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Guerrilla News is Oklahoma’s independent investigative newsroom exposing corruption, government secrecy, and abuse of power.

We dig into public records, follow the money, and shine a light where politicians and bureaucrats hope nobody looks. Guerrilla Publishing investigates, documents, and exposes government corruption in Oklahoma, and across the United States via its videos on the Guerrilla Publishing Youtube Channel here: https://www.youtube.com/

11/02/2026

BEGGS CITY COUNCIL: A MASTER CLASS IN HOW TO WRITE AN ILLEGAL MEETING AGENDA IN JUST FOUR EASY STEPS!

The City of Beggs has apparently decided that if you’re going to hold a questionable executive session, you might as well put it on the agenda in writing for everyone to see.

Tonight’s agenda is a beautiful little case study in what happens when municipal government treats the Oklahoma Open Meeting Act like a set of optional suggestions.

Here’s the problem.

STEP 1: Put a personnel matter on the agenda.

They’re proposing an executive session to discuss the potential hiring or appointment of the Chief of Police.

STEP 2: Forget to identify the person you’re actually talking about.

Oklahoma’s Open Meeting Act doesn’t give cities a blank check to hide behind the word “personnel.” The executive-session exception under 25 O.S. § 307(B)(1) is limited. The public deserves enough information in the agenda to understand what personnel matter is being discussed.

STEP 3: Make it even more interesting by adding compensation and benefits.

The next agenda item proposes possible action on hiring the Chief of Police, including full-time compensation and benefits terms.

Apparently, the City of Beggs thinks the public can be kept out of the room while the city discusses the job, then invited back in when it’s time to rubber-stamp the deal.

STEP 4: Sign it, post it, and hope nobody reads it.

Well, somebody read it.

And that’s why we’re sharing it.

The Oklahoma Open Meeting Act isn’t a suggestion. Executive session is a narrowly defined exception to the public’s right to watch its government conduct public business. A city cannot simply label something an executive session and expect the law to magically cooperate.

CITIZENS OF BEGGS: YOU MIGHT WANT TO SHOW UP TONIGHT.

Monday, November 2, 2026
6:00 PM
Beggs City Hall
108 N. Broadway Avenue

Bring your questions. Bring your neighbors. And perhaps bring a copy of 25 O.S. § 307.

Because apparently somebody at City Hall needs a refresher course.

Guerrilla News will always have a special appreciation for public officials who put questionable government conduct on paper, sign their names to it, and then post it on the internet for everyone to examine.

Transparency: 10/10. Legal compliance: We have some questions.

11/02/2026

⚠️ TULSA: CHECK THE EDGES BEFORE YOU TOUCH A CAMPAIGN SIGN.

City of Tulsa workers pulling illegally placed campaign signs found razor blades hidden along the edges, taped down where your fingers go.

Tulsa Police released these photos today. Blades were concealed in multiple spots on the signs. No workers were hurt.

Look at the first photo again. Two utility blades, sharp side out, right on the edge you'd grab.

Election Day is tomorrow. After that, signs come down all over this city: homeowners, volunteers, city crews.

Before you touch one:

1. Check all four edges first. Use your phone flashlight.

2. Wear thick work gloves.

3. Pull it up by the wire stake, not the sign.

4. Find a blade? Don't handle it. Call Tulsa Police.

5. Sign in a median, at an intersection, along the street or on public property? Report it to 311 (Tulsa311.com) and let the city remove it.

Police say booby-trapping signs is dangerous and illegal. It doesn't matter whose name is on the sign. A blade on the edge of a sign has one purpose: cutting the hand that picks it up.

Tulsa's rules: campaign signs go on private property only, with the owner's permission. Not in the right-of-way, medians or intersections. Not on schools, parks or libraries. And they must come down within 7 days after the vote, which means by Nov. 10.

Full rules: https://www.cityoftulsa.org/signs

Share this. Someone you know is pulling signs this week.

11/02/2026

🚨 Job applications. Drug test results. Termination records. 🚨

All sitting in a cardboard recycling bin outside the Georgia-Pacific gate in Muskogee. 📦♻️

A local woman found the boxes Saturday while dropping off her recycling. They were labeled "Cherokee Temps" and "Apps" for 2018 and 2019. One reads "2018 Li-M Apps." Another, "2018 Hu-Le Apps."

She says the files ran from application to termination, including drug tests, with addresses from Duncan to Chickasha. She took nothing.

📞 We called both companies Monday.

Georgia-Pacific security: "We are aware of it. It's being handled."

Cherokee Temps owner John Randolph says the boxes were taped when they left his office, GP changed contractors a few months ago, and GP is reviewing security video and has committed to shredding them. After 30 years with GP, he says he's done with them.

❓ Still unanswered:
👉 How many people's records were in those boxes?
👉 How did they land in a public bin instead of a shredder?
👉 Have they been destroyed or recovered?
👉 Will anyone be notified?

⚖️ Oklahoma law limits who can see your drug test records (40 O.S. § 560).

🛡️ Applied with or worked through Cherokee Temps in 2018 or 2019?
✅ Ask Cherokee Temps if your file was in those boxes
✅ Check your credit free at AnnualCreditReport.com
✅ Freeze your credit free with Equifax, Experian and TransUnion
✅ Report anything suspicious at IdentityTheft.gov

📩 Was your file in there? Message us.

Developing story. We'll update when the companies answer.

💪 Guerrilla News. Independent and fighting.

11/02/2026

🚨 Pawnee County: Did your sheriff just walk out?

We’re hearing the Pawnee County sheriff has resigned.

We have not confirmed it. We don’t know why. And nobody at the courthouse has said a word publicly.

Here’s what we’re told:

👉 Commissioners met at 9 a.m. today.
👉 The sheriff and the commissioners have been fighting over the budget.
👉 The sheriff’s office laid off staff earlier this month.

If that’s true, the question is simple: who is answering 911 calls in Pawnee County tonight?

This county has been here before. In 2024 the last sheriff quit with almost no notice, and most of his staff walked out with him. Residents deserve straight answers this time, not silence.

If you know something, message us. Were you at today’s meeting? Do you work for the county? Have you seen the budget numbers? You can stay anonymous. Documents, agendas and emails help most.

Share this so it reaches people in Pawnee County who know what happened. 👇

11/02/2026

Oklahoma City just rezoned about 294 acres for a data center, and the developer has not named who will use it. 🏛️

The City Council voted 6-3 on Tuesday to approve Beltline Energy's plan near I-40 and Frisco Road, per The Oklahoman and FOX 25. Councilors James Cooper, JoBeth Hamon and Camal Pennington voted no.

💧 The council capped water use at 75,000 gallons a day and barred treated water for cooling. Noise cannot top 55 decibels. Beltline must help pay for a new OG&E substation.

📄 Beltline's attorney says the project seeks no incentives. The Oklahoman reports Beltline put the investment at $9 billion. FOX 25 quotes Councilor Katrina Avers at $15 billion.

Mayor David Holt says the vote sets no precedent and wants the moratorium extended six months. A community benefits agreement must pass the council before any building permit.

❓ Should that agreement be public before the council votes on it?

Know more? Message us. 👇

11/02/2026

INOLA VICE MAYOR DEFENDS ASSAULTING CITIZENS

Paula Corle sued the Town of Inola for two years. Her husband was the mayor.

Town agendas show “Paula Corle v. Town of Inola” first came before the Board of Trustees on Aug. 28, 2023.

It came back in January 2024 and again on Sept. 8, 2025. Both times it was a settlement offer the board took behind closed doors with the town’s lawyers.

Dan Corle, her husband, was mayor and later vice mayor. He’s on the roll call for every one of those meetings.

There’s more. In January 2024, the board met in closed session about disciplining or firing Town Administrator Scott Devers. They came out with no termination and no suspension. Mayor Corle said it would be handled “with just a little bit of training.” AN ASSAULT AND BATTERY IN A CITIZEN HANDLED WITH TRAINING?!?!

Devers is still there. At the Oct. 26 meeting, residents called for his firing. Instead, the board announced he intends to retire at the end of the year. Corle is the reason and the one defending Devers.

Now the Port Authority has voted to sue Inola over the smelter moratorium. That fight will also happen behind closed doors.

Residents deserve to know whose side everyone in that room is on.

Corle is on the side of his wife suing the city then potentially offering settlements to his wife.

Is this what you want Inola?

11/02/2026

⚖️ FEDERAL INDICTMENT: JAXON GAGE HINTON

A federal grand jury has indicted Jaxon Gage Hinton on 11 counts involving minors (Case No. 6:26-cr-00155-JFH, Eastern District of Oklahoma).

Here is what the indictment alleges:

📌 Count 1: Coercion and enticement of a minor, between about January 2026 and August 2026
📌 Counts 2 and 3: Distribution of material involving the sexual exploitation of a minor, June 2026
📌 Counts 4 through 7: Receipt of that material, March through June 2026
📌 Counts 8 through 11: Transfer of obscene matter to minors under 16, March through April 2026

The indictment references seven alleged victims, identified only by number. On October 30, a federal magistrate judge ordered Hinton detained, finding clear and convincing evidence of danger to self and community.

Now the question for Roland School District. ⚠️

Guerrilla News has learned Hinton was connected to the Roland school community, and that parents raised complaints before these charges. The federal indictment does not address what the district knew or did about those complaints. We are asking.

📩 What warnings did the district receive?
📩 What did it do with them?
📩 Why did Hinton keep access to students?

If the district has answers, we will publish them in full.

Hinton has been charged, not convicted, and is presumed innocent unless proven guilty in court. Every allegation above comes from the indictment and the detention order.

Parents, students, and school employees with information can message us. We protect our sources.

11/02/2026

CHARGED AS A FELON. HE'S NOT ONE. ⚖️

We got Robert Davidson on the phone. He's the disabled combat veteran arrested in Hartshorne, Oklahoma on Oct. 24 after he went to stand guard for a young nurse who heard gunshots outside her home.

The charge he says they hit him with: possession of a fi***rm after a former felony conviction.

One problem:
🗣️ "I am a hundred percent disabled combat veteran drawing VA disability and Social Security."
No felony. None.

🗣️ "The judge here and my lawyer pulled it up and they were like, he's not a felon, that can't stick. So that got dropped. But I still spent 30 hours" in jail.

Davidson says he still faces obstruction and assault and battery on an officer, and he denies swinging at anyone. He's hired an attorney.

How does a veteran with a clean record get booked as a felon? Hartshorne and Haileyville owe Oklahoma an answer.

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11/01/2026

"YOUR CHIEF OF POLICE STARTS YELLING AND I'M THE ONE IN CUFFS" ⛓️

Robert Davidson, a 100% disabled combat veteran, in handcuffs in Hartshorne, Oklahoma, after he went to protect a young nurse who heard gunshots outside her home:

🗣️ "The girl called and y'all didn't get here."
🗣️ "I was here long before y'all were."
🗣️ "Your chief of police starts yelling and I'm the one in cuffs."

He told officers about the fi***rm on his hip. He has no felony record. Davidson says they charged him as a felon in possession anyway, and the charge was later dropped.

Then the hardest part to watch. A child, as her mom is taken for the crime of recording in public:
🗣️ "That's my mom. I'm going with you."
🗣️ "We came here because they were shooting over there and now we're getting arrested."

This is what happens when you call for help in Hartshorne.

Hartshorne non emergency: 918-470-2292

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11/01/2026

🎃 FORMER OKLAHOMA JUDGE ARRESTED AFTER ALLEGEDLY POINTING GUN AT POLICE FOLLOWING REPORTS OF GUNFIRE NEAR TRICK-OR-TREATERS

Halloween took a pretty ugly turn in Duncan, Oklahoma, Saturday night.

Jerry Herberger, a former Stephens County special district judge, was arrested after police responded to reports that someone had fired a gun in the direction of trick-or-treaters.

According to the Duncan Police Department, officers were dispatched to Linwood Lane at approximately 10:14 p.m. on October 31.

But what happened next is even more concerning.

Police say that as officers approached the residence, Herberger pointed a fi***rm at one of the responding officers. He subsequently complied with commands and was taken into custody.

Thankfully, no injuries were reported.

According to reporting by KFOR, Herberger faces allegations involving:

⚖️ Assault and battery with a deadly weapon
🔫 Possession of a fi***rm while intoxicated
⚖️ Attempted murder

WHO IS JERRY HERBERGER?

This isn’t just another arrest involving an unfamiliar name.

Herberger was appointed Stephens County Special District Judge in 2011. Before taking the bench, he reportedly spent approximately seven years as an assistant district attorney in Stephens County.

He also presided over several high-profile cases, including the 2013 murder of Australian baseball player Chris Lane, where he issued a gag order.

And that brings up some questions worth following.

IS HE STILL A JUDGE?

There are conflicting descriptions of Herberger’s current judicial status. Some reports identify him as a former judge, while information provided to Guerrilla.News suggests he may still be active in some capacity or serving on assignment.

That’s something we’re working to verify.

There’s also the question of who will prosecute this case and which judge will preside over it. Given Herberger’s lengthy history in the Stephens County courthouse as both a prosecutor and judge, questions about recusals and potential conflicts deserve attention.

We’ll be watching how that process unfolds.

HERE’S WHAT WE WANT TO KNOW:

* Was Herberger still serving in a judicial capacity at the time of his arrest?
* Were there previous complaints or incidents involving him?
* Who will prosecute the case?
* Will an outside judge be assigned?
* What do the police reports, 911 recordings and body-camera footage show?

We intend to obtain the arrest affidavit, incident reports, dispatch records and available body-camera footage.

To be clear, these are allegations arising from an arrest. The charges and underlying facts will need to be established through the judicial process.

But when someone who has spent years wearing a judicial robe is arrested following an incident involving a fi***rm, alleged intoxication, children trick-or-treating and a confrontation with police, the public has a legitimate interest in getting answers.

The people who sit in judgment of everyone else aren’t exempt from public scrutiny.

We’ll keep digging.

📲 Sources:
KSWO: https://www.kswo.com/2026/11/01/former-stephens-county-judge-arrested-after-reported-gunfire-near-trick-or-treaters-duncan/

KFOR: https://kfor.com/news/gun-fired-at-trick-or-treaters-former-judge-arrested-for-attempted-murder/

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