(Stillwater, Okla.) – An arrest warrant was issued today for a Cushing man accused of storing stolen oilfield tools that belonged to Southern Plains Energy in Cushing.
If convicted of knowingly concealing stolen property, Ray Albert Wilson, 24, could be incarcerated for five years, court records show.
Stillwater Police Detectives Mary Jurczewsky and Richard Leport received a tip that stolen property was about to be moved from Wilson’s residence in the 900 block of E. Cherry in Cushing “within the next couple of hours,” on June 22, Cushing Police Officer Jerrod Livergood wrote in an affidavit.
“Detective Jurczewsky advised that the driver was making multiple trips to and from his vehicle,” the affidavit said.
When Wilson was questioned, “he immediately advised that a friend had dropped off some tools and he was holding onto them for him. Wilson said he didn’t know the tools were stolen,” the affidavit said.
“Wilson said he would retrieve the tools from the residence and provide them to the officers,” the affidavit said.
“Wilson walked into a back bedroom and into the bathroom where there were multiple large oilfield type of tools sitting on the floor,” that Wilson carried outside and put into the Stillwater police truck, the affidavit alleged.
“Detective Jurczewsky transported the property to the Cushing Police Department where the reporting party, Southern Plains representative Rory Jett, arrived to identify the items,” all of which belonged to the company except one, the affidavit alleged.
Five days later when Wilson was interviewed at the Cushing police station, he said that a friend had shown up at 3 a.m. on June 20 and knocked on his door, the affidavit said.
Wilson said that when he answered the door, his friend said, “I have some tools,” the affidavit alleged.
Wilson said that he asked his friend if they were stolen and his friend told him that he found the tools, the affidavit alleged.
Wilson said that his friend asked him to store the tools at his house for a couple of days, the affidavit alleged.
Wilson said that “he was intoxicated that night and helped carry a couple of the tools inside his residence,” the affidavit alleged.
Wilson said that his friend carried most of the tools in by himself and put them in the bathroom, the affidavit alleged.
Asked why the large tools would be stored in the bathroom “rendering it unusable because the size and quantity of the tools,” Wilson said that his friend “knew the plumbing was messed up and the bathroom was unusable,” the affidavit alleged.
“Wilson maintained that he did not know the tools were stolen,” but refused to submit to a polygraph test to verify his account of what happened, the affidavit alleged.
“I also asked Wilson if his fingerprints would be on the truck the tools were stolen from in Stillwater. Wilson said that he knew the driver of the truck and has been to his house several times,” where Wilson said he frequently leans on the work truck, the affidavit alleged.
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