(Stillwater, Okla.) — An ex-convict who was arrested on the Cimarron Golf Course in Perkins in December has admitted threatening his 19-year-old nephew with a knife, for which he was placed on 10 years’ probation except 180 days in jail earlier this month, court records showed today.
As part of a plea bargain requiring random drug testing, the prosecution dropped a joyriding count in that case against Ray Daniel Smith, 34, of Perkins, on April 4, according to court records.
Smith was arrested by Perkins Police Officer George Hannon less than a week after he had been released from the Payne County Jail on Thanksgiving weekend on $50,000 bail pending his Dec. 19 sentencing on earlier assault charges.
Perkins Police Chief Bob Ernest called Hannon on his cell phone about 8 p.m. on Dec. 5 to ask him to check on an vehicle and individuals at the Cimarron Golf Course entrance, according to Hannon’s affidavit.
When the Perkins officer arrived, a male was running toward an older model Chevrolet pickup that had front-end damage consistent with hitting a tree that it was stopped against, the affidavit said.
William Andrew Smith, 26, one of Smith’s nephews, told the officer that his uncle “had taken his truck and crashed into the tree,” the affidavit said.
Asked where his uncle was, “William advised me that Ray had pulled out a knife and was on the golf course,” Hannon wrote in his affidavit.
“While talking to William, his brother, Dakota Lee Smith, 19, came up to me and advised Ray pulled out a knife and said, ‘I’ll kill you,’” the officer wrote in his affidavit.
“Dakota then advised that Ray got down on his knees and put the knife against his own forearm,” the affidavit said.
Asked where his uncle was, “Dakota pointed to the driving range portion of the golf course,” the affidavit said.
“When I walked onto the driving range, I was able to see Ray sitting on the grass holding his hands up,” which appeared to be empty, the officer wrote in his affidavit.
“As I approached, Ray advised that the knife was to his right,” about 15 feet away, which the officer put in his own pocket for safekeeping, the affidavit said.
“I continued to approach Ray who got up and started to pull his red hoodie off,” before saying “I don’t really have a gun. I just told them that,” the officer wrote in his affidavit.
“I did not find any weapons in his red hoodie,” Hannon wrote in his affidavit.
Asking the defendant to explain what happened, “Ray said, ‘I won’t rat on my family.’ Ray never gave me a straight answer about what took place,” the officer wrote in his affidavit.
According to court records, Smith pleaded guilty last summer to holding a knife to his girlfriend’s throat, punching her in the face, punching a female neighbor in the face, throwing a cinderblock through a window that landed on a woman’s toe and damaging the trailer, all on Jan. 20, 2014.
Smith was originally scheduled to be sentenced in that case last October, but he failed to appear in court and a bench warrant was issued for his arrest. Smith was arrested in Newkirk a month later, released on $50,000 and ordered to appear in court on Dec. 19 for sentencing in Payne County.
In that case, Smith was also sentenced this month to a concurrent 10-year suspended sentence except 180 days in jail, with an order to have no contact with his victims, court records show.
Smith was ordered to perform 80 hours of community service within 12 months, participate in a 52-week batterers’ program, undergo anger management training, have a mental health evaluation, perform any required follow-up, have random drug testing, and pay $400 in fines and assessments.
Five months before that January 2014 incident at a Stillwater trailer park on E. Raintree where Smith was then living, he was charged with assault and battery on a man at a rural Stillwater trailer park on Aug. 16, 2013, on E. 44th, to which he also pleaded guilty last summer and was ordered to pay court costs.
Smith, who apparently got out of prison in January 2013, had been convicted in 2005 of second-degree burglary and second-degree forgery in Perkins, for which he was given a seven-year prison term followed by 13 years of probation on which he remains, court records show.
After Smith served that Payne County prison term, he remained incarcerated for one and one-half years for assault and battery on an employee at the Lawton Correctional Facility in 2005, state Department of Corrections record show.
Smith had also previously served three years of two five-year prison terms for obtaining merchandise by bogus check in 2002 and unauthorized use of a vehicle in 2004, both in Payne County, DOC records show.
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