By: Patti Weaver
(Stillwater, Okla.) — A Glencoe man accused of pointing a shotgun at a woman and threatening to kill her eight months after he got out of prison, has been released from the Payne County Jail on $20,000 bail pending a June 7 court appearance.
If convicted in the incident that allegedly happened three weeks after he got out of jail on earlier charges of possessing a stolen truck and attempting to elude a sheriff’s deputy, Sammy Lee Ledford, 38, could be given a life prison sentence plus 10 years, court records show.
A woman, who was residing with Ledford, said he “had threatened to ‘blow her away’ and had pointed a shotgun at her,” on March 23, Payne County Sheriff’s Deputy Scott Hopper alleged in an affidavit.
She said that after Ledford threatened to kill her, he went outside into a detached garage he used as a shop where he sometimes stayed in a bedroom area and kept the shotgun, the affidavit alleged.
“I knocked on the door several times and identified myself as a sheriff’s deputy and got no response from anyone in the shop building,” Hopper wrote in his affidavit.
After three more deputies arrived, “Myself and Deputy McAlister tried to open the roll-up door and it was locked from the inside. At this time (she) stated that we could force the door open and enter the shed to see if Sammy was inside. (She) also told me that Sammy was a convicted felon,” Hopper wrote in his affidavit.
“Also while at the scene, I could see two spent shotgun shells laying on the ground. Myself and the deputies entered the shop building and found no sign of Sammy inside the shop,” but retrieved a 12-gauge shotgun loaded with the same shells he saw outside that had been fired, Hopper alleged in his affidavit.
When the woman was shown the weapon, she said, “Yes, that is Sammy’s shotgun,” the affidavit alleged.
In that case, Ledford was arrested on May 4 when he appeared in court on earlier charges of possessing a Ford truck stolen from 4 S Ranch in Logan County and attempting to elude Payne County Sheriff’s Deputy Dalton Ross from Rose Road and Glencoe Road north to Yost Road and West to 10216 E. Tower Estates on March 1 while driving on a revoked license.
According to Payne County court records and the Oklahoma Department of Corrections, Ledford had gotten out of prison on July 17, 2020, on pre-release supervision after serving about two years and four months following his termination from Drug Court.
Ledford had previously been convicted of possessing methamphetamine in Stillwater in 2016, two counts of second-degree burglary in 2015, and two counts of possessing stolen property in 2015 and 2012, court records show.
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