State Briefs: Conviction tossed out
Published: September 5, 2009
CONVICTION TOSSED OUT
A federal appeals court has thrown out a Tonkawa cattle rancher’s bank fraud conviction and ordered a new trial. Daniel J. Bowling had been sentenced to eight months in prison and ordered to pay $833,747 in restitution. The appeals court ruled a judge should have instructed jurors on Bowling’s claim he had been operating in good faith, going about his business as always. NOLAN CLAY,
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Woman faces abuse charges
Charges have been filed against an Enid woman accused of biting and hitting her estranged husband. Alicia Bocox was charged Wednesday with felony first-degree burglary and misdemeanor counts of domestic abuse assault and battery and domestic abuse assault.
JOHN A. WILLIAMS,
STAFF WRITER
WOODWARD
Welfare check brings surprise
Officers checking on the welfare of an elderly resident Tuesday instead found marijuana and drug paraphernalia in a Woodward home. Officers arrested an 18-year-old man sleeping in a bedroom.
JOHN A. WILLIAMS,
STAFF WRITER
ADA
Two charged in meth case
Brian Patrick Kelley, 37, and Racheal Lynne Kelley, 33, both of Ada, were charged Monday in Pontotoc County District Court with manufacturing methamphetamine. According to a court document, agents with the District 22 District Attorney Drug Task Force, Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs Control agents and Chickasaw Nation Lighthorse police said they found drugs and drug-making supplies at Kelley’s home Aug 20.
JOHN A. WILLIAMS,
STAFF WRITER
BARTLESVILLE
Sitter accused of beating girl
A Bartlesville baby sitter has been charged with felony child abuse for spanking a 9-year-old girl as punishment for standing up during a church service. The judge set $10,000 bail for Tammy Faye Rucker, 36, who is charged with hitting the girl repeatedly with a wooden paddle and a black belt at a residence in the 1600 block of Middlepath. Police began investigating the case after authorities received a call from Jane Phillips Elementary School where the girl is a third-grader. The girl’s teacher had noticed she seemed to be in pain.
LAURA SUMMERS,
TULSA WORLD
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