Kory Mitchell
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By Patti Weaver
STILLWATER — A 37-year-old man, who is required to register for life as a sex offender, has been charged in Payne County with illegally residing with minor children in rural Drumright in 2025 and entering the safety zone around Oak Grove Elementary School in Cushing on three occasions in 2025.
Kory Alan Mitchell was living on N. Kings Highway in Cushing when he was charged with entering the safety zone of Central Tech in Drumright on Jan. 8. Mitchell appeared in court on that Creek County charge on March 25 and remains free on $25,000 bond pending a May 6 appearance.
Mitchell has not yet been arrested on his four-count Payne County charge that was filed on March 25. If convicted of all four counts, Mitchell could be given as much as life prison term plus three years, court records show.
Payne County Sheriff’s Investigator Rockford Brown alleged in an affidavit filed on March 26 for Mitchell’s arrest, “Oct. 23, 2025, I was provided a DHS referral regarding a sex offender (Kory Mitchell), who was possibly violating the terms of his Oklahoma Sex Offender Registration Act requirements.”
Mitchell has been required to register as a sex offender for life since he was convicted in Garfield County in 2009 of second-degree rape of a minor under 16, as well as rape by instrumentation, the affidavit said.
A DHS employee said, “she had conducted an investigation into the welfare of children,” living with their mother and her boyfriend, Mitchell in a trailer in rural Drumright in Payne County next to a relative’s trailer, the affidavit alleged.
The Sex Offender Registration Act that Mitchell read and initialed on July 16, 2025, at the Payne County Sheriff’s Office requires, “If a minor child was the victim of my offense, I am prohibited from residing with a minor child or from establishing any other living accommodation where a minor child resides unless I am their parent, step-parent or grandparent,” the affidavit said.
“I was given information Kory Mitchell had also gone to the Oak Grove School located at 8918 E. 9th, Cushing, Payne County, to drop off and pick up several of the minor children who attended the school,” the Payne County sheriff’s investigator alleged in his affidavit.
The superintendent said, “she witnessed Kory Mitchell in her office on at least two occasions with the mother to speak with her about the children,” the affidavit alleged. The superintendent said that two other school employees “had both witnessed Kory Mitchell on multiple occasions dropping off and picking up the children from school grounds,” the affidavit alleged.
The superintendent said, “Kory Mitchell never informed her or any staff of the school that he was a registered sex offender,” the affidavit alleged.
Another rule of the Sex Offender Registration Act, which Mitchell read and initialed on July 16, 2025, states, “It is unlawful for me to loiter within 500 feet of any elementary, junior high or high school, permitted or licensed child care center as defined by DHS, playground or park, if I have been convicted of a crime requiring sex offender registration, and the victim of my crime of conviction was a child under 16 years of age,” the affidavit said.
According to court records and the state Department of Corrections, Mitchell had been convicted on Dec. 18, 2009, in Garfield County of second-degree rape of a minor under 16 and also rape by instrumentation, for which he was originally placed on two concurrent sentences of 10 years’ probation that was revoked in November of 2014, for which he served about a year before being released in December of 2015.
Mitchell had also been convicted on Oct. 7, 2016, in Garfield County of felony domestic assault and battery along with being a sex offender residing within 2,000 feet of a park, for which he was given two concurrent eight-year prison terms, of which he served less than three years before being released in August of 2019.
Mitchell had also been convicted in Creek County of domestic assault and battery on Oct. 4, 2023, and released the same day with credit for serving 201 days in the Creek County Justice Center, court records show.
