Local, State briefs
BY Staff Reports
Tuesday, November 20, 2012
11/20/12 at 2:47 AM
Man stabbed, threatened with gun at apartments
A 25-year-old man was stabbed while smoking a cigarette outside his apartment early Monday, police said.
The man was attacked in the 4900 block of South Lewis Avenue after an assailant jumped out of the rear passenger seat of a newer model, black Chevrolet Tahoe about 4 a.m., Officer Leland Ashley said.
The victim was cut on his hand and left shoulder before the assailant pulled out a handgun and the victim fled, Ashley said.
Investigators said a motive was not immediately apparent.
The assailant is described as black, 5 feet 8 inches tall and weighing 215 pounds. He was wearing a black hooded sweatshirt and black pants.
Anyone with information about the stabbing is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 918-596-2677 or submit at tip online at tulsaworld.com/crimestoppers
- AMANDA BLAND, World Staff Writer
Suspects charged with burglaries from vehicles
Burglary charges were filed Monday against two Tulsa men who are accused of committing several burglaries from vehicles.
Adam Fields and Guy Charles Green Jr., both 19, are each charged with six counts of second-degree burglary and a single count of possession of a controlled drug with intent to distribute, according to Tulsa County District Court filings.
Fields was charged separately with attempted escape from arrest or detention, court documents show.
The arrests came after a resident saw two people driving away from, police said.
Prosecutors allege that the two had a stolen credit card and marijuana in a white Dodge Charger when they were stopped by police after a resident saw the car leaving the 12000 block of South Delaware Avenue in just after 5 a.m. Oct. 13.
Police reported finding several small bags of marijuana, pills and "a set of functional digital scales and numerous spare baggies" in the vehicle.
They also recovered a metal window punch, flashlights, a camera case and a stolen wallet, a police report says.
Fields and Green are also accused of stealing medications, medical equipment, a projector screen and iPods from vehicles, police said.
Fields remains in the Tulsa Jail, but Green has been released, jail records indicate.
- KENDRICK MARSHALL, World Staff Writer
Police seek help finding man using stolen card
Police are seeking to identify a man who used a stolen credit card after a woman was robbed in the parking lot of her apartment complex earlier this month.
The robber approached the woman Nov. 9 near the 10900 block of East 61st Street.
The assailant brandished a handgun and demanded the woman's purse before fleeing, police said.
The woman's credit card was used later that night at B&B Liquor Warehouse, 7002 S. Mingo Road, and the QuikTrip convenience store at 5100 S. Mingo Road.
Investigators on Monday released surveillance images taken at both stores.
Anyone who can identify the man seen in the photos is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 918-596-COPS or submit a tip online at tulsaworld.com/crimestoppers
- AMANDA BLAND, World Staff Writer
Fire damage is limited at Sapulpa glass plant
SAPULPA - No one was injured in a fire at Saint-Gobain Containers, a glass manufacturing plant, early Monday, authorities said.
Firefighters were called to the business at 1000 N. Mission St. after a power station in the plant caught fire about 3:30 a.m., Fire Capt. Darren Inbody said.
The damage was limited to the station itself, and alternate power stations on site allowed the plant to resume operations, he said.
No injuries were reported, although employees were working in the plant at the time.
- AMANDA BLAND, World Staff Writer
Restaurant helping feed people displaced by fire
A day after a fire ripped through a Tulsa apartment complex, a fast-food restaurant is assisting residents who were displaced.
Over the next two days, employees of Freddy's Frozen Custard and Steakburgers in Broken Arrow plan to deliver meals to victims of the Sunday afternoon fire at the Observation Point apartments, 4104 S. 130th East Ave.
"We felt it would be a good idea to do something for those people," said Freddy's spokesman Phil Black. "Maybe it would also inspire others to help out."
Forty meals will be delivered to the apartment complex's main office between 4:30 and 4:45 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday, Black said.
According to fire investigators, 21 units were damaged by the blaze, which began in an attic and eventually caused part of the roof on that building to collapse.
No one was injured in the fire, said Fire Capt. Stan May.
A preliminary estimate puts the damage at about $200,000, May said.
The cause of the fire is under investigation.
- KENDRICK MARSHALL, World Staff Writer
Sand Springs motorist killed in weekend crash
A Sand Springs man was killed in a one-vehicle crash Saturday, the Oklahoma Highway Patrol reported.
Bradley Fisher, 34, was pronounced dead at the scene about 3 1/2 miles north of Sand Springs on Oklahoma 97, the OHP reported.
Troopers said Fisher's southbound 2001 Chevrolet Malibu ran off the road on a curve, hit an embankment and went airborne, hitting several trees, just after 5 p.m.
Fisher was not wearing a seat belt, the OHP reported.
- FROM STAFF REPORTS
McAlester officer has stun-gun case court date
McALESTER - A McAlester police officer is due in court next month on a charge that he used a stun gun on a handcuffed woman.
Officer Sterling Lee Taylor-Santino has pleaded not guilty to felony assault and battery with a dangerous weapon. He is due in court Dec. 14, the McAlester News-Capital reported.
Surveillance video obtained by the newspaper shows Nakina Williams, 28, appearing to spit at Taylor-Santino at the Pittsburg County Jail on June 24. The video then shows the officer using a stun gun on Williams.
Williams received a 10-year suspended sentence for assault and battery on a police officer.
A former colleague, Cheryl Kelley, says the charges are unjustified.
- FROM THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Associated Images:
Police hope to identify a man seen using a stolen credit card on surveillance at a QuikTrip convenience store at 51st Street and Mingo Road on Nov. 9. Courtesy
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