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Ex-Custer County Sheriff Mike Burgess faces 35 felony charges Former Custer County Sheriff Mike Burgess, who faces 35 felony charges including 14 counts of second-degree rape, seven counts of forcible oral sodomy and five counts of bribery by a public official, leaves the courthouse during a break for lunch in his trial in Arapaho, Okla., on Tuesday. ARAPAHO, Okla. - A former sheriff groped a deputy and grabbed her buttocks several times while she was employed at his office, the deputy testified Tuesday. Jennifer Tyler, now a deputy sheriff in Washington state, said that before her first day of the job, Custer County Sheriff Mike Burgess put his hand down the back of her trousers and touched her waistline and buttocks during a uniform fitting. "It's degrading to have someone who just hired you to stick his hands down your... [read full story]
