Cops work unusual burlargies
Some unusual burglaries have been reported in Osage County in the past week, including the heist of a hefty gun safe containing an as-yet undetermined number of weapons and commercial burglaries in which the thieves took nothing. The gun theft occurred east of Barnsdall on State Highway 11 and was reported by a caretaker at [...]
Barnsdall hires a keeper for chief
Barnsdall, which suffered various public police embarrassments over the past several years, hired a new chief Tuesday that others in the legal community says is a real keeper: John Ferguson, a man with 31 years of law enforcement experience who is retiring as an investigator for the Osage County Sheriff’s Office. The City Council voted [...]
O’Neal seeks to have search warrant suppressed, get guns back
A Skiatook businessman who was accused of shooting at dogs in the midst of his failed campaign for the city’s at-large council seat is asking that the search warrant – and all of the evidence gathered through it – be thrown out. In court filings by his attorney Earl Lawson, Pearson Leon O’Neal says there [...]
21-year-old gets 50 years in child sex case: ‘God says forgive, but I will never forget’
A young man who pleaded guilty to raping and sodomizing a six-year-old girl was sentenced Thursday to 50 years in prison for the crimes. Brandon Allen Bridgeford, 21, of the Osage County part of Tulsa, was accused in August 2012 of the felonies. According to a pre-sentence investigation, he admitted to not only the crimes [...]
Man shot in home invasion
A man who used a sledge hammer to bust into a house in southern Osage County in an effort to get some possessions back was greeted with three 9mm rounds in a “stand-your-ground” shooting for which it is unlikely that the shooter will be prosecuted. Jason Ray Smith, 29, was hit in the chest – [...]
Man charged in reported brutal rape in Pawhuska
A Pawhuska man has been charged with rape, kidnapping and other felonies in a reported brutal assault on a woman during which she was allegedly held hostage for 12 hours. Christopher Beatty Harris, 27, was charged last week in the assault that took place at a woman’s home and then at the defendant’s apartment on [...]
No weapons found in Caney Valley school threat case
A search warrant, returned Thursday in Osage County District Court, revealed that Caney Valley School was the target of a threat just before Christmas, but that the student from Skiatook who made the threat turned out to have no weapons. Ramona Police Chief Adam Walker says in the search-warrant affidavit that a juvenile witness said [...]
Wynona Police Report
There have been reports of numerous burglaries, break-ins, and prowlers in the Wynona area. Wynona Police Officer John Ferguson advises Wynonans to call Osage County Sheriff’s office, or Wynona Police Cell 918-697-4592 to report incidents. By Tennie Slone
Skiatook foster parents face abuse charges
A Skiatook couple was booked into the Osage County Jail on Friday on felony charges related to abusing a foster child. Both both posted $50,000 bonds the same day and were released. Cari Eckhart, 26, and Kenneth Glenn Randolph, 37, are accused of harming a five-year-old boy who was admitted to St. Francis Hospital in [...]
Skiatook teen hurt in one-car accident
A Skiatook teenager was injured in a one-car accident Thursday afternoon but was in stable condition at St. John’s Hospital in Tulsa. Tess Daugherty, 16, was northbound on 52nd West Avenue near 133rd Street North at 7:59 a.m. when she left the roadway, over corrected and went into a broadside and struck a culvert, according [...]
Skiatook man charged in OKC murders
A man who lives in Skiatook was charged Thursday with two counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of a Blanchard woman and her unborn child in Oklahoma City. Joseph R. Cyr, 31, is being held without bond in the case, to which homicide investigartors said he was linked by DNA evidence as well as [...]
Dog shooting charge filed
Leon O’Neal, the candidate for Skiatook City Council who was accused of shooting at dogs inside city limits, was charged Thursday with felony cruelty to animals. O’Neal, 51, entered a not guilty plea and was released on a $1,000 bond, but he might face more legal troubles encountered in the aftermath of a Skiatook police [...]
Hudson set for bench trial in Reed shooting
Robert Dalton Hudson, the young man accused of killing a Skiatook mason and farmer during an ill-advised target-shooting practice in October 2011, will stand trial before a judge June 24-26. Hudson waived his right to a jury trial and elected Tuesday morning to be tried by a judge only in the death of David Reed, [...]
At last, Hauser service held
Family and friends gathered Saturday in Bartlesville to pay homage to the rough-hewn life of Timothy Hauser, a celebration that capped six months of worry, frustration and torment in which they knew the 62-year-old had been murdered but whose body was not found for months, then was held by the state Medical Examiner for several [...]
Murder charge dropped in ’99 killing
An Osage County Judge dismissed a first-degree murder charge Monday against a man who had maintained from the outset that he was innocent of the 1999 Tulsa slaying. Tony Lamont Patterson, 46, had been linked by DNA to the Jan. 20, 1999, killing of Freda Ingrid Johnson. Johnson, 34, was found by her boyfriend shot [...]
Dogs, gunfire and a candidate
Man’s best friend has not received a warm welcome in the neighborhood around 5th and Cherry in Skiatook. On Friday morning, gunfire greeted a pair of peripatetic pooches and one of the three bullets went through the wood privacy fence of a neighbor whose own yellow dogs were well behind a privacy fence. On Feb. [...]
Suit filed in Reed shooting
The family of a Skiatook man who was killed by stray gunfire as a pair of young men shot at a paper target with an assault rifle has sued, alleging the wrongful death of David Reed. Reed’s widow, Renee Reed, filed suit Thursday against the young men, Jesse Wayne Caughron and Robert Dalton Hudson, as [...]
Murder inquirey looks at Skiatook man
A high-profile Oklahoma City murder of a pregnant woman has led detectives to Osage County, where police executed three search warrants targeting a resident of rural Skiatook. Oklahoma City police seized handwritten journals, cell phones, cameras, thumb drives and a book called “Most Evil” along with a DVD set titled “America’s Serial Killers,” according to [...]
TPD chaplain persuades son to turn self in for Gilcrease killing
A Tulsa Police chaplain persuaded his son to turn himself in, instead of fleeing after the son allegedly shot a man to death in a driveway, according to an arrest affidavit filed Friday in Osage County District Court. Reginald Ward, 23, of Sand Springs, was arraigned Friday on a single charge of first-degree murder in [...]
Barnsdall police chief resigns
Barnsdall police chief Shane Davis, offered options he found unacceptable, resigned last week from the top cop job, leaving city officials once again in search of a replacement. “We gave him some options and he didn’t like them,” Cole said Wednesday after Davis tendered his resignation. Davis was involved in a one-car accident on Monday, [...]
Shaffer, Petty charged with murder
As expected but a long time coming, Osage County prosecutors added first-degree murder charges against Trysta Shaffer and Rusty Boyd Petty on Friday. The pair is accused of using a tire iron to kill Timothy Hauser of Bartlesville early Aug. 9. Prosecutors first held off on filing murder charges against the pair because Hauser’s body [...]
Admitted molester wants to go to VA
Jack Cheshewalla, the Pawhuska man who walked into the police station and announced he was a child predator, told a judge Monday that he has post traumatic stress disorder and that he would like to released from the Osage County Jail to seek treatment for that and other medical problems as an in-patient at the [...]
Former chief arrested: DUI at .24
Barnsdall’s current police chief, Shane Davis, has been suspended temporarily with pay as the circumstances of his one-car accident are unraveled. Meantime his immediate predecessor at the helm of the department was twice arrested in the past week in Bartlesville – once for a drunken driving infraction that took place while he was chief last [...]
TPD officer sues paper, Skiatook realtor
Shawn King, the Tulsa police captain who was portrayed as a sex addict who molested a child and caused the suicide of another in an alternative Tulsa newspaper, has sued the publication, its editors, a private investigator and his ex-girlfriend, the Skiatook real estate agent who made the accusations. King sued This Land Press, its [...]
