From the Owasso Police Department
03/26/2019 – Officers were dispatched to a reported burglary in progress at Meri Med, 9200 North Garnett Road. Witnesses reported that a man wearing a black and yellow mask was attempting to kick in the front door of the business. As officers responded, additional reports came in of the same man allegedly standing in traffic on Garnett screaming at passing motorists.
Officers arrived and made contact with the man, later identified as Roger Reed. Reed, who had now disrobed, was standing in the roadway swinging a belt with a large metal buckle. Officers observed that Reed appeared to have blood covering his hands and torso and he was acting erratically. Reed obeyed officers’ commands to get on the ground and he was secured in handcuffs, but soon became combative, making racial slurs and threatening to kill the officers. Reed was secured and transported to the hospital for evaluation.
Witnesses and victims described that Reed appeared to be under the influence of a mind-altering substance when he approached the medical marijuana dispensary and attempted to force entry inside, eventually breaking the glass front door and making racial slurs towards the employees inside. Reed then allegedly entered the roadway, took off his clothing, yelled racial slurs at passing vehicles and used the belt buckle to strike several vehicles. In at least one of those incidents, Reed allegedly expressed a belief that the occupants of the vehicle were African American and broke the windshield while shouting racially disparaging remarks to the occupants.
Reed was arrested for Burglary, Wearing a Mask in Commission of a Crime, Malicious Harassment Base on Race and Public Intoxication. He will be transported to the Tulsa County Jail after an assessment by medical personnel.
Arrest was Roger Matthew Reed, Age 35 of Owasso. No booking photo is available.
