A man wanted in connection with three murders in Oklahoma and Alabama was arrested in Arkansas Thursday morning, authorities said.
According to a statement from the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation, suspect Stacey Lee Drake, 50, “was located and arrested this morning in Arkansas by the Morrilton Police Department and Arkansas State Police.”
“We would like to thank all of the agencies that assisted in the search for this individual,” the Oklahoma State Law Enforcement Agency added.
Arkansas State Police have issued a warning to residents of Morrilton and the surrounding area to be on the lookout for Drake, who they say has “purchased camping equipment and has indications that he may be in the Morrilton area, approximately 50 miles northwest of Little Rock.”
The suspect’s last known address was in Birmingham, but authorities in Sequoyah County, Oklahoma, said he had spent time in the county in recent days.
He has been tied up Local and state authorities in Oklahoma said a man and a woman were killed and a car stolen Tuesday night in Sallisaw, near U.S. Highway 64. Sallisaw is about 130 miles west of Morrilton.
Officials said the man is also wanted by Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, sheriff’s deputies in connection with the May 14 murder of Russell Andrews, 62.
According to a statement from sheriff’s Capt. Jack Kennedy, the suspect “was in Tuscaloosa” in the weeks before the murder and “was using an alias.”
