Andrew Knittle
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Oklahoma City, OK, United States
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Love County sheriff 'impeded' investigation into couple's disappearance, relative says
JUL 30, 2016 - Paula Fielder thinks Love County Sheriff Joe Russell, who was arrested recently on unrelated charges, is hiding information about Molly Miller and Colt Haynes, who have been missing since July 2013. The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation announced a $10,000 reward. → Read More
Oklahoma Corrections Department has no issue with for-profit inmate transfer service
JUL 24, 2016 - Oklahoma's Department of Corrections says it hasn't had much in the way of problems using a for-profit inmate transport company to move some of its prisoners when its own personnel aren't available to do the work. → Read More
Record 33 'officer-involved' shooting deaths in Oklahoma in 2015, report reveals
JUL 21, 2016 - Thirty-three men died last year as a result of officer-related shootings, the highest level since the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation started tracking such deaths. → Read More
'Irish Mob' leaders accused of trafficking meth, heroin in Oklahoma prisons
JUL 15, 2016 - A 48-page affidavit unsealed Thursday in federal court details the gang's drug-trafficking enterprise that involved the Oklahoma County jail and the Oklahoma State Penitentiary. → Read More
Contraband cellphones in Oklahoma prisons affect lives on ‘outside’
JUL 10, 2016 - One of the biggest concerns for Oklahoma law enforcement is prisoners continuing to run drug-trafficking operations while locked up, simply by acquiring a mobile device. → Read More
Urine testing labs draw scrutiny of Oklahoma attorney general’s office
JUL 10, 2016 - Documents obtained through an open records request show the Oklahoma attorney general's Medicaid Fraud Control Unit is looking into some urine testing laboratories doing millions of dollars in business with Oklahoma health care providers. → Read More
Carter County’s sheriff is charged in bribery, battery
JUN 22, 2016 - Carter County Sheriff Milton Anthony was charged Wednesday with receiving a bribe, as expected, but, in a twist, he also was charged with sexual battery for allegedly groping a female deputy. → Read More
Carter County sheriff accused in sex scandal
JUN 2, 2016 - Carter County Sheriff Milton Anthony could face time in prison if he is convicted of convincing one of his female staff members – a woman nearly 40 years his junior — to begin a sexual relationship with him in exchange for hiring the woman’s husband as one of his deputies. → Read More
Norman city councilman ordered to trial in drug paraphernalia sales case
Stephen Holman, who has said he believes the case against him is “politically motivated,” seemed calm and confident Monday after the ruling of Special Judge Michael Tupper in Cleveland County District Court. → Read More
Judge is set to decide whether Texas man will face trial in fatal bus crash along I-35
MAY 5, 2016 - An Oklahoma judge will decide whether a Texas man charged with multiple counts of first-degree manslaughter in the September 2014 deaths of four college softball players will face trial. → Read More
Transportation Commission approves $81M widening project for I-235
MAY 2, 2016 - A recording-setting $81 million construction project that promises to widen Interstate 235 and rebuild four bridges that span the highway was approved Monday by the Oklahoma Transportation Commission. → Read More
Turnpike officials promise better metro-area access for southwest Oklahoma City area
APR 26, 2016 - The Oklahoma Turnpike Authority released a final design route Tuesday that highlights the planned Southwest Kilpatrick Extension, a $190 million project that agency officials promise will connect southwest Oklahoma City with the rest of the metropolitan area like never before. → Read More
Oklahoma, Potawatomis battle over sales tax payments
The dispute between the Citizen Potawatomi Nation and the state of Oklahoma arose in May 2014, when the Oklahoma Tax Commission suddenly challenged more than $27 million in sales tax exemptions claimed by the Potawatomis in recent years. → Read More
Norman city councilman appears in court on paraphernalia case
MAR 29, 2016 - A Norman city councilman accused of profiting from “drug activity” at the shop he manages near the University of Oklahoma campus will have to wait to find out if he’ll face trial. → Read More
Oklahoma paid record $92.7 million to private prisons in 2015
MAR 27, 2016 - Since 2004, the state has spent roughly $975 million on contracts with the two for-profit corrections enterprises operating in Oklahoma, based in Florida and Tennessee. → Read More
Jenkins charged with 29 felonies connected to 'pill mill'
MAR 24, 2016 - More than a year after a high-profile raid at his south Oklahoma City pain clinic, prosecutors charged unlicensed medical doctor Harvey Jenkins with Medicaid fraud and varies drug offenses Thursday morning in Oklahoma County District Court. Along with Jenkins, five former employees of Aria Orthopedics were charged Thursday with similar offenses. Mykel Fry, chief of the state… → Read More
Norman city councilman faces additional drug charges
Stephen Holman, 31, was charged with six new counts of unlawful possession of drug paraphernalia March 8 in Cleveland County District Court after police raided a store he manages in Norman, Oklahoma, that sold glass smoking pipes. → Read More
Oklahoma Corrections Department signs lease at recently closed DHS site in Pauls Valley
MAR 14, 2016 - A group of eight inmates and one staff member are now working at the Southern Oklahoma Resource Center in Pauls Valley doing what Corrections Department Director Joe Allbaugh calls "a building-by-building assessment" of the property, which includes at least 29 buildings and sits on nearly 600 acres. → Read More
Agency unveils preliminary routes for eastern Oklahoma County turnpike
How many people who will be directly impacted by the $300 million project remains unclear, even after Oklahoma Turnpike Authority officials and engineers → Read More
Controversial Valley Brook coffee shop set to close, but just briefly
Since opening nearly a decade ago, Jamie Zumwalt and her employees at Joe's Addiction have unapologetically welcomed everyone into the coffee shop, even the convicted sex offenders who flow into Valley Brook from Hand Up Ministries. → Read More