dispatchers - Tulsa County Sheriff`s Office

December 2014
Vol. 5 No. 12
Tulsa County Sheriff’s Office
www.tcso.org
New Tulsa County
DISPATCHER S
(L-R) Front: Stacie Holloway, Debi Benight, Jessica Patrick, Lisa Sanders, Whitney Lahita, Tamara Wright,
Nanci Carrillo, Jessica Miller, Judy Wallace, Amy Jagers, Tara Harrell, Donna Mercer. Back: Courtney
Asberry, Randi Hirsch, TJ Richardville, JoAnn Barnes, Todd Sanders.
On October 7, 2014, the Tulsa County Sheriff’s Office went live with its own
regional dispatch. Tulsa County contracted with the City of Tulsa for the last 25
years for all public safety services which included one dispatcher. We now employ 3 shift supervisors, 3 full-time dispatchers and 6 part-time dispatchers who
have all been certified by two national agencies, the National Academy of Emergency Dispatch and the Association of Public Communication Officers. Instead
of one dispatcher on each shift, we now have two dispatchers and a call-taker. Until the Stanley Glanz Law Enforcement Training Center is built, we will be
housed in the 911 Center. The goal is to provide better service to our deputies,
Catoosa and Sperry officers, and the citizens of Tulsa County. This venture is
also projected to save the Sheriff’s Office approximately $700,000 a year.
• Tulsa County 2 Sheriff’s Office •
Sheriff’s Corner
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each of you for your pledge and support
of this program.
and continue to be an asset to this agency.
Once again HallowZOOeen was a huge
success. This year’s theme was Shrek and
I would like to thank all the volunteers
that worked to create a safe Trick-or-Treat
candy stop for the kids in our community.
I received many compliments stating that
our stop was the best at the Zoo, as it always is! I give all the credit to the volunteers who donate a lot of time, energy and
resources to make this event extremely
successful. Thank you to everyone who
was involved.
I am amazed at how fast this year has
gone by. It is already time for the holidays. This year’s TCSO Awards Banquet
and Holiday Luncheon will have a new
venue. I and my Staff are excited that this
year, the event will be held at the Schusterman Center on December 11th at 11:00
a.m. I hope that many of you will make
plans to attend so that we can celebrate
the achievements of our co-workers and
share a meal together. More information
for event details will be distributed as the
event gets closer.
Congratulations to Rhea Tatum for her recent promotion to Sergeant. I am positive
she will be effective in her new position
Deborah and I send you and your families
a warm and heartfelt Happy Thanksgiving!
Tulsa Area United Way
C h a r i ta b l e E v e n t s
The 2014 United Way Campaign ended
on November 1, 2014. Our TCSO United Way Committee worked very hard to
meet our agency’s goal. Thank you to our
committee members, Gwen Buggs, Charla
Williams, Heather Byrd and Carrie Knauf,
for working diligently to encourage our
employees to help make a difference in
our community. United Way is the key to
maintaining organizations, such as Goodwill, who, in turn, help those in our community who have a need. I understand
that many of you have pledged a monthly
contribution and became a member of the
Sam-One Club for the benefit of United
Way. I look forward to the Sam-One Club
luncheon that will be scheduled after the
first of the year, so we can celebrate our
achievements together. I sincerely thank
by Sheriff Stanley Glanz
HallowZooeen cast with Sheriff & Deborah Glanz
Halloween Costume Contest
®
Tulsa Area United Way
3 Blind Mice & Gingerbread
Men with Deborah Glanz
Winner of the
Halloween Basket
A witching good time
ZombieGrams delivered for Halloween
• Tulsa County 3 Sheriff’s Office •
• • • Our History • • •
TCSO History
“Midnight Gun Battle”
In March of 1934, Mr. and Mrs.
Granville Evans were enjoying
a good sound sleep when they
were awakened in the early morning hours by a car pulling into
their driveway. When Mr. Evans
checked and observed three men
and a woman getting out of the
vehicle. One of the men turned
out to be his brother-in-law, Jack
Johnson. As the group entered
the house, Jack introduced the
woman to Mr. and Mrs. Evans as
his wife. The other two men he
identified as Jake Cook and Tom
Whitewater. Unknown to Mr.
and Mrs. Evans, this was a very
dangerous group of men who
had recently robbed a bank in the
community of Atchison, Kansas.
They had reportedly stolen a little
over $ 20,000.
As they entered the Evans’ home
the group brandished weapons
and demanded food. Mrs. Evans complied and fixed the group
breakfast. The quartet of bandits
allegedly confessed their involvement to the Evans couple about
the Kansas Bank robbery and even
flashed rolls of money in front of
the frightened pair. Since one of
their group, Jack Johnson, was a
relative, the desperate men lightened up a little bit, even offering
the Evans couple $500 a week to
allow them to stay at their home
until their situation had cooled
off a bit. The information wasn’t
available, but I assume the Evans
probably agreed with the bandits offer to allow the frightened
couple more time to seek help.
If that was their plan, it worked,
because the wanted bank robbers
soon became more interested in
getting soused with whiskey and
started to pay less attention to the
Evans’s.
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By Retired Sgt. Lyndall Cole
TCSO Historian
Within a short time Undersheriff
Roy Hyatt accompanied by Deputies Glenn Larkin, Phil Stone,
Hans Carter and Tony Benson
who were in route to the Evans’
home near Jenks. Before this rescue party of well-known and capable deputies could arrive, the
foursome of bandits had left the
Evans’ home to drive to Glenpool
to purchase more whiskey. By the
As the day turned into night, the time they returned, Undersheriff
group became louder and more Hyatt and his deputies had placed
violent. Mr. Evans asked them to themselves strategically on the
quieten down or he would call the dark side of the Evans’ home.
law. In return, the four bandits
threatened to throw the couple As the bandit’s car approached,
out of their own home; and told the deputies made ready their
the terrified couple to go ahead weapons, but the bandit’s car
and call the law. They reminded drove on past the residence and
them that they were well armed stopped about a 100 yards down
and had plenty of ammo to deal the street, backed up, then pulled
with any officers of the law. As up slowly towards the home, shut
the night wore on and the bandit off their motor and quietly turned
group consumed more and more into the driveway. Undersheriff
whiskey, Mr. Evans was able to Hyatt and his deputies sprang
sneak out of the house and make from their positions of darkness,
his way to a nearby gas station shined lights upon the bandit car
where he borrowed the telephone and ordered the suspects to put
to call the Tulsa County Sheriff’s their hands in the air while siOffice. After explaining what multaneously, one of the deputies
was transpiring at his home and fired a short blast of seven to eight
asking for the deputies to come rounds from his machine gun over
quickly, Mr. Evans returned to his the bandit’s car to let the quartet
house. Luckily for Mr. Evans, he know that the deputy’s intentions
was able to sneak back into his were for real. Jake Cook respondhouse unnoticed. His absence ed by jumping out of the vehicle
had gone unobserved because of and firing a blast of 15 rounds or
the intoxicated state of the bandit so from his own machine gun,
foursome.
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Midnight
Gun Battle
Congratulations!
Continued from page 3
Jack Johnson responded with his
two pistols and a short gun battle
ensued. By the time it was over,
Jack Johnson lay dead, his wife
was found in the car screaming
for mercy, Tom Whitewater lay
wounded by buckshot, and Jake
Cook had escaped while continuously firing back at the deputies
with his automatic weapon. All
three men were believed to belong to a gang hiding out in the
Cookson Hills near Tahlequah.
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The woman who claimed to be
Jack Johnson’s wife was later
identified as one Jackie Hibbs
from Muskogee and not the bandit Johnson’s wife.
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I guess Jake Cook realized that he
had better not come back to Tulsa County because the only reference I could find about Jake Cook
was an article in 1939 where he
had attempted an escape from the
Mayes County Jail in Pryor. Cook,
who was being held on armed
robbery charges, attempted to escape with two other inmates after
assaulting the jailer, but the jailer’s wife, who was very accurate
with her dual pistols, shot cook
in the leg and forced him and one
of the other inmates back into the
cell. Some citizens caught the
third inmate just outside the jail
and forced him to return to his
cell as well.
Sheriff Glanz promotes Rhea Tatum to Sergeant
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Public Acclaim
The Special Olympics Oklahoma and the Law Enforcement
Torch Run sent thanks to the
officers listed below for assisting us with the Red Robin
Tip-A-Cop fundraiser. Ten law
enforcement agencies in Oklahoma raised over $11,000 for
Special Olympics.
Team Leader – Deputy Justin
Green, Sgt. Rhea Tatum, Deputies Chris Cook, Mary Blendowski, James Whitaker, Nick
Ingwersen, Allen Goodson and
TCSO Explorers Ruben Rosales,
Shelby Hancock and Alicia Diaz.
Thanks from Chuck Hannum,
Deputy Director of Operations/
Law Enforcement, at the Tulsa
International Airport, to Bonnie Fiddler, and Deputies Tim
Wilkins and Richard England,
for their assistance while of-
fering our firing range to their
agency to accomplish their annual firearms training. He noted their professional demeanor,
coupled with their willingness to
do whatever they could to help
was most appreciated.
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I N S P I R A T I O N
Friends, Who Needs Them, I Do!
Detention Officer Caleb Layne, who
works at the David L. Moss facility,
previously lived in Arizona where
he practiced Parkour. It is an activity
in which you run, climb, and jump
over obstacles. He admitted that they
were mostly
climbing on
buildings and
jumping from
one to the other. I thought,
“WHAT, from
one building
to another!!!”
One
day
while
practicing, he fell
off the roof and hit his head. He says
he did not bleed much and barely left
a scar but he did comment that his
life flashed before his very eyes. His
friends helped him back up and took
him home to recover. D.O. Layne said
he was very grateful for the help from
his friends. He added he truly saw
how great friendship is and he learned
that even when you mess up there is
“someone to help you get back home.”
I did some research on Parkour and
I discovered that it is a holistic training discipline using movement that
was developed from military obstacle course training. Those practicing
it aim to get from A to B in the most
efficient way
possible. This
is done using only the
human body
and the surroundings for
p ro p u l s i o n ,
with a focus
on maintaining as much
momentum
as possible while still remaining safe.
Parkour involves seeing one’s environment in a new way, and imagining
the potentialities for navigating it by
movement around, across, over, under
and through its features.
D.O. Layne’s story, albeit brief, is very
befitting as the holidays approach and
families draw together. Happy holidays!
Passings
William “Bill”
Elmer Mozingo
Former Deputy William “Bill”
Elmer Mozingo Jr. passed
away from natural causes on
November 12, 2014, serving
TCSO from 1988-1991.
CALEA
ACCREDITATION FACTS
DECEMBER 2014
CALEA Standard 46.1.9 A written
directive provides for documented
annual training on the agency’s All
Hazard plan for affected agency
personnel.
Deputy Chad and Angel Rose had a baby girl, born 10/06/14.
Her name is Piper Alivia Rose. She weighed 4 lbs 15 ozs.
ACA Standard 4-ALDF-4A-01 Dining space is large enough to allow
meals to be served, affording each
inmate the opportunity to have at
least 20 minutes of dining time for
each meal.