IN BRIEF: Edmond police bribery case trial set

Published: November 20, 2008

EDMOND

Two face trial IN BRIBERY CASE

Former Edmond police officers Christopher Caplinger and Andrew Andrade are facing a February trial on bribery charges. They are charged with conspiracy in the scheme allegedly meant to help an airline pilot keep his driver’s license after a drunken driving arrest. Caplinger, 46, is charged with offering cash to the officer who administered the pilot’s breath test in March 2007 so he would skip a driver’s license revocation hearing. Andrade, 29, is accused of helping Caplinger make contact with the officer.

MIAMI

Man convicted in infant death

Travis Steed, 32, of Seligman, Mo., was convicted Wednesday of first-degree murder in the fatal beating of 15-month-old McKenna Jayda White. Jurors recommended a life sentence. Prosecutors argued that Steed delivered fatal blows to the child. The defense said that there is no physical evidence to link Steed to the crime.

ARKOMA

Worker dies after explosion

Stephen Chance Fontenot, 25, of Fort Smith, Ark., who was injured in an explosion at an Arkoma scrap metal yard Nov. 3, died Tuesday at a Fort Smith hospital. He was cutting into an artillery round with a blow torch when it exploded, officials said.

OKLAHOMA CITY

Inmate indicted in Bush threat

On Wednesday, a federal grand jury in Oklahoma City indicted Archie Monroe Glass Jr., 53, a prisoner in El Reno, for threatening to kill the president. The indictment says the letter, sent around Aug. 10 and addressed to "Mr. President,” says he planned to shoot the president and winner of the November election.

Man must pay for false bond

Ronald James Ladd, 46, of Altus must pay more than $4 million in restitution for defrauding four state banks. He was sentenced Wednesday to 41 months in prison. He listed a bond purportedly issued by the Assemblies of God Investment Center as an asset while applying for loans between 2002 and 2007, prosecutors in Oklahoma City said.

Shooter gets life sentence

Sonny Jordan Limpy, 22, of Oklahoma City was sentenced Wednesday to life in prison without parole for killing another man at a 2005 pool party. Limpy was found guilty Oct. 22 of first-degree murder in the shooting death of Mauricio Montelongo. Montelongo, 22, was shot when he tried to break up a fight involving two of Limpy’s friends, according to witnesses at the trial. Limpy testified he didn’t know the gun that killed Montelongo was loaded.

Man charged in slaying

Brandon Michael Wright, 25, of Oklahoma City was charged Wednesday with killing another man in an apparent argument over a flat-screen television. Wright admitted to firing several shots from a .45-caliber handgun in March at people outside his girlfriend’s house in the 800 block of NW 110, according to court papers. Wright is accused of first-degree murder in the death of Brook Roberson and shooting with intent to kill. He also faces an additional count of possessing a firearm while on probation.

20 years given in sex case

Former sailor Lawrence Stephen Karnowski, 38, was sentenced Wednesday to 20 years in prison for sexually abusing four young girls over a three-year period. Karnowski pleaded no contest in August to 40 counts of sexual abuse of a child. He blamed his actions on testosterone therapy meant to treat a genetic abnormality, but Oklahoma County District Judge Virgil C. Black rejected his attorney’s request for probation in the case. Black also recommended sex offender treatment for Karnowski. Karnowski was in the Navy and stationed at Tinker Air Force Base before his March 2007 arrest. He has since been given a less than honorable discharge from the military.

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