Infamous poker player Scotter Clark charged with Assault with a Dangerous Weapon, two counts
On June 9, just before 9:00 p.m., Officers with the Tulsa Police Department responded to a call about an auto-pedestrian collision and assault in a parking lot near 31st and Sheridan. When Officers arrived on the scene, they found a man and a woman with injuries from the incident. Both went to the hospital with serious but non-life-threatening injuries.
The female victim told police that she was in the parking lot when a man approached her and solicited her for sex. A man with the female victim then confronted the suspect, and the suspect stabbed the man in the head and the chest. The female victim said the suspect got into his pickup truck and then hit her in the parking lot.
A witness nearby saw the incident in the parking lot and began following the suspect in the blue pickup truck. That witness called 911 and followed the pickup truck long enough to capture the tag number.
Around 10:00 p.m., Officers tracked down the suspect, identified as Scotter Clark. Clark admitted to being in the area at the time of the incident and claimed he got into an altercation in the parking lot after someone broke into his truck.
Scotter Clark was arrested for two counts of Assault with a Dangerous Weapon.
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Clark is well known in world poker circles for his dressing up in full-blown pirate Jack Sparrow garb at poker events. Readwrite,com reports that in 2022, he was reportedly banned from Caesars properties over the apparent use of fake guns on the outfit. He was essentially banned from ever participating in the World Series of Poker circuit. According to PokerNews, Clark’s prior convictions include a 2000 arrest for selling cocaine.
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A big shoutout to the citizen who witnessed the incident and helped police catch the suspect.
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(Source: Tulsa Police Department)
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