My 66 year old Aunt is going to prison for three years....

[YellowRubberDuckie]

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Wanda Fern Russell, age 66, from Allen, was arrested by PCSO Deputies & Noble Police Officers for being a fugitive from justice.


In 2006 Wanda Russell pled guilty to several felony charges in Pontotoc County District Court. The felony fraud cases stem from selling or disposing of encumbered property. As part of her plea agreement, she was ordered to pay victim restitution in the amount of $89,127.00 and she still owes $2,795.51 in bogus checks.
District Judge Thomas Landrith sentenced Wanda Russell to three years in the Oklahoma Department of Corrections at her last court appearance in February 13, 2006. She was to report to the PCSO Jail on March 19,2006 in order to be shipped to the Oklahoma DOC A&R in Lexington, OK.
When Wanda Russell failed to report in for her sentence, PCSO Deputies started to search for her and discovered that she had fled her residence in Allen. PCSO Deputies developed information that Wanda Russell was hiding out at a house in Noble, OK.
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http://www.kten.com/Global/story.asp?S=4763549

She's my mom's sister.
They found her huddled in a bathroom in her daughter's house.
God this actually makes me feel great. I'm not sad for her in the least. This might sound cold of me, but she beat my grandmother and had her scared of her when she lived with her. Grandma was on a fixed income and she would save her change all year and buy us socks for Christmas. You guessed it. The old bag in the picture stole my then 76 year old grandmother's change. (Unfortunately my grandmother passed away in 1992, but it never made the old bag sad.) Apparently felonies run in that part of the family...
this:
http://docapp8.doc.state.ok.us/servlet/page?_pageid=394&_dad=portal30&_schema=PORTAL30&doc_num=271107&offender_book_id=161206
is her son.
Don't I have a fun family??!! :evilgrin: I'm not ashamed. I've been telling everyone they were worthless for YEARS. Mom had to tell me the other day I was right. Nothing pisses her off more.
Duckie

[JohnKleeb]

1. Suddenly my family feels normal

[YellowRubberDuckie]

2. They're the weirdest of the bunch...

I do have some rather normal family as well...I just like to make fun of the freaks.
Duckie

[JohnKleeb]

3. Speaking of my family

I am actually getting along with my brother a little better and we played a mean prank on my other brother today by telling him he was going to a Chinese military school in Bejing. Yeah we're awful people but it was funny.

[salin]

4. forgive me...

as I live in another red state area (IN)... I can't help myself...

Gotta Love Those Family Values ...

That said -yikes! Glad that you have normal family as well.

[benburch]

7. Amen!

Yes, we had some drunks and some crazy inventors who would go repeatedly bankrupt with their schemes for riches... But nothing at all like that.

[ThomCat]

5. Part of my family is similarly felonious

and vicious. I can fully understand why you wouldn't be upset by her re-arrest.

[MissB]

6. She looks fairly respectable.

[Wcross]

12. NEVER judge a book by its cover.

Come on now. "She looks respectable"? Bush (at times) "looks respectable".

My family has its characters- none have served time for it though. We all look respectable too.

[jukes]

8. Dayum!

she *looks* felonious!

[YellowRubberDuckie]

10. Wanna see my half-brother?

http://docapp8.doc.state.ok.us/servlet/page?_pageid=394&_dad=portal30&_schema=PORTAL30&doc_num=407716&offender_book_id=221658
His mom said we share a dad. I don't buy it...
Duckie

[JohnKleeb]

13. In this one he looks like Andrei Chilitko

the man they called the Ukrainian Hannibal Lecter.
http://docapp8.doc.state.ok.us/pls/portal30/off_lookup.get_image?no=136498

[rug]

15. He looks like Peewee Herman

but I don't see the Public Lewdness charge.

[jukes]

19. if MO's were inherited

he cd be related to your felonious aunt!

there's some "dusies" in my family tree, tambien!

[uppityperson]

21. Uttering Forged Instrument means what?

interesting family you have

[RoyGBiv]

28. Bad checks n/t

[greatauntoftriplets]

9. Duckie, we can't choose our relatives.

I am sorry that your aunt treated your grandmother/her mother so badly...as well as other people. Your reaction doesn't sound cold to me; it sounds realistic.

[texas1928]

11. Well you can choose your friends, but

You can't choose your family.


I won't take my wife to my families' reunions. Not my mom's or my dad's side. Those people are nuts, and they make Larry the Cable guy look like a Rhodes scholar.

[Floogeldy]

14. It's not like she physically harmed someone.

She's too old to go to prison. It's not correct.

[rockymountaindem]

17. If the law applies equally to everyone

I don't see why age is an issue. I presume there are very old people in prison serving life sentences.

[Floogeldy]

18. Yes, but it's not nice.

[rockymountaindem]

23. Neither is defrauding people n/t

[Floogeldy]

24. What does society gain by throwing this 66 year old woman in prison?

?

[YellowRubberDuckie]

25. Who cares?

Makes me feel better. I forgot to mention the judge tried to not throw her in jail. She had chance after chance to quit and pay society back, but she kept on doing what she was doing. She soooo deserves this.
Duckie

[Maddy McCall]

22. And even though she's old, she abused a person older than her.

Throw the book at her. :thumbsdown:

[Maddy McCall]

16. This guy looks like Jack Nicholson's son-in-law in "About Schmidt"

http://docapp8.doc.state.ok.us/pls/portal30/off_lookup.get_image?no=526659


:rofl:

Seriously, Duckie, I think I'd celebrate that terrible woman's capture tonight. Sounds like she's brought lots of pain to your family.

:hug:

[Merrick]

20. your aunt is pretty tall.

[Whoa_Nelly]

26. Good for you for speaking the truth!

I had to deal with person family member (through first marriage)who hurt others, and this person got nothing but a slap on the wrist for what he did to children. Spent many years trying to get him arrested, but he made it to being a very old man, Senior Citizen of The Year no less. The upshot is he chose to die from gangrene rather than have his leg cut off due to diabetes.

It was a very painful death and I have no remorse about his suffering.

And whenever he is mentioned, I make people know who they are really talking about.

:thumbsup: to you, Duckie! :pals:

[RoyGBiv]

27. Holy crap ...

I think this woman wrote back checks at the store I once managed. (It was the first/last stop in Ada on the way from/to Allen.)

I know the name is familiar anyway, just not sure about the face.

Small world.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

29. Would not surprise me in the least...

She's married to a little pig man who wore overalls to my sister's funeral and is just pretty much worthless. His name is Richard.
Duckie

[TallahasseeGrannie]

30. I was about to sympathize and say nice things

but she sounds like a piece of work! Glad you will be rid of her for a while. Write her some letters or something.