(Stillwater, Okla.) – A Cushing man, who pleaded guilty to concealing a stolen welder, was asked in court Friday by Payne County District Judge Phillip Corley “Why is it you continue a life of crime?”
The answer of Kyler Edward Nighswonger, 26, was not clearly audible in court, but it appeared to be something about drugs. Nighswonger, who has been in the Payne County Jail since May 6 on his latest charge, told the judge that he wanted to stay sober.
Nighswonger has a ninth grade education, according to his written guilty plea filed in court records.
In court Friday, Nighswonger was given a six-month jail term plus a $200 fine for knowingly concealing a Lincoln 450 Welder on Feb. 3 that had been stolen from Alliance Tank Service.
As part of a plea bargain with the prosecution, Nighswonger’s latest jail term will be served after he completes another six-month jail term that he was given on July 24 during a probation revocation hearing in six separate Payne County cases:
* obstructing Payne County Sheriff’s Deputy Dan Nack on Jan. 30 by telling the deputy investigating a theft that his brother was gone when his brother was hiding in a bedroom;
* obstructing Perkins Police Officer Billy Laster on June 24, 2017, by giving a false name to avoid being arrested on a warrant from Oklahoma County;
* passing a forged check for $100 on a deceased man’s bank account in Perkins on Feb. 15, 2017;
* making a false pawn declaration in Perkins in 2016;
* passing a forged check in 2016;
* stalking in Cushing in 2016.
According to Oklahoma County court records, in January Nighswonger pleaded guilty to making a false declaration to a pawnbroker, for which he was placed on five years’ probation under a deferred sentence.
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