Tulsa County Commissioner Karen Keith told The Frontier she has spoken to Sheriff Stanley Glanz about whether he should resign: “My preference would be for him to come to that realization on his own.”
Capt. Bill McKelvey was placed on leave Monday, a spokesman for Sheriff Stanley Glanz said. The move that comes four days after McKelvey was named in a lawsuit alleging a former employee was subject to “hostile and malicious conduct.”
Capt. Bill McKelvey was placed on leave Monday, a spokesman for Sheriff Stanley Glanz said. The move that comes four days after McKelvey was named in a lawsuit alleging a former employee was subject to “hostile and malicious conduct.”
Two days before Tulsa County Sheriff’s Office announced the termination of former jail administrator Shannon Clark, an ex-employee filed a lawsuit alleging “hostile and malicious conduct,” naming Clark and other jail staff.
On this week’s episode of Listen Frontier, senior staff writer Kevin Canfield and City Councilor/local entrepreneur Blake Ewing talk Tulsa: The future of Vision 2025, the Arkansas River, what Tulsa needs downtown and would Blake ever run for Mayor?
The security guard who shot and paralyzed a man earlier this year following an encounter at a south Tulsa apartment complex was charged Friday with possessing marijuana at the time of the shooting.
Ricky Stone, according to police documents, admitted to having a small amount of marijuana in a backpack inside his pickup the night he shot Monroe Bird through the neck. Bird, who was inside the car with a 15-year-old female friend when he was shot, crashed his car into a tree.
Jenks now claims it will be home to an outlet mall once planned for a site bordering Tulsa’s Turkey Mountain. But the city of Tulsa is proceeding as if the move is not a done deal at all.
In neighboring Okmulgee County, where the district attorney has been assigned to investigate alleged wrongdoing by the Tulsa County Sheriff’s Office, records and interviews show a variety of connections between law enforcement and prosecutors over the years as well as potential conflicts.
An investigator for the Okmulgee County district attorney’s office is being sued in a case alleging excessive force against a man who was Tased during a 2013 arrest. The same investigator, Gary McCollum, was involved in a botched arrest in 2005 in which Tulsa County Assessor and Reserve Deputy Ken Yazel shot an Okmulgee County man in the buttocks.
