Odi Ed Brown
(PCSD file photo)
By Patti Weaver
STILLWATER — A 37-year-old man, who was convicted of sexual battery of a person over 16 in Cowley County, Kansas in 2007, has been charged with failing to register as a sex offender in Oklahoma while he was living in an apartment at 306 S. Timber Ridge in Cushing for about four months.
Odi Ed Brown Sr., who previously lived in Ponca City, was arrested shortly before noon on March 11 by Cushing Police Officer Jack Ford and jailed on $15,000 bail pending his arraignment on March 19, court records show.
Brown had been convicted in 2019 of failing to register as a sex offender in Kay County and given a five-year probationary sentence that was revoked a year later to four years in prison of which he served about two years and four months before being released in March of 2023, state Department of Corrections records show.
“As I was handcuffing Odi Brown, I asked him why he didn’t register and he knew how close the Middle School was, he told me he didn’t plan on staying very long,” the Cushing officer alleged in his affidavit filed last week.
“The distance from the front door of the residence is approximately 600 feet in a straight line to the grounds of the Cushing Middle School, well within the 2,000 feet required by law for his offender status,” the Cushing officer wrote in his affidavit.
Due to his conviction in Kansas, Brown was required to register as a sex offender for life, the affidavit alleged.
If convicted of violating the Oklahoma Sex Offender Registration Act, Brown could be given as much as a 10-year prison term, according to the felony charge filed by Payne County Assistant District Attorney Debra Vincent last week.
