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By: Caleb Califano
The Oklahoma County jail trust is hiring some help to deal with the piling list of problems at the detention center downtown.
The trust voted this week to hire David Parker as a consultant. He previously worked as administrator of the Tulsa County Jail until last November.
According to the Oklahoman, Parker also spent 31 years at the Oklahoma Department of Corrections finishing there as a division two director.
In Tulsa, Parker was brought on by Sheriff Vic Regalado after former sheriff Stanley Glanz was indicted by a grand jury and resigned.
The jail trust voted eight to one to hire Parker, his pay will be capped at $20,000.
KEVIN HARVISON | Staff photo
Devin Sizemore, accompanied by a sheriff s deputy, is shown entering the Pittsburg County Courthouse in this file photo. Associate District Judge Tim Mills sentenced Sizemore on Wednesday, Oct. 31, to serve life in prison without parole in the 2016 death of Sizemore s 21-month-old daughter, Emily Sizemore.
Federal prosecutors charged a Krebs man this week for the 2016 death of his 21-month-old daughter due to his Native American status and federal law.
Devin Sizemore, 26, was charged Monday with murder in Indian country in anticipation of the Wednesday dismissal of his state first-degree murder charge.
The first-degree murder charge, along with a felony assault on a police officer charge, were ordered to be dismissed following a 20-day mandate issued April 1 by the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals.
Updated April 20 at 11:43 a.m.
75 new infections of the coronavirus were confirmed in Oklahoma on Tuesday, for a total of 445,725 since March 2020.
Oklahoma is reporting an average of 263 infections per day in the past week.
Oklahoma s Provisional Death Count, which reflects COVID-19 deaths based on death certificates, now stands at 8,144.
186 New Coronavirus Infections In Oklahoma
Updated April 19 at 4:20 p.m.
186 new infections of the coronavirus were confirmed in Oklahoma on Monday, for a total of 445,650 since March 2020.
Oklahoma is reporting an average of 268 infections per day in the past week.
Oklahoma s Provisional Death Count, which reflects COVID-19 deaths based on death certificates, now stands at 8,145. That s an increase of 21 from the day before.
By Derrick James STAFF WRITER Apr 16, 2021
Matthew Perry
A man serving multiple sentences in Oklahoma State Penitentiary was indicted in federal court after an investigation alleges he helped distribute more than 9,500 grams of methamphetamine in connection with an international drug ring.
Matthew Perry, 31, was indicted this month by a federal grand jury in the Western District of Oklahoma for drug conspiracy, possession of methamphetamine with intent to distribute and aiding and abetting, according to court documents.
Perry was indicted with 17 others by the grand jury following a two-year statewide investigation led by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Oklahoma City Police Department, the Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation, and the United States Attorneyâs Office into the Hernandez Drug Trafficking Organization.