Wednesday, January 4th 2012, 7:59 am
Sand Springs Police arrested a man and woman accused of stealing copper from the old Rader Juvenile Detention Center early Wednesday morning.
Police got the call just after 2 a.m. after security guards at Webco Industries next door saw flashlights and heard banging on the grounds.
The Rader Center is located on Highway 51 just west of the city.
A Sand Springs Police officer saw a pickup truck leave the property and followed it to a nearby convenience store.
The officer initiated a traffic stop and found 200-300 pounds of copper in the truck's bed.
Police arrested 43-year-old Toby Hall of Tulsa and booked him into the Tulsa County jail on burglary complaints.
Hall told police two other people were still on the property.
Police set up a perimeter until a K-9 unit and a helicopter from the Tulsa Police Department could join the search.
They eventually found 24-year-old Amber Lay of Skiatook hiding in dense brush near a fence.
Officers say Lay refused to leave the brush, so they sent the K-9 unit in after her. They then arrested her and booked her into jail.
Police believe the third suspect, a man, may have escaped by climbing onto a train which had stopped temporarily and blocked the entrance to the Rader property.
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