April 15, 2017
By Paragon News Director Paul Joseph –
An Elk City man has been arrested after allegedly stealing three sets of keys from three different pop machines in the area.
Police believe the alleged pop machine key bandit also stole a minivan a month earlier telling officers he had a lot on his mind and just wanted to get away for a while.
The alleged pop machine key bandit, 37-year-old Carl David Thompson is due in court for a preliminary hearing in three weeks on the charge of larceny of a vehicle.
Thompson was arrested last week, again, on theft charges, this time for allegedly stealing three sets of pop vending machine keys. One set belonged to a Pepsi machine at United Supermarket in Elk City, another set to a Dr. Pepper machine at Homeland Grocery and the third set went missing from the cab of a Dr. Pepper bottling company truck when it was parked at United Supermarket.
Elk City Officers made contact with Thompson last week, but he didn’t want to talk to police however, he’d been found with vending machine keys belonging to Dr. Pepper a few weeks earlier.
The charges of knowingly concealing stolen property and the two couts of burglary in the second degree follow another felony of stealing an automobile from March of this year.
Police found a minivan that matched the description of the one stolen, a 1990 Chevrolet Lumina. When police initiated a traffic stop, the driver of the mini van failed to pull over. The officer wrote in his report that the driver wasn’t attempting to elude the officer, he just failed to pull over. Finally, another officer pulled in front of the minivan and it stopped.
Carl David Thompson was arrested and booked into jail for stealing the vehicle.
During an interview with police, he allegedly admitted that he’d stolen the van from the residence where it’d been reported missing. And why? He told the officer that he had a lot of things on his mind and “just wanted to get away for a while.”
For Paragon Communications, I’m Nathan Brewer.
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