Daniel Levi Studie
By Patti Weaver
(Stillwater, Okla.) — A convicted armed robber, who was arrested outside a Stillwater hotel from which he had been banned, has been given a 10-year prison term for being a felon in possession of a pistol.
Daniel Levi Studie, 45, of Stillwater, was sentenced last week by Associate District Judge Stephen Kistler, who accepted his guilty pleas to a four-count charge including resisting arrest and possessing marijuana for which he was given concurrent one-year jail terms. Studie was also convicted of trespassing at the hotel.
Studie, who previously lived in Santa Fe, NM, had been arrested at 2:50 am on June 8 outside the La Quinta Inn and Suites after Stillwater police were sent there on a trespassing complaint, an affidavit said.
“This was the third time I had been dispatched to this location on the same male,” Stillwater Police Officer Charles Rivas wrote in an affidavit.
“Due to Daniel returning to La Quinta multiple times, I decided to arrest Daniel for trespassing. I was going to place Daniel in handcuffs while he remained seated on the curb.
“While I was attempting to place the first handcuff on Daniel’s right wrist, he began to resist by stiffening his upper body and attempted to pull away from both Sgt. Merrill and I. Sgt. Merrill then rolled Daniel onto his belly and mounted Daniel’s back.
“Sgt. Merrill placed Daniel’s left hand behind Daniel’s back. Daniel continued to struggle while I controlled his right wrist. I was able to get Daniel’s right wrist behind his back by applying a wrist lock on Daniel. Daniel complied and put his right hand behind his back.
“I then searched Daniel. I removed a black plastic cylinder tube from his left cargo shorts pocket,” that had marijuana in the plastic tube, the officer wrote in his affidavit.
At the city jail, a Beretta Apex 9 mm pistol was found in the front of Studie’s waistband, the affidavit said. A jailer “told me the pistol was under an additional pair of shorts and under a tucked in shirt,” the officer wrote in his affidavit.
On that June 8 gun charge, Studie was originally held in the Payne County Jail on $10,000 bail, which was reduced on June 16 by Special District Judge Michael Kulling to $7,500 — on the condition that Studie go to inpatient treatment for a minimum of 28 days, court records show.
However, two weeks later Studie was arrested again and charged with attempted robbery by fear of a Stillwater convenience store manager on June 29, court records show. Studie was jailed on $100,000 bail in that case, which carried up to life in prison on conviction. It was dismissed by the prosecution when Studie pleaded guilty last week to his June 8 gun charge.
Studie had been released from prison in 2013 after serving three years and eight months of two concurrent five-year sentences for armed robbery and a drive-by shooting, in separate cases in Stillwater in 2009, state Department of Corrections records show. Studie served a concurrent five-year prison term for drug possession in Noble County in 2009.
Studie had previously been convicted in Payne County of a drive-by shooting and possessing a drug with intent to distribute, in separate cases in 1996, for which he was given two concurrent five-year prison terms followed by five years of probation, court records show.
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