(Stillwater, Okla.) – A Cushing man has been charged with breaking into a house occupied by his wife and her mother, possessing methamphetamine and kicking a door to his mother-in-law’s car on Oct. 6, all while he was free on $3,500 total bail on charges of assaulting his father with a semi-automatic AR-15 rifle on May 18 and then ripping a telephone from the wall in the Cushing City Jail.
If convicted of all of his counts, Charles R. “Chaz” Egger III, 23, could be incarcerated for 41 years, court records show.
Egger remains in the Payne County Jail on $20,000 bail pending a Nov. 18 court appearance with an attorney.
His wife and mother-in-law each obtained emergency protective orders against Egger on Oct. 7, court records show.
About five months earlier, Egger had been charged with domestic assault with a dangerous weapon against his father and released on $2,500 bail on May 21.
In that case, Cushing Police Officer Rachel Hentges alleged that Egger’s father said his son had pointed an AR-15 at him during an argument on May 18, according to her affidavit.
Egger’s father said that he had gone to another location to pick up Egger, brought him back to his residence and “began speaking with him about his life choices,” the affidavit alleged.
Egger’s father said his son “got his semi-automatic rifle, chambered a round in front of him and pointed it at him,” the affidavit alleged.
Egger’s father said “he grabbed the barrel of the rifle, pushed Egger out of the way, took the rifle and threw it into the garage,” before walking to the dining room, the affidavit alleged.
Egger’s father said “Egger had retrieved the rifle from the garage and pointed it at him a second time,” before he took the rifle from his son again and put it in his own vehicle, the affidavit alleged.
When the Cushing police officer retrieved the semi-automatic assault rifle from the front seat of Egger’s father’s vehicle, it “appeared to be pieced together,” she wrote in her affidavit.
“The lower receiver was a Spike’s Tactical Model number ST 15, serial number 69126, chambered in .223. The upper receiver was a Troy brand. It should be noted the rifle also had an EoTech optic mounted and the rear sights were flipped up.
“When I seized the rifle from (Egger’s father’s) pickup, the safety was in the on position.
“The rifle was loaded as (Egger’s father) had previously reported.
“I released a 30-round magazine, inserted into the magazine well.
“Attached to the magazine in the well, an addition 30-round magazine was taped to it with black electrical tape.
“I released the magazine and ejected a round from the chamber.
“Eighteen rounds of .223 ammunition were removed from the first magazine and 28 rounds were removed from the second magazine,” the Cushing police officer alleged in her affidavit.
“As I approached my patrol vehicle where Charles Ronald Egger III was sitting, I heard him say ‘Where’s my lawyer?’ He subsequently asked if we could leave,” according to the officer, who arrested him at 10:35 a.m. on May 18.
About 11 hours later, while Egger was being held in the Cushing City Jail, a communications officer reported that he destroyed property inside his cell, the same Cushing officer wrote in another affidavit.
In that case, Egger was charged with intentionally hitting the receiver of the jail telephone against the wall and then ripping it from the wall, court records show.
“The damage to the telephone included a damaged wall plate and damage to the wiring which was ripped from the interior of the phone. The cost of the jail telephone was $500,” the officer wrote in that affidavit. Egger was released on $1,000 bail on that misdemeanor charge on May 21, court records show.
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