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Rape charges were filed Thursday against a 30-year-old Noble man, after a 14-year-old girl reported she’d been molested at the man’s residence about a month ago.
Benjamin Michael Work was charged with first-degree rape by force and fear.
According to Noble police, the girl said she’d gone to the man’s residence in the 400 block of Woods Drive, to “hang out” with a female friend and Work at about 4 p.m. on a weekend in mid-May. The girl said the three consumed alcohol. Her friend went outside, and the girl said Work grabbed her and took her to an upstairs bedroom where he raped her. She said she initially didn’t report the rape out of fear, police said.
Also Thursday, a Norman man was charged with filing a false insurance claim.
Investigators said Edward S. Rodriguez, 40, called his insurance company Sept. 9 and requested his vehicle insurance be reinstated. The next day, Rodriguez allegedly contacted the company and said he was driving his 2002 Chevrolet pickup truck around the Canadian River and drove into deep water, submerging the vehicle above its windows with water.
The company began to process the claim, when someone called the fraud hotline and reported Rodriguez had actually submerged the vehicle Sept. 3, and had bragged about his plans to defraud the insurance company. Investigators also interviewed a man who said he’d pulled the vehicle from the water Sept. 3, and said he knew the date because it was the opening day for dove season.
Other felonies filed recently include:
• Jeffrey Scott Lester, 30, Moore, unlawful cultivation of marijuana; unlawful possession of marijuana within 1,000 feet of a school;
• Daniel Thomas Muller, 55, Norman, unlawful possession of a controlled dangerous substance with intent to distribute; failure to display a tax stamp on a controlled dangerous substance;
• Tracy Lee Maycumber, 32, Norman, operation of a motor vehicle while under the influence of alcohol;
• Carlos Vinicio Ordonez, 20, Moore, third-degree arson;
• Jason Dewayne Hedrick, 29, Moore, larceny from a house;
• Natasha Ann Zuni, 27, Norman, uttering a forged instrument;
• Jermaine Dervon Hardison, 23, Oklahoma City, uttering a forged instrument;
• Ralph W. Shamblin, 46, address unknown, uttering a forged instrument;
• Trey Marcel Morton, 18, Moore, knowingly concealing stolen property;
• Jack Tyler Hwang, 19, Oklahoma City, possession of a lost or mislaid credit card;
• Raul Estrada-Buendia, 30, address unknown, indecent proposal to a child; lewd acts with a child;
• Joshua William Standridge, 19, Noble, two counts of second-degree auto burglary;
• Joshua Dean Driskell, 22, Norman, unlawful possession of a controlled dangerous drug;
• Colt Michael Wolf, 20, Norman, grand larceny;
• Joshua Jebidiah Sweetin, 28, fugitive complaint;
• Jennifer Lynn Turner, 22, Oklahoma City, unlawful possession of a controlled drug within 1,000 feet of a school;
• Katrina Ann Williams, 34, Midwest City, two counts of embezzlement;
• Bruce Randall Palmer, 39, Moore, operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of alcohol;
• Robert Mitchell Hunter, 41, Norman, obtaining property by false pretenses;
• Jennifer Lee Loy, 27, Moore, operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of alcohol;
• Julie Deanne Pace, 31, Noble, six counts of possession of a counterfeit instrument; two counts possession of a counterfeit or fictitious drivers license; one count of knowingly concealing stolen property.
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