Publication Date: 3/10/07 Last Update: 3/10/07 For 16 years Robert Samuel Wheeland patrolled the streets of Haskell, Oklahoma as a police officer. A Muskogee County jury has now determined that for at least part of that time he was also a sexual predator, roaming the streets of Haskell, using his position of trust and authority [...]
Although it happens, it isn’t that often that a police officer in Oklahoma is arrested for DUI. What is really shocking is when two Oklahoma law enforcement officers are arrested for DUI on the same day. That is exactly what happened in the early morning hours of Sunday, February 4, 2007. Meet Sallisaw, OK Assistant Police [...]
How bad is the Bryan County Jail, in Durant, Oklahoma? So bad that the FBI has investigated it, the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation has investigated it, the U.S. Marshal’s Service has investigated it, the state Health Department has investigated and levied fines against it and the state of Oklahoma is considering ordering it closed. [...]
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. If the [...]
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 [...]
While there are many strange happenings in Delaware County, Oklahoma, few if any are more strange that what we here at Bubbaworld refer to as “The Case of the Missing Cases”. While that might sound like a title from an old “Perry Mason” show from a by-gone era of television, reality in Delaware County is [...]
