, DUI, Scandal | 17 Comments
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 [...]
October 29th, 2008 | Posted in Crime, Gene Stipe | No Comments
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 [...]
October 11th, 2008 | Posted in Crime, Oklahoma County, Schools | No Comments