(Stillwater, Okla.) A bench warrant has been issued for the arrest of an ex-convict accused of burglarizing three vehicles in an Oklahoma State University residential housing parking lot shortly before 4 a.m. on Aug. 18.
Baldwin Lee Irving, 26, of Stillwater, was released from the Payne County Jail on $3,000 bond that day — with an order to appear in court on Aug. 21, which he failed to do, court records show.
OSU Police Officer J. Justin Gorton was on duty at 3:42 am. on Aug. 18 when he saw Irving walking through a parking lot on the southwest area of the campus and stopping at vehicles, according to his affidavit.
Irving would “enter between two vehicles, disappear from view, reappear, then walk around the parking lot looking at other vehicles,” the affidavit alleged.
When the officer went to the area where Irving had stopped between two vehicles, he found a tan Chevrolet Trailblazer with the door ajar and items inside strewn about, the affidavit alleged.
“Other OSU PD officers located two more vehicles with open doors,” one where the officer had observed Irving, the affidavit alleged.
After the owners of the three vehicles were contacted by OSU police, Irving, who had earlier allegedly given a false name, was arrested, the affidavit said.
Irving had “a large amount of loose change in his pocket,” which matched what the victims said was missing from their vehicles, the affidavit said.
Last summer, Irving pleaded guilty to falsely claiming that he owned a laptop computer and charger that he pawned, court records show.
A Stillwater man had reported that his Apple MacBook laptop and charger were stolen from his vehicle while it was parked in front of his house on Aug. 29, 2013, an affidavit said.
The next day, the man’s stolen laptop and charger, valued at $1,500, were pawned for $100 at EZ Pawn on N. Perkins Road in Stillwater by Irving, an affidavit said.
For the felony of making a false pawn declaration that he had owned the property for one year, Irving was given a 120-day jail term with an order to pay the cost of his incarceration as well as $195 restitution, court records show.
A few months before that incident, Irving had apparently been released from prison after serving about two years of a five-year sentence for false personation in Payne County in 2010, a sentence he was given in 2011, court records show.
Irving had also been given a concurrent prison term when his probation was revoked in 2011 in a 2009 case in which he was originally given a suspended sentence for possessing stolen property in the OSU Student Union, court records show.
As an 18-year-old, Irving had been given a 96-day incarceration for second-degree burglary in Carter County in 2008, state Department of Corrections records show.
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