I still don't know why he chose to go to Tulsa. Maybe he looked at a map and picked a place that was about the furthest distance from the 2 places he had fled after each of his crimes. He might have just started driving away from Maryland, trying to get as far away from there as he could, trying to distance himself from the scene of the (latest) crime, but then at some point, he would realize he was now heading back toward the scene of his OTHER crime in California, so he better stop driving, and geographically, Tulsa's about the place that leaves him pretty much in the middle between the two! Or maybe he was on his way back to the west coast, and just stopped off here for a beer.
But stupidly, he first had to get arrested for trespassing. He was probably surprised they didn't take him to jail, just wrote him a ticket and let him go. But it's my theory that they ID'd him when they cited him for trespassing and found out he was wanted in at least 2 distant states as well as in another country! So I think they did let him go for the moment, but kept him on surveillance while they contacted the other agencies who were looking for him, and when the time was right, they swooped in and got him. I think they knew he was at that bar, bc they'd followed him from the moment they wrote him that ticket for trespassing, when they found his warrants.
So I still have questions about a couple things. Did he choose to come to Tulsa for any reason in particular? Like does he have family or other connections here? Or was he just running, and randomly ended up here? And I'm also curious what he was doing at that "storefront" that got the attention of police and ended up being his downfall? I just find that odd that they told him he was trespassing in the middle of the day in front of some store that I assume was open to the public... I think all the police said was that he was hanging around by a storefront. I believe he had to have been causing a disturbance of some kind, or maybe he'd just been there for too long and was giving someone the heebiejeebies, and they called the cops on him.