Ex-con jailed on $50,000 bail on gun charge

    (Stillwater, Okla.) — An ex-convict with a burglary record in Oklahoma and McClain counties has been jailed on $50,000 bail pending a Dec. 21 court appearance on a charge of being a felon in possession of a gun in Stillwater.

    Chad Edward Childers, 45, was arrested on a high-risk warrant on Dec. 13 in the area of his Stillwater residence by the Stillwater Multi-Jurisdictional Special Operations Team, which used “a less lethal round and gas,” to get him to comply, Lt. Terry Low said in a news release.

    “Childers was transported to Stillwater Medical Center for treatment before being transported to the Stillwater Police Department jail,” the news release said.

    Stillwater Police Officer Chase Mobus had sought an arrest warrant after investigating a burglary that happened a block from Childers’ residence, an affidavit said.

    “On Dec. 11, the victim had his residence burglarized and the suspect made entry through the back door. Due to the fear of a suspect attempting to make entry again, the victim had placed another camera facing the previous entry point, which was the back door of the residence.

    “On Dec. 12, he notified me that he believed the suspect had tried to enter the residence again at 2:30 am and had a video of the suspect,” the Stillwater officer wrote in an affidavit.

    “The video showed the suspect walk to the back of the residence, look around, and draw a dark-colored pistol from his jacket. I saw the suspect cock the pistol before approaching the back door. The suspect looked through the back glass part of the door and then left the area,” the Stillwater officer wrote in an affidavit.

    “While viewing the video, I saw distinctive face, neck and head tattoos on the suspect…I compared the face and neck tattoos I saw in the video to pictures of Childers from his stay in the Department of Corrections. Based upon this, I believe Childers is the suspect possessing the firearm in the video,” the Stillwater officer alleged in his affidavit.

    Childers has utilities approximately one block away from where the video was made, the affidavit said. “Childers has a criminal history that contains multiple burglary offenses,” and cannot lawfully possess a firearm as a convicted felon, the affidavit said.

    According to the state Department of Corrections, Childers was released from prison in November of 2019 after serving seven years of three concurrent sentences of nine years for two counts of first-degree burglary and one count of assault and/or battery with a dangerous weapon in Oklahoma County in 2012.

    Childers had previously served three years of two concurrent eight-year sentences for possessing stolen property and vehicle theft in 2007 in Oklahoma County, DOC records show. Childers had also served one and one-half years of four concurrent three-year sentences for two counts of second-degree burglary plus one count each for assault and/or battery with a dangerous weapon and possessing stolen property in Oklahoma County in 2002.