John Jefferson
A police officer with a gun drawn responds after U-Haul van crashes into stranger’s pool on June 9, 2024 (KOTV/screengrab), (left and right inset) Destiny Livingstone and Kasey Haag in Creek County Jail mug shots.
Two suspects who allegedly tried to steal lottery tickets from a Kum & Go convenience store in Oklahoma before leading cops on a chase around 2 a.m. earlier in June ended up under arrest after a U-Haul van crashed into a stranger’s pool, and the bodycam footage aired on the local news was somehow even more absurd than you might expect.
The accused driver, 39-year-old Destiny Mieshia Livingstone, and her 31-year-old co-defendant Kasey Alan Haag each face charges of first-degree robbery, fugitive from justice, and eluding a police officer, Creek County Jail records reviewed by Law&Crime show.
But Livingstone, a Kansas woman facing a bench warrant in the Sunflower State for failure to appear in a drug possession, theft, and forgery case, is additionally accused in Oklahoma of driving on the wrong side of a divided roadway in Sapulpa and causing malicious injury to or destruction of property in connection with the pool crash incident of June 9.
Portions of the bodycam video aired by local CBS affiliate KOTV first showed Sapulpa Police Department officers responding to the Kum & Go store after 2 a.m. on June 9. There, a man emerged from the store and pointed authorities in the right direction.
A witness at the Kum & Go says the suspects drove off thataway (KOTV/screengrab)
Police engaged in a miles-long pursuit of the U-Haul van, whose driver apparently made the ill-fated decision to drive down a dead-end street, smashing through a fence and ultimately plunging the vehicle into a pool some seven minutes later — decidedly not the jackpot the suspects allegedly sought.
The U-Haul comes to a definitive stop in the pool. (KOTV/screengrab)
The homeowner, a grandfather identified as Roy Foote in a prior KOTV story, reportedly said he was minding his own business late at night and watching TV in bed when he heard police sirens outside, only to learn soon after that his pool was wrecked to the point of being unusable.
“They [the cops] asked me if I had a friend that was a black woman swimming in my pool, and I go no, I don’t have any black people swimming in my pool this late at night,” Foote reportedly said, adding that his pool was “polluted” by oil as a result of the U-Haul crash.
Suspect Destiny Livingstone hanging out in the pool with the U-Haul. (KOTV/screengrab)
The video showed that when cops questioned Livingstone about what she was doing in the pool and whether there was anyone else in the U-Haul, she replied, “I’m telling you, I don’t know. I was out here swimming” — in the early morning hours, at a stranger’s home.
Destiny Livingstone claims she was out for a swim. (KOTV/screengrab)
An unconvinced officer remarked that it seemed odd Livingstone would be swimming fully clothed.
KOTV said that roughly an hour later cops discovered there was someone else in the U-Haul: Kasey Haag.
Haag had allegedly tried and failed to hide in the woods nearby.
Suspect Kasey Haag in custody. (KOTV/screengrab)
As the two were arrested and booked, Haag allegedly falsely claimed to have the name Samuel Steele, which may explain the identity theft charge listed in his jail records.
As for Destiny Mieshia Livingstone, Oklahoma court records indicate that there was a felony child neglect case initiated against her in Kay County back on Dec. 31, 2020, the day a warrant was issued. The docket reviewed by Law&Crime shows no activity in the case since then. But neither the dormant neglect case nor the crash case mark the end of Livingstone’s legal issues — which include allegations of other driving-related offenses in Kansas dating back to December 2023, as well as felony drug possession charges.
A bench warrant document filed in the Greenwood County District Court on June 10 took note of Livingstone’s arrest in Oklahoma.
Oklahoma jail records say that both Haag and Livingstone are scheduled to appear in court on the morning of June 25.
First-degree robbery in the Sooner State is defined as follows:
[W]hen, in the course of committing the theft, the defendant:
1. Inflicts serious bodily injury upon the person;
2. Threatens a person with immediate serious bodily injury;
3. Intentionally puts a person in fear of immediate serious bodily injury; or
4. Commits or threatens to commit a felony upon the person.
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