Woman nabbed driving stolen Jeep tried to tell police it was a birthday present

(Angela Harrison, booking photo, Image credit: Tulsa Police Department)

On Thursday, Oklahoma’s Tulsa Police Department announced the arrest of a local woman who tried, unsuccessfully, to talk her way out of why she was driving around town in a stolen Jeep.  According to police, on April 1 around 3:55 p.m., the Tulsa PD’s Real Time Information Center (RTIC) received an alert from a Flock Safety Camera / License Plate Reader Camera about a stolen white Jeep Liberty at Admiral and Darlington.

The RTIC continued to track the stolen Jeep until Officers could initiate a traffic stop near Admiral and Sheridan.

The driver of the vehicle, Angela Harrison, claimed she was at a gas station just an hour before. Ms. Harrison said she ran into a former customer of hers when she worked at Waffle House, and he gave her $10 cash and the white Jeep Liberty because her 53rd birthday was coming up in a few weeks.

The Jeep, however, was reported stolen before Christmas, and Detectives had already obtained a surveillance photo of Harrison in the vehicle from January 14. Harrison identified herself as the woman in the photo but could not explain how she could have been in possession of the vehicle in January when she claimed it was gifted to her only an hour before the police stopped her.

The owner of the SUV passed away last year. The vehicle was returned to his family.  Angela Harrison was arrested for Possession of a Stolen Vehicle.

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(Source: Tulsa Police Department)

Posted by Richard Webster, Ace News Today
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