(Stillwater, Okla.) – A Cushing man who admitted stealing a disc plow from the city of Yale two months after he stole a car from a Yale woman has been ordered to have random drug tests as a condition of probation.
Nathanial Wesley Cargill, 21, must have a substance abuse evaluation and perform any recommended follow-up, as part of a plea bargain for a one-year deferred sentence in the plow theft and a three-year deferred sentence in the car theft, court records show.
Cargill was fined a total of $600 and ordered to pay $100 to the victims’ compensation fund by Payne County Associate District Judge Stephen Kistler earlier this month. The judge said that the amount of restitution would be determined later.
Restitution in the plow theft is believed by the prosecution to be $6,000, a matter which the judge took under advisement until Dec. 4.
Payne County Sheriff’s Deputy Bobby Miller was sent about 11 p.m. on Sept. 27, 2014, to 19th and Riverside Road “for a suspicious vehicle possibly pulling something,” his affidavit said.
“When I arrived in the area, I was unable to locate any vehicle, but I did observe several odd scrapings in the roadway,” which he followed for about six miles and confirmed they were caused by a large plow apparently being pulled without tires, the deputy wrote in his affidavit.
“I spoke to the owner of the property, Cargill, who advised he was under the impression that someone had given him the plow,” but didn’t know who told him he could take it,” the deputy wrote in his affidavit.
“I asked him where he got it and he advised by Yale. I advised him to not move the plow until I confirmed it wasn’t stolen.
“Following the tracks back toward Yale, I observed several areas on gravel roads,” with grooves cut in the road, the deputy wrote.
“Approximately one-half mile south of Highway 51 on Norfolk Road, I observed several gouges in the road that would need to be repaired,” although it had been overlaid with asphalt within the previous two months, the deputy wrote.
“The following day, I received a call from Yale Police Chief Phillip Kelly, who advised the plow did belong to the city of Yale and was stolen. The city went to the residence and recovered the plow,” the deputy wrote.
Two months before that theft, a Yale woman reported her 1984 tan Ford Bronco II parked next to her mobile home and camp trailer was discovered missing on July 21, 2014, Yale Assistant Police Chief Ken Moore wrote in an affidavit.
“The vehicle had green plastic stuff in the driver’s side window. The left side passenger window had been broken out, all four tires are flat, and drag marks can be seen leaving the spot where it was parked,” the affidavit said.
On Nov. 6, 2014, the Yale assistant police chief spoke to Cargill, who had been arrested by the Yale police chief on an outstanding city warrant, the affidavit said.
“I told Mr. Cargill I would give him one chance and once chance only. I told him I had an eye witness to a vehicle theft,” the Yale assistant police chief wrote in his affidavit.
Cargill told Moore that he had helped haul off a Ford Bronco for a relative to Northrup Metals at 322 W. Grandstaff in Cushing, the affidavit said.
The next day, the Yale assistant police chief learned that Cargill received $307.80 “for the vehicle he stole and sold,” that was valued from $4,995 to $8,900, the affidavit said.
Because Cargill was given a deferred sentence for both of his thefts, he will not have a criminal record of the felonies if he successfully completes probation.
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