Oklahoma sheriff charged with using inmates as sex slaves

ARAPAHO, Okla. (AP) - Authorities have charged a western Oklahoma sheriff with coercing and bribing female inmates so he could use them in a sex-slave operation run out of his jail.

Custer County Sheriff Mike Burgess resigned Wednesday just as state prosecutors filed 35 felony charges against him, including 14 counts of second-degree rape, seven counts of forcible oral sodomy and five counts of bribery by a public official.

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080417/D903RVIG0.html


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Custer County
County Seat: Arapaho
Court Clerk -
Connie S. Burden, D, Clinton
Clerk - Karen L. Fry, D, Clinton
Sheriff - Mike Burgess, D, Clinton
Treasurer - Karen Klein Clanton, D, Clinton
Assessor - Debbie Collins, D, Butler
Election Board Secretary - Narci K. Smith, D, Butler
Commissioners:
District 1 - J.M. Kelley, D, Clinton
District 2 - Steve Tompkins, D, Weatherford
District 3 - Darrell Dupree, D, Butler

For additional county information: (580) 323-4420

http://www.ok.gov/~elections/roster06.pdf

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More fallout from the Clinton/Lewinsky era.