Clown mask and cocaine converge for Caddo County robbery

ANADARKO — An armed robbery of a Carnegie store by a man reported to be in a clown mask smoking a cigar led back to a Caddo County man.

Investigators said he did it because he has a cocaine problem. Now he’s in jail on $100,000 bond.

Cole Parker Green, 22, of Hydro, made his initial appearance Monday in Caddo County District Court where he was charged with a felony count of robbery with a dangerous weapon, records indicate. The crime is punishable by no less than five years in prison.

Caddo County Sheriff’s Deputy Chris Leal stated he was called shortly before 11:15 a.m. April 12 about an armed robbery at Cobb Creek Store in Carnegie. The caller said she’d been robbed at gunpoint “by a white man wearing a clown mask, smoking a cigar and with blue eyes,” the probable cause affidavit states. She said he demanded all the cash and said “I need to make a living, too” before taking all the $1, $5, $10 and $20 bills and fleeing in a maroon Ford truck, Leal stated.

Store security video showed the clerk wasn’t making up any of the description facts. Leal noted the clown-masked man was wearing a hoodie that read “Cross Country State Championship.” A partial tag also was seen.

Washita County contacted dispatchers and traced the partial plate number back to Green and investigators were able to get cell phone information that tracked him back to his home in Hydro, the affidavit states. Law enforcement went to the home but he wasn’t there.

Soon after, the Oklahoma Highway Patrol received a call from Green who said he wanted to turn himself in, that he “had made a bad choice because he had to pay some people off and he was done,” according to the affidavit. He was taken into custody and during the impound of his truck, $108 in cash was found in its console.

Green told Leal he has a cocaine problem and had taken his parents’ unloaded gun, a 9mm pistol, and went to the Cobb Creek store because he “thought it was an easy target,” the affidavit states. He said he drank some beer before donning the clown mask and gloves and stealing approximately $310; using $200 to pay a debt and putting the remainder in the console, Leal stated. The gun was later found by Green’s father, who turned it over to investigators.

Green returns to court at 9 a.m. June 20 for his preliminary hearing conference, records indicate.