By: Patti Weaver
(Stillwater, Okla.) — A Payne County jury has recommended a 30-year prison term for a 41-year-old former Cushing man with an extensive criminal record, who was convicted last week of two counts of domestic violence against the mother of his baby at his residence in rural Stillwater.
The jury composed of 10 men and two women deliberated about two hours before finding Jarred Wayne Stubblefield guilty of attacking his ex-girlfriend twice on Oct. 27, 2019, after their four-month-old daughter would not stop crying, court records show.
In the sentencing stage of the trial, jurors deliberated 40 more minutes before recommending 20 years in prison for his pinning the woman against a wall and hitting her in the head in the morning, plus 10 years for slapping her in the face in the afternoon, a court official told KUSH. He was ordered held in jail pending his sentencing on Nov. 3 by Associate District Judge Stephen Kistler, court records show.
Stubblefield had picked up his ex-girlfriend at her residence at 10 pm on Oct. 26, 2019, to take her and their baby to his rural Stillwater residence so he could spend time with the baby, according to an affidavit by Payne County Sheriff’s Deputy David Barnes.
“At approximately midnight, Stubblefield became angry because the baby would not stop crying,” the affidavit said.
After the baby’s parents, who do not live together, began arguing, Stubblefield punched the woman in her head and back, the affidavit said. When she broke away and threw a VCR at Stubblefield, he pinned her against the wall and punched her in the mouth and on the head, the affidavit said.
The baby’s mother, who was examined at the Cushing hospital, had a one-inch laceration above her left eye and bruised swollen lips as a result of the assault, the affidavit said. She said Stubblefield also choked her and slapped her across the face before he eventually returned her to her residence, the affidavit said.
Two months earlier, Stubblefield had pleaded guilty to three property crimes in Yale in 2019 — possessing a stolen weed-eater and chainsaw on Feb. 14, breaking into Mugsy’s Restaurant on Jan. 5, and burglarizing a building on Feb. 14; he was given three concurrent sentences of 120 days in jail with credit for time served, followed by four years and eight months of probation. Stubblefield was ordered to pay $7,480 restitution along with having a substance abuse evaluation, random drug tests, and employment plus a requirement of 75 hours of community service.
When Stubblefield lived in Cushing in 2010, he was charged with felony domestic violence in the presence of children at a different ex-girlfriend’s apartment where he arrived uninvited five days before Christmas; for that attack Stubblefield was given a five-year prison term and told the balance of his sentence would be suspended if he completed the Bill Johnson Drug Offender Work Camp, court records show.
Stubblefield had also been convicted of possession of a precursor with intent to manufacture a drug in 2009, possession of stolen property in 2008, assault and battery on a police officer and second-degree burglary in 2008, and possession of a stolen vehicle in 2001, all in Payne County, plus second-degree burglary, escape and larceny, all in 1999 in Haskell County. Stubblefield had been released from prison in February of 2017, state Department of Corrections records show.
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