Police in Ponca City arrested a suspected drug dealer.
Joshua Cook, 28, was taken into custody during a traffic stop in the early morning hours of June 29.
Ponca City police said they had been watching Cook, who has prior criminal drug charges, for quite some time.
Investigators searched his vehicle.
“During the course of our investigation, they were able to locate about 28 grams of methamphetamine in the vehicle,” Ponca City police Cpt. Jeff Woodward said. “Once he was arrested, they found $20,000 in cash on his person.”
After a complete search of the vehicle, officers were granted a search warrant of Cook’s home on Ponca City’s northside.
By: Clayton Cummins
OKLAHOMA CITY -
A warrant has been issued for a 17-year-old accused of fatally shooting his cousin at a southwest Oklahoma City apartment complex Tuesday night.
Johnny Lee Bailey is charged with one count of first-degree murder.
Oklahoma City Police responded to the Seminole Ridge apartment complex just after 11 p.m. Tuesday night on reports of a shooting.
When officers arrived Latrell Davis, 22, was found shot in the stomach.
Still alive at the scene, Davis was taken to OU Health where he later died.
A day later, Davis’ family is still trying to make sense of it all.
By: Clayton Cummins
OKLAHOMA CITY -
An Oklahoma City woman is facing numerous burglary charges after police said she admitted to a string of home and vehicle burglaries.
Megan Brewer-Cook, 21, was arrested on June 29 and booked into the Cleveland County Detention Center. She was booked on four complaints of burglary and one complaint of attempted burglary.
Numerous surveillance cameras captured Brewer-Cook attempting to break into numerous homes in the Rockport Neighborhood near Southwest 119th and Interstate 44.
Oklahoma City police were called to the area when Brewer-Cook crashed her vehicle into several mailboxes.
“She made entry through a doggie door,” said MSgt. Gary Knight of the Oklahoma City Police Department. “Another one she tried to remove a screen and climbed through a window. She was confronted by the homeowner which forced her to flee.”
Recent heavy rains caused a couple from Moore to crash on I-240, leaving them in oncoming traffic.
Melissa Green and her husband, Darrell Smith, were hospitalized following the June 26 crash.
Green remains hospitalized at OU Health. Smith has since been released from the hospital.
“We’re definitely really concerned that she is going to pull through and be okay after all this, it’s been very emotional,” Amanda Maldonado, a friend of Green’s, said.
The couple was traveling eastbound when their 2003 Toyota Tacoma hydroplaned. The truck left the roadway, crashed into a concrete barrier and came to a rest in oncoming traffic.
By: Clayton Cummins
LOGAN COUNTY, Oklahoma -
Logan County’s new emergency manager and sheriff deputy is being commended for his lifesaving work during a dangerous high-speed police chase Friday morning.
Steven Haga helped get parents and children, who were selling fireworks roadside for the nonprofit Oklahoma Icons, to safety at the Highway 33 and Highway 74 intersection as a chase suspect sped through.
It was around 9 a.m. when law enforcement attempted to pull over a Chevrolet Cobalt near the intersection of W. College Ave. and N. Division St. in Guthrie.
Logan County Sheriff Damon Devereaux said the Chevrolet Cobalt had a tinted license plate cover which made it difficult to be read.