(Stillwater, Okla.) — A Stillwater man has admitted breaking into two car wash businesses in Perkins and possessing methamphetamine in 2018 — while he was on probation for concealing stolen property and drug possession in 2016 in Payne County, as well as two burglaries in 2017 in Delaware County.
For his Perkins burglaries, Richard Lee Schaffer, 32, was given a 60-day jail term last week followed by four years and 10 months of probation with an order to pay $142 restitution, a $960 prosecution fee, and $1,000 in fines by District Judge Phillip Corley, who also assessed a $100 fine for his methamphetamine possession.
On the same day that the felony car wash burglary charges were filed, Schaffer was also accused of having shoplifted automotive parts from Walmart on Perkins Road in Stillwater on Feb. 14, 2017, to which he also pleaded guilty last week. For that misdemeanor, Schaffer was ordered to pay $614 restitution and a $100 fine.
Schaffer has been in the Payne County Jail since his arrest on Dec. 6, 2018, by Perkins Police Investigator Charles Danker for breaking into Hometown Car Wash that day and Roper’s Car Wash about three weeks earlier, court records show.
When Perkins Police Chief Bob Ernst asked Schaffer if he had just committed a burglary, Schaffer said yes, the investigator’s affidavit said.
“I asked what he was going to use the money for and he said cigarettes and food. Richard said he has a drug problem, but he didn’t need the money for that because people give him drugs,” the investigator wrote in his affidavit.
“I asked if he had been to prison and he said no. I asked what he had been in jail for, and he said breaking and entering of a car wash in Delaware County last year (2017). I asked if that was his thing for quick money, and he said at the time yea, and he was being stupid then like he is now,” the Perkins investigator wrote in his affidavit.
For violating his probation in his 2016 stolen property and drug possession cases in Payne County, Schaffer was given two concurrent five-year suspended sentence last week.
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