Jeremy E. Rose
(DOC file photo)
By Patti Weaver
(Stillwater, Okla.) — An ex-convict avoided a jury trial on July 25 by accepting a plea bargain Tuesday for a 10-year prison term for robbing a pizza deliveryman at a Stillwater hotel last year.
Jeremy Earl Rose, 28, of Bristow, who pleaded guilty to second-degree robbery, was sentenced Tuesday by Associate District Judge Stephen Kistler after being advised in court that the victim had agreed to the plea bargain between the prosecution and defense.
Rose had been arrested at 1:15 am on Aug. 3, 2021, at a hotel on West 6th Street, according to an affidavit by Stillwater Police Officer Greg Calloway, who had been sent at 12:13 am to a pizza shop on N. Boomer Road on a robbery report.
An employee said he was robbed of about $46 by a man, later identified as Rose, who was in a room next door to where he made a pizza delivery, the affidavit said.
The robber “stepped on his foot, reared back his hand as if to strike (him) and told him that he was about to beat him up if he did not give him his money,” the affidavit said.
After taking his cash, the robber “yelled at him and said that if he called the police or if (the pizza shop) calls the police, he would come down to (the pizza shop) tomorrow and ‘whip his ass’ while he was at work,” the employee said, according to the affidavit.
Following Rose’s arrest, the officer searched his billfold, which had one $20 and two $5 bills in the main portion, and in another part of the trifold, two $20s, four $5s and one $1 bill, “which is almost exactly what (the deliveryman) said was taken from him,” the affidavit said.
As part of Rose’s sentence Tuesday, he was also ordered to pay $35 in restitution.
According to court records and the state Department of Corrections, Rose had previously been convicted of:
* methamphetamine possession in Oilton in 2017, for which he was initially given five years of probation, except 82 days in jail, with Creek County Drug Court, but his sentence was revoked five months later to a three-year prison term;
* drunk driving, eluding a police officer and running a roadblock in Sand Springs, for which in 2019 he was given a concurrent three-year prison term from Tulsa County;
* drug possession and eluding a police officer in Drumright, for which in 2014 he was given a three-year prison term from Creek County but served about a year;
* methamphetamine possession and attempted second-degree burglary in Payne County, for which in 2014 he was sent to the Regimented Inmate Discipline (RID) prison boot camp program for about six months after which he was placed on a five-year deferred sentence that was revoked in 2015 to a three-year prison term concurrent to the above case;
* mistreating a police dog in Creek County in 2018 for which he was given a one-year sentence.
