Former TCSO Sgt. Rick Treadwell said he and Brian Pounds, a Tulsa County assessor, were working security at the show on Saturday when Pounds pointed a weapon at a nearby wall and fired. The bullet struck Treadwell in the finger.
“The public should know about the number of incidents — particularly preventable incidents —that occur in the facility that someone’s child could be housed in,” Smolen said.
Scott Biggs, R-Chickasha, is seeking to return drug possession to a felony crime. But records show that a decade ago, Biggs let the man now charged with killing a Tecumseh cop avoid prison on a meth charge.
How had Byron Shepard avoided prison for so long despite his lengthy criminal past?
Though the Sheriff’s Office is facing almost a dozen lawsuits related to deaths and injuries, some mental health advocates say it has come a long way.
Clark Brewster, who represented Tulsa County in the Elliott Williams trial, spoke with The Frontier and gave his thoughts on the $10.2 million verdict and the trial he said had a “circus-like atmosphere.”
Former Sheriff Stanley Glanz will also have to pay $250,000 in punitive compensatory damages. He was sued in his “individual capacity.”
The court heard testimony from more than 20 people over 17 days. Closing statements from both sides are expected to be heard by the jury Friday.
