Brian K Collins
(PCSD file photo)
By Patti Weaver
(Stillwater, Okla.) — A 53-year-old Cushing man has been jailed on $50,000 bail pending his arraignment Tuesday on charges of attempting to fold his girlfriend up in a mattress, hitting her on the head with a sheathed machete, and threatening to kill her or burn the trailer down with her in it.
Brian Keith Collins was arrested at his travel trailer on S. Greenwood at 10:06 pm on Feb. 9 by Payne County Sheriff’s Deputy David Barnes, according to court documents filed on Valentine’s Day.
When the deputy knocked on the trailer door at 8:20 pm that night, “Collins appeared to be very intoxicated. He stumbled down the steps to the travel trailer and leaned back against the trailer for support.
“I asked Collins what was going on, and he replied, ‘Nothing. We just had an argument,"” the deputy alleged in his affidavit.
“Since I was by myself, I had Collins sit in the back of my patrol unit so I could make contact with the victim.
“Collins advised me he had a knife on his person. I removed a fixed blade knife in a sheath from his right waistband of his sweatpants,” the deputy alleged in his affidavit.
While Collins was in the patrol car, the deputy talked to Collins’ girlfriend, who said he was intoxicated when he came home at about 2 pm, the affidavit alleged.
She said, “Collins continued drinking and told her he was going to physically throw her out. (She) stated she retreated to the sleeping area in the trailer and put headphones on so she did not have to listen to Collins’ ranting.
She said, “Collins came in the sleeping area and tried to drag her off the bed. She stated he then tried to fold the mattress up with her in the mattress.
(She) reported. “Collins grabbed a machete from above the bed and hit her on the left side of the head with the machete,” that was still in the sheath, so she was not cut, the affidavit alleged.
“She stated Collins then told her that he should just kill her. She also reported that Collins then told her that he would kill her ‘in the morning.’ She stated Collins also threatened to burn the trailer down with her in it.
“(She) stated that Collins also threw a recliner out of the trailer and cut the recliner up out in the yard. (She) stated she called a mental health facility in Tulsa, who in turn called the Sheriff’s Office,” the affidavit alleged.
Creek County ambulance responded to the scene and checked Collins’ girlfriend, who said “Collins did not choke her during this incident, but has choked her in the past,” the affidavit alleged.
Collins’ girlfriend was given information about Wings of Hope, which she said that she would contact the next day, the affidavit said.
According to Payne County court records, Collins had been convicted of domestic assault and battery as a misdemeanor in 2017 and was sentenced to 45 days.
