DURANT, Okla. (AP) - A new security checkpoint opens Monday at the Bryan County Courthouse in south Oklahoma.
The county says everyone entering the courthouse - except for judges - will have to pass through a security checkpoint that includes a metal detector and an X-ray machine. All bags must go through the X-ray machine as well.
District No. 1 County Commissioner Monty Montgomery tells the Durant Daily Democrat (https://bit.ly/1jUc68d ) that the county added the checkpoint to keep all employees and visitors safe at the courthouse. Montgomery says he was present at a trial in the 1990s when a defendant brought a knife into the courthouse and slit his own wrist after a jury convicted him.
The checkpoint will be manned by a sheriff’s deputy.
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Information from: Durant Daily Democrat, https://www.durantdemocrat.com/
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