Days ahead of their self-imposed deadline, county election board officials broke some news Tuesday afternoon: 6,647 signatures requesting a grand jury investigation of the Tulsa County Sheriff’s Office had been verified and turned over to the court clerk’s office.
“We’re confident,” organizer Marq Lewis said. “A lot of hard work went into this. A lot of hard work by a handful of volunteers who believed in the process and believed they could make change, believed that they could change things.”
The news for Alan Hruby got worse Tuesday afternoon: According to Stephens County court records, District Attorney Jason Hicks filed a Bill of Particulars, a move signaling his desire to seek the death penalty.
Warren Crittenden, a key figure in the TCSO scandal, is one of four people charged in February with first-degree murder after a man named Michael Jones was killed in an east Tulsa motel.
As it turns out, Crittenden may not be heading to trial on that charge.
When I woke up early Sunday morning, I was a Tulsa Tough neophyte, a total virgin.
Hours later, I left a veteran.
We The People Oklahoma says it has gathered more than 6,000 signatures on its grand jury petition drive to investigate the Tulsa County Sheriff’s Office.
“Terry Simonson made a bet,” Lewis said, referring…
We The People Oklahoma says it has gathered more than 6,000 signatures on its grand jury petition drive to investigate the Tulsa County Sheriff’s Office.
When group founder Marq Lewis made his announcement to cheers from the dozen-or-so volunteers behind him, he couldn’t help but get in a little dig.
“Terry Simonson made a bet,” Lewis said, referring to the sheriff’s office spokesman who told the Tulsa World it was a longshot that the group could come up with 5,000 signatures. “And he lost that bet.”
SAPULPA — Eric Roberts, a former Oklahoma Highway Patrol trooper who was arrested and charged last year with a series of on-duty rapes was bound over for trial Friday on one of the three cases he faces.
Testimony was given by the alleged victim in the first case filed against Roberts, which alleges he pulled a woman over last July in Tulsa County, eventually driving her to a secluded location where he ordered her to perform a sexual act.
