On Dec. 6, the U.S. Department of Justice announced the indictments of 35 people in connection with a methamphetamine trafficking ring operated from within the Oklahoma prison system. The charges are the culmination of a 12-month investigation conducted by local,...
A routine traffic stop in Oklahoma on the evening of Nov. 30 led to the discovery of marijuana, methamphetamine, firearms, and drug paraphernalia, the Clinton Police Department has reported. A 23-year-old man, a 20-year-old man and a 21-year-old woman were taken into...
Like other Oklahoma City taxpayers, one thing you may dislike more than paying taxes is filling out your income tax forms. The least the IRS could do is make filling out the forms easy, since paying taxes is an obligation. Unfortunately, that probably isn't going to...
Oklahoma residents may have been surprised when federal prosecutors announced that a University of Miami professor had been charged with laundering money. The case is unusual because the professor wrote a book about organized crime and corruption in South America and...
Low-cost presumptive field tests in the hands of police officers regularly produce false positives that send people to jail on drug charges. A public defender working in Tulsa County said that about once a month she represents defendants arrested after the field tests...
A 26-year-old Oklahoma woman faces a raft of felony charges linked to an allegedly stolen car and substances believed to be heroin and methamphetamine seized during the early morning hours of Oct. 9. The woman was taken into custody by Garfield County Sheriff's Office...
Oklahoma residents who have been following the recent college admissions scandal are likely aware that sentences have been handed down to some of the parents involved. On Oct. 4, a judge in California sent a 53-year-old man to prison for five months and fined him...
Following your arrest for charges of white-collar crimes, drug crimes or other offenses, you may have many questions about what happens next. Certainly, your ultimate concern is what your future will look like, but that may depend heavily on what happens in the...
Several people who are well known throughout Oklahoma, including actress Felicity Huffman, have been charged in the highly-publicized college cheating scandal. Huffman received her sentence after entering a guilty plea in May to federal charges of mail fraud and...
In Oklahoma you can gift someone a gun in most situations. However, if you gift a gun in the wrong situation, you could be committing a felony. This is why it is important to understand the laws surrounding the transaction. Recipient must be able to legally own a gun...
