Geoffrey Morris
(PCSD file photo)
By Patti Weaver
STILLWATER — A convicted rapist accused of failing to register as a sex offender in Payne County and illegally living within 2,000 feet of Hemphill Park in Cushing has been jailed on $35,000 bond pending a Sept. 8 court appearance at which he can seek a preliminary hearing on a two-count felony charge.
Due to his extensive criminal record, Geoffrey Kyle Morris, 35, could be given two life prison terms if convicted of violating the Sex Offender Registration Act and living in a restricted area, court records show.
Payne County Sheriff’s Investigator Rockford Brown was contacted on July 17 by Cushing Police Sgt. Carson Watts, who “was concerned Morris was living in or around Cushing, but he was registered at an address in Kingfisher County,” an affidavit alleged.
“I interviewed Morris at the Payne County Sheriff’s Office while he was still in custody on July 17,” after being arrested by Payne County Sheriff’s Deputy Donato Lomboy for driving under suspension,” the investigator wrote in his affidavit.
“Morris said he lived in Kingfisher at the registered address on file. Morris said he does not live in Payne County but works at KW Well Service on the east side of Cushing. At the time of the interview, I had no other information that led me to believe Morris lived in Payne County,” the investigator wrote in his affidavit.
That evening, the investigator was contacted by Sgt. Watts, who received information that Morris lived in the 1700 block of N. Little in Cushing, the affidavit alleged.
After confirming that Cushing utilities were in Morris’s name since December of 2024, the investigator talked to the property owner, who said she had been renting to Morris since December of 2024, the affidavit alleged.
During the July 17 traffic stop, Deputy Lomboy asked Morris “if he lived ‘here in town’ meaning Cushing, and Morris nodded his head meaning yes; later in the conversation, he said he just moved to Cushing,” the affidavit alleged.
On July 24, Deputy Lomboy observed Morris leaving the residence in the 1700 block of N. Little and stopped the vehicle he was in,” the affidavit alleged. When Deputy Lomboy interviewed Morris, he denied living at that location “but said it was his ‘roommate’s house.’
“He later said he meant it was his ‘homie’s’ house. Morris said he stays the night there sometimes when it has been a long day, but his residence is in Kingfisher,” the affidavit alleged.
“On July 28, Morris was arrested for failure to comply with the sex offender registration act,” the affidavit said.
According to the state Department of Corrections, Morris was convicted in 2012 of second-degree rape in Kingfisher County and given a five-year prison term of which he served four years and nine months, followed by probation that was revoked in 2018 to five years in custody of which he served about 19 months.
In Kingfisher County, Morris was also convicted on May 29, 2025, of failure to register as a sex offender in 2024 and placed on probation for eight years, DOC records show.
Morris had been released from prison in December of 2022 after serving three years of seven concurrent seven-year prison terms for seven counts of second-degree burglary in Kingfisher County along with one concurrent five-year prison term for unauthorized use of a vehicle — after his probation was revoked in those 2010 cases, DOC records show.
Morris had also been convicted in 2012 of unauthorized use of a vehicle in 2010, along with possessing another person’s credit card and two counts of second-degree burglary in Kingfisher County in 2011 and given probation, DOC records show.
