Crime and safety briefs
Blanchard man arrested after car crash
Oklahoma City police arrested a Blanchard man last week after he crashed his car with his fiancee's young boy and baby girl inside.
Brandon Gene Hart, 25, was arrested on child endangerment and DUI complaints about 9:15 p.m. Thursday after flipping his car into a ditch police estimated to be 20 feet deep near S Meridian Ave. and SW 15.
Witnesses pulled a 6-year-old boy and a baby girl less than 6 months old from the car and stayed with them in a nearby parking lot until police arrived, according to a police report. The boy was "crying hysterically," but both children were unharmed, according to the report. The girl was still in her car seat.
Several witnesses told police they followed Hart because he was driving erratically. They said he ran into a fence and almost hit a child in a parking lot, according to the report.
Police found Hart lying inside the car and talking on his phone in "extremely slurred" speech, according to the report. Hart ignored officers' commands and continued to talk on the phone, according to the report.
Hart was uncooperative and he had to be restrained and given sedatives on the way to OU Medical Center, according to the report.
Hart's ex-girlfriend, who was on scene, returned the children to their mother, according to the report.
The mother told police Hart was visiting his ex with the children and was supposed to pick her up from work that evening, but he never came.
Hart was booked into Oklahoma County jail Friday morning. He remained there Monday on $11,000 bail.
Taxi driver threatened at knifepoint
An Oklahoma City taxi driver is out $17 after a woman allegedly refused to pay him a fare and threatened him with a knife.
Police found Carlose Denise Knight, 55, sitting in the driver's seat of the taxi and the driver standing outside the car about midnight Saturday in the 5600 block of NW 23 St.
The driver told police he had driven Knight to an area near NW 34 and MacArthur Boulevard and back, a trek of a little more than two miles.
Knight refused to pay the $17 fare and pulled a knife on the driver because he wasn't letting her leave, according to a police report.
Police tried to get Knight to pay the fare, but her card was declined, according to the report.
Knight was booked into Oklahoma County jail that morning on a complaint of assault with a dangerous weapon.
She remained there Monday on $5,000 bail.
Two accused of breaking into beauty shop
EDMOND — Police have arrested two people in connection with a burglary at Sally Beauty Supply Monday morning, police reported.
Police arrested Carla Sleight and Tyron Boston after the front door of the store at 68 E 33 Street was smashed about 4:35 a.m. and money in a bag was stolen from a safe, Edmond Police Sgt. Randy Payne said.
The money bag had a tracking device that led police to a 7-11 near W Hefner Road and N May Avenue about 5 a.m. Monday.
On Jan. 2, the same store was robbed at gunpoint, but police do not know if the two incidents are connected.
Two drown in separate Oklahoma incidents
Two people drowned in unrelated incidents Sunday, the Oklahoma Highway Patrol reported.
Beverly Ann Cook, 61, of Marlow, drowned about 9 p.m. about 4 miles east of Bray in Stephens County.
Daniel Mark Smith, 59, of Kingman, Kansas, drowned about 8:10 p.m., southeast of Wakita in Grant County, troopers said.
Neither were wearing life jackets. No other details were released about the drownings.