(Stillwater, Okla.) – A Cushing man has been ordered to pay $5,207 restitution at the rate of $200 per month for illegally using a company credit card during his employment and after his termination by Brush Eaters, Inc.
Joshua Clifford Massey, 24, must undergo random drug testing and perform 50 hours of community service as part of a plea bargain approved in court by Payne County Associate District Judge Stephen Kistler on Aug. 7, court records show.
Massey was placed on five years’ probation under a deferred sentence on the felony charge and given a $250 fine, court records show.
The Texas-based company reported on May 9, 2014, an embezzlement by Massey, who had been terminated eight days earlier, but still had a company credit card, Cushing Police Officer Rachel Hentges wrote in an affidavit.
After his termination, “Massey had charged several thousands of dollar to the company credit card,” primarily at the Cushing Walmart, the company representative said, according to the affidavit.
Surveillance from three transactions at Walmart on May 2, 3, and 4, 2014 showed “a large male matching Massey’s description from his driver’s license and the picture of his driver’s license,” the affidavit said.
Massey also purchased a firearm and ammunition for $445.49 on May 2, 2014, at Kings Gun in Cushing on a company credit card from Brush Eaters, the affidavit said.
Massey told Cushing Police Officer Chris Haywood that he bought the gun before he was terminated from the company, the affidavit said.
“Massey told Officer Haywood he had not received a paycheck from the company and bought the gun using the credit card as retaliation,” the affidavit said.
When Massey talked to Hentges, he said he quit on May 6, 2014, “due to an issue regarding one of the company trucks,” the affidavit said.
“When confronted with receipts for products and video of Massey making other purchases, Massey admitted he had used the Brush Eaters, Inc., company credit card to make purchases at Kings Gun, Walmart and Atwoods in Cushing,” that were not authorized by the company, the affidavit said.
In court on Aug. 7, Massey also pleaded guilty to punching a neighbor in the face on April 16, 2014, court records show.
For that misdemeanor, Massey was placed on probation and ordered to pay $543 restitution at the rate of $50 per month, as well as a $150 fine – with a requirement that he take an anger management course, court records show.
In that case, Payne County Sheriff’s Deputy Bobby Miller was sent to the Cushing hospital’s emergency room to talk to an assault victim with swelling on his left eye and high cheek area, an affidavit said.
The victim said “he and three other friends were on his (own) property shooting tannerit,” south of 68th on Mt. Vernon Road on the river, the affidavit said.
“He advised the neighbor, Josh Massey, and two or three others came over and were yelling and cursing at them,” the affidavit said.
“He said after they calmed down, they started walking away and then Josh turned around and walked back up to him, and he advised he didn’t remember much after that,” the affidavit said.
Massey had hit him 15 to 20 times, three witnesses told the deputy, according to affidavit.
Massey admitted “he lost his temper,” and hit the man, the affidavit said.
Massey said “he was upset about the explosions that the tannerit made,” the affidavit said.
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