Oklahoma City police arrested Marcus D. Thomas, 26, of Lawton on Friday on a complaint of receiving and concealing stolen property after officers called the phone number listed on Craigslist and he showed up with the tickets, according to a police report released today. Thomas remained held today in Oklahoma County jail with bail set at $4,000. He has not been charged.
The victim called police Nov. 11 and reported her brown leather saddle bag purse and two tickets to the OU home football game Saturday against Texas Tech were stolen when her car was burglarized, officer Jacob McClain wrote in the report. She called police back the next day to say she found the tickets in section 16 of Gaylord Family-Oklahoma Memorial Stadium on Cragislist.
McClain called the number listed with the tickets and left a voice mail saying he wanted to buy them, according to the report. A man called back soon after and set up a meeting near SW 14 and Westwood Avenue, where police had an undercover officer waiting for him.
The man, identified by police as Thomas, had the tickets with him and was arrested, McClain wrote. He told them he came from his girlfriend’s apartment, and officers went there and found the purse.
The woman, whom police did not identify by name but was listed as a suspect in the report, told officers Thomas is her boyfriend and gave the bag to her as a gift, according to the report. Her phone number was the one listed with the tickets on Craigslist.
Police arrested a man at the apartment, James R. Catt, 31, of Bethany on unrelated warrants, McClain wrote.
Thomas pleaded guilty in 2007 to a Comanche County charge of possession of firearms after a former conviction or during probation, court records show. His sentence and the previous case that led to the charge are unclear. He has a pending Comanche County case from 2007 on a charge of obtaining cash or merchandise by bogus check.