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Approximately a month ago, the Checotah police chief requested OSBI investigate missing drugs. OSBI agents and agents with the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics worked together on the case that concluded with the arrest last night (7/31/15) of Checotah K9 Officer Matthew Benton LaMasters (d.o.b. 7/30/1980). After agents interviewed LaMasters at the Checotah Police Dartment, they arrested LaMasters and booked him into the county jail on a complaint of obtaining a controlled dangerous substance by fraud.