(Stillwater, Okla.) – A Cushing woman who served prison sentences for workers’ compensation fraud in Payne County and various crimes in Tulsa County had admitted stealing a man’s wallet containing about $700 in cash at a Cushing convenience store.
Tywna Darise Brannon, 49, was placed on seven years’ probation with an order to pay $350 in fines and assessments by Associate District Judge Stephen Kistler on May 15, court records showed today.
Brannon has also been known by the surnames of Boyd and Ellis, as well as the name of Cynthia A. Hagler, according to the state Department of Corrections.
Cushing Police Officer Casey Perry was sent at 10:19 p.m. on Sept. 12, 2014, to a Maveric gas station at 609 E. Main Street regarding the theft of a man’s wallet, an affidavit said.
A man said he went inside the store to buy coffee on his way to work, Perry wrote in the affidavit. He said “while he was paying, a woman approached him at the counter and offered him oral sex for $100,” which he turned down, the affidavit said.
The man said he “accidentally left his wallet containing eleven $100 bills laying on the counter when he exited the store and drove away,” the affidavit said.
While driving, the man said “he realized he forgot his wallet and returned to the store,” but his wallet was gone, the affidavit said.
When the Cushing officer reviewed the store’s surveillance footage, he saw the man at the counter paying for his items, the affidavit said.
“A woman, later identified as Tywna Brannon, a.k.a. Ellis, a.k.a. Keller, was also standing at the counter,” at one point leaning close to the man and saying something in his ear, the affidavit said.
The man then paid for his items and left, while the black leather wallet was on the counter next to a register, the affidavit said.
Brannon followed the man outside, but immediately came back inside, the affidavit said.
“Brannon returned to the counter and was speaking with one of the cashiers. Brannon put her hand on top of the wallet on the counter and pulled it off – dropping it onto the floor,” the affidavit said.
“Brannon continued talking to the cashier and slid the wallet on the floor for her foot closer to her. She then put her foot on top of the wallet on the floor,” the affidavit said. “Brannon purchased something and when the cashier handed back her change, she dropped a few bills onto the floor next to the wallet. Brannon then picked up her bills, along with the wallet and left the store,” the affidavit said.
“On Sept. 13, 2014, Officer Jerrod Livergood was able to make contact with Brannon at her residence where he recovered $663 in cash. Brannon claimed to have thrown the wallet out of her vehicle after leaving the store,” the affidavit said.
According to DOC records, Brannon had been released from prison in 2001 after serving about two years of a three-year sentence for workers’ compensation fraud in Payne County in 1998.
Brannon also has 1991 convictions from Tulsa County for false impersonation, shoplifting, and displaying a fictitious identification in a commercial transaction, for which she was given concurrent five-year prison terms in 1999 – of which she served about four years, DOC records show.
Brannon was also convicted in 1993 of shoplifting in Tulsa County, for which she apparently received a two-year prison term in 1999 that ran concurrently with her Payne County sentence, DOC records show.
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