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BY Wire Reports
Sunday, January 20, 2013
1/20/13 at 3:29 AM
Police say man was hurt trying to steal copper
PORUM - A Stigler area man who authorities believe was in the process of trying to steal copper was shocked and seriously injured early Saturday morning.
Russell Barlow, 40, was taken by a friend to the Porum Police Department, where he was then transported by helicopter to Hillcrest Medical Center in Tulsa, Muskogee County Deputy Michael Morrison said.
Morrison and investigator Bert Poole were dispatched at 7:15 a.m. after Barlow had allegedly chopped down a power pole equipped with a transformer and hurt himself in a hay field off Texanna Road west of Porum in an area known as Tater Hill.
Morrison said he was told by an electrical employee that there was probably $10 t+o $15 worth of copper on the pole.
Authorities retrieved a lighted hat, an ax, a large crescent wrench and a pipe wrench near the pole, Morrison said.
Barlow's condition was not available Saturday, and Poole said police will not decide whether to make an arrest until they have a chance to talk to him.
Records show that Barlow previously spent time in prison on a Haskell County drug charge.
- SUSAN HYLTON, World Staff Writer
BA man arrested in sexual abuse of young girl
A Broken Arrow man who had been accused of raping a girl over a period of nearly five years was arrested.
Eric Lewis Larhman, 38, was charged Friday with eight counts of sexual abuse of a child under 12, Tulsa County District Court filings revealed.
Larhman began abusing the girl when she was 4 years old in July 2007, according to the filings.
Court documents describe Larhman as a family acquaintance.
Larhman was booked into the Tulsa Jail at 6:25 p.m., an arrest report indicates.
The arresting officer wrote in the report that Larhman said, "I knew this day would come. I tried to stop" as he was being taken into custody.
He is being held in the Tulsa Jail in lieu of $40,000 bail.
- KENDRICK MARSHALL, World Staff Writer
Tulsan accused of raping 15-year-old is arrested
A Tulsa man accused of sexually abusing a 15-year-girl last year has been arrested.
David Maurice Smith, 46, was charged Thursday with three counts of sexual abuse of a minor and a single count of furnishing an alcoholic beverage to a minor, according to Tulsa County District Court filings.
Prosecutors allege Smith inappropriately touched and then raped a 15-year-old girl between Sept. 1 and Dec. 14 at a residence in the 2800 block of South 124th East Avenue, court documents state.
Smith was booked into the Tulsa Jail Friday, records show.
He remains in the Tulsa Jail with bail set a $76,000.
- KENDRICK MARSHALL, World Staff Writer
Twin-engine airplane crash leaves three dead
MANGUM, Okla. (AP) - The Oklahoma Highway Patrol says three people have been killed in the crash of a twin-engine airplane in southwestern Oklahoma.
Trooper Betsy Randolph said the crash of the Beechcraft Baron was reported about 5:30 p.m. Saturday near Mangum in Greer County - about 150 miles southwest of Oklahoma City.
Randolph said all three people aboard the aircraft were killed. She did not know where the flight had originated or where it was headed.
Randolph said the Federal Aviation Administration has been notified of the crash and is sending investigators to the site.
- FROM WIRE REPORTS
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