By: Patti Weaver
(Stillwater, Okla.) — A 44-year-old Oilton man with a criminal record in three counties is being sought by authorities on a charge of attempting to elude Yale Police Officer Stephen Lombard while driving on a revoked license.
Due to his five prior felony convictions, Brandon Michael Hughes — who is on probation for drunk driving in Pawnee County — could be given a prison term of three years to life if convicted of attempting to elude.
Hughes drove a 1997 Ford F-150 truck at speeds of more than 90 mph from Watson Drive and West Chicago in Yale, then east to Quay Road and then north — where on Quay Road he nearly struck OG&E workers trimming trees from the power lines on the morning of Oct. 1, court records allege.
“The vehicle then went east on 5750 Road heading for Jennings, but I lost sight of the vehicle somewhere in that area,” in Pawnee County, the Yale officer alleged in an affidavit for an arrest warrant filed last week.
The officer had been sent at 6:35 am on Oct. 1 to the Yale Housing Authority on an allegation that Hughes was at an apartment where he was not supposed to be, an affidavit alleged.
A school bus driver said that about 7:20 am, “he was picking children up from the Yale Housing Authority when a white Ford pickup truck backed out of a parking spot and almost hit his bus,” the affidavit alleged. The bus driver said, “the driver of the truck had to run over the curb to keep from hitting the bus,” the affidavit alleged.
The driver said “at the time, all the kids had been loaded onto the bus and the load/unload lights were not on,” the affidavit said.
According to court records, Hughes had been placed on five years’ probation in 2019 for drunk driving in Pawnee County in 2017.
Hughes had also been given five years’ probation in 2015 for drunk driving in Payne County in 2013, court records show.
Hughes had previously been given three concurrent sentences of five years’ probation in 2008 in Kay County for assault and battery on a police officer in 2007, and two separate cases of second-degree forgery in 2006, court records show.
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