OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) — More than two years after an audio recording caught McCurtain County officials longing for the days when Black people could be lynched while plotting to kill local newspaper reporters, a former McCurtain County jail supervisor plans to plead guilty to federal charges in a case that ties back to that now-infamous audio. The March 2023 audio, recorded and first reported by the McCurtain Gazette, captured then-Sheriff Kevin Clardy, a then-county commissioner, a sheriff’s deputy and a jail official longing for the days of when law enforcement could abuse and hang Black people. “If it was back in the day, when that when Alan Marshton would take a damn black guy and whoop their *** and throw him in the cell? Hell I’d run for ***ing sheriff,” Then-McCurtain County Commissio

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