Johnathan Harrison Williams (DOC file photo)
By Patti Weaver
(Stillwater, Okla.) — Arrest warrants have been issued for an ex-convict from Bristow charged with passing two forged checks to Bill’s EZ Out in Cushing and committing domestic violence in Creek County.
Due to his criminal record, Johnathan Harrison Williams, 43, could be given a prison term of four years to life if convicted of uttering two forged checks to Bill’s EZ Out at 1107 E. Main in Cushing on Oct. 9 for a total of $1,291.01, court records show.
An arrest warrant had also been issued in Creek County on June 19 for Williams, who was charged with domestic assault and battery by strangulation, as well as domestic assault and battery in the presence of a minor, court records show.
In his Payne County case filed on Nov. 2, Cushing Police Sgt. Jack Ford alleged in an affidavit that when he viewed video of the suspect, “I identified him to be Johnathan Williams as I know Johnathan personally. After Johnathan received the cash for the checks, he walked out and appeared to get into a small white car and leave the store.”
The owner of Bill’s EZ Out “told me that KW Well Service did not write the checks and advised that Johnathan Williams does not work for them. At the time of this report, I have been unable to find John to interview him,” Sgt. Ford alleged in his affidavit.
According to court records and the state Department of Corrections, Williams had previously been convicted of:
* domestic assault and battery and also assault and battery with a dangerous weapon in Creek County in 2018 for which he was initially given probation for seven years, two years of which were revoked to prison in 2021 of which he served about a year;
* domestic abuse by strangulation in Davenport in Lincoln County in 2020 for which he was given in 2021 a three-year prison term concurrent to the above sentence and released in 2022 after serving about a year.
