By: Patti Weaver
(Stillwater, Okla.) — A 34-year-old Yale woman, who was allegedly identified by her Facebook profile, has been jailed on $5,000 bail on charges of stealing a truck and a laptop computer from a man while he was staying at the Laze L Motel in Cushing, court records show.
Sarah Katlin Lewis, who has also been known by the surnames of Nordberg and Nordberg-Denton, has been ordered to appear before a Payne County judge on June 26 with an attorney. If convicted of her two-count charge, Lewis could be given as much as a 20-year prison term on the truck theft and a six-month jail term on the laptop theft.
Although the alleged incident occurred five months ago, the charges against Lewis were not filed until last week, court records show.
Cushing Police Officer Christopher Haywood was sent at 2:22 p.m. on Jan. 12 to the motel where a man said “he had picked up a female, known only to him by Sarah, from a house near the intersection of Euchee Valley and 9th Street,” an affidavit alleged.
The man said “Sarah was only in his room to give him a massage and did not stay the night,” the affidavit alleged.
The man said that when he woke up at about 1:30 p.m. “he noticed his red HP laptop computer was missing, his cell phone and the keys to his truck,” that he saw was gone when he looked outside, the affidavit alleged.
The man said “the truck was still in a co-worker’s name, whom he could not remember, but he was responsible for the truck,” the affidavit alleged. The man said that he worked for an energy company based in Colorado, the affidavit said.
Asked to describe the woman, the man said “Sarah was a tall (possibly 6 foot,) white female with blonde or dirty blonde colored hair and had a medium build,” the affidavit alleged.
The Cushing officer, along with a Payne County sheriff’s deputy, went to the house that he said he picked her up and spoke to a man who said she had not been there in about three weeks, the affidavit alleged.
After the truck was entered into NCIC as stolen, the Cushing officer was notified on Jan. 25 that the truck had been recovered at the River Spirit Casino by the Muscogee Nation Light-horse Police, who had video surveillance of the individuals who left the truck, the affidavit alleged.
That night the Cushing officer received an email from the victim “advising he had located the female known to him at the time as Sarah on Facebook,” the affidavit alleged.
The victim said “the Facebook profile listed as ‘Sarah Katlin Nordberg (Lewis)’ had photos of the female named Sarah he had picked up the morning the truck was stolen, the affidavit alleged.
“The photographs, provided by Officer Wisner of the River Spirit Casino, showed a tall blonde female who matched the photographs under the Facebook profile of ‘Sarah Katlin Nordberg (Lewis),"” the affidavit alleged.
“For verification, Sarah Katlin Lewis’ identification is also located in the Offender Data Information System (ODIS), along with a booking photograph which matches the pictures provided by Officer Wisner and the ‘Sarah Katlin Nordberg (Lewis)’ Facebook profile, the affidavit alleged.
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