Trap door used by meth lab suspect to escape

Here's an update on an exclusive story we first told you about Tuesday morning. <br><br>Charges are still pending for a suspected drug dealer who gave Tulsa Police the slip through his trapdoor.

Wednesday, March 5th 2003, 12:00 am

By: News On 6

Here's an update on an exclusive story we first told you about Tuesday morning.

Charges are still pending for a suspected drug dealer who gave Tulsa Police the slip through his trapdoor. Officers went to arrest Gordon Arnold in east Tulsa on felony warrants.

They say he saw them coming with his surveillance cameras and escaped underneath his mobile home through a trapdoor he'd cut in the floor. Tulsa Police drug unit Sgt Sam McCullough, "He cut into the floor then created a unique handle. He screwed his boots to the trapdoor so whenever you picked up the boots, it opened and exposed it."

Tulsa detectives have already busted 44 meth labs during the first two months of this year. Just a few years ago, Tulsa had 23 meth labs busts for the whole year.