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Kansan Who Went With Kids to Oregon Standoff Arrested [View all]
Source: Associated Press
Kansan Who Went With Kids to Oregon Standoff Arrested
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
TOPEKA, Kan. — May 3, 2016, 7:21 PM ET
A Kansas woman who took her children to perform for occupiers during the armed takeover of an Oregon wildlife refuge earlier this year says authorities have removed seven of her children from her home and arrested her for assaulting an officer.
Odalis Sharp, 46, of Auburn was booked into the Shawnee County jail Friday evening for battery of an officer and interfering with a law enforcement officer, jail officials told The Kansas City Star ( http://bit.ly/1pYwRGa ). No charges had been filed as of Tuesday morning. The Shawnee County prosecutor's office could not be reached for comment.
Sharp was released Saturday on $3,000 bond.
Sharp traveled with seven of her 10 children, who have a family gospel band, from Kansas to Oregon to sing for and support the 41-day occupation by armed militants of at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge. One daughter, 18-year-old Victoria Sharp, was riding with Nevada rancher LaVoy Finicum and three of the other militants when Finicum ran a roadblock and was shot and killed by Oregon state police.
Sharp said the arrest occurred after she went to court earlier Friday trying to file paperwork accusing her landlord of breach of contract. Her landlord had earlier sought to have her removed from the home. She said when she returned home, law enforcement and employees with the Kansas Department of Children and Families were waiting.
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By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
TOPEKA, Kan. — May 3, 2016, 7:21 PM ET
A Kansas woman who took her children to perform for occupiers during the armed takeover of an Oregon wildlife refuge earlier this year says authorities have removed seven of her children from her home and arrested her for assaulting an officer.
Odalis Sharp, 46, of Auburn was booked into the Shawnee County jail Friday evening for battery of an officer and interfering with a law enforcement officer, jail officials told The Kansas City Star ( http://bit.ly/1pYwRGa ). No charges had been filed as of Tuesday morning. The Shawnee County prosecutor's office could not be reached for comment.
Sharp was released Saturday on $3,000 bond.
Sharp traveled with seven of her 10 children, who have a family gospel band, from Kansas to Oregon to sing for and support the 41-day occupation by armed militants of at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge. One daughter, 18-year-old Victoria Sharp, was riding with Nevada rancher LaVoy Finicum and three of the other militants when Finicum ran a roadblock and was shot and killed by Oregon state police.
Sharp said the arrest occurred after she went to court earlier Friday trying to file paperwork accusing her landlord of breach of contract. Her landlord had earlier sought to have her removed from the home. She said when she returned home, law enforcement and employees with the Kansas Department of Children and Families were waiting.
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Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/kansan-kids-oregon-standoff-arrested-38856442
Source: Kansas City Star
MAY 3, 2016 11:35 AM
Kansas mother who went to Oregon standoff arrested in assault on officer
BY JUDY L. THOMAS
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In an interview Tuesday, Sharp said state child welfare workers have removed seven of her children, ages 6 through 17, from the home.
“I am a mother lioness who’s been robbed of my children,” said Sharp, who made headlines in January when she took seven of her 10 children to Oregon to perform for the armed militants who had taken over the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge.
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Kansas mother who went to Oregon standoff arrested in assault on officer
BY JUDY L. THOMAS
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In an interview Tuesday, Sharp said state child welfare workers have removed seven of her children, ages 6 through 17, from the home.
“I am a mother lioness who’s been robbed of my children,” said Sharp, who made headlines in January when she took seven of her 10 children to Oregon to perform for the armed militants who had taken over the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge.
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Read more: http://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article75319902.html
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