{"id":1702486,"date":"2022-10-19T13:18:15","date_gmt":"2022-10-19T17:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1702486"},"modified":"2022-10-19T13:18:16","modified_gmt":"2022-10-19T17:18:16","slug":"convicted-felon-arrested-for-questioning-in-killing-dismemberment-of-four-oklahoma-cyclists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/convicted-felon-arrested-for-questioning-in-killing-dismemberment-of-four-oklahoma-cyclists\/","title":{"rendered":"Convicted Felon Arrested For Questioning In Killing, Dismemberment Of Four Oklahoma Cyclists"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fconvicted-felon-arrested-for-questioning-in-killing-dismemberment-of-four-oklahoma-cyclists%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1702486&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A convicted felon named as a \u201cperson of interest\u201d in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/murder\">killing<\/a> and dismemberment of four <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/oklahoma\">Oklahoma<\/a> cyclists has been arrested in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/florida\">Florida<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Joe Kennedy, 67,\u00a0was arrested while driving a stolen vehicle in Daytona Beach Shores, the New York Post <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/10\/18\/person-of-interest-in-murder-of-4-oklahoma-men-arrested-in-florida\/\">reported<\/a>. Kennedy had been previously named a \u201cperson of interest\u201d in connection to the deaths of four men in Oklahoma who set out on their bikes nearly a week before their bodies were discovered.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe murder investigation is ongoing and investigators continue to follow leads every day,\u201d Okmulgee Police Chief Joe Prentice said in a statement on Tuesday, according to the Post. Prentice, however, declined to call Kennedy a suspect and said he is merely being brought back to Oklahoma for questioning.<\/p>\n<p>Kennedy became a person of interest after blood evidence showing a \u201cviolent event\u201d was found at a scrap yard he owns near where the cyclists\u2019 bodies were found. The bodies of Mark Chastain, 32; Billy Chastain, 30; Mike Sparks, 32; and Alex Stevens, 29, were discovered in the Deep Fork River outside Okmulgee, Oklahoma, NBC News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/remains-found-oklahoma-identified-4-missing-men-police-say-shot-dismem-rcna52625\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The four men had been shot and then dismembered before their bodies were disposed of in the river.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe believe the men planned to commit some type of criminal act,\u201d Prentice told reporters after the bodies were found. \u201cWe do not know what they planned or where they planned to do it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The idea that the four men had set off to commit a crime came from a single witness who said he had been invited along with the four friends to \u201chit a lick big enough for all of them,\u201d according to Prentice, who used the same slang as the witness.<\/p>\n<p>The police investigation led to a scrap yard, where \u201cNothing remarkable was observed inside the salvage yard, but evidence of a violent event was discovered on an adjoining property,\u201d Prentice told reporters.<\/p>\n<p>Kennedy owns the salvage yard and was named a \u201cperson of interest.\u201d He was initially questioned last Friday after a search of his salvage yard but denied knowing the murdered men. He was reported missing on Saturday \u201cand may be suicidal,\u201d Prentice said, according to NBC.<\/p>\n<p>Cell phone records showed the victims\u2019 phones last pinging in Kennedy\u2019s scrap yard.<\/p>\n<p>Kennedy is currently serving a 10-year suspended sentence for an assault and battery charge stemming from a 2012 encounter between him and six men who broke into his scrap yard, the Post reported. Kennedy at the time pleaded guilty to assault with a dangerous weapon after he shot and injured one of the intruders.<\/p>\n<p>He is currently being held in Florida for grand theft auto, the Post reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A convicted felon named as a \u201cperson of interest\u201d in the killing and dismemberment of four Oklahoma cyclists has been arrested in Florida. Joe Kennedy, 67,\u00a0was arrested while driving a stolen vehicle in Daytona Beach Shores, the New York Post reported. Kennedy had been previously named a \u201cperson of interest\u201d in connection to the deaths &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1890502,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1702486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1702486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1702486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1702486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1890502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1702486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1702486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1702486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}