Frank D Walls
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By Patti Weaver
(Stillwater, Okla.) — A 64-year-old Morrison man, who was arrested on his ninth drunk driving charge on the day he was supposed to appear in court on his eighth drunk driving charge, has been ordered held in the Payne County Jail on $100,000 bail pending his arraignment this week in his latest case.
If convicted of his new DUI charge in Payne County, Franklin D. Walls could be given as much as a 20-year prison term, court records show.
Walls was arrested at 1:29 am on Oct. 18 after having a one-vehicle property damage crash in which he was injured, Oklahoma Highway Patrol Trooper Steve Burrows alleged in an affidavit. Walls, who was charged with drunk driving a 2009 Ford at 68th and Mehan Road on Oct. 18, said, “he was going fishing and had consumed a couple drinks,” the affidavit alleged.
That same day, Walls was due to appear in court at 1:30 pm on charges of drunk driving a Ford truck at VFW and Rose Roads in Glencoe at 1:38 am on March 2, 2021, on a revoked license, transporting an opened container of beer and obstructing Payne County Sheriff’s Deputy Dalton Ross by giving a false name on a traffic stop.
Walls, who has also been known as Frank D. Wallis, had been released from prison in February of 2018 after serving about a year of five concurrent five-year prison terms for drunk driving in 2016 in Payne and McClain counties, as well as drunk driving on three occasions in Grady County, once in 2016 and twice in 2015, court records show.
Walls had also been given a one-year suspended sentence in 2011 for misdemeanor drunk driving in Payne County on Dec. 31, 2010; he had also been charged with misdemeanor drunk driving in 2009 in Garfield County, for which he was given a two-year deferred sentence in 2010 that was changed to a one-year suspended sentence in 2011, court records show. Walls had been placed on 10 years’ probation in 2019 in Grady County for possessing a firearm as a convicted felon, Department of Corrections records show.
