By: Patti Weaver
(Stillwater, Okla.) — A 30-year-old man serving a 25-year prison term for armed robbery in Washington County was charged this morning with assault and battery on a corrections officer at the Cimarron Correctional Facility in Cushing on Aug. 26.
Terrance Lucas Cottingham, who has been transferred from the private prison in Cushing to the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester, has been scheduled to appear before a Payne County judge on the felony charge on Jan. 16, 2020, court records show.
According to the Oklahoma Department of Corrections, Cottingham was previously convicted of:
* armed robbery in 2015 in Washington County, for which he was given a 25-year prison term in 2017;
* engaging in a pattern of criminal offenses, four counts of use of a lost credit card, and one count of possessing stolen property in 2015 in Washington County, for which he was given six concurrent five-year prison terms to begin serving in 2040 after discharging his armed robbery sentence;
* fourth-degree arson and second-degree arson in 2008 in Kay County, for which he was given concurrent prison terms of 10 years and eight years in 2009, which he discharged in 2019 and 2015;
* unauthorized use of a vehicle in 2008 in Kay County, for which he was given five years of probation in 2009;
* escape from jail in 2008 in Kay County, for which he was given seven years of probation in 2009;
* seven counts of second-degree burglary in Kay County in 2008, for which he was given seven concurrent seven years of probation in 2009;
* two counts of second-degree burglary in another case in Kay County in 2008, for which he was given two concurrent seven years of probation in 2009.
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