State ex rel. Henry v. Seventeen Thousand Twenty-Three Dollars & Thirty-Six Cents ($17,023.36) in United States Currency

BAILEY, Judge:

Appellant Robert Isaacs (Isaacs) seeks review of the Trial Court’s order denying Isaacs’ motion to vacate default judgment granted to Appellee State of Oklahoma (State) in State’s forfeiture action. Herein, Isaacs asserts error of the Trial Court in denying his motion to vacate, State having failed to conduct a “distinct and meaningful search of all reasonably available sources to ascertain the whereabouts of ... Isaacs,” rendering the notice of forfeiture by publication as was given (and on which State’s default judgment rested) fatally flawed.

In June, 1987, officers of the…