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Former Sen. Darrell Weaver sworn in as Cleveland County sheriff

Sheriff Darrell Weaver

Former State Sen. Darrell Weaver was sworn in as the new Cleveland County sheriff on Monday.

The ceremony follows Weaver’s appointment at the end of June by the Cleveland County Board of Commissioners after former sheriff Chris Amason resigned in April after pleading no contest to one felony count of embezzlement. 

Former Oklahoma state Sen. Darrell Weaver was sworn in as the Cleveland County sheriff on Monday.

On June 8 Acting Sheriff Michael Finley requested the board halt the sheriff hiring process and instead hold a special election. Finley also requested a review by the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Public Corruption Division following unspecified information obtained through an open records request during the same meeting. A county spokesperson later told OU Daily state statute requires the position be filled by appointment.

Weaver told the Daily he and Finley met Monday morning prior to the ceremony to discuss the future of Finley’s role.

“Mike’s a great guy, served his county a long time, and there’s a change and the commissioners made that change, and Mike’s accepted that …” Weaver said. “Right now, I’m focused on getting a team together that we can take it forward in the vein I want it to be taken care of.”

Weaver said the sheriff’s office selections for executive staff will be announced “sooner rather than later.”

“There’s key positions out there right now to be filled and we have a lot of prospects out there,” Weaver said.

Weaver said he expects excellence out of the sheriff's office. 

“From the deputy on the street to the folks in the courthouse, just anything you see Cleveland County deputies, my expectation is going to be a level of excellence and I think they’re going to buy in,” Weaver said.

Weaver has served two terms in the senate and was first elected in 2018. He lost in the Republican primary for Oklahoma lieutenant governor in June, according to official election results from the Oklahoma State Election Board. Weaver previously served as the director of the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs Control. 

This story was edited by Reagan Rozzi and Audrey McClour.

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