Nicholas Ruby (DOC file photo)
By Patti Weaver
STILLWATER — A 22-year-old ex-convict from Glencoe, who remains jailed on $10,000 bond, has been ordered to appear in court on Jan. 29 for a preliminary hearing on charges of breaking into three vehicles in Perkins and illegally possessing a gun — four months after he was released from prison where he served six concurrent sentences.
Due to his extensive criminal record, Nicholas Michael Ruby, who had recently been staying at a trailer in Perkins, could be imprisoned for 16 years to life if convicted of the four-count felony charge filed two months ago.
Ruby was arrested at 8:10 am on Nov. 12, 2025, by Perkins Police Officer Shane Dean, who had been sent an hour earlier on a suspicious person call to the 900 block of N.E. 4th, according to his affidavit.
A woman said that the previous night at about 10:18 pm, “someone came into her driveway and tried to open the door to her pickup in the driveway” but never got inside it since it was locked, the affidavit said.
She said that the suspect “was wearing a dark coat with a hood, dark pants, a hat and a light-colored pair of shoes that had a dark color tongue, (while) carrying a backpack,” the affidavit said. At about the same time in the same area, four firearms were stolen out of a vehicle in the 400 block of Oak Tree Ave., the affidavit said.
As Officer Dean was approaching Old Hickory Ln. and Lovers Ln. with Officer Hunter Bradley, he saw a man fitting the description, who was later identified as Ruby, the affidavit alleged.
“Due to firearms being stolen and Nicholas matching the description in the area, Officer Bradley patted him down for weapons,” and located a Glock 44 in his waistband with a magazine and a bullet in the chamber, the affidavit alleged. “This was one of the guns stolen,” from Oak Tree, the affidavit alleged.
When he was arrested, “Nicholas had $724 in cash in his wallet. $420 of it was in $10 bills. I asked Nicholas where the other three guns were. Nicholas said he left them in a backyard somewhere but could not tell me where. I asked Nicholas where he came from. Nicholas said he and his girlfriend were staying,” with a relative at a trailer on Lovers Lane, Officer Dean alleged in his affidavit.
A woman came up to the Perkins police officers and said that her car was stolen the previous night from the 500 block of E. Kinder Wells, the affidavit said. She said the car had $2,000 worth of softball equipment, paperwork, an emergency kit, sunglasses, medication, a phone charger, a $2 bill, a crockpot, bank cards, her driver’s license, a blanket, a jacket, and forty $10 bills, the affidavit said.
When Perkins police went to a trailer to try to contact the suspect’s girlfriend, “I asked her if there were any more guns in the residence because I believed that was where Nicholas put them,” Officer Dean alleged in his affidavit. Eventually another woman brought out three pistols and four boxes of 12-gauge shells, the affidavit alleged. The firearms had been taken from Oak Tree, but the officer did not know where the shotgun shells came from, his affidavit alleged.
“I told Nicholas I know he took the cash out of the Buick that was taken from Kinder Wells. I asked Nicholas where the vehicle was. Nicholas admitted to stealing the money out of the vehicle but denied stealing the vehicle. Nicholas also had a little green wallet in his possession that I released,” to his girlfriend at her request, Officer Dean alleged in his affidavit. The victim “later said this wallet was taken out of her car and did not realize it was missing at the time she reported the car stolen,” the affidavit alleged.
According to the state Department of Corrections, Ruby had been released from prison on July 29, 2025, after serving about half of six concurrent five-year sentences he was given in 2022 for three counts of third-degree burglary, and one count each of pointing a firearm, being a felon with a firearm and assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, all in Payne County.
