(Stillwater, Okla.) — A Cushing man who admitted trying to break into the Maverick Mini Mart at 224 E. Cherry Street in Cushing was placed on five years’ probation as part of a plea bargain approved in court Friday.
Dewey Youngbear Bass, 32, was also ordered to pay $220 restitution, a $250 fine, and $100 to the victims’ compensation fund by District Judge Donald Worthington Friday. He must complete all the recommendations contained in a background report compiled for the court.
“You’re at the end of the line with getting by doing nothing,” the judge told Bass before giving him a five-year deferred sentence Friday. Bass’s co-defendant Christopher Sean Eiseman, 25, of Cushing, is due to appear in court on Dec. 9, court records show.
The pair had been arrested at Eiseman’s apartment, one block from the convenience store, about nine hours after the attempted burglary was discovered, Cushing Police Detective Adam Harp wrote in an affidavit.
Shortly before 5 a.m. Aug. 4, an employee had reported for work at the convenience store and noticed that the glass entry door had been broken, but it was still intact inside the door frame, the affidavit said.
“Officers reviewed the security video and observed two suspects, identified as Dewey Bass and Christopher Eiseman, walk up to the front entry door.
“Once at the door, Bass kicks at the front entry door three times and then places his hands inside the shirttail of his shirt and pulls on the door handle to see if it would open, but it was still locked.
“During the time that Bass is kicking at the front entry door, Eiseman is standing right next to him observing his actions. The pair then walks away from the front door area of the store and run southbound crossing Cherry Street,” the affidavit alleged.
That afternoon, three Cushing police officers went to an apartment where they had information that the pair were located, the affidavit said.
Eiseman first denied knowing about the incident, but then said that “he did not kick at the door, but that Bass did and that he got scared and ran away,” the affidavit said.
“Eiseman said that Bass never told him that he was going to kick in the door and ran off,” the affidavit said.
“Bass said that he and Eiseman were walking and that he decided to walk over to the front entry door of the store and kick it,” the affidavit said. “Bass said that he kicked it twice because he wanted to break glass because he had anger that was built up,” the affidavit said.
The detective wrote in his affidavit, “I asked Bass if his intention was to enter the store and he said, ‘Hell, no.’
“I asked Bass if he grabbed the door handle of the front entry door and he said no.
“Bass said that Eiseman did not know that he was going to kick the front entry door,” the detective wrote in his affidavit.
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