Rusty Alan Faires
By Patti Weaver
STILLWATER — An ex-convict with a criminal record in four counties was sentenced to five years in prison Friday for hitting an employee at Grand Lakes Mental Health Facility in Stillwater in the face with a phone.
Former Cushing resident Rusty Alan Faires, 33, of Stroud, was ordered to begin paying $1,061 in restitution along with court costs on his release from prison as part of a plea agreement with the prosecution approved in court by District Judge Phillip Corley, who accepted his guilty plea Friday.
Stillwater Police Officer Justin Sappington had been sent at 3:08 pm on Halloween to the Grand Lakes Mental Health Facility in Cimarron Plaza regarding an open 911 line, his affidavit said.
“When I arrived, I made contact with Rusty Faires in the Admit Room. Rusty was screaming and causing a disturbance. When the Admit Room door was locked, Rusty attempted to run towards the door. Rusty was handcuffed and placed in investigative detention due to his actions,” the officer wrote in his affidavit.
An employee, who is a certified peer recovery support specialist with Grand Lakes, “helps patients in the facility with finding addiction recovery resources and assists medical personnel with numerous tasks in the facility,” the affidavit said.
She said, “Rusty, who was a current patient with Grand Lakes, assaulted her today (Halloween) by striking her in the face with a phone,” the affidavit said. She had an injury on her forehead consistent with the attack she described, the affidavit said.
“Rusty refused to speak with me about the incident. Rusty was subsequently arrested and transported to the Stillwater Jail for booking,” the officer wrote in his affidavit.
According to court records and the state Department of Corrections, Faires, who had gotten out of prison five years earlier, has prior convictions for:
* Drug possession in 2012 in Payne County for which he was originally placed on seven years’ probation except 150 days in jail in 2013, but that was revoked in 2015 to prison to serve concurrently with Creek County and Lincoln County convictions;
* Grand larceny and concealing stolen property in 2013 in Creek County for which he was originally placed on four years’ probation in 2013, but that was revoked in 2015 to two years in prison;
* Second-degree burglary in 2013 in Lincoln County for which he was originally placed on three years’ probation in 2013, but that was revoked in 2015 to five years in prison;
* Attempting to elude an officer and running a roadblock in 2013 in Payne County for which he was originally placed on five years’ probation except 150 days in jail in 2013, but that was revoked in 2015 to prison;
* Methamphetamine possession in 2014 in Payne County for which he was given a six-year prison term in 2015 to serve concurrently with his Creek County and Lincoln County convictions;
* Possessing a firearm as a felon in 2017 n Creek County for which he was originally placed on probation for three years, but that was revoked in 2018 to six months in jail;
* Possessing contraband as an inmate in 2019 in Creek County for which he was originally placed on probation for five years, but that was revoked in June of 2021 to prison with credit for time served concurrently to the following sentence;
* Bail jumping in 2020 in Creek County for which he was given in June of 2021 nine months in jail with credit for time served;
* Domestic abuse in 2020 in Lincoln County for which he was given in June of 2021 six months in jail followed by two and one-half years of probation concurrent to the following sentence;
* Possessing a stolen vehicle in 2019 in Lincoln County for which he was given in June of 2021 six months in jail followed by one and one-half years of probation;
* Possessing a stolen vehicle in 2020 in Grady County fr which he was given in September of 2020 10 years of probation.
