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More Legal Trouble Ahead For Father In Cherokee Adoption Case

KGOU | By Kurt Gwartney
Published September 25, 2013 at 1:03 PM CDT
Cherokee Nation
Dusten Brown with his daughter, Veronica.
Dusten Brown with 4-year-old Veronica.

Oklahoma’s governor is looking for ways to keep the father of a Cherokee girl from facing charges in South Carolina.

Dusten Brown, a citizen of the Cherokee Nation, faces felony charges related to his fight to keep custody of his daughter, Veronica. This week, he turned her over to Matt and Melanie Capobianco, Veronica’s adoptive  parents.

Governor Mary Fallin signed an extradition order September 4th to force Brown to face charges of “custodial interference” in a South Carolina court. A spokesman for Fallin says the governor’s hope is that Brown will not have to go there.

An extradition hearing is set for October 3rd in Oklahoma. If he is convicted of the felony charges, Brown could face five years in prison and an end to his career in the Oklahoma National Guard.

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Kurt Gwartney
Kurt began his radio career at 16 as weekend disc jockey at KOLS-AM/KKMA-FM (now KMYZ) in Pryor, Okla. He gradually began doing news work at his home town radio station. Kurt studied journalism at Oklahoma State University, serving two terms as managing editor of "The Daily O'Collegian." He returned to his radio roots while at Oklahoma State, working first as a part-time news producer, then as Morning Edition host at KOSU. Kurt left the station in 1990 returning to Pryor to be a part of a new business, ViaGrafix, that developed computer training videos. He eventually sold his business to attend seminary at The Iliff School of Theology in Denver and Phillips Theological Seminary in Tulsa, Okla. He served as minister of communications for St. Luke's United Methodist Church in Oklahoma City for five years before starting his own media business, Discuss Communications LLC.