- Taber ‘Turbo’ Carter was arrested after allegedly pulling a gun on a woman from whom he was supposed to buy a pair of designer shoes.
- The 21-year-old appeared beaten in his Oklahoma mugshot after trying to flee police in his vehicle and crashing into a power pole, causing a blackout.
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A young man was arrested after he allegedly tried to steal a pair of Balenciaga shoes from a woman who was selling them on a marketplace app.
Oklahoma City authorities said a woman had listed her designer footwear on the Offer Up app when someone with the username ‘Turbo’ contacted her.
Turbo, identified by police as Taber Carter, 21, allegedly headed to a local T-Mobile store after agreeing to meet the salesperson at a 7-Eleven, where he didn’t show up.
The police say Carter met the victim, who was with her mother, in her car to make the exchange. That’s when the young man pulled out a black Glock-type pistol and pointed it at the woman’s head.
Taber ‘Turbo’ Carter, 21, appears bruised and scraped following a police chase that ended in a car crash after he was accused of pointing a gun at a woman he was supposed to buy a pair of shoes from. designer.
Sergeant Dillon Quirk told local media: “The victim indicated that he was there to sell shoes to the suspect, during that exchange, the suspect produced a firearm and demanded property from the victim.”
The saleswoman said she handed the shoes to Carter, but was able to snatch one from him before he left.
The price of a pair of Balenciaga shoes can range from hundreds to thousands of dollars.
The armed robber tried to demand the other shoe, but the woman told him she had already stored it inside her car, according to the police report.
Carter left and was reportedly found passed out in his car several hours later by police, who were called for a welfare check.
A police chase ensued when Carter attempted to flee the scene in his vehicle.
During the chase, the 21-year-old crashed into a utility pole, causing a local power outage.
The accident also reportedly caused a small grass fire that was quickly extinguished by an emergency fire crew.
He was eventually detained by police and charged with endangering others while eluding a police officer, as well as robbery or attempted robbery with a dangerous weapon.
In his mugshot, the young man appears with a closed, swollen black eye and cuts and scrapes across the entire right side of his forehead, possibly from the collision with the power pole.
The price of a pair of Balenciaga shoes can range from a few hundred to a few thousand dollars. Carter had agreed to buy a pair from a woman through a marketplace app called Offer Up.
He is currently detained without bail.
Oklahoma City police have warned the public that anyone meeting with a potential buyer to sell an item should do so in a public location with many cameras.
A good suggestion is the parking lot of a local police station.