(Stillwater, Okla.) — A Yale teenager has been ordered to appear in court on June 1 on felony charges of possessing a 2001 Jeep stolen from a Perkins man, a 2001 Land Rover stolen from a Stillwater man, and conspiring to possess stolen vehicles on three occasions with a Yale man who is being sought.
Jaden Todd Davis, 18, who has a ninth grade education, remains in the Payne County Jail on $20,000 bail, while his co-defendant, Trey Alexander Buntin, 20, of Yale, remains at large, court records show.
Payne County Sheriff’s Investigator George Disel began investigating on March 10 the thefts of a white 2001 Jeep Wrangler reported to Perkins police on Feb. 27, a gray 2001 Toyota Land Rover reported to Yale police on March 7, and a gold 2014 Chevrolet Impala taken in Glencoe that was reported to the Sheriff’s Department on March 8, court records show.
On March 27, the investigator talked to an acquaintance of the defendants who said that several weeks earlier, he went to the shore of Lone Chimney Lake where “Buntin and Davis had gotten the Toyota stuck and he used his vehicle to pull them out,” the affidavit alleged.
The Toyota Land Rover was recovered by Deputy Joe Harper, who found it abandoned and destroyed in heavy brush at Lone Chimney Lake in Payne County, the affidavit said.
About two weeks earlier, a Glencoe man’s stolen Impala was discovered abandoned in the parking lot of a day care center in McKinney, Texas, the affidavit said. Several days later, the owner of the Impala found in the car a receipt for food bought at a McDonald’s in Marietta, Oklahoma, the affidavit said.
When the investigator looked at video from the McDonald’s, he recognized Buntin as the driver on March 8 at 10:17 a.m., the morning of the theft of the Impala, the affidavit alleged.
The defendants’ acquaintance told the investigator “the night of the theft of the vehicle, Buntin and Davis stayed at his house and they talked about wanting to go to Texas,” the affidavit said.
One of Buntin’s relatives said that on March 9, Buntin and Davis called to ask the relative to pick them up in McKinney, Texas, and bring them back to Yale, the affidavit alleged. The relative picked up Buntin and Davis at a church parking lot in McKinney, Texas, that was located less than a half-mile from where the Glencoe man’s stolen Impala was found, the affidavit said.
When the investigator questioned Davis, he said “Buntin picked him up from his home in Yale in the Toyota,” which he thought was stolen, the affidavit alleged.
“Davis said that he went to Lone Chimney Lake with Buntin in the stolen Toyota where they got stuck and were pulled out,” by their acquaintance, the affidavit alleged.
“Defendant Davis then said that he did not recall being with Buntin when the Impala was stolen from Glencoe because he was on dope,” but did remember that one of Buntin’s relatives came a long way to get them when they called to ask being taken back to Yale, the affidavit alleged.
According to court records, at that time Davis was free on a personal recognizance bond pending his June 12 sentencing for stealing a 2012 Mitsubishi Eclipse from Walmart’s parking lot on N. Perkins Road in Stillwater on Oct. 9, 2014, and possessing a 1991 GMC Sierra pickup truck that was stolen in Tulsa on Oct. 10, 2014, before being abandoned north of Yale on Oct. 13, 2014.
Another Yale teenager has been charged with Buntin, his then-roommate, with breaking into a shop building in the 2200 block of N. Mt. Vernon Road on Feb. 26, court records show.
Gary Daniel Wright, 19, pleaded guilty to a second-degree burglary charge in that case on May 8 and was released on a personal recognizance bond pending his Dec. 11 sentencing, court records show.
Buntin had been placed on five years’ probation in February for possessing various well heads and shivs stolen from Ruh Oil Company on June 11, 2014, and for possessing a vehicle tire, rim and four hubcaps stolen from a Yale man on Oct. 24, 2013, court records show.
“On March 31, 2015, Buntin was given a travel permit to travel to the state of Florida and was subsequently allowed to reside there permanently, as his case has been accepted by Florida via Interstate Compact,” Oklahoma Department of Corrections Probation and Parole Officer Jason Nixon wrote in a probation violation report.
The probation officer has recommended to the court that “Buntin be accelerated to incarceration and ordered to complete the DOC’s Regimented Inmate Discipline Program (RID),” a prison boot camp program.
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