EX-SHERIFF JAILED IN DRUG CASE

STIGLER -- Former Latimer County Sheriff Burlen Glenn remained in jail
Tuesday after his arrest last week for arranging the purchase of
illegal drugs in California.

Glenn, 53, is being held in Haskell County Jail in lieu of $500,000
bail set by a Kern County, Calif., judge.

He is accused of arranging to buy one pound of methamphetamine for
$10,000 from an undercover narcotics officer, said Craig Smith, a Kern
County deputy district attorney.

Smith said Glenn gave the money to two women who drove to Bakersfield,
Calif., to make the purchase last Friday.

One woman, Deanne McGuire, 42, lived with Glenn at his home near
Keota. The other woman, Donna Coleman, 46, was McGuire's friend who
helped drive to California, Smith said.

Glenn probably will be transferred to California after cattle theft
charges are resolved in Cherokee County, Smith said.

Glenn was released on $70,000 bond in August 1997 on cattle theft
charges. He and two others were indicted by the Oklahoma multicounty
grand jury in May 1997 for racketeering, concealing stolen property
and uttering a forged instrument.

The indictment said Glenn, ex-wife Christine Glenn and Leslie Moody
stole about 100 cattle in May and June 1995 from ranches in the
Wilburton area, and sold the cattle at auctions in Arkansas, Texas and
Oklahoma. The three used false names to endorse the auction checks and
either cashed or deposited them.

The cattle sales netted about $25,000, the indictment
said.

The three defendants are scheduled to appear in January for Cherokee
County's criminal jury docket on the cattle thefts. Two of the sales
occurred in Cherokee County.

Glenn was the Latimer County sheriff during 1981-84.

Ralph Marler can be reached at 581-8480.

Checked-by: Patrick Henry