By: Patti Weaver
(Stillwater, Okla.) — A Creek County teenager was charged Monday with being a convicted felon in possession of a 9 mm semi-automatic pistol on Friday in Payne County.
Keoni Noah Barnett, 19, of Bristow, was jailed on $25,000 bail pending his arraignment before a Payne County judge this afternoon, court records show.
At the time of his arrest by the Payne County Sheriff’s Office, Barnett was being sought for failing to appear before a Creek County judge on Dec. 13, 2019, for a batterers’ course review.
When he was 18, Barnett was charged in Creek County with feloniously pointing a firearm and domestic violence in Bristow and jailed on $40,000 bail on June 25, 2019.
Six weeks later, Barnett pleaded guilty to both charges for which he was placed on five years’ probation on the gun count, with a concurrent one year’s probation on the domestic abuse count, court records show.
But a bench warrant was issued for his arrest four months later when he failed to appear in court for a review of the status of his batterers’ course, court records show.
If convicted of his new Payne County charge of being a convicted felon in possession of a gun, Barnett could be imprisoned for one to 10 years and fined $10,000, court records show.
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