On Sunday, August 5th, Officer Jonathan Noah was investigating a burglary report that happened on Lincoln Ave. near Lincoln at about 3:22am.
The victim had told police that she and her three children were asleep in the house when she awoke to her dogs barking. She looked over and saw “a skinny white man” standing in the doorway of her bedroom, near her bed.
About the time Officer Noah arrived to the scene, he received word from other officers that a man matching the suspect’s description had been spotted just 240 feet from the victim’s residence. Those officers detained the man, who identified himself to be 27-year-old Clayton Sanders.
The victim identified Sanders as the man who had entered her home.
After being placed under arrest, Sanders told police that a woman at Torchy’s Bar had told him to “go to the only house on Lincoln with lights on,” and that the doors were open and he could go inside.
Officers on the scene identified Sanders as under the influence of an intoxicating substance.
Sanders later admitted in an interview with Detective Amy Nichols that he was “very high on meth” and he believes the conversation he had, in which the woman instructed him to go into the house, actually took place in his head.
In addition to previously being registered as a sex offender, and now being charged with First Degree Burglary, it was also reported that Sanders had destroyed the mattress that was in his cell at Sapulpa Municipal Jail.
