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Triple homicide suspect arrested in Oklahoma and Alabama murders

A Contact person needed At the very least Three murders In Oklahoma and Alabama were arrested Thursday morning in Arkansas, authorities said.

Stacey Lee Drake, 50, “was located and arrested this morning in Arkansas by the Morrilton Police Department and Arkansas State Police,” according to a statement. Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation.

Stacey Lee Drake, 50, was last seen on foot outside a motel in Morrilton and is believed to be armed and dangerous.Arkansas Department of Public Safety

“We would like to thank all agencies that assisted in locating this individual,” the Oklahoma law enforcement agency added.

Arkansas State Police are warning residents of Morrilton and the surrounding area to keep an eye out for Drake, who bought gear for camping, with all indications that he is still in the Morrilton area, about 50 miles northwest of Little Rock. State police said.

The suspect’s last known address was in Birmingham, but authorities in Sequoia County, Oklahoma, said he had spent several recent days in their community.

He is bound The murders of a man and a woman and a car Burglary in SallisaTuesday night near U.S. Highway 64, Local and state officials in Oklahoma said. Sallisa is about 130 miles west of Morrilton.

The man is being sought by Tuscaloosa County Sheriff’s deputies in connection Russell Andrews, 62, was killed in Alabama on May 14Officials there said.

According to a statement from sheriff’s Capt. Jack Kennedy, the suspect was “in Tuscaloosa” weeks before the murder and “used a false name.”

Drake is also being called a “person of interest” in the death of 56-year-old Phillip Emerson in El Reno, Oklahoma, Assistant Police Chief Kirk Dickerson said in a statement Thursday.

According to Dickerson, police initially investigated Friday as an “accidental death” before concluding that Emerson “suffered fatal injuries consistent with homicide.”

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