Kevin Reiley Apperson
By Patti Weaver
STILLWATER — A Cushing ex-convict has been given a seven-year prison term for hitting a co-worker in the head with a pipe wrench at the Cimarron Valley Trailer Park in Cushing.
Kevin Reiley Apperson, 49, who pleaded guilty to assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, was sentenced last week by Associate District Judge Stephen Kistler in accordance with a plea bargain with the prosecution.
Apperson was arrested by Cushing Police Officer Cody Carpenter at 8:08 pm on Jan. 5 in the 1700 block of N. Little in Cushing, court records show. The Cushing officer had been sent to the trailer park about 35 minutes earlier on a report of a disturbance, his affidavit said.
The victim, whose girlfriend had called 911, “had bloodied hands and a severe head wound that was gushing blood,” the affidavit said. He tried “to walk towards me, but stumbled and almost fell to the ground,” the Cushing officer wrote in his affidavit.
The victim was transported to the Cushing hospital with severe head wounds, the affidavit said.
The victim said that when he got home, Apperson was in front of his residence, got out of his vehicle, and hit him twice over the head with a pipe wrench, the affidavit said.
The victim said they were arguing because the victim’s girlfriend had a protective order against Apperson’s friend that Apperson was trying to get her to drop, the affidavit said.
According to court records and the state Department of Corrections, Apperson was previously convicted of:
* assault with intent to commit a felony, which was amended from the original charge of rape in Norman in Cleveland County in 2003 for which he received a 30-year prison term, but only served about 13 years before he was released in July of 2020;
* delivery of marijuana and possessing the drug in jail in Payne County in 1997 for which he received two concurrent 30-year prison terms in 1997 but only served about four years prior to his parole in May of 2001;
* second-degree burglary and possessing a stolen vehicle in Payne County in 1996 for which he received two concurrent 30-year prison terms in 1997 but only served about four years prior to his parole in May of 2001;
* second-degree burglary in Ponca City in Kay County in 1996 for which he received a seven-year prison term consecutive to the following sentence;
* being a felon in possession of a gun and having a stolen credit card in Payne County in 1996 for which he received concurrent prison terms of 10 years and 20 years that he apparently served between 1997 and 2012;
* possession of methamphetamine and auto burglary in Payne County in 1994 for which he initially received probation that was revoked in 1997 to concurrent prison terms of 10 years and seven years.
