Justin Howard
(PCSD file photo)
By Patti Weaver
(Stillwater, Okla.) — A 20-year-old Cushing man, who admitted attacking a police officer and stealing a UTV while he was awaiting sentencing for possessing a stolen van and burglarizing a car, all in Cushing, was ordered into the state’s Regimented Inmate Discipline (RID) boot camp program on Friday by District Judge Phillip Corley.
Following his latest arrest three months ago in Cushing, Justin Farish Howard was jailed on $25,000 bail. After he pleaded guilty to his latest cases Friday, Howard was scheduled for sentencing on all of his cases on Aug. 8, 2025, following his completion of the RID prison program.
Howard had been apprehended at 11:11 pm on May 6 in the 200 block of E. 7th Street in Cushing after fleeing from the driver’s seat of a UTV that had been stolen a few minutes earlier from behind Cushing CrossFit, according to an affidavit by Cushing Police Officer David Smith.
“As I was placing Howard under arrest, I could smell a strong odor of alcohol coming from about his person. When Officer Carpenter arrived, Howard was screaming for his significant other and was again not complying with officer’s commands. Howard then unprovokingly kicked Officer Carpenter in between his legs, in his groin,” Officer Smith wrote in his affidavit.
At the time of his latest arrest in Cushing, Howard was free on a personal recognizance bond pending his sentencing, which had been scheduled for July 16, under the Delayed Sentencing Program for young offenders, court records show.
Howard had pleaded guilty in January to possessing a van stolen from Grand Lakes Mental Health in Stillwater on July 28, 2023, and burglarizing a car in Cushing on July 28, 2023, court records show.
Howard was very courteous in court Friday when he was ordered into prison.
