TCSO is tight lipped on an incident involving one of its deputies over the weekend. A source has told The Frontier that a deputy and his wife were involved in a domestic disturbance and that he later fled from deputies in Wagoner and Rogers counties. No arrest was made.
Altogether, eight employees of ISTI Plant Services, and their spouses contributed $34,350 to Tulsa Police Sgt. Vic Regalado’s campaign, with nearly all of that donated on Feb. 12, records show. That figure accounts for almost 25 percent of the $147,000 that individuals have given to Regalado for the Sheriff’s race.
During the fourth day of testimony in a federal civil trial, former Sheriff Stanley Glanz says his office did not follow policies designed to protect juveniles in the jail. Acting Sheriff Michelle Robinette testified those policies do not apply because girls are housed in the jail’s medical unit.
An expert testifies that former Sheriff Stanley Glanz was “deliberately indifferent” to the risk girls would be assaulted in the jail. Meanwhile, a juror was dismissed for posting on Facebook about his jury duty.
During a contentious day in federal court, jurors heard a former TCSO captain describe his investigation into allegations that a detention officer had sexually abused a teenage girl held in the jail. The federal judge also criticized a defense attorney for bringing up the girl’s criminal record.
Jurors watched a former jail guard’s video taped deposition during the first day of hearings in a civil rights lawsuit against former Sheriff Stanley Glanz. The suit alleges the sheriff was ‘indifferent’ to conditions leading to sexual assaults in jail.
As a civil lawsuit trial begins Friday against former Sheriff Stanley Glanz over jail conditions that allegedly allowed the sexual assault of a female juvenile in custody, a grassroots group plans to protest the lack of criminal charges in the case.
The latest lawsuit comes just three days after the state’s third largest earthquake, a 5.1, struck near the town of Fairview in northwest Oklahoma. The lawsuit by the Oklahoma chapter of the Sierra Club names Devon Energy Production Co., Chesapeake Operating LLC and New Dominion LLC, and is filed in the Western District of Oklahoma.
