Okmulgee man sought in Oklahoma murders appears in Florida court on felony theft charge

OKMULGEE − The person sought by authorities right here as an individual of curiosity after the invention of 4 shot and dismembered males final week in a river was ordered to be held with out bond in Florida on Wednesday whereas he and his lawyer determine whether or not he’ll return to Oklahoma or will battle extradition.

Joseph Lloyd Kennedy II of Okmulgee, 67, was arrested Tuesday morning by police in Daytona Seaside Shores, Florida, after a routine scan of an Oklahoma license plate on the Toyota Tundra he was driving alerted a patrolman the car had been reported as stolen.

At a listening to held Wednesday in Florida’s Volusia County Jail Department Courtroom in Daytona Seaside, Kennedy participated in a primary look listening to with a public defender.

Kennedy faces a felony cost of grand theft of a motorcar there, courtroom data present.

Oklahoman not simply in hassle in Florida

On Monday, Okmulgee Police Chief Joe Prentice recognized Kennedy as an individual of curiosity associated to final week’s discovery of 4 our bodies that had been shot, dismembered and dumped in a river.

Chief Prentice confirmed the our bodies had been these of Mark Chastain, 32; Billy Chastain, 30; Mike Sparks, 32; and Alex Stevens, 29, all of Okmulgee.

Prentice mentioned the lads had been reported lacking by members of the family after that they had left on bicycles Oct. 9 and hadn’t returned.

Joseph Kennedy II faces authorized points in Florida, Oklahoma

The accusation Florida authorities lodged in opposition to Kennedy does not solely put him liable to being incarcerated there.

The Okmulgee man additionally agreed in Might 2013 to serve a 10-year deferred sentence − successfully a probationary interval − in Oklahoma after pleading responsible to a cost of assault and battery with a lethal weapon and a cost of obstructing an officer.

These costs had been lodged in opposition to him in early 2012 after Okmulgee County deputies responded to a report of pictures being fired at a salvage yard Kennedy owned between Okmulgee and Schulter.

Based on tales printed in native papers on the time, deputies took a half-dozen males into custody, together with one Kennedy was accused of taking pictures.

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Prosecutors accused Kennedy of taking pictures the sufferer with a .380 caliber pistol “with out justifiable or excusable trigger” and of offering investigators with false details about what had occurred and the place and the way he had realized the folks had been on his property, a kind of tales reported.

A submitting made by Okmulgee County District Lawyer Carol Iski on Tuesday asks an Oklahoma decide to impose a sentence in opposition to Kennedy instantly associated to the sooner plea deal as a result of he violated his settlement by leaving Oklahoma with out permission.

Kennedy taken into custody with out incident

A report supplied Wednesday to The Oklahoman by the Florida Daytona Seaside Shores Division of Public Security signifies 4 officers stopped Kennedy’s car with out incident.

Whereas the company’s experiences point out Kennedy had been reported as a lacking individual out of Oklahoma, Kennedy advised officers that wasn’t the case and that he wasn’t in any hazard.

As a result of he was driving a car that had been reported stolen, officers took him into custody.

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