(Stillwater, Okla.) — A convicted drug offender who escaped from a deputy and was captured three days later in Stillwater has been ordered to appear in court Friday.
“Multiple deputies converged on a residence,” at 5:56 a.m. Monday just north of Maple Street on Lowry, where 22-year-old David Martin Herring Jr., of Stillwater, was found by deputies acting on information on his location, Payne County Sheriff’s Captain Kevin Woodward said.
Herring had been “able to break free from a deputy — a foot pursuit ensued outside the courthouse Friday afternoon at 2:42 p.m.,” but Herring escaped, the sheriff’s captain said.
After Herring was captured, he was arraigned from the Payne County Jail by Special District Judge Katherine Thomas, who ordered him held on $75,000 bail on an escape charge, court records show.
Herring had been ordered into custody Friday by District Judge Phillip Corley, who revoked his bond, but Herring “ran through courthouse security and escaped from detention,” according to his new felony charge.
Herring, who had been free on bail, had been in the courtroom Friday to appear on an allegation that he violated the probation he was given last year in a 2011 cocaine possession case, court records show.
Prosecutors were seeking to revoke Herring’s five-year suspended sentence because he allegedly failed to report for probation supervision, to verify completion of a substance abuse evaluation, and to pay supervision fees, court records show.
If convicted of escape from detention after a former felony conviction, Herring could be given a two-year prison term, according to the felony charge filed by District Attorney Tom Lee Monday.
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