Oklahoma Home Invasions

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A south Tulsa family escaped through a bedroom window after being awakened by a teenager trying to kick in their front door late Tuesday.

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The homeowner in the 7800 block of South 80th East Avenue tells News On 6 he and his wife and their two college-age children heard the banging at the front door and were afraid they were the victims of a home invasion.

Tulsa Police say the man kicking in the door didn't go inside, but did break part of the front door.

Police have identified him as 19-year-old Tyler Sweeden.

Homeowner Wesley Allee says while the teen was kicking in the door, he smashed a bedroom window with his hand in order to get his family out.

"Broke the window and got cut up a bit. Got the kids and wife out and put them over the fence and I sent them down the road to the QuikTrip. I came back around to see if I could maybe do something as he's going in," said Wesley Allee.

But police say the teenager had run away.

A neighbor also heard the commotion and called 911. That neighbor told police she saw the teen running south from the Allee home.

Tulsa Police arrested Sweeden after officers found him wrestling with another homeowner after breaking into her house.

Sweeden was arrested and booked into the Tulsa County jail on complaints of attempted 1st degree burglary and 1st degree burglary.

http://www.newson6.com/story/200925...g-to-kick-his-way-into-some-south-tulsa-homes

 

[Perplexed]

Sweeden tried breaking into Allee's house, then ran away... and broke into another homeowner's house and was caught there?

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[Dr. HK]

wow thanks for updating this. crazy

 

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Thieves Take Entire Gun Safe From Home Of Iraqi War Veteran

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An Iraqi War veteran's home was broken into in Skiatook, and along with his TV, laptop and tools, thieves also stole an entire gun safe with nine guns in it.

Tony Clark's first thought was he didn't want his guns in the hands of bad guys, and certainly doesn't want them used against innocent people or law enforcement officers.

A couple of these guns have the insignia of Clark's unit on them, making them very identifiable.

Clark left his house Friday night, with all his doors locked and dead bolted, the lights and TV left on.

But when he came home a few hours later, his back door was kicked in, his electronics were gone and, worst of all, his black Centurion gun safe had been hauled out of a back closet.

The safe weighs 500 pounds empty, but he had nine guns, ammo and personal papers inside.

He had two AR-15's, an AR-10, a 9 mm Beretta, a 45 auto ordnance with U.S. Army stamped on the slide, a Springfield XD-40 and a .40 caliber Glock.

The AR-10 and 15 were specially made with scopes, night sights and bi-pods, plus the insignia of his unit, commemorating his tour in Iraq.

"On the right side of the magazine well unit, were cross sabers, because I'm in the Calvary, Thunderbird, 180th Calvary squadron and our deployment code, Operation Enduring Freedom, Enduring Iraqi Freedom," Clark said.

http://twittweb.com/thieves+entire+gun+safe-27058128

 

[mr ed]

maybe somebody should have told him about bolting it to the floor/wall.
Its somebody he knows or they wouldn't have come prepared to haul it off.
Do thieves now travel around with moving equipment?

 

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maybe somebody should have told him about bolting it to the floor/wall.
Its somebody he knows or they wouldn't have come prepared to haul it off.
Do thieves now travel around with moving equipment?

odds are someone that knew him and/or where safe was located did this...
moving a 800-1,000lb object is not a trivial task... but done correctly like professional safe movers. obviously it can and was done.

ALL safe regardless if it weights 1,000lbs+ should be anchored down. some safes of the two ton variety resist by mass alone. even then someone knowledgeable about safe moving, can move that too. but then we are talking specialized safe moving equipment.

a pro is going to get in regardless .. it then becomes how long does that safe resist?

 

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not in OK.. but worth a mention
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A Minnesota man who allegedly killed two suspected burglars Thanksgiving Day and kept their bodies in his home overnight before reporting the deaths to police said he fired "more shots than I needed," according to a criminal complaint.

Byron David Smith, 64, was charged with two counts of second-degree murder today for the shooting deaths of Haile Kifer, 18, and Nicholas Brady, 17. Smith appeared at a preliminary hearing in court today but did not enter a plea.

The Little Falls man is being held on $2 million bail and his attorney, Gregory Larson, did not respond to a request for comment.

Morrison County Sheriff Michel Wetzel said "a person has every right to defend themselves and their homes, even employing deadly force if necessary."

In this case, however, authorities said they believe Smith crossed the line.

Smith told police he was sitting in his basement Nov. 22 -- Thanksgiving Day -- when he heard a window break upstairs and then footsteps, according to the complaint.

He first saw the feet, then the legs, then the hips of the intruder. Smith said he believed he fired twice at Brady with a Ruger Mini-14 rifle, causing the teen to tumble down the stairs, according to the complaint.

Smith then dragged the body on a tarp to his basement workshop.

Several minutes later, he told police, he heard more footsteps and waited until he saw Kifer's hips as she descended the staircase.

"After shooting the person, she tumbled down the steps," according to the complaint. "Smith stated that he tried to shoot her again with the Mini-14 but the gun jammed."

At this point, he told police, Kifer laughed at him, describing it as a short laugh because she was in pain. But he said it "made him upset," the complaint said.

"If you're trying to shoot somebody and they laugh at you, you go again," he told police, according to the complaint.

As Kifer gasped for air, Smith dragged her body next to Brady's, according to the complaint, and placed a handgun under her chin and fired what he told police was a "good clean finishing shot" that went "under her chin up into the cranium."
http://abcnews.go.com/US/minnesota-man-shot-burglars-fired-shots-needed/story?id=17813093

 

[okiebryan]

Yep, he's screwed. If the facts in the article are true, that second one sounds like murder.

 

[jsl_pt]

Yep, he's screwed. If the facts in the article are true, that second one sounds like murder.

Yep!

Even in a clean shoot never say how many shots you fired because your likely will not accurately remember, and honestly it does t matter. You shot until the threat is down, period. However all the rest of the stuff this guy said and did screwed him, he's an idiot! And who knows if it even was truly a home break in, who keeps the bodies overnight and moves them before Calvin police next day? Crazy!

 

[458 SOCOM]

Hmmmmm...meets a girl, goes to a hotel room with her, is jumped by some men, shoots two of the men.

Gee, I wonder why he was going to that hotel room?

It was love at the first mention of money in exchange for sexual favors