(Stillwater, Okla.) — A teenager from Oklahoma City — originally accused of breaking into two vehicles in a Cushing neighborhood — has pleaded guilty to reduced charges of concealing stolen property taken from them.
Samuel Thomas Viol, 19, who was arrested by Cushing Police Officer Justin Sappington, entered his pleas Friday before Associate District Judge Stephen Kistler, who set his sentencing for May 2.
The judge was advised in court Friday that Viol, who has been jailed for nearly two months, would be placed in a treatment facility when a bed becomes available, court records showed Tuesday.
After Viol was arrested about an hour after the burglaries, during the booking process, “Viol told me that he wanted to plead no contest and requested that he get credit for time served,” the Cushing officer wrote in his affidavit.
“I advised Viol that he could not enter a plea with me and he would have to speak with the court and his attorney. Viol repeated his previous statement again before he was placed in a cell,” the officer wrote in his affidavit.
The Cushing officer had been sent at 2:20 a.m. on Dec. 15, 2013, to the 1100 block of E. 9th Place regarding a possible car burglary, the affidavit said.
The victim said “he had gotten up to use the restroom when he heard his dogs barking,” looked outside, and saw that the interior light of his vehicle was on, the affidavit said. He later found he was missing a Crown Royal bag containing loose change, the affidavit said.
Seven minutes later, Cushing Police Officer Jerrod Livergood went on a field interview with Viol at 7th and Howerton, located two blocks from the burglary site, the affidavit said.
“Viol was dressed in a black leather jacket, black jeans and was wearing a black hooded jacket underneath.
“Viol was in possession of a small black and blue zippered backpack. Officer Livergood told me that he had received verbal consent to search Viol’s backpack,” Officer Sappington wrote in his affidavit.
“Officer Livergood began to remove several items from the bag. Viol could not provide descriptions or functions of several items in the bag.
“Viol described one item in his bag as a radio while it was actually a power inverter. There was also no radio in the bag,” the affidavit said.
Sappington canvassed the area for more victims and located a man in the 1100 block of E. 8th Street, who said that a power inverter, a flashlight and sunglasses were stolen from his truck, the affidavit said.
“The sunglasses, flashlight and power inverter were found in Viol’s bag,” and identified by that second victim as belonging to him, the affidavit said.
