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July 1, 2008

Repeat thief persists despite first arrest

EDMOND — An Edmond man was arrested twice in June in the front yard of his home on theft complaints.

Police arrested Bradley Woods, 34, on June 6 on compliants of possession of stolen property and unlawful use of a credit card. He was arrested again June 28 on complaints of second-degree auto burglary and possession of controlled dangerous substance without a prescription.

Edmond Police were called June 6 to The Styling Room, 109 S. Broadway, on a report of a stolen wallet and watch from the purse of an employee. The purse had been left near a desk, and the employee was busy for about an hour with a customer near the back. A man came in and left a flier advertising a lawn service with his name and phone number printed on it.

Because a wall prevented her from seeing the front door, she was unsure who might have come in during that time frame.

The employees and two others gave a description of the man who came in to police.

Police next went to Target where a Target credit card from the victim’s wallet had been used that same day. The Loss Prevention Officer was able to pull up surveillance video of the person who used the stolen card, according to the police report.

Purchases totaling $643 were made on the card including clothing, shoes, a Casio G-Shock watch, one bottle of Cascade dishwasher detergent and a can of Gillette Fusion, the report states.

Officer Todd Strader then took the surveillance photo back to the salon and employees identified the person as the same man who had been in the store that day. The officer also states in his report that he looked up the individual listed on the flier in the E-Justice database and found a person of the same name and a matching photo in it from a prior arrest.

Strader then went to the address listed for the person and encountered him pulling out of the driveway in the 3100 block of Meadow Lane.

Inside the supsect’s pickup, Strader reported he saw a lady’s Fossil watch on the center console in plain view and a blue wallet. When the officer opened the wallet he found the victim’s driver’s license and credit cards inside, but not the Target credit card.

Strader states that the suspect admitted he stole the wallet and watch and made purchases at Target. He told police that he dumped the Target card inside a barbecue bottle along with the receipt in the outside trash can. Both were recovered by police and logged as evidence.

Wood was arrested and transported to Oklahoma County Jail where he was later released.

In the June 28 incident, Officer Bruce Graham reports a man observed a suspect take a tool resembling a type of air gun out of the tool box in the bed of a truck parked in the Home Depot parking lot. The witness confronted the suspect, who threw the air gun under a parked car and left in a white pickup with an Arkansas license tag.

Graham’s report states the witness saw the tag number, which police used to find the suspect’s home.

Once they arrived in the 3100 block of Meadow Lane, they found Wood standing in the front yard and leaning inside the driver’s door of a pickup. A tarp was being used to cover up the tag number on the truck, the report states.

Wood told police he had taken six Hydrocodone pills and that he did not feel well because he was scared of going to jail. Two pill bottles were recovered from the pickup and sent to the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation lab for analysis.

EMSA transported Wood to Edmond Medical Center for evaluation. He was treated and released, according to the police report, and then booked into the Edmond Jail before being transported to the Oklahoma County Jail.

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