A Claremore woman suspected of stealing from more than 30 vehicles faces a preliminary hearing May 5.
She was charged April 9 with 12 counts of third-degree burglary, as well as knowingly receiving or concealing more than $1,000 in stolen property and obstructing an officer. Claremore police arrested the woman March 12 and say she confessed to a spree of lifting items from unlocked cars.
According to Claremore Police Department records, the woman stole a trail camera, power tools, car keys, a drone, cash and more between late January and early March. During that period, officers responded to 15 theft calls the police department connects to her.
Most of the calls summoned officers to Eason Collision Specialists, an auto body shop, or Jack Kissee Ford, a car dealership. According to police records, the suspect told officers during her March 12 arrest she’d primarily broken into vehicles at these locations.
She also took items from vehicles parked at Suburban Chevrolet and the Claremore Electric Department building, according to her arrest affidavit.
“[The suspect] admitted to entering the parking lots of those places with the intent to look for unlocked vehicles to enter and steal property from,” the affidavit reads.
All four spots are within a mile of the Ramm Road address police records list as the suspect’s.
According to records, officers connected the woman to the car burglaries after a man called police on her March 10. That day, a man named Dillion Purdum reported he’d seen a woman trying to force her way into an RV parked outside a home on West Danny Street.
Purdum told Officer Hagin Bolay the woman was wearing his ball cap, which had gone missing from his car Feb. 28.
“Dillion confronted [the suspect] about the hat and she threw it at him before fleeing on foot,” reads the arrest affidavit. “Dillion also provided Officer Bolay with a photo he took of [her] as she fled and Officer Bolay was also able to confirm it was [the woman] from previous encounters.”
Later that day, according to police records, officers executed a search warrant at the suspect’s home. They found property reported stolen from cars parked at Jack Kissee Ford and the other locations; the property’s value was “well over” $1,000, police said.
Two days later on March 12, Officer Anzel Chau arrested the suspect at a home on East Will Rogers Boulevard on a felony charge of knowingly concealing stolen property. She confessed to stealing from at least 30 vehicles, and after officers took her to her home, she showed them items she said she’d taken from unlocked cars.
According to court records, she will face a no-issue preliminary hearing May 5 at 9 a.m. at the Rogers County Courthouse. This means no witnesses will testify until a later date.