Sand Springs Police Arrest Pair In Connection With Copper Theft

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.