10/31/2023
Some people....
*****Cancel armed robbery situation*****
After further interviewing the driver and obtaining the inside vehicle video from the FedEx truck, we have concluded that the driver was lying and staged the incident.
# We have lifted the school lock downs and released all officers from the scene.
# We would like to thank our deputies, volunteers, the Cherokee nation marshals service, Oklahoma Highway Patrol, the FBI, Sequoyah County Emergency management and local fire departments for all of your assistance today we had a great response with about 50 law enforcement officers quickly arriving on the scene.
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We’ve locked down gans school. This is precautionary, due to the proximity of the incident at hand. There’s No immediate threat to the school. We had an armed robbery of a fedex van about an hour ago, this happened near the town of gans. The Suspect stole the fedex van, then crashed in the area of tower estates, which is west of gans. The Suspect then fled into the wooded area on foot. He is Supposedly still armed with a gun. We are currently utilizing available deputies, OHP and Cherokee marshals to set a perimeter and should begin our search soon. We have also deployed the departments drone to assist in the search. I will advise when we are able to open the school back up.
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Description of the subject at the time of the robbery :
White male, 5’10” , medium build, wearing black shirt and orange basketball shorts.