(Stillwater, Okla.) — A Cushing woman whose attorney said she is currently in an alcohol treatment facility has been charged with child endangerment and drunk driving — while free on bail on charges of breaking into her ex-husband’s Stillwater apartment and biting his girlfriend in the face.
Michelle Leigh Mauk, 32, who was already on probation for drunk driving in Stillwater in 2004, failed to appear in court on Aug. 28 on charges of child endangerment, drunk driving, drug possession and transporting an open container of liquor in Stillwater in 2014, court records show.
When her attorney advised District Judge Phillip Corley that Mauk was in an alcohol treatment facility, the judge took a bench warrant for her arrest under advisement until Sept. 11, court records show.
If convicted of all of her current charges, Mauk could be incarcerated for 55 years, court records show.
In her latest case, Mauk and one of her children were hospitalized for their injuries sustained in a single-car accident at East 44th Street, one-half mile west of Mt. Vernon Road, to which Oklahoma Highway Patrol Trooper JJ Finney was dispatched at 3:35 p.m. on July 26, his affidavit said.
At the Stillwater Medical Center emergency room, the trooper talked to her 12-year-old son, one of her three children in her SUV, who “recalled his mother driving down a dirt road fast and then everything going black,” the affidavit alleged.
He said “he woke up to his mom making weird noises and his sister crying,” the affidavit alleged.
The boy said after “he got out of the car and started walking to find help,” a passing motorist stopped, went back to the accident scene and drove them to the emergency room, the affidavit alleged.
The boy said that none of them were wearing seatbelts and that his sister was in her car seat, but not buckled in, the affidavit alleged.
When the trooper talked to Mauk, she appeared confused, the affidavit indicated.
Although she had obvious injuries to her head and left leg, Mauk said she was not injured and felt no pain, the affidavit alleged.
“Mauk had a skewed sense of reality and had a hard time completing trains of thought,” the affidavit alleged.
Asked by the trooper if she had anything to drink, “Mauk admitted to having ‘one volume alcohol drink,"” the affidavit alleged.
After she was arrested for drunk driving, “Mauk was not taken into custody due to her injuries,” the affidavit said.
She and her 10-year-old child were transferred to the OU Medical Center, where the child had surgery for a broken leg and Mauk was released after evaluation, the affidavit said.
Four months before that incident, Mauk was arrested at 4:17 a.m. on March 14 at her ex-husband’s Stillwater apartment; Mauk was charged with burglary by breaking in the front window, and also biting her ex-husband’s girlfriend in the face, court records show.
Five months earlier, Mauk, who was then living in Perkins, was charged with drunk driving, child endangerment, drug possession and transporting an open container of alcohol in Stillwater on Oct. 17, 2014, a case in which she was freed on $25,000 bail, court records show.
In another case, Mauk was given one year’s probation in 2010 for escaping from an OHP trooper while handcuffed after unbuckling her seatbelt, opening a door to the patrol car, and running from the scene for about 30 yards until she was captured, court records show.
Mauk had been placed on five years’ probation in 2010 for drunk driving in Stillwater and transporting an open container of beer in 2004, for which she had originally been given a five-year deferred sentence in 2005 with an order to complete Payne County Drug court, records show.
Mauk had previously been placed on one year’s probation in 2002 for drunk driving and transporting an open container of beer in Stillwater, court records show.
Mauk had also previously been placed on three months’ probation in 2002 for assault and battery, court records show.
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