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Wednesday, 14 April 2010 20:16 |
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By Joanne Webster
Contributing Writer
BOSWELL — Boswell councilors announced the unexpected death of one of their members, Dwight Harrison Tuesday. He was reportedly vacationing in Louisiana when he died.
His death and the removal of councilor Robert Moore leaves the public body with only three members.
A number of Boswell citizens voiced their disapproval of a special meeting recently held by the town’s governing body, which was not publicly announced. The agenda was not provided to the media which is routinely done.
Councilors met toward the end of March in a special meeting and conducted several items of business, including the hiring of a police officer and obtaining bids for a city vehicle. Officer Ricky Archer was hired and began working on March 27. It was decided during the special meeting that the city would have three full time police officers, including Chief Byron Gordon and officer Tommy Mlady, who is presently in CLEET training. Also approved were four reserve officers.
Councilor Steve VanSickle provided documents from the Oklahoma Municipal League, after the meeting was adjourned, which stated, “...each person elected or appointed for the first time as an officer of a municipality on or after July 1, 2006 shall be required within one year of taking office to attend an institute for municipal officials.” Read the full story, subscribe to the online edition: http://www.hugonews.com/transitionHDN.html |
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Monday, 12 April 2010 17:25 |
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OSBI reports Strickland’s body recovered
HUGO — Two men have been arrested and charged with first degree murder in connection the with killing of Robert Edward Strickland, 39, of Hugo.
Aaron Jerome Jacobs, 25, Spencerville, Okla., and Clifton Merrill Parish, 26, of Fort Towson, have been charged with robbing and shooting Strickland in the early morning hours of April 5. The charges were filed in Pushmataha County and bond for both men has been set at $500,000 by Associate District Judge Jana Wallace.
According to police reports, Jacobs and Parish were accompanied by two female subjects, one of whom sent a text message to Strickland, asking him to come to an area east of the Messer rural fire department. After Strickland went to the area, the woman sent him another text message saying that she had left her car keys in his car, and asked him to return.
According to statements given to police by one or more of the four individuals present, the request to have Strickland return was a ploy to rob him. Jacobs and one of the girls repeatedly beat Strickland about the head until he was unconscious, after which he was placed into the back of his own Ford SUV.
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Thursday, 08 April 2010 17:29 |
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HUGO — Local and state authorities continue to search for a 39-year-old Hugo man today after he was reported missing earlier in the week.
According to Jessica Brown, public information officer with the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation, Robert Strickland was reported by his common law wife not to have returned home Sunday evening. Although he was officially reported missing Tuesday morning, no public announcement by Hugo Police Department was released.
A 2004 Ford Expedition was found Wednesday four miles north of Sobol in McCurtain County on Weyerhaeuser logging road number 80,000. The vehicle was totally destroyed by fire. State officials said they had not confirmed that it was Strickland’s vehicle. Read the full story, subscribe to the online edition: http://www.hugonews.com/transitionHDN.html |
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Thursday, 08 April 2010 17:30 |
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Today's Boswell-Hugo softball game has been canceled due to a lack of players from Boswell. |
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Tuesday, 06 April 2010 19:03 |
HUGO — Seven Hugo residents were booked into the Choctaw County jail Tuesday morning after three search warrants were simultaneously served at three residences.
According to Drug Task Force Agent Darin Upton, two individuals were taken into custody from a residence in the 300 block of Rosewood Street. Agents also siezed two ounces of meth ice, drug paraphernalia and cash.
Two individuals were also taken into custody from a residence in the 1400 block of West Kiamichi Street. A small quantity of meth ice, crack cocaine, drug paraphernalia and cash were also seized from this location.
Upton said three persons were taken into custody from a residence in the 200 block of Durant Street. Seized at that location were meth ice, drug paraphernalia and cash.
The Drug Task Force is under the direction of District Attorney Laura Wallis.
Charges against the seven will be up to the assistant district attorney and will be made public when filed. |
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