LAWSUITS
PennyMac Loan Services LLC vs. Isaac Holder for $197,112.06 to pay a debt plus interest, costs and attorney fees and foreclosure of mortgage on Lot 1, Block 12, Hunters Hill Addition Section 3, Mustang.
Elmor Mitchell vs. Sydney Montesano for an amount in excess of $75,000 for injuries and damages alleged to have occurred during an automobile accident.
Editor’s Note: The final three months of 2023 saw groups working to save an historic jail, expand a treasured war memorial, honor successful El Reno High School alumni and help those less fortunate in the community.
October
A nonprofit group got the green light from Canadian County commissioners to try and save the historic county jail.
Preservation El Reno presented a proposal to commissioners to make repairs and upgrades to the old jail site at 300 N. Evans.
A Canadian County sheriff’s deputy is in stable condition after being struck by a vehicle Friday while standing outside his vehicle.
Sheriff Chris West said Deputy Jose Tayahua-Mendoza, 46, of Mustang, was injured around 8 a.m. when a vehicle veered off the interstate and struck a vehicle the deputy had stopped along I-40 and Garth Brooks Boulevard. Mendoza was taken to OU Medical Center in Oklahoma City, where he is in stable condition. West said the deputy suffered arm, leg and foot injuries. He was scheduled to have surgery Monday on an ankle and arm, the sheriff said.
More details have been released in an obstruction of a law officer case against a Yukon-area man who was arrested last September in the lobby of the Canadian County Sheriff’s Office.
Canadian County resident Charles Edward Bishop III had gone to the sheriff’s office on Sept. 15 to request records on a former sheriff’s deputy when he got involved in an unexpected fracas.
Gov. Reggie Wassana has selected Hershel Gorham to serve as lieutenant governor of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes. Gorham will step into the role to fill the vacancy left by the sudden death in September of C&A Lt. Gov. Gib Miles.
He was sworn in during the tribes inauguration Jan. 6 at the Frisco Center in Clinton.
MARRIAGE LICENSES
Zachary Tyler Dillard and Ashleigh Nicole Wiles.
Cory Joe Cormack and Chloe Jane Compton.
Shawn Casey Stewart and Gracie Jo Mahoney.
Noe Plascencia-Lopez and Paola Isabel Garcia Mendez.
Searcy Pierre Gillespie and Elzetta E. Taylor-Woody.
Joshua Ryan House and Madison Breonna Maxwell.
John Ross Stout and Deisy Maria Medina Sanchez.
Jacob Alan Steepe and Emilia Kathryn Tipken.
Jeffery Lynn Pennel and Pauline Sue Garrett.
Matthew Black Roark and Brianna Faith Benoit.
A Canadian County Sheriff’s deputy standing outside his patrol pickup was struck by a vehicle early Friday, the Oklahoma Highway Patrol reported.
About 7:30 a.m. Jan. 5, the deputy – whose name was not immediately released – made a traffic stop in the westbound lanes of Interstate 40 near Garth Brooks Boulevard.
Another driver of a pickup hit the deputy’s patrol truck and hit the deputy, causing him multiple injuries.
The deputy was taken from the scene by ambulance to a local hospital.
The effort to preserve the old Canadian County Jail will be highlighted in a webinar hosted by the State Historic Preservation Office on Wednesday, Jan. 10, starting at noon. The featured speaker is Amy Neathery with Preservation El Reno.
The jail was finished in 1907, a few months before Oklahoma became the 46th state. It cost $18,000 to build. The jail served the county for 78 years.
The presentation will focus on the jail’s history, including several design features that made it unique when it opened in 1907 and are still unique today.
Editor’s Note: A new president at Redlands Community College, an offer to partner the C&A with the USDA, a big boost for STEM education and heavy rains that filled Lake El Reno just in time for Smoke on the Water were some of the stories that drew attention as the community moved from summer into the fall.
July
A record-high annual budget totaling nearly $10.3 million was approved for Canadian County’s juvenile center.
A Yukon man who claimed in a viral YouTube video that he was wrongfully arrested in September in the lobby of the Canadian County Sheriff’s Office now faces a misdemeanor charge related to the incident.
Charles Edward “Trey” Bishop III, 48, was arrested in El Reno at the sheriff’s office lobby on Sept. 15, 2023, on a complaint of obstruction as he witnessed an arrest of a woman who was also in the lobby. Bishop said he was arrested when he told a deputy to be nice while making the arrest of the woman.
Bishop’s arrest was caught on video and has been released on YouTube.
