(Stillwater, Okla.) — A Cushing man who admitted knowingly concealing stolen pump barrels from Arrow Pump and Supply in Cushing has been placed on five years’ probation as part of a plea bargain approved in court Friday.
Randy Lee Day, 30, was ordered by District Judge Phillip Corley Friday to have a drug and alcohol evaluation and to complete any recommended follow-up. He also must pay restitution, in accordance with the plea bargain.
Arrow Pump and Supply reported on Nov. 22, 2010, that between noon on Saturday the 20th and Monday morning the 22nd “someone broke into a storage container on the west side of the business and stole 24 pieces of pump barrel valued at $28,603,” Cushing Police Detective Adam Harp wrote in an affidavit.
“The storage container is in a fenced and gated area and was secured by a master lock. It appeared the lock had been cut on the storage container gaining access to the pump barrels,” the affidavit said.
“Sgt. Ford had received information that some of the pump barrel was possibly still behind Arrow Pump located in a field unless it had already been moved, and that Randy Day was responsible for the burglary,” the affidavit said.
Information was also obtained that some of the stolen pump barrel might be in the garage of his residence in the 400 block of E. Pecan Street in Cushing, the affidavit said.
On Jan. 4, 2011, the Cushing detective assisted Police Officer Carson Watts with a methamphetamine laboratory investigation at that same residence, the affidavit said.
While at the house, the detective “asked Randy if he broke into the storage container and stole the pump barrel and he said no, but that he helped Ronnie Day move some of the pump barrel from the field behind the business towards the church on Little Avenue,” the affidavit alleged.
“Randy said that Ronnie was the one that broke into the storage container, but when Ronnie Day was questioned at the Payne County Jail, he said he was not involved in the theft, the affidavit said.
Randy Day said that some of the pump barrel was sold to a salvage yard, the affidavit said.
No stolen pump barrels were found at the garage of his residence, the affidavit said.
“I asked Randy if he could show me where in the field that they moved the pump barrel closer to the church and he said yes,” the detective wrote in his affidavit.
“I transported Randy to the area and he pointed out to the field by a mound and said that is where he helped move the pump barrel,” the detective wrote in his affidavit.
After taking Randy Day home, “I went back to the area where Randy pointed to and found approximately eight pump barrels lying in the grassy area,” which were identified by Arrow Pump as belonging to the business, the detective wrote in his affidavit.
A salvage yard employee said that Randy Day and a woman sold about 200 pounds of brass to them, the affidavit alleged.
When the employee was asked if he knew anything about the theft, “he told me that Randy told him that he was drunk one night and broke into Arrow and found some stuff and called Ronnie to help him get the stuff,” the affidavit alleged.
Ronnie Glenn Day, 33, of Cushing, was not charged in the incident.
Ronnie Day was convicted on Nov. 12, 2010, of manufacturing methamphetamine, for which he is currently serving a four-year prison term followed by six years of probation, state Department of Corrections records show.
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