Today In Oklahoma

Maria de Lourdes Vazquez Hernandez was shot by Tulsa police on April 20th after a passer-by called police to report a woman acting strangely in the parking lot of Las Americas grocery store at Lewis and I-244 in Tulsa. Allegedly the caller said that the woman had a gun tucked into her waistband.

Tulsa cops show up and order the woman out of the vehicle in which she was sitting. Police also allegedly asked her if she had gun to which she allegedly replied in the affirmative.

At this point in the story it gets a bit crazy and two Tulsa cops, Jason Bell and Jennifer Moore, open fire on Hernandez wounding her once in the arm and twice in the stomach.

It gets crazier still when one realizes that no gun was found on Hernandez, in the vehicle in which she was sitting or anywhere in the vicinity.

Where it really gets crazy is when you realize that once Hernandez was released from the hospital she was arrested on a charge of assault with a dangerous weapon. Huh? What dangerous weapon?

Go figure, a woman was shot three times by the cops, who obviously had guns and used them, and yet the shooting victim is charged with assault with a deadly weapon!

I swear, I am not making this stuff up. See for yourself…

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Tiffany Lynne Huffman, 28, of Yukon, Oklahoma has been arrested on allegations that she sent nude photos of herself to three male students at Southmoore High School, where she worked.

Reportedly, Huffman was charged with three counts of lewd or indecent proposals or acts to a child under 16

Court documents reportedly indicate that after becoming “friends” with the boys on Facebook that Huffman began having sexual conversations with each victim and eventually sent nude photos of herself to the boys via text message.

Reportedly, Huffman was expected to surrender to police on Thursday but apparently went on the lam instead and was subsequently arrested in Claremeore, Oklahoma by the U.S. Marshals Service Fugitive Task Force.

It is alleged that Huffman told police she knew what she was doing was wrong but that she enjoyed the attention of the boys.

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It seems that there is seldom a day that goes by that Tulsa news media isn’t blowing and going about the trash or ambulance service offered Tulsans. Both services are in a state of mass confusion and those running both seem to lack a clue as to what is going on.

So here we go…

Tulsa’s trash board released its proposed rate increases for new trash service on Tuesday and Tulsa Refuse Inc (TRI), the current trash hauler, hits up the trash board for another $282,000 to continue picking up the trash between the time the old contract expires on July 1st and the new contract with the new trash hauler,NewSolutions, begins on October 1st.

The trash board, whose proposed rates represent an increase of at least $2 per-month for half the service under the old rates and contracts, says that TRI’s request amounts to about $1 per household and that such an increase is unacceptable. Okay, so… According to the Tulsa trash board, a $2 increase for once-a-week trash pickup is fine, but a $1 increase per-household for a three month period for twice weekly trash pickup is unacceptable. So what’s the big difference? Turns out that the $2 comes out of the ratepayers’ pockets while the $1 would come out of the trash board’s “slush fund”. Okay, now it all becomes clear.

Meanwhile, over at EMSA, Tulsa’s scandal ridden ambulance service, EMSA’s board will consider a proposal that would formally and retroactive apply rules of an existing program to all city utility bill customers.

Huh?

It seems that for years EMSA has been tinkering with the rules of the TotalCare program’s membership agreement and description and doing so without the approval of the City of Tulsa. This apparently in order to increase revenues for EMSA at the expense of Tulsans that are already paying for ambulance service via their city utility bills.

Now at long last it appears that the EMSA board is going to retroactively approve these rule changes in what some may see as a “let’s cover our asses” attempt to avoid a possible grand jury investigation and some jail time for certain EMSA officials. Guess we will just have to see how this one turns out…

Original Reports:

Trash Scandal Report 1 and Trash Scandal Report 2

EMSA Scandal Report 1 and EMSA Scandal Report 2

Joe Glen Beam, reportedly a tow truck driver for Raceway Towing in Claremore, Oklahoma, has been busted in a sting conducted by officers from the Claremore and Owasso police departments.

It is alleged that several woman reported to police that Beam had requested sex in exchange for a tow of their broke-down vehicles.

Reportedly, Claremore police requested the help of two female officers of the Owasso Police Department and a sting was set up with one of the female officers posing Monday night as a motorist with a broke-down vehicle.

Following his arrest Beam was reportedly booked into the Rogers County Jail on a misdemeanor count of soliciting prostitution.

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