Man doesn’t ‘understand how escape rooms work’ and tries to break in, Oklahoma cops say

A man got a bit confused as to how escape rooms work and broke into one, Oklahoma police said.

On Jan. 28, the man, who police said “may not understand how escape rooms work,” broke into The Xscapery Escape in Tulsa, according to a Jan. 29 Facebook post by the police department.

The business gave officers security footage that showed him inside the building before he cut the cameras, police said.

That’s when officers set up a perimeter around the building before he started throwing glass objects at them from a stairwell, the release said.

After tracking him for hours through the building, the man was found by a K9 officer while “hiding on top of an elevator between floors,” police said.

He was arrested on charges of burglary, obstruction, assault and battery on a police officer, cruelty and interfering with a police dog, and malicious injury to property, police said.

Tulsa is about a 100-mile drive northeast of Oklahoma City.

This story was originally published January 30, 2025 at 6:18 PM with the headline "Man doesn’t ‘understand how escape rooms work’ and tries to break in, Oklahoma cops say."