Ponca City Police Respond to Customer Cursing Incident at Taco Bell

Ponca City police responded to a Taco Bell late Monday night after employees reported a customer cursing at them, one of several calls logged across a four-day stretch that also included a fatal house fire and two arrests on the same evening.

Officers arrived at 10:58 p.m. on March 9 to find the subject had already left the scene. Local news outlet Kaynewscow, reporting from the same police log, added that the subject left heading toward Burger King. No arrest was recorded and no further disposition was listed in the log.

The Taco Bell call was the final entry in a Ponca City police log published March 10, covering incidents from March 6 through March 9. The log's most serious entry came early in that window: at 1:15 p.m. on March 6, police and fire responded to a house fire at 2304 Oriole, where two people died. The log noted "(see story)," indicating separate, fuller coverage of that incident.

March 6 also produced a hit-and-run at McDonald's at 8:53 a.m., a stolen debit card report at Motel 6 at 6:51 p.m., and, at 9:23 p.m., a report of a man "barking like a dog and yelling about death and glory" in the 1400 block of south 9th Street.

March 7 brought three arrests in the span of roughly 70 minutes that evening. Police arrested Ethel Louise Payne on drug charges in the 100 block of north Lake at 8:43 p.m., took a juvenile into custody for assault and battery in the 700 block of north 7th Street at 9:23 p.m., and arrested Brea Lee Hand on a domestic charge in the 300 block of north Peachtree at 9:53 p.m.

March 9 opened with police responding at 5:31 a.m. to an unresponsive female in the 1500 block of Donald; an at-home death was later reported. By mid-morning, officers were handling a one-vehicle accident in the 400 block of west Cleveland, where a car sitting in the middle of the roadway was determined to have been left from a previous accident. At 9:54 a.m., they responded to a report of two pit bulls eating a squirrel at the intersection of Chestnut and Oak.

Kaynewscow's version of the log also included a gunshot call not present in the provided police log excerpt: at 6:16 p.m. on what the outlet described as Saturday, officers responded to the 1600 block of Donahoe for a report of a gunshot that hit a vehicle, and a report was made. If the Saturday reference corresponds to March 7, that incident fell between the America's Best Value Inn call in the early morning hours and the string of arrests later that night.