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111: Part 2: Trooper Branson Perry Has a Standoff You Won’t Believe

Game of Crimes

Game of Crimes

True Crime

4.81.5K Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2023

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Branson Perry followed in his father’s footsteps, joining the Oklahoma Highway Patrol. All his training never prepared him for his first night on his own. “Get your guns, boys” was the start of the most unique standoff in Oklahoma history. After surviving that, Branson went on to become one of the top criminal interdiction specialists in the United States, a skill that ended up with an ACLU lawsuit, three years of litigation, and finally, a resolution.

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0:00.0

Well, you get into that. How long had you been chasing this deputy before she finally

0:17.6

pulled over and stopped? She ran about, about three miles, three or four miles. So there's

0:24.1

no, it's at that point. Oh, no, no. Yeah. You're lit up. You got sirens going. Yeah. She

0:28.8

even goes over a four lane divide in highway, you know, and like blows it. Wow. So yeah, it

0:35.3

is really crazy. And she's telling me she's going to some call. So my partner, Brian Jenkins,

0:40.2

shows up now, this, and I'm glad Brian shows up because he was a, he was a Guthrie Oklahoma police

0:45.6

officer before he was a trooper. So this is, you know, he's like, and he knows it's so gal. He

0:50.9

is, let me go a parent talk to her. And so Brian goes up there and talks to her. He comes back to

0:55.8

me and goes, dude, she's lost her mind. I don't know what's wrong with her. And, and so at this

1:00.6

point, she's on her cell phone, bag phone. I remember making some calls. Now I don't have

1:08.3

their radio frequency. So I'm not hearing what's going on on on the on the radio traffic in the

1:13.7

background. But everybody else does. And she's telling people that I have a gun to her back. And

1:23.8

or had a gun to her back. And, and it's keeping her from going to, to a call. And Sheriff Johnson

1:32.1

gets on the radio and says, I want that trooper arrested. I don't, I want to set up a roadblock

1:40.0

and do not let him leave there. I didn't know this was happening. I'm just kind of hanging out,

1:45.1

waiting on my supervisor. And this is going down. And people start showing up that I didn't even

1:52.1

know we're working. And, and you know, people are showing up. They want to see the shit showing

1:56.5

for what's, give me some popcorn fell. So there's five or six troopers showing up. I'm like,

2:02.4

man, what's he goes, so what, man, what happened? I'm just like, dude, I try to stop in so gas.

2:07.2

She said she's a deputy. And I didn't know really what to do. I called my supervisor. And so,

2:13.1

by now, there are, I mean, there's two members of our tag team that that overheard it in their

2:18.5

comment, because they're like, you know, the, the way this sheriff is talking on the radio,

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