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Corey Jones

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Public Service Journalism reporter for Tulsa World and Lee Enterprises. Boston Marathon qualifier. Tulsa Running Club president. I also run in the wild and captain a homemade raft.

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Corey Jones @jonesingtowrite.bsky.social · 17h
Grand Jury Justice, a nonprofit group, has been gathering signatures from those supporting an investigation into the Tulsa County District Attorney's Office while legal maneuverings have simmered in the background. tulsaworld.com/news/local/c...
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Kunzweiler's attorneys ask new judge to vacate petition seeking grand jury probe
Grand Jury Justice, a nonprofit group, has been gathering signatures from those supporting an investigation into the Tulsa County District Attorney's Office while legal maneuverings have simmered in t...
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Randy Krehbiel @rkrehbieltw.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
AG cites Inola smelter in challenge to proposed ozone rule tulsaworld.com/news/state-r...
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AG cites Inola smelter in challenge to proposed ozone rule
The two candidates to succeed Gentner Drummond as attorney general, Republican Jon Echols and Democrat Nick Coffey, have said they would continue Drummond's lawsuit opposing the Oklahoma Primary Alumi...
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Corey Jones @jonesingtowrite.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
“Freedom from persistent, dragnet-style surveillance while in public is not a foreign concept in our society and it is a reasonable expectation that society already accepts,” the judge wrote. | via Curtis Killman tulsaworld.com/news/local/c...
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Judge tosses drug evidence obtained with help of Flock Safety cameras
“Freedom from persistent, dragnet-style surveillance while in public is not a foreign concept in our society and it is a reasonable expectation that society already accepts,” the judge wrote.
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Corey Jones @jonesingtowrite.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
A judge granted final approval Monday to an amended petition that aims to convene a grand jury investigation of Tulsa County District Attorney Steve Kunzweiler and the operations of his office. tulsaworld.com/news/local/c...
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Signature-gathering OK'd in petition for grand jury investigation of Steve Kunzweiler
Grand Jury Justice now has 45 calendar days to collect 5,000 signatures of registered Tulsa County voters to advance to the next procedural step.
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Corey Jones @jonesingtowrite.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
In 2024, Oklahoma had the sixth-highest rate of teen births after ranking as high as second from 2014 to 2016. Oklahoma no longer in top 5 for teen birth rate. Sex health educators see a bigger lesson. tulsaworld.com/news/state-r...
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Oklahoma no longer in top 5 for teen birth rate. Sex health educators see a bigger lesson.
In 2024, Oklahoma had the sixth-highest rate of teen births after ranking as high as second from 2014 to 2016.
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Corey Jones @jonesingtowrite.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
BREAKING: Judge OKs grand jury petition to investigate Tulsa's DA, requests modifications tulsaworld.com/news/local/c...
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Judge OKs grand jury petition to investigate Tulsa's DA, requests modifications
Rogers County District Court Judge Stephen R. Pazzo Jr. on Tuesday found the petition meets requirements to be circulated among Tulsa County voters, but he denied the request to seal signatories' priv...
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Corey Jones @jonesingtowrite.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A nonprofit group called Grand Jury Justice filed the petition Wednesday in Tulsa County District Court that, if approved, would be circulated among registered Tulsa County voters.
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Group seeks citizen petition to impanel grand jury investigation of Steve Kunzweiler
A nonprofit group called Grand Jury Justice filed the petition Wednesday in Tulsa County District Court that, if approved, would be circulated among registered Tulsa County voters.
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Corey Jones @jonesingtowrite.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
In 10 years investigating OHP, I've uncovered reckless trooper actions and false or misleading statements, shoddy record-keeping, failure to address "alarming" concerns, and unwillingness to formally review several fatal chases despite red flags. tulsaworld.com/news/local/t...
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Tulsa World Special Report: Oklahoma Highway Patrol fatality pursuits, deadly shootings
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Corey Jones @jonesingtowrite.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
He was driving 106 mph at the time. Oklahoma Highway Patrol troopers hit fleeing vehicles at speeds far faster than they practice, killing seven people and injuring 114 in an eight-year span.
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State trooper seriously hurt after he 'straight up rammed' a fleeing shoplifter's pickup
He was driving 106 mph at the time. Oklahoma Highway Patrol troopers hit fleeing vehicles at speeds far faster than they practice, killing seven people and injuring 114 in an eight-year span.
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Corey Jones @jonesingtowrite.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
A Tulsa man alleges that excessive force and inhumane treatment by Tulsa Municipal Jail detention officers gave him a blistering rash, sores, open wounds and an infection for which he was denied treatment, according to a lawsuit filed in state district court. tulsaworld.com/news/local/c...
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Man alleges excessive force, inhumane treatment by Tulsa Municipal Jail detention officers
Tucker Zane, 34, is suing the City of Tulsa and Allied Universal, which operated the troubled and now-closed jail under administrative oversight from the Tulsa Police Department.
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Corey Jones @jonesingtowrite.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Want to know more? In 10 years, I've uncovered reckless trooper actions and false/misleading statements, shoddy record-keeping, failure to address "alarming" concerns expressed by commanders, and unwillingness to formally review several fatal chases despite red flags. tulsaworld.com/news/local/c...
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Tulsa World Special Report: Oklahoma Highway Patrol fatality pursuits, deadly shootings
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Corey Jones @jonesingtowrite.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Oklahoma Highway Patrol’s formal discipline of Austin Abel is a first for driving conduct in a high-speed car chase since the Tulsa World began investigating OHP’s deadly pursuits in 2016. tulsaworld.com/news/local/c...
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State trooper who caused fleeing truck to roll with people in its bed gets 5-day suspension
Oklahoma Highway Patrol’s formal discipline of Austin Abel is a first for driving conduct in a high-speed car chase since the World began investigating OHP’s deadly pursuits in 2016.
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Corey Jones @jonesingtowrite.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Steve Kunzweiler said the Tulsa Police Department didn’t previously forward its jail death investigations to his office. He said he reviewed the reports after requesting they be sent to him. tulsaworld.com/news/local/a...
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Tulsa County district attorney asks OSBI to look into seven city jail deaths
Steve Kunzweiler said the Tulsa Police Department didn’t previously forward its jail death investigations to his office. He said he reviewed the reports after requesting they be sent to him.
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Corey Jones @jonesingtowrite.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
I spoke earlier this week with District Attorney Steve Kunzweiler about whether the Tulsa Police Department had sent any of its jail death investigations to his office. Kunzweiler today told me that TPD didn't and that he was referring each of the cases to OSBI to investigate.
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Corey Jones @jonesingtowrite.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
BREAKING: Tulsa County district attorney asks OSBI to look into seven city jail deaths tulsaworld.com/news/local/a...
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Tulsa County district attorney asks OSBI to look into seven city jail deaths
Steve Kunzweiler said the Tulsa Police Department didn’t previously forward its jail death investigations to his office. He said he reviewed the reports after requesting they be sent to him.
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Neal Franklin @nealhfranklin.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
@jonesingtowrite.bsky.social breaks down what went so wrong at Tulsa's jail that led to 7 deaths in 3 years. From understaffing, to restrains, to neglect and mismanagement. This week the jail was shut down. tulsaworld.com/news/local/c...
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Tulsa’s city jail doubled inmate capacity but not staffing. Then 7 people died in 3 years.
Written complaints and interviews with five former detention officers portray the facility as dangerously understaffed, overcrowded and mismanaged. A whistleblower was removed from the facility by the...
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Corey Jones @jonesingtowrite.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
It's unclear whether the city will try again to operate its own jail as it works with an architecture firm to develop plans for a new municipal court. In June, the city and Tulsa County reopened talks about housing municipal inmates at the Tulsa County jail.
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How we got here: The city opened its own jail after feud with county about costs
Nine years ago, the Tulsa Municipal Jail didn’t exist.
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Corey Jones @jonesingtowrite.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Weston Hardin, the jail’s administrator, has pressured detention officers to accept people police arrest who have acute medical problems or appear suicidal and discouraged calling ambulances because of the financial costs, according to documents and interviews with former detention officers.
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Corey Jones @jonesingtowrite.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Required staffing minimums at the jail — already routinely not met, according to records and Tulsa World interviews with former detention officers — rose on paper only a fraction 14 months after the capacity surge in a new deal costing 60% more in taxpayer dollars.
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Tulsa’s city jail doubled inmate capacity but not staffing. Then 7 people died in 3 years.
Written complaints and interviews with five former detention officers portray the facility as dangerously understaffed, overcrowded and mismanaged. A whistleblower was removed from the facility by the...
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Corey Jones @jonesingtowrite.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Here's a preview of an investigation that readers can find in Sunday's edition of the Tulsa World: Former detention officers say the city jail was dangerously understaffed, overcrowded and mismanaged. tulsaworld.com/news/local/c...
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'Nobody listened': City jail deaths expose failures
Here's a preview of an investigation that readers can find in Sunday's edition of the Tulsa World: Former detention officers say the city jail was dangerously understaffed, overcrowded and mismanaged.
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Corey Jones @jonesingtowrite.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
And congratulations to @nickbowlin.bsky.social and @jchallman.bsky.social for their winning investigations, too.
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Corey Jones @jonesingtowrite.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Mannford police officers misled colleagues by falsely alleging a driver tried to run over them when she fled a traffic stop for a paper tag issue, a Tulsa World investigation shows. This is the latest in Oklahoma Highway Patrol's history of deadly chases. tulsaworld.com/news/local/c...
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Army vet, innocent bystander wanted to be a math teacher. Police chase ended all of that.
The Oklahoma agency originally in pursuit called off the chase within minutes because of the grave danger to the public, while two different agencies later picked it back up.
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Corey Jones @jonesingtowrite.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
The way Oklahoma Highway Patrol troopers use guns during high-speed pursuits raises questions about institutional firearm tactics, training and safety. tulsaworld.com/news/state-r...
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Trooper shot at fleeing car as innocent motorists passed. How does OHP use guns in chases?
The way Oklahoma Highway Patrol troopers use guns during high-speed pursuits raises questions about institutional firearm tactics, training and safety.
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Corey Jones @jonesingtowrite.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
The Vinita Police Department originally in pursuit called off the chase within minutes because of the grave danger to the public, but later two different agencies picked it back up. tulsaworld.com/news/local/c...
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Army vet, innocent bystander wanted to be a math teacher. Police chase ended all of that.
The Oklahoma agency originally in pursuit called off the chase within minutes because of the grave danger to the public, while two different agencies later picked it back up.
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Corey Jones @jonesingtowrite.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
I can't express enough appreciation and admiration for family members who lost loved ones and survivors willing to share their devastation with me. The public deserves to know the very real consequences of car chases in Oklahoma – and deserves to hear answers from the agencies.
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Corey Jones @jonesingtowrite.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
It's a continuation of reporting on deadly police chases I began a decade ago when Oklahoma Highway Patrol pursuits led to a string of deaths – and OHP refused to talk about its policies and practices with me. My coverage has expanded to other agencies and the state as a whole.
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Corey Jones @jonesingtowrite.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
I was honored earlier this month to earn second place in the @amarkfoundation.bsky.social's investigative journalism category at the Oklahoma Press Association’s annual convention. My entry: “Car chases: Danger and deaths.”
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Corey Jones @jonesingtowrite.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
The State Board of Cosmetology and Barbering, nearly killed a year ago by a Gov. Kevin Stitt veto, survived this legislative session with a makeover — but not without controversy and dissolution of the Massage Therapy Advisory Board. tulsaworld.com/news/state-r...
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Legislative overhaul of cosmetology board dismantles Massage Therapy Advisory Board
Massage therapy will receive one seat on the reconfigured regulatory board that governs the cosmetology, barbering and massage therapy professions.
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Corey Jones @jonesingtowrite.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
I usually have problems prying open records from Tulsa Police, too. Kevin Canfield brings the goods here. "The TFD captain ends his email by writing that the delays in response 'raise significant concerns' regarding 911 dispatch procedures and coordination among responding agencies." bit.ly/4cPpPyA
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911 records shed light on emergency response in crash that killed 2 Holland Hall students
Because the call came in as a possible injury collision, Tulsa Police said, there was no automatic medical response. More than 40 minutes passed from the first 911 call to the time a crew arrived with...
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Corey Jones @jonesingtowrite.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
The surviving boy's father was devastated to lose his sister — his best friend who had helped raise him — and niece, who wanted to be a doctor. “It just seemed like (troopers) were on an adrenaline rush; they just wanted the perp, so they didn’t care what happened." tulsaworld.com/news/local/a...
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'They didn't care': Tulsan mourns sister, her child after OHP troopers chase teen in stolen truck
The lone survivor in the crumpled Tahoe — a 7-year-old boy in the back — cried as he held up an arm while pinned inside. His aunt and cousin were
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Corey Jones @jonesingtowrite.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
A few years ago, I wrote about how the state trooper, worried about being out-accelerated by the possibly stolen truck, said he wanted to see what his SUV was capable of in a pursuit while thinking the fleeing driver "might make a mistake." tulsaworld.com/news/local/a...
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Trooper thought fleeing driver ‘might make a mistake.' The chase killed a Tulsa mother and her child.
On Feb. 25, 2021, an eluder plowed into a family’s SUV at highway speeds on a busy street in east Tulsa. An internal investigation resulted in no action from Oklahoma
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Corey Jones @jonesingtowrite.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
The father of a young child, who survived an Oklahoma Highway Patrol high-speed car chase for a "possible stolen vehicle" that ended up killing the boy's aunt and cousin, finalized a $100,000 lawsuit settlement on Wednesday. tulsaworld.com/news/local/c...
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Lawsuit settled in Oklahoma Highway Patrol car chase that killed innocent mother, daughter
A state trooper pursued a "possible stolen vehicle" for 13 minutes at speeds up to 125 mph from Coweta into Tulsa, according to a prior Tulsa World review of records.
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Corey Jones @jonesingtowrite.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Here's the profile I wrote of Logan and her family from 13 months ago. The Oklahoma agency originally in pursuit of Anthony Giancola called off the chase within minutes because of the grave danger to the public, while two different agencies later picked it back up. tulsaworld.com/news/local/c...
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Army vet, innocent bystander wanted to be a math teacher. Police chase ended all of that.
The Oklahoma agency originally in pursuit called off the chase within minutes because of the grave danger to the public, while two different agencies later picked it back up.
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Corey Jones @jonesingtowrite.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
“I play the event over and over in my head and would give anything to have the ability to switch places with her,” Kim Guthrie-Harrel said. “She had such a bright future ahead of her and would have been such a great teacher.”
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Army vet, 23, recalled as 'bright light;' teen eluder sentenced for her death in car chase
Kim Guthrie-Harrel survived the wreck after suffering severe injuries. She called her daughter, Logan, her "bright light," biggest cheerleader and voice of reason — a champion for “the little guy.”
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Corey Jones @jonesingtowrite.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
A year ago I wrote about Logan — vibrant and witty — and how her family is living in the fallout. Vinita police called off their chase within minutes because of the grave danger to the public, while Rogers County deputies and a state trooper later picked it back up. tulsaworld.com/news/local/c...
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Army vet, innocent bystander wanted to be a math teacher. Police chase ended all of that.
The Oklahoma agency originally in pursuit called off the chase within minutes because of the grave danger to the public, while two different agencies later picked it back up.
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Corey Jones @jonesingtowrite.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Anthony Giancola of Rogersville, Missouri, was 17 when charged as an adult in the death of 23-year-old Logan Dawn Harrel. Giancola agreed to a sentence of 30 years in state prison. Harrel was an Army veteran in her freshman year at Rogers State University in Claremore tulsaworld.com/news/local/c...
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Teen eluder agrees to plea deal in police pursuit death of Army veteran in Rogers County
Anthony Giancola of Rogersville, Missouri, was 17 when charged as an adult in the death of 23-year-old Logan Dawn Harrel. Giancola agreed to a sentence of 30 years in state prison.
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Corey Jones @jonesingtowrite.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
The wife of a motorcyclist hit and killed by a former Skiatook police officer in a chase through Tulsa for a speeding violation will appeal a federal judge's decision to grant qualified immunity to the officer and dismiss her civil rights claims.
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Widow to appeal qualified immunity decision in Skiatook police motorcycle chase
A federal judge on Monday denied the motion to reconsider his decision in the case focused on the 2022 death of Michael Wade McKee in Tulsa.
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Corey Jones @jonesingtowrite.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
A Mannford police officer admitted only briefly reviewing a woman's paperwork before trying to arrest her and engaging in a chase. An Oklahoma trooper forced her car off the road, killing her and a passenger. What police said about her isn't backed by evidence. tulsaworld.com/news/nation-...
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Cops killed 2 people in chase after stop for a paper tag. Does evidence back their claims?
A Mannford, Oklahoma, officer claimed a Bristow mother tried to run him over with her car as she fled a traffic stop. The claim isn't supported by video evidence.
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Corey Jones @jonesingtowrite.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
A Mannford police officer admitted only briefly reviewing a woman's paperwork before trying to arrest her and engaging in a chase. An Oklahoma trooper forced her car off the road, killing her and a passenger. What police said about her isn't backed by evidence. tulsaworld.com/news/nation-...
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Cops killed 2 people in chase after stop for a paper tag. Does evidence back their claims?
A Mannford, Oklahoma, officer claimed a Bristow mother tried to run him over with her car as she fled a traffic stop. The claim isn't supported by video evidence.
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Corey Jones @jonesingtowrite.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
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Timeline: How the Shooting of Alex Jeffrey Pretti Unfolded
A moment-by-moment analysis of video from the scene shows that Mr. Pretti was already restrained when fatal shots were fired, which appears to contradict the federal government’s account of the event.
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Corey Jones @jonesingtowrite.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Apparent deference or protection for law enforcement can pop up in small but notable ways. Example: A state's criminal case witness list I just read largely IDs law enforcement by first *initial* and last name. Non-LEOs generally are ID'd by full first and last names. Why the special treatment?
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Aram Shabanian @aramshabanian.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
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Mike Hixenbaugh @mikehixenbaugh.com · 08/01/2026
Forensic analysis of objective video evidence. This is how you serve readers searching for clarity.
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Corey Jones @jonesingtowrite.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Wow. So likely I won't be able to vote in the 2026-2027 primaries unless I change my independent status. My tax dollars help fund these elections.
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Corey Jones @jonesingtowrite.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Colleague and friend Andrea Eger called me "pretty well-adjusted" today in the newsroom. I'm counting this as a big win and compliment. H/t to public schools and my parents.
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Corey Jones @jonesingtowrite.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
How do you file a help ticket about the help ticket website when the help ticket website isn't working #EvergreenTweet
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Corey Jones @jonesingtowrite.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Story 3 of 3 from @ericferk.bsky.social: Never charged criminally, an Oklahoma county's sheriff’s major resigned after the daughter of another of his alleged victims went public with the sexual abuse accusations upon her father’s death. tulsaworld.com/news/nation-...
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Police major's sex abuse of boys, men was common knowledge, multiple victims allege
Never charged criminally, an Oklahoma county's sheriff’s major resigned after the daughter of another of his alleged victims went public with the sexual abuse accusations upon her father’s death.
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Corey Jones @jonesingtowrite.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Story 2 of 3 from myself: A police detective, who failed to stop a girls basketball coach child predator for years, now has allegedly defended a boys basketball coach charged with secretly filming players. tulsaworld.com/news/nation-...
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Top police investigator accused of siding with child sex predator — again
A police detective, who failed to stop a girls basketball coach child predator for years, now has allegedly defended a boys basketball coach charged with secretly filming players.
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Corey Jones @jonesingtowrite.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Story 1 of 3 from @ericferk.bsky.social and I: A Lee Enterprises Public Service Journalism Team review of court records and interviews with former employees, lawyers, victims and witnesses reveals a concerning pattern. tulsaworld.com/news/nation-...
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Cop raped female inmate, then handed her a stack of napkins. Is it a bigger pattern?
A Lee Enterprises Public Service Journalism Team review of court records and interviews with former employees, lawyers, victims and witnesses reveals a concerning pattern.
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Corey Jones @jonesingtowrite.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Protectors to abusers: Here is the landing page for @ericferk.bsky.social and I's investigative reporting on a pattern of alleged sex abuse at the Canadian County Sheriff's Office in three stories tulsaworld.com/news/nation-...
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Protectors to abusers: A police department's pattern of alleged sex abuse
A Lee Enterprises Public Service Journalism Team review of court records and interviews with former employees, lawyers, victims and witnesses reveals a concerning pattern in Canadian County, Oklahoma.
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