(Stillwater, Okla.) — A Cushing teenager was charged Tuesday with possessing a stolen truck, running three roadblocks, endangering the Yale police chief while running a stop sign, offering a bribe to a Yale police officer and driving on a revoked license, all on Sunday.
Eddie Mathew Wright, 18, was already on probation when he was apprehended about 4:30 a.m. Sunday at Perkins Road and Sixth Street in Stillwater by the Yale Police Department in his latest case — in which 10 officers are listed as witnesses, court records show.
Wright, who remains in the Payne County Jail on $20,000 bond, could be incarcerated for 31 years if convicted of a seven-count charge filed Tuesday.
Wright is alleged to have been driving a stolen 2002 Chevrolet truck on a revoked license at Highway 51 and Third Street in Yale on Sunday.
When Yale Police Chief Phillip Keeling tried to stop him, Wright is alleged to have increased his speed to over 100 mph and to have run a stop sign at Highway 51 and Highway 18 — endangering the chief’s safety.
Wright is also alleged to have run three roadblocks — one placed at Highway 51 and Mehan Road by the Payne County Sheriff’s Office, another placed at Highway 51 and Brush Creek Road by the Stillwater Police Department, and another at Highway 51 and Perkins Road placed by the Stillwater Police Department.
Wright is also alleged to have offered “a ‘G’ to let me walk out of here,” to Yale Police Officer Josh Fry, court records show.
Wright had only been out of jail for a few weeks when he had his latest run-in with the law, court records show.
In mid-June, after he admitted stealing three vehicles from Cushing residents last December and stealing gasoline in Yale, Wright was placed on five years’ probation — except 180 days in jail, with credit for the time he had already served. He was released in mid-July.
As conditions of that probation, which the District Attorney’s Office is now seeking to revoke, Wright was ordered to pay $7,164 in restitution and reminded that he still owed $788 in restitution from a juvenile case, court records show.
Wright was also ordered to follow all the treatment requirements in a background report compiled by the state Department of Corrections Community Sentencing Division, which now recommends that he been sent to prison boot camp for violating his probation in his 2010 vehicle thefts, court records show.
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