By FOX23 News
OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. — Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond says Sara Polston is back in prison following the opening of a criminal investigation into allegations that she voted as a convicted felon.
Drummond says he notified a federal court that she has been removed from the Oklahoma Department of Corrections’ GPS surveillance program. Polston was moved to the Mabel Bassett Correctional Center on Thursday and is accused of voting in the June 16 and August 25 elections while serving a felony sentence.
Polston is currently serving an eight-year sentence for a 2023 drunk-driving crash that injured a woman. She was released early to the GPS ankle monitoring program after 73 days in jail.
“Sara Polston has again shown Oklahomans that she believes she does not have to be held accountable for her actions,” Drummond said in a statement. “She belongs in prison for causing an accident while driving under the influence of alcohol that resulted in great bodily injury to an innocent young woman. Now, she has used her highly controversial and inappropriate release to the Department of Corrections GPS surveillance program to again flout the law. The reality is that no one, including Sara Polston, is above the law.”
Polston has filed a federal lawsuit in August seeking to block her removal from the GPS program.
