By LESLIE EIKLEBERRY
Salina Post
Additional charges have been requested for a Salina man who was arrested last week in connection to two other cases.
Brandon C. Loder, 36, of Salina, was arrested on March 21 on N. Hedville Road after a deputy had gone to check on a Toyota Camry along the roadway that had run out of gas. When the deputy ran the license plate, he discovered that it did not belong on the Camry, Saline County Sheriff Roger Soldan said Tuesday.
Further investigation revealed that a man, later identified as Loder, had been in the convenience store at N. Hedville Road and Interstate 70 to borrow a gas can and get gas for a vehicle that had run out. Loder was later located on N. Hedville Road and taken into custody. When he was taken into custody, he allegedly was found to be in possession of a pipe with methamphetamine residue on it and some marijuana, Soldan said.
Loder also was sought by Salina police in connection to an alleged domestic incident on March 19 during which he allegedly battered a 29-year-old Salina woman and took her cellphone, Salina Police Captain Gary Hanus said Tuesday.
This morning, Hanus outlined the events that prompted the additional requested charges against Loder.
On March 20, an officer went back to talk with the 29-year-old Salina woman about the alleged domestic incident. During that conversation, the woman told the officer that Loder had called her and threatened her.
On the morning of March 21, officers were called to the Flying J Travel Center, 2250 N. Ohio Street, for the report of a man shoplifting. Officers were told that a man stole a $300 radar detector. Flying J personnel provided a description of the vehicle the man left in - a Toyota passenger car - and a description of the man, who police later determined was Loder.
Later on the morning of March 21, a Saline County Sheriff's deputy arrested Loder on N. Hedville Road, in connection to the Toyota Camry that had run out of gas.
Hanus said that after the sheriff's office had contacted the register owner about the Camry, the owner, a 20-year-old Salina woman, called police to report that the car had been stolen overnight in the 1200 block of N. Eighth Street. The 2011 Toyota Camry was valued at $12,000.
Hanus said that after Loder was booked into jail on the morning of March 21, he allegedly once again called and threatened the 29-year-old Salina woman, this time from a phone in the jail.
Original charges requested for Loder include the following according to Hanus and Soldan.
●Criminal threat
●Robbery
●Domestic battery
●Criminal damage to property
●Interference with a law enforcement officer
●Possession of methamphetamine
●Possession of marijuana
●Possession of drug paraphernalia
●Possession of stolen property
Hanus said this morning that the following charges also have been requested for Loder.
●Two counts of aggravated intimidation of a witness/victim
●Two counts of criminal threat
●Two counts of harassment by telephone
●Theft