Man arrested in Saturday house fire blamed on meth lab
BY ZACK STOYCOFF World Staff Writer
Thursday, June 07, 2012
6/07/12 at 1:59 PM
A man was arrested Wednesday on accusations that he started a house fire Saturday while making meth, a police report shows.
A Tulsa police officer spotted Larry Gene Pendergrass, 44, walking through a parking lot near 7500 E. Admiral Place about 8:45 p.m. and recognized him as a suspect in the fire, according to the report.
Pendergrass left in a car and was quickly stopped by police, the report says.
He was wanted in a fire that broke out about 6:30 p.m. Saturday and damaged an estimated 75 percent of a house in the 6200 block of East 17th Street, according to police and firefighter reports.
Investigators found meth-making components in the house.
Pendergrass was booked into the Tulsa Jail without bail on complaints of drug possession, manufacturing methamphetamine and first- and fourth-degree arson, records show.
He pleaded guilty in March to drug charges related to an incident in September, court records show. He is set to be on probation until 2016.
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Fire crews responded to a house fire near 17th Street and Sheridan Road on Saturday and found components of a meth lab inside. AMANDA BLAND/Tulsa World
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