(Stillwater, Okla.) — A Cushing man, who is on probation for choking his wife a year ago, has been ordered to appear in court Sept. 8 on a charge that he waved a large kitchen knife in his wife’s face while threatening to kill her on Aug 14.
Mack Allen Posey Jr., 32, who previously lived in Stillwater, remains jailed on $10,000 bail on a felony assault with a dangerous weapon charge, which carries a maximum 10-year prison term on conviction, court records show.
Posey was arrested at his wife’s residence in Cushing shortly before 2 a.m. Aug. 14 after her mother called police, court records show.
Cushing Police Sgt. Carson Watts said that when he arrived at the house and asked Posey’s wife, who was holding her 2-year-old child, “if everything was okay, she smiled big and stated that she was okay,” his affidavit said.
While the door was open, the officer could see Posey sitting on the bed, so he asked Posey’s wife to step outside to speak with him, the affidavit said.
“Once she was outside and closed the door, she whispered to us that she was very scared of Mack because of his behavior,” the Cushing officer wrote in his affidavit.
She said that “Mack was very intoxicated and had been saying and doing things to her that she feared for her safety,” the affidavit alleged.
She said that while she and her baby were lying on the bed, “Mack had grabbed a kitchen knife and approached her and her daughter with the knife in his hand,” the affidavit alleged.
She said “Mack put the knife to his wrist and stated, ‘Do you want me to kill myself?” before pulling the blade across his wrist, pointing the knife at her and the baby, and saying “If I kill myself, you’re going first,” the affidavit alleged.
She said that “Mack then turned and walked away and threw the knife on the floor in the bathroom,” the affidavit alleged.
She said she tried to call police, “but Mack jumped on the bed where she was lying to attempt to keep her from contacting the police,” the affidavit alleged.
She said that she was able to keep him from grabbing the phone by hiding it behind her back and was finally able to send a text message to her mother to call the police for her, the affidavit alleged.
She then led the Cushing officer to the back of the house where she showed him a blue-handled kitchen knife with about a five-inch blade on the floor that she said her husband had used, the affidavit alleged.
When her husband was interviewed outside on the porch, after telling the officer that he was not suicidal and had not tried to scare his wife with a knife, “Mack then admitted he did have a knife, but never got close to (his wife) or threatened her with it,” the affidavit alleged.
“I asked Mack how much he had to drink tonight and he said he had drunk about a four-pack of beer. I noticed a small superficial cut on Mack’s left wrist. I asked Mack how he had got the cut, and he told me in a sarcastic tone of voice that it was from brush,” the Cushing officer wrote in his affidavit.
After Posey was arrested and taken to the Cushing police station, “During the book-in process, Mack showed me the mark on his wrist and admitted that it was from the knife,” Sgt. Watts wrote in his affidavit.
Five months before that incident, Posey pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges of domestic assault and battery on his wife, interfering with an emergency phone call and obstructing an officer in a May 10, 2013, incident in Stillwater.
Posey was placed on one year’s probation with orders to obtaining substance and domestic abuse evaluations, to follow any recommendations, to perform 20 hours of community service and to pay $400 in fines and assessments.
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