(Stillwater, Okla.) — A Cushing man was ordered Friday to immediately enroll in the Payne County Drug Court program after admitting he broke into a rural Cushing home in April.
“If you’re responsible and go to Drug Court, you get a deferred sentence. If you’re not, you go to prison,” Associate District Judge Stephen Kistler told Brent Lee Eiseman Friday.
“Deferred sentence vs. prison is a no-brainer,” the judge emphasized to Eiseman, 24, who was already on probation for breaking into four vehicles in Cushing in 2011.
In his latest case, Eiseman was arrested on April 14, an hour after a rural Cushing man found him inside his residence, ordered him out and demanded he return any property taken, Payne County Sheriff’s Deputy David Barnes wrote in an affidavit.
Eiseman removed the man’s wedding band from his pocket and gave it back to the victim, the affidavit said. Eiseman then left the area in a vehicle after telling the victim his name, the affidavit said.
Cushing Police Sgt. Adam Harp located the vehicle in the 200 block of S. East Street where Eiseman was arrested, the affidavit said.
Only 10 days earlier, Eiseman had pleaded guilty to possessing a red Toro lawn mower deck stolen from a Cushing man last summer and driving under the influence of an intoxicant, as well as possessing the drugs hydrocodone and alprazolam in 2012 in Stillwater, court records show.
In April the judge ordered a background report on Eiseman, who was then allowed to remain free on bond pending his sentencing in July.
On Friday, the judge ordered Eiseman to appear before him on Aug. 1 for sentencing on his earlier cases and to report on his status in Drug Court.
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