Stacey McCurry of Stillwater, Oklahoma, is suing the Grady County Sheriff’s Office for an ATV that was stolen in Payne County in 2020. The office’s reason for not handing it back, as KGOU reported it, is that a judge has already titled the machine to the county and the county paid to fix it.
The ATV surfaced in Grady County in 2021, according to KGOU. On June 9, 2025, Sheriff Gary Boggess filed a handwritten petition saying it was unclaimed and on a list to be destroyed, and a judge granted the sheriff’s office title the same day, KGOU reported. McCurry learned where the ATV was this year, when it was flagged in the National Crime Information Center, the FBI-run database police agencies use to check for stolen vehicles and other property, and the Payne County sheriff’s office called. Grady County turned down the request to return it. Undersheriff Kori Brewer said the title had already been transferred and the office had spent tax money repairing the ATV, KGOU reported.
McCurry filed McCurry v. Grady County Sheriff, No. CJ-2026-00297, in Grady County District Court in Chickasha on Aug. 28. The docket lists a petition for replevin, conversion and a request for an order to stay, and classes it as civil relief of more than $10,000. Replevin is the suit an owner files to get a specific piece of property back. Conversion is the claim that someone treated that property as their own.
