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- NATION, Page 65American NotesOKLAHOMAThe Law and Love County
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- The jamboree last weekend in Love County, Okla., was merry
- but with a sober purpose: raising money for the defense of
- Sheriff Wesley Liddell Jr., 47, and his son-in-law, Marietta
- policeman Roger Ray Hilton, 27. The two are charged with
- scheming to kidnap a suspected north Texas drug dealer and
- torture him with an electric curling iron to elicit information.
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- Tipped off, federal agents taped the two men plotting the
- abduction. They were arrested in May and are due to be tried
- next month. County residents were shocked. Said a friend, Jane
- Lake: "It's hard to understand why drug dealers get protection
- and the sheriff gets arrested."
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