(Stillwater, Okla.) — A bench warrant has been issued by a Payne County judge for the arrest of an ex-convict from Perkins who failed to appear in court last week for his sentencing for assaulting his girlfriend in Stillwater at the trailer of her neighbors, two of whom he also admitted attacking.
Ray Daniel Smith, 34, had pleaded guilty in July to holding a knife to his girlfriend’s throat, punching her in the face, punching a female neighbor in the face, throwing a cinderblock through a window that landed on a woman’s toe and damaging the trailer, all on Jan. 20.
Five months before that incident at a Stillwater trailer park where Smith was then living on E. Raintree, he was charged with assault and battery on a man at a rural Stillwater trailer park on Aug. 16, 2013, on E. 44th — to which he also pleaded guilty in July.
Smith, who apparently got out of prison in January 2013, had been convicted in 2005 of second-degree burglary and second-degree forgery in Perkins, for which he was given a seven-year prison term followed by 13 years of probation on which he remains, court records show.
After Smith served that Payne County prison term, he remained incarcerated for one and one-half years for assault and battery on an employee at the Lawton Correctional Facility in 2005, state Department of Corrections records show.
Smith had also previously served three years of two five-year prison terms for obtaining merchandise by bogus check in 2002 and unauthorized use of a vehicle in 2004, both in Payne County, DOC records show.
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