Incarcerated Attorney Suspended
The Oklahoma Supreme Court has ordered an attorney’s interim suspension.
In support, the Complainant states that Respondent was arrested on September 13, 2019 on a warrant for Intimidating a State’s Witness out of Okmulgee County. Respondent bonded out of jail on September 27, 2019, and was then charged in the U.S. District Court of the Western District of Oklahoma, Case No. M-19-521-P, with violations of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(8)(Prohibited Person in Possession of Ammunition) and 18 U.S.C. § 922(d)(Selling or Otherwise Disposing of a Firearm to a Prohibited Person). A detention hearing was held on October 2, 2019, and Respondent was ordered to remain in detention pending trial. On October 16, 2019, an Indictment was filed against Respondent in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma, Case No. CR-19-325-SLP, charging Respondent with violations of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(8), 18 U.S.C. § 922(d)(1), and 18 U.S.C. § 922(d)(8). Respondent is currently being held at the Logan County Detention Center in federal custody.
Complainant states that the Office of the General Counsel of the Oklahoma Bar Association has received three grievances against Respondent since she was incarcerated involving failure to appear for a court proceeding, failure to prepare documents, and failure to return fees so that the clients could obtain alternative counsel. Complainant alleges that the current number of clients that Respondent represents is unknown, but that the amount of money in her trust account indicates there are multiple clients that are not presently being represented. Complainant alleges Respondent’s conduct poses an immediate threat of substantial and irreparable public harm and requests an emergency interim suspension. Complaint also seeks an Order for Respondent to cease withdrawals from her client trust account and to permit an audit to determine what fees should be returned to clients, as well as an Order directing Respondent to assist Complainant in returning client files.
The Oklahoman reported last September
An Oklahoma City defense attorney was arrested Friday as part of an investigation into a triple homicide last week at a home north of Beggs.
Investigators suspect the attorney, Keegan Harroz, 36, and her boyfriend and client, Barry Titus, 37, were involved in the fatal shootings, multiple law enforcement sources told The Oklahoman.
Found dead inside the home Sept. 7 were Tiffany Eichor, 43, and her parents, Jack Chandler, 65, and Evelyn Chandler, 69.
Eichor was a former girlfriend of Titus. He is accused in a pending felony charge of assaulting Eichor and confining her in 2017 while they were in a dating relationship. Harroz is defending Titus in the assault case and in a separate drug case.
Investigators searched the defense attorney’s Oklahoma City home Friday and questioned a former boyfriend, David Bedford, about her.
“They came to see me. I spoke with them. … I’m trying to cooperate, help them out as best I can,” said Bedford, who also is an attorney. “It’s just so tragic. It’s just really sad.”
Investigators suspect from video recordings that two individuals were involved in the fatal shooting, the sources said. “I looked at some video footage. I couldn’t tell who it was. I couldn’t identify who it was. Two people,” Bedford said.
Bedford said Harroz changed after beginning her relationship with Titus.
“I’ve seen her deterioration,” Bedford said. “I’ve represented so many people through the years. You can tell when they get on meth. … It’s terrible.”
Harroz was arrested while at the county offices, next to the Oklahoma County courthouse. She is being held in the Oklahoma County jail on an accusation that she intimidated a state witness. Sources said she is accused of trying to discredit Eichor as a witness by framing her for a drug offense.
It could not be immediately determined whether Titus also has been arrested.
Additional details on the criminal investigation from Oklahoma’s News 4. (Mike Frisch)