(Stillwater, Okla.) A Stillwater man jailed on $50,000 total bail on charges of stabbing a male acquaintance in the neck and then breaking into a woman’s car about 90 minutes later has been ordered to appear in court on Sept. 14 when he can seek a preliminary hearing in both cases.
At the time of his arrest last month, Myron Ian Dent, 21, was already on probation for committing two residential burglaries in Stillwater and possessing marijuana in a Stillwater park, court records show.
The stabbing victim, who did not know Dent’s last name, said “he does not know ‘Myron’ very well, but said he has helped him with food in the past,” Stillwater Police Officer Jerry Burrow wrote in an affidavit.
The officer said that when he saw the victim in the Stillwater Medical Center emergency room shortly after 1 p.m. on Aug. 3, he “had a serious laceration to the left side of his neck,” according to the affidavit.
The victim said he was talking to another man outside the Monticello Apartments in Stillwater, while “Myron was packing back and forth and was not participating in the conversation,” according to the affidavit.
The victim said “he suddenly felt a stinging sensation to his neck,” and when he looked around “saw ‘Myron’ with a knife,” the affidavit alleged. He said that Dent had not said anything prior to the attack,” and then took off running, the affidavit alleged.
The victim said “he covered the wound with his shirt and went over to the area of the convenience store and got a ride to the hospital,” the affidavit said.
After the victim described the man he knew only as Myron, Officer Burrow and Officer Justin Reedy both thought that the suspect was possibly Dent, the affidavit said.
When the victim was shown a photo of Dent on the officer’s computer, he identified Dent as his assailant, the affidavit alleged.
Since the laceration on the victim’s neck had clipped the artery, he was transferred to the OU Medical Center for surgery, the affidavit said.
Both officers then went to the area of the Monticello Apartments at 606 E. Redbud in Stillwater, as well as other apartment complexes, but were unable to locate Dent, the affidavit said.
About 90 minutes later, another Stillwater officer was sent to the 200 block of N. Perkins Road, where Dent was subsequently identified as a suspect in a reported larceny from an auto, the affidavit said.
Ninety minutes after that incident, more officers went sent to the Buckle in the 700 block of N. Perkins Road on a shoplifting report that “Myron” ran out without paying for merchandise, the affidavit alleged.
“Dent had changed into some jeans he had stolen and left his old clothes in the changing room,” before running towards Wyndam Gardens, the affidavit alleged.
After Dent was tracked to that hotel at 600 E. McElroy about 10 minutes later, he was arrested, the affidavit said.
In the car burglary that occurred about 90 minutes after the stabbing, a Stillwater woman said when she left a store at 211 N. Perkins Road to walk to her car, “she noticed something was different inside her vehicle,” according to an affidavit by Stillwater Police Officer Matt Smittle.
She said that she “attempted to open the driver’s door and observed Myron Dent sitting in the driver’s seat,” the affidavit alleged.
She said that “Myron locked the doors and she had to use her key fob to get the door unlocked,” the affidavit alleged.
When she asked him what he was doing, “Myron said it was hot outside and he was cooling off,” the affidavit alleged.
“She observed her vehicle had been gone through and observed her belongings scattered in he floorboard of the vehicle,” the affidavit said.
She told Dent to get out of her vehicle and asked him what he had taken, the affidavit alleged.
She said “Myron said he had not taken anything from her vehicle, but had consumed her drink and eaten some food which was in the vehicle,” the affidavit alleged.
She said “Myron then went to the back of the vehicle and placed an item on the tailgate,” the affidavit alleged.
She said that “she asked Myron what he had placed on the tailgate and Myron showed her his knife,” before leaving the area, the affidavit alleged.
She was able “to positively identify Myron as the suspect who had been in her vehicle,” the affidavit alleged.
About two and one-half months earlier, Dent was given two concurrent six-month jail terms, with credit for the time he had already served, for burglarizing two Stillwater homes, one in 2013 and the other in 2014, followed by six and one-half years of probation, court records show.
At the same time, Dent was given a concurrent six-month jail term, with credit for the time he had already served, for possessing marijuana in a Stillwater park in 2014, followed by nine and one-half years of probation, court records show.
If convicted of the Aug. 3 stabbing filed as assault and battery with a dangerous weapon after a former conviction of a felony, Dent could be incarcerated for 20 years to life, court records show.
If convicted of the Aug. 3 car burglary after having a former felony conviction, Dent could be incarcerated for four years to life, court records show.
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