Man arrested already wearing a handcuff; allegedly tried to drag woman out of vehicle

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TEXARKANA, Texas -- An Ohio man who was already wearing a handcuff has been arrested on numerous charges after an incident where he allegedly tried to force an elderly woman out of her vehicle.

Brent Wohrer, 49, of Lancaster Ohio was arrested over the weekend on charges of robbery, burglary of a vehicle, credit card abuse and unauthorized use of a vehicle. He is being held in the Bi-State Jail with a total bond of $225,000, according to the Texarkana Texas Police Department.

About 9:30 a.m. on Saturday, TTPD got a 911 call from a convenience store on Richmond Road about a theft that had just occurred. The clerk told police that a man came into the store and asked for a pack of cigarettes. After the clerk laid them on the counter to ring up the purchase, the man grabbed them, ran out the door and jumped into a black SUV.

A couple of hours later, police received several 911 calls about a disturbance in the Walmart Neighborhood Market parking lot on Richmond Road. The callers said that a man was trying to pull an elderly woman out of her vehicle.

When Officers Travis Frost and Brent Lawing got there, they found that two men had already managed to get Wohrer off of the woman and had him restrained. They recognized him as the same suspect that had stolen the pack of cigarettes earlier in the day.

They also noticed that Wohrer had a set of handcuffs already on one wrist that was so tight that it was bleeding and looked like it was cutting off the circulation to his hand. When asked, he told them that a police officer somewhere between Texarkana and Ohio tried to put the handcuffs on him several days before but he managed to get away from him.

When officers went into the store to watch the surveillance video of the parking lot, they were able to see the whole event unfold. They watched as Wohrer got out of the black SUV and got into an unoccupied pickup truck parked right next to it. After several minutes, he could then be seen walking towards the gas pumps and returning with a gas can shortly afterwards.

Meanwhile, the owner of the truck was in the store at the time and got a notification that one of her credit cards that she'd left in car had just been used at Walmart. It was after Wohrer couldn't figure out how to get the gas he'd just bought into his SUV using the gas can, that he apparently decided to try to steal the elderly woman's car instead.

The black SUV that Wohrer had been driving had recently been reported stolen in Little Rock.

The woman Wohrer allegedly attacked only suffered minor bruising and scrapes, and she is expected to make a complete recovery.

After a doctor was finally able to safely remove the old handcuff from Wohrer's arm and checked him out medically, he was transported to the Bi-State Jail.

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