Drug raid leads to 3 arrests (KSWO Lawton-Wichita Falls)
Thu, 31 Jul 2008 04:09:26 GMT
Lawton police raided a duplex at 28 NW 24th Street shortly after 5 p.m. Wednesday with a search warrant--and found what they were looking for. Detectives say they seized 11 grams of crack cocaine, three baggies containing a total of 124 grams of marijuana, and a weapon with a defaced serial number. They arrested three individuals in the raid.
New private prison to be built near Lawton (Wichita Falls Times Record News)
Tue, 29 Jul 2008 15:30:33 GMT
LAWTON, Okla. (AP) _ Comanche County commissioners have approved plans by a Florida-based group to build a new private prison near Lawton.
Private prison to be built near Lawton (Tulsa World)
Tue, 29 Jul 2008 13:01:19 GMT
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Comanche County allows private prison near Lawton (The Oklahoman)
Tue, 29 Jul 2008 05:06:24 GMT
LAWTON — A Florida-based private prison group got the green light Monday to begin building a 1,536-bed facility just outside Lawton. After a public hearing, Comanche County commissioners approved a proposal from GEO Group to build a medium-security prison. GEO will build it across the road from the Lawton Correctional Facility, a medium-security prison that GEO already owns, said County ...
"Drunk Driving: Over the Limit, Under Arrest" (KSWO Lawton-Wichita Falls)
Thu, 14 Aug 2008 22:32:40 GMT
Labor Day approaches, and police say that in the last three days of summer they see more deaths by drunk driving than the entire season. So, law enforcement officers from thirteen different local areas have teamed up for a national DUI mobilization over the next two weeks - "Drunk Driving: Over the Limit, Under Arrest."
Most Okla. prisons loosening lockdowns (KSWO Lawton-Wichita Falls)
Tue, 12 Aug 2008 22:08:08 GMT
Oklahoma prison officials say that they have adopted new security measures, and transferred 16 inmates suspected of starting several fights to out-of-state prisons. The move should partially lift the lockdowns from the seven prisons that were involved in the fights. In May and June of this year, there were deadly fights among inmates across the state - two of them deadly. On May 19, two ...
Suspect's escape still haunts community today (The Oklahoman)
Sun, 10 Aug 2008 05:16:49 GMT
LAWTON — A miniature wanted poster of David Lee Kemp hangs by a tack amid a cluster of certificates, badges and western art prints on Comanche County Sheriff Kenny Stradley's office walls. The image is easy to miss — unless you're the sheriff. Stradley stares at the fugitive's mug shot daily. "I put it here so I can see it every day,” Stradley said. "David Lee Kemp — that's one we regret. He ...
Attorneys for Oklahoma Highway Patrol trooper's killer want testing records sealed (The Oklahoman)
Sun, 10 Aug 2008 05:14:58 GMT
LAWTON — Attorneys for a man convicted of gunning down an Oklahoma Highway Patrol trooper want a judge to seal the results of his competency test. Ricky Ray Malone was convicted and sentenced to death in 2005 for the Dec. 26, 2003, slaying of trooper Nikky Green on a rural Cotton County road. The death verdict was later overturned, and the penalty phase of the case was remanded for resentencing. ...
Convicted Killer's Attorneys Want Documents Sealed (News On 6 Tulsa)
Sat, 09 Aug 2008 17:03:33 GMT
Attorneys for a man convicted of gunning down an Oklahoma Highway Patrol trooper want a judge to seal the results of his competency test.
Killer's attorneys want documents sealed (News On 6 Tulsa)
Sat, 09 Aug 2008 15:48:03 GMT
Associated Press - August 9, 2008 11:35 AM ET LAWTON, Okla. (AP) - Attorneys for a man convicted of gunning down an Oklahoma Highway Patrol trooper want a judge to seal the results of his...
