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CRIME & SAFETY
State prison staff face criminal charges, litigation for plotting prisoner’s assault
David Coker stepped off an inmate transport bus at the Lexington Assessment and Reception Center expecting to be interviewed, photographed and fingerprinted. The then 42-year-old, sentenced to 15 years for firstdegree rape in Oklahoma County, started the state’s booking process for county jail transfers without issue. Prisoners chatted and joked in a holding cell to pass the time as they awaited a medical assessment around noon on Feb. 10, 2023.
Canute Man Dies While Changing Tire
A Canute man lost his life in Oklahoma County after a pick up on a jack fell on him while he was changing a tire on Friday night. According to a report provided by the Oklahoma Highway Patrol, the accident occurred just before 7:30 p.m. on the shoulder of the westbound lanes of Interstate 40, 6 miles south of Choctaw when while changing the driver’s side rear tire off of a 2018 Ford F-350, the pickup slipped off the jack and fell onto 54-year-old Clayton Barton.
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