Oct. 12 – Rogers County Sheriff’s Office deputies assisted U.S. Marshals in arresting a man suspected of a violent crime on Oct. 3.
Undersheriff Jon Sappington said Darrell Denham is being held in the Rogers County Jail.
The U.S. Marshals Service charged Denham, 57, on a felony charge in Tulsa County of possessing a firearm while trafficking drugs. Sappington said marshals and the sheriff’s office caught up with Denham while he was staying at a home in Foyil.
“We had reason to believe he was a high flight risk,” Sappington said. “…We met there at the residence, we started deploying a drone, trying to establish the perimeter and breach this thing, at which point… he gets spooked.”
Denham took off on a motorcycle and drove into oncoming traffic at more than 100 miles per hour, according to the sheriff’s office Facebook page.
Law enforcement officers chased Denham for a few miles, and he crashed on a county road. Sappington said police shot him with less-lethal beanbag rounds and had medical personnel examine him. The sheriff’s office then took him into custody.
In addition to his felony warrant in Tulsa County, Denham also faces charges of eluding police, assault with a dangerous weapon, endangering human life, interfering with an officer and resisting an executive officer. The first three charges are felonies.
