By: Patti Weaver
(Stillwater, Okla.) — A Stillwater man on drug probation has been jailed on $20,000 total bail on charges of illegally having guns as a convicted felon, possessing methamphetamine, attacking his girlfriend, threatening to kill her and commit “suicide by cop,” and violating a protective order by calling her from the Payne County Jail.
Trent Jacob Carlson, 30, who had been convicted of endangering the welfare of a child in Missouri, could be incarcerated for as long as 23 and one-half years if found guilty of all of his Payne County charges on which he has been scheduled for arraignment this week.
Carlson was arrested on Aug. 7 after fleeing from his fiancee’s house where he had been destroying things, an affidavit by Stillwater Police Officer Justin Sappington alleged.
Carlson later admitted to the officer that he made a threat to kill his girlfriend, had a pistol that he usually kept under the seat in his truck or in his nightstand, possessed syringes with methamphetamine, and had gone back to her house to get a shotgun that he later threw in a lake, the affidavit alleged.
A neighbor told the officer, “she observed Carlson with a break action double-barrel shotgun. She stated Carlson told her that he would kill himself with the shotgun or have officers kill him if he was confronted. (She) stated he threatened to kill (his girlfriend) with the shotgun as well. (She) told me he said, ‘I will kill her, man. I’ll put these bullets in her head,"” Sappington alleged in an affidavit.
In her petition for an emergency protective order granted by phone on Aug. 8, Carlson’s girlfriend alleged that in addition to attacking her, “He stole my grandmother’s wedding rings. He destroyed the walls, TV and other things (some with an ax) and threatened to kill my dog, then threatened to kill me before loading a shotgun and leaving to look for me.
“He also said he’d die ‘suicide by cops’ by shooting at them if I called them. He was trying to manipulate me into not calling because in the past it worked. I’m not safe around him.”
Five months earlier, Carlson had been placed on probation for one year after admitting he had methamphetamine and 20 used syringes on Dec. 1, 2020, when he was arrested in a truck in Stillwater, court records show. “Trent told me he had a drug problem, but had just got out of rehab,” Stillwater Police Officer Josh Carson wrote in an affidavit.
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