By: Patti Weaver
(Stillwater, Okla.) — An arrest warrant has been issued for a Cushing homeless ex-convict charged with burglarizing a 2017 Ford truck parked in the 800 block of E. 4th Street on Thursday, stealing Nike athletic shoes from a house in the 600 block of E. Oak Street two weeks earlier, and possessing a stolen 2013 Dodge six months ago, all in Cushing.
Due to his criminal record, Roland Casey Andrew Roberts, 26, who previously lived in Yale and Drumright, could be given a minimum of seven years in prison to a maximum of two life sentences if convicted of his felony burglary and stolen vehicle charges. Roberts could be given a six-month jail term if convicted of the misdemeanor charge of stealing shoes.
Roberts was apparently released from prison last September, state Department of Corrections records indicate.
According to court records and the DOC website, Roberts had been previously convicted of:
* larceny of a motor vehicle in Payne County in 2012 for which he was given a seven-year prison term with an order to pay $900 in restitution;
* first-degree burglary in Payne County in 2011 for which he was originally given a seven-year suspended sentence that was revoked eight months later to about six years and three months of incarceration;
* second-degree burglary in Pawnee County in 2011 for which he was originally given probation that was revoked in 2016 to a five-year prison term concurrent to his Payne County burglary conviction.
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