Tulsa police said a woman stopped in a stolen Chevrolet Trax told them she had bought the SUV for $500 at a hotel earlier that day.
The explanation did not survive much scrutiny. The vehicle’s owner had reported her keys stolen from a slot machine at Osage Casino, where security footage showed an unknown woman take them before leaving in the SUV.
The driver, 37-year-old Alicia Rae Kelley, was arrested Sept. 26. The stop also cleared a felony warrant from another stolen-vehicle case in which she had pleaded guilty less than a year earlier.
The Tulsa Police Department said its Real Time Information Center received an automated license plate reader hit near 800 N. Sheridan Road, allowing officers to intercept the stolen Trax.
The $500 SUV
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An officer located the maroon Chevrolet traveling east on Admiral Place and initiated a traffic stop. Kelley pulled into the Rest Inn & Suites at 7475 E. Admiral Place and surrendered without incident.
Asked how she came to be driving the SUV, Kelley said she had purchased it for $500 at another hotel earlier that day.
That account conflicted with what investigators learned from the owner and casino surveillance. The owner said the keys had been taken from a slot machine and that she had never authorized anyone to drive or sell the vehicle, while security footage showed an unknown woman taking the keys and departing in the Trax.
Kelley was booked into the Tulsa County jail on a new possession-of-a-stolen-vehicle charge and the outstanding warrant. Jail records listed bonds of $4,000 on the new case and $2,500 on the warrant.
The Other Stolen Vehicle
The $2,500 warrant traced back to Tulsa County case CF-2025-4424, filed after a Nov. 23, 2025 stolen-vehicle incident.
Kelley pleaded guilty the following month, writing in her factual statement that she had used another person’s 2018 Hyundai Santa Fe without permission.
Rather than entering a finding of guilt, the court gave her a two-year deferred sentence through December 2027, placed her under Department of Corrections community-sentencing supervision and required 20 hours of community service along with a drug and alcohol assessment.
Problems began within days. Kelley reported for supervision Dec. 22 and supplied an address and phone number, but a home visit the next day produced no answer and the number was disconnected, according to the state’s later application to accelerate her deferred sentence.
After she missed a Dec. 26 office appointment, another home visit on Jan. 6 also failed to locate her. The filing says she stopped reporting, failed to keep supervision officials updated on her contact information and was considered an absconder from supervision. It also alleges that she fell behind on required supervision fees.
That history was not entirely new. Other Oklahoma court records show missed appearances or supervision obligations in earlier cases that also resulted in bench warrants.
The state moved in March to accelerate the 2025 deferred sentence, prompting a judge to issue the $2,500 warrant on March 4. It remained outstanding until the Sept. 26 traffic stop put Kelley back in custody, after which the court scheduled an Oct. 5 arraignment on the application to accelerate.
Her new possession-of-a-stolen-vehicle charge remains pending.
All parties are presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty in a court of law.