(Stillwater, Okla.) – A Cushing man with a criminal record in three counties was charged Monday with a Cushing woman, who is a repeat drug offender, with breaking into a building at 300 E. Main Street in Cushing on Saturday.
The pair remain jailed on $5,000 bail each pending their arraignments this afternoon on charges of second-degree burglary after former felony convictions, court records show.
Due to their criminal records, Brandon Kyle Landers, 32, and Korie Dawn Custer, 29, could be imprisoned for six years to life if convicted of their latest charges, court records show.
At the time of Dec. 15 Cushing burglary, Landers had been released from jail on Nov. 26 on a personal recognizance bond after waiving his right to a preliminary hearing on charges of being a felon in possession of a stolen 9 mm Taurus pistol, along with having methamphetamine and drug paraphernalia in Cushing on Oct. 22, court records show.
According to the state Department of Corrections, Landers was previously convicted of:
* second-degree burglary in Ardmore in Carter County in 2012 and given a 12-year prison term from which he was paroled in August of 2017 after serving about four years;
* auto larceny and being a felon in possession of a firearm in Ardmore in Carter County in 2012 and given prison terms of nine years and three years from which he was paroled in August of 2017;
* possessing stolen property, eluding a police officer, and being a felon in possession of a firearm in Tulsa County in 2010 and given concurrent three-year probationary terms that were revoked to concurrent two-year prison terms of which he served about one year;
* assault with intent to commit a felony in Tulsa County in 2010 and given a three-year probationary term that was revoked to a two-year prison term of which he served about one year;
* unauthorized use of a vehicle and eluding a police officer in Clinton in Custer County in 2005 and given two concurrent five-year prison terms of which he served about four years and two months.
Custer, his co-defendant in the Cushing burglary case, was previously convicted in Payne County of possessing methamphetamine in Stillwater in 2015 and possessing a drug and second-degree burglary in Cushing in 2013, for which she was originally given two concurrent five-year probationary terms, of which 90 days was revoked in July, court records show.
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