(Stillwater, Okla.) — Arson and animal cruelty charges have been dropped against a Cushing woman who was accused of setting fire to a mobile home at Woodland Village Mobile Home Park and killing two dogs inside it.
On the prosecutor’s request, Associate District Judge Stephen Kistler Friday dismissed the 2012 case against Danielle Jane Hopkins, 31, who was placed in an inpatient treatment center a year ago, court records show.
Hopkins was alleged to have set fire to a mattress inside a mobile home, while knowing two dogs were under the bed, and left the home on fire, with the result the two dogs were burned and killed on Nov. 8, 2012.
Two years ago, Hopkins was placed on one year’s probation for leaving a threatening voice mail message in 2011 — telling a woman “she was coming to her house today and ‘I’m gonna kill you,"” to which she pleaded guilty.
In 2010, she was charged with making a false 911 call and telling a dispatcher that her father was having chest pains at the Woodland Village Trailer Park and requested an ambulance, to which emergency staff responded and found no one with a medical emergency.
In that case, Hopkins pleaded guilty to an amended charge of false reporting of a crime, for which she was fined $25 and ordered to pay $434 restitution in July 2010, court records show.
A year before that in 2009, she pleaded no contest to possessing drug paraphernalia in 2008, for which she was ordered to pay court costs and fees.
On the same date, Hopkins pleaded no contest to assault and battery of her boyfriend in 2008, for which she was ordered to pay court costs and incarceration fees.
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