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Good money, Good morning, good
morning, and welcome, welcome, welcome.

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It is time now for our community
connection right here and k one the

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one you trust. We have Sheriff
Scott Owen in the studio today and Sheriff,

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how are we doing today? We're
doing pretty good. Tom, It's

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good to be here. Well,
you're you've been busy because you and your

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team and some volunteers have been putting
together Thanksgiving for some folks who've kind of

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had a little little harder than most. Yes, it's uh. We do

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this every year and actually it was
a tradition started the way back when Sheriff

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Ballard was sheriff in the two thousands, and our reserve unit goes together and

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we gather names of needy families.
Lee and my assistant who kind of ramrods

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the program in house, she informed
me this morning that we have twenty families

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that we're going to provide meals for
and the donations have been coming in very

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very good. I was just through
the conference room and we have twenty baskets

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plumb full and they're picking up turkeys
today and we have another Delaware that's supposed

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to be bringing something in for each
one of the baskets. So I think

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it's going to be a good year. The reserves and the deputies are going

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to start deliveries tomorrow on Wede morning, so we'll be getting that done special

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thanks to the community. We can't
do this without the community. This is

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all community involvement and through our sheriff
Reserve deputies. They like to thank Kevin

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Lynch with Remax. He was a
food collector this year. Always is your

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neighbor across the street Boulevard Pharmacy,
They're always good for you. And the

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co Penn for h Kids did a
can did a food drive and they brought

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down lots of food for us and
a really good project for them. And

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as always Bortsvieoll Radio has been a
great community partner in this. Thank you

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very much. We appreciate the opportunity
to get the word out and to help

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this all happen every year because this
is one of the best projects we can

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think of. I think it is
and we hope to continue it even after

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I'm long gone. So I think
it's going to be here for I think

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it's here to stay. I think
we're good. Yeah. The Sheriff's office

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been kind of busy with a lot
of different things, and not only with

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the volunteering and getting out there in
the meeting and greeting folks, but which

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is very important, by the way, But you've got some officers who actually

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visit the schools, don't you.
We have a during the school year.

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It's actually a part time position,
yeah, but we have a full time

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school resource officer, Deputy Chris Forrest
at Copine School. He's a native of

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Copenn and the school system actually kind
of handpicked him and he fell into this

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and wanted to do it. Chris
is a former Washington County sheriff deputy from

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over twenty years ago, and he's
a retired Tulsa Police officer, so he's

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spent his life serving the community.
And now he's on campus at Copenn all

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year long and he'll take his summer
break started back next year. That's pretty

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darn good. You know. The
thing is with the Sheriff's office is that

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I've only been around since you've been
sheriff here in Washington County, is that

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you go to the extra effort to
ensure that your officers are approachable, You're

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approachable, and that we're here to
help. And it seems like in the

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mainstream media, a bad picture was
painted a police officers, and I think

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intentionally by some trying to influence folks, saying that officers had a chip on

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their shoulder and that they were mean
spirited. And I've never found that to

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be true here. I think we
live in a very unique community. I

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think we do too. The community
respects law enforcement and supports law enforcement,

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and in turn, our law enforcement
becomes respectful of the people we serve.

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It falls back to the adage of
our parents and our Sunday school teachers taught

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us years ago. When we're grown
up, we want to treat people as

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if we would want to be treated
ourselves. And we have people that come

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with needs in crisis. Normally,
no one contacts law enforcement unless something is

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wrong or something has happened, and
those need to be as positive a contact

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as it can be. And we
need to be supportive if that's the casion

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of combat over some if they've broken
the lawn, or we need to deal

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with that accordingly, but only within
the constraints of policy. But we're here

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to serve the citizens and that's what
we do. We do and I love

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it. September I had thirty eight
years in law enforcement. Wow, wee

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I did. September ninth of eighty
five. I signed on at Bartlesville worked

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there till twenty ten. Wow.
It's a great place. I love the

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police department and we all work together
really well. Speaking of that you do,

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there are things that we don't even
know about, but I know that

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there are. Sometimes there are tasks
for us special units where you have to

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use other agencies and you collaborate and
you work together and you share resources in

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order to bring out a positive change
or a positive resolution to a situation.

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Along that line, we have just
entered into an interlocal agreement with Bartlesville City

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and their officers to cross commission deputize
a select number of officers for drug interdiction

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and street crimes enforcement throughout the entire
county, working with our deputies alongside our

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deputies. And what it does,
that's going to give us a more opportunity

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to hopefully stop the flow of drugs, which is a crisis nationwide, and

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create a better living environment in the
county. Force. Wow, I just

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caught wind of just as we were
walking in of a successful resolution to a

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situation where many many grams of meth
were found and they're no longer on the

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street. Very large caizar. It
was right here in Bartlesville. Some of

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the Bartsfield guys did a really good
job. Oh my goodness. Aches.

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Now there are folks who I think
know that we do have a bit of

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a drug trafficking problem here in our
county. I don't think they're quite aware

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of the magnitude. A lot of
this goes under the cover of darkness.

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I'm sure a lot of it does. And with us being on a major

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traffic corridor from the south to north, as you can get on Highway seventy

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five and go to Dallas Houston really
easy, go north to Chicago really easy.

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It's a corridor. Any major highway
as a trafficking corridor, and the

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more people we can add with our
deputies and mutual aid agreements, cooperative efforts

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with other agencies highway patrol, BARLAAPD, drug enforcement agencies, hopefully we can

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curtail some of this. Folks have
been kind of curious too about when crimes

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are committed by either you know,
US citizens or tribal citizens in any combination

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thereof is there a process by which
that is handled with our Washington County deputies

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or is there a chriss deputy disease
with the tribes? There is. We

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work in the Cherokee Nation, and
the Cherokee Nation has a cross deputized all

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of the Washington County deputies as Cherokee
marshals to work in there with them and

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alongside them to enforce the laws both
of the state and of the tribe.

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Tribes adopted most of the state statutes, and it just depends on their tribal

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status whether they're tried and state court
or in the tribal court or in federal

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court, depending on the crime I
see. So everything is all taken care

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of, so there's not going to
be anything shocking or surprising. No,

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it really enforcing the law is enforcing
the law and works the same pretty much

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across the boarder. The only difference
is a little different paperwork and what courts

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do you send us paperwork to and
who where and how do we hold the

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prisoners. So the crime that came
to mind was something that happened about a

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year ago. It's north of Dewey
where two people lost their lives and there

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are two young people involved. One
will go through the traditional judicial system here.

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The other because of a tribal affiliation, will be tried elsewhere. And

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there are folks kind of wondering about
that. Well, there's a capital case.

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So it was one of the classified
crimes that the federal people will at

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BI and US Attorney's Office will prosecute
on a federal level. It won't be

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in trouble for it will be in
the federal court for that. So getting

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back to what's going to happen tomorrow, our deputies and our reserves are going

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to go out and they're going to
take care of some families, are going

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to drop off some Thanksgiving goodies.
They are they're going to be out in

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uniform and share cars bringing the Thanksgiving
meal. So it's one of those really

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good feelings, isn't It's the holiday
season. We're starting to get into the

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Christmas shows and the Thanksgiving shows and
makes you want to watch Charlie Brown and

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the Grinch and all that. Well, I was going to bring that up

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because hot off the heels of turkey
and fictions, we've got Christmas tree and

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ribbons and bowls and that stuff coming
up, and we're looking forward to participating

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in the Christmas parades this year.
Washington County actually had three Veterans Day parades,

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and speaking of that, I'd just
like to take this opportunity to thank

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the veterans current and past that have
served our country and make this land of

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the Free is made that way by
the home of being the home of the

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braves. Indeed, we can't send
us so hats off to the veterans.

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And I was just overjoyed to be
able to know that we have three Veterans

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parades honoring those men and women.
And you know something, we also add

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some beautiful weather for that day.
And I can tell you the deputies that

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I saw here in town during our
parade, we're having a pretty good time

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of it. Yeah, there are
a lot of great people, a lot

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of kids, and you know,
nothing lights up a person in the uniform

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and seeing those kids waving at you. Yeah, that's all right, and

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they're why we do it. There
a future, Yeah, indeed they are

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now if anybody wants to learn about
how they can help you out as far

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as not only the Thanksgiving but the
upcoming the upcoming Christmas drive that you have,

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how do we go about getting the
information and getting materials and cash well

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too, exactly we speaking of We
actually sent out some contribution letters to several

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many of our community partners and supporters. They went out in the mail yesterday.

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He will be accepting cash donations at
the Sheriff's office. We're through the

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mail. Check to be made up
of Washington County Sheriff Reserve and ear marked

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is Christmas Fund. And we'll also
accept gifts. If you don't want to

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send money, or you have a
gift you'd like to donate, we would

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gladly accept that at the Sheriff's office
for our reserves. I know folks were

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hauling bicycles a couple of years ago. Those things get in pretty anything.

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Yeah, well we will. We
will be shopping here about the fifth of

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December, so it's quickly approaching.
Keep that in your hearts and minds and

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wallets please. That's correct. And
we appreciate the community because without the community

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support, no this has ever happened. Sureff Owen, thank you very much,

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really appreciate it. Oh by the
way, where's your band playing?

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Well, it looks like Twitter they
play. That'd be easy. We're gonna

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be at the Osage Casino on the
twenty fourth, and we have a holiday

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New Year's engagement a coffeeville for the
shrine. Very good. That's always great.

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I always tell people folks by Sheriff, get out sing yours and its

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hands down. He wins every time. Thank Tom, Thank you, Sheriff

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Ohen didn't mean to make you blush
here