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Trustee steals garbage truck, runs free for 90 minutes

A 22-year-old serving time at the Sequoyah County Detention Center turned a trustee assignment into a 90-minute quest for freedom by stealing a city-owned sanitation truck.




A 22-year-old serving time at the Sequoyah County Detention Center on a minor offense now faces some major problems after turning a trustee assignment into a 90-minute quest for freedom by stealing a city-owned sanitation truck just after 11 a.m. Wednesday morning.

Multiple reports came into Inside Fort Smith starting at 11:30 Wednesday morning as a number of citizens contacted the news room detailed multiple law enforcement agencies inside the Sallisaw city limits.

Tyler Cooper, who was in custody for a misdemeanor charge of operating a motor vehicle without a license, was assigned to a work crew at the Sallisaw landfill.

At approximately 11:15 a.m., Cooper hijacked the truck and led police officials on an hour and a half pursuit that ended when Cooper and the truck were located at a residence in the 800 block of East Choctaw Street.

As he was fleeing from the work detail, Cooper drove the truck in the direction of a city employee that tried to stop the escape. That move resulted in assault with a deadly weapons charge in addition to escape and vehicle theft felony charges once we was apprehended. A misdemeanor resisting arrest rounded out the offense charges.

Officer located Cooper and the stolen vehicle at the East Choctaw Street address at 12:45 according to a Sallisaw Police Department spokesman.

The escape and subsequent recapture and arrest came just less than 24 hours after Sallisaw Police Chief Terry Franklin was sworn in for another three year term of office.

 


 

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