TULSA, Okla. — A truck driver helped police take a man into custody who had a warrant out for five counts of child sexual abuse.
An affidavit says Casey Ashmore is accused of raping a 13-year-old and admitted over text to having sex with a 17-year-old.
Casey Ashmore
The affidavit says investigators had information that he was trying to leave the country.
He was charged with these crimes on April 13 and arrested the next day in Cumming, Georgia.
Cumming Police confirm they received a tip from a truck driver and arrested Ashmore on the warrant.
That truck driver, Raymond Reddington, says he drove around with Ashmore for weeks waiting to turn him into authorities.
He says he has Green Country ties and heard about Ashmore’s alleged crimes. He called police, who told him they knew about the crimes and were investigating, but didn’t have a warrant yet.
“The victim and the victim’s family members weren’t too shy to make sure that family and friends and anyone associated with him knew about his current transgressions,” Reddington said. “Word just gets around.”
Reddington heard that Ashmore was headed to Florida, so he decided to pick him up as a hitchhiker.
He says he drove around with Ashmore for weeks waiting for charges to be filed. He says Ashmore was trying to get his passport, so Reddington was focused on stalling and keeping Asher around until charges were filed.
“They just had not had a warrant yet, they weren’t ready to arrest him and he was ready to jump ship,” he said. “I was just constantly monitoring the case status in the background, checking in with detectives to see what the status on the warrant was”
Once charges were filed, he called the nearest police department, which happened to be Cumming Police in Georgia.
“I was able to coordinate an effort with the local police department there for a pretend police DUI checkpoint,” Reddington said. “Once they had me off the truck, that’s when they surrounded the truck and pulled him off. They did their research, knew the warrant was extraditable so he was booked and taken away.”
Cumming Police arrested Ashmore on the Tulsa warrant and he was transported back to Tulsa and booked into jail Wednesday.
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