BY SILAS ALLEN sallen@opubco.com
An Oklahoma City man won't face criminal charges after an investigation stemming from a case involving a Maryland prison escapee.
Prosecutors didn't find sufficient evidence to charge Joe Byrd, a founding member of the Belle Isle Lions Club, said Scott Rowland, the Oklahoma County first assistant district attorney.
Anthony Rackley, a former Lions Club fundraiser, told police Byrd had blackmailed him after Rackley told Byrd he'd escaped from prison in Maryland in 1980.
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