(Stillwater) — A Cushing man who admitted leaving the scene of a personal injury accident — that occurred a month after he was arrested for driving under the influence of drugs in Cushing — has been placed on two years’ probation.
George Timothy Wayne Frye, 28, also admitted that he was driving without a license at the time of both of his arrests by Cushing police, court records show.
Frye, who was sentenced in both cases on March 20 by District Judge Donald Worthington on his guilty pleas, was given a total of $850 in fines, court records show.
In his felony case, Frye was arrested at his home at 12:37 a.m. Dec. 30, 2007, about two hours after a hit and run injury accident at Little and Cherry Streets, Cushing Police Officer Chuck Claxton wrote in an affidavit.
The other driver, Shawn Kevan of Cushing, received a cut to his forehead and was taken by a friend to Cushing Regional Hospital, the affidavit said.
Kevan’s passenger, Daniel Payne of Cushing, later went to the hospital for neck pain, the affidavit said.
When he was interviewed at the hospital, Kevan told police that he was driving a Buick Skylark westbound and stopped at the Cherry and Little Street intersection when “a vehicle hit him in the rear bumper and pushed his vehicle into the middle of the intersection,” the affidavit said.
“Kevan said he saw the vehicle drive around his vehicle and continue westbound on Cherry. Kevan said he saw Daniel Payne, his passenger, chasing after the vehicle on foot.
“Kevan said he had a lot of blood dripping from a cut on his forehead. He said the collision caused items from the back seat to fly to the front seat. It appears a glass vase may have struck Kevan in the head causing the injury,” the affidavit said.
Payne told police that he chased the other vehicle on foot “and saw it pull in the alley and park behind a residence on the 300 block of East Cherry,” the affidavit said.
Claxton and Officer Mary Jurczewsky went to Frye’s residence where a vehicle matching the description was parked in the roadway, with a broken windshield and damage to the front bumper, grill and rear bumper, the affidavit said.
When Frye was asked if he had hit a vehicle down the street, he said yes, the affidavit said.
“He said he pulled the vehicle behind the residence first, and later moved the vehicle to the front of the residence.
“Timothy told me that he had taken two Soma pain pills before the accident,” Claxton wrote in the affidavit.
Frye was unsteady on his feet, had slurred speech and had slow thought processes during the police interview, the affidavit said.
A month before that hit and run crash, Frye was arrested in Cushing at 2:50 a.m. on Nov. 6, 2007, for driving under the influence of drugs, to which he pleaded guilty last month, court records show.
Police were called at 2:34 a.m. by an employee at Wal-Mart who said “an intoxicated white male had just left the business,” and provided a license tag number, Cushing Police Officer Tully Folden wrote in an affidavit.
When Frye, who was driving on a flat passenger-side front tire, was stopped for making a left turn onto Steele Street from Broadway without using a turn signal, “Frye appeared to be very disoriented and unresponsive,” Folden wrote in his affidavit.
Frye was very unsteady on his feet, but said he had not been drinking or using illegal drugs, Folden said.
“While talking to Frye, I observed silver paint on his lips and left hand. I asked Frye if he had been huffing paint. He said yes.
“Frye told me that he went to Wal-Mart to buy more paint; I later observed a new can of silver paint in the passenger side floorboard of Frye’s vehicle,” Folden wrote in his affidavit.
At the Cushing police station during a drug recognition evaluation by Jurczewsky, “Frye admitted to huffing a can of silver paint and taking one 10 mg Lortab approximately two to three hours prior to the stop,” the affidavit said.
