Alexander Shane Butcher (PCSD file photo) and Ashley Renee Woodell (DOC file photo)
By Patti Weaver
(Stillwater, Okla.) — A male suspect in a Cushing robbery, who had been sought for months by authorities, has been arrested and ordered held in the Payne County Jail pending his arraignment Tuesday.
Alexander Shane Butcher, 28, of Tulsa, had been charged in December with his girlfriend with robbing her ex-boyfriend in Cushing of two cell phones, a photo ID and a food stamp card, court records show.
If convicted of robbery by two or more persons, Butcher and his girlfriend, Ashley Renee Woodell, 24, who has not been located, could each be sentenced to prison for five to 50 years, court records show.
Cushing Police Officer Katherine Hinkle wrote in affidavits filed two months ago, “I attempted contact with Butcher and Woodell via several different phone numbers and was unsuccessful. I contacted several different law enforcement agencies, and they were also unable to provide updated contact information.”
The victim “advised that his ex-girlfriend Ashley Woodell and her boyfriend, Alexander Butcher, attacked him. He advised there was another female involved, but he did not remember her name,” the affidavit alleged.
The victim said, “Woodell messaged him on Facebook and said that she missed him and wanted to visit his (relative) and get to know her better.
“Woodell and the unknown female visited with (him) and his (relative,)” before the three decided to go to a gas station on Main Street, the affidavit alleged.
“They began to walk and shortly afterwards, Officer Walker stopped to speak to them. As soon as Officer Walker left, (the victim) advised he observed a white four-door Dodge Caliber driving towards him slowly. The vehicle stopped in front of him, and he continued walking northbound,” the affidavit alleged.
The victim said, “as he passed the car, he observed someone get out and heard someone running towards him. He turned around and observed Butcher as he began getting hit in the back of the head. (He) advised Butcher was wearing brass knuckles, which is the cause of the injury to his ear.
“During the altercation, Woodell had a stun gun and was using it on (the victim), who advised he heard Woodell say to the unknown suspect to get her knife and stab him. Ultimately, the two females and Butcher got into the vehicle and left the scene,” the affidavit alleged.
The victim said, “during the altercation, they stole his phone, his (relative’s) phone, his ID, and his food stamp card,” the affidavit alleged.
The victim had injuries to his ear, face, back and knees; he was transported by ambulance to the Cushing hospital, the affidavit said.
According to court records and the state Department of Corrections, Woodell had been released from prison in July of 2023 after she served about a year of three concurrent five-year prison terms for:
* first-degree robbery in Tulsa County in 2021, for which she was originally given a deferred sentence that was changed in 2022 to incarceration and later modified to probation in July of 2023;
* second-degree burglary in Tulsa County in 2021;
* second-degree burglary in Osage County in 2022.
Woodell was also placed on probation in 2021 in Wagoner County for grand larceny, possessing stolen property, second-degree burglary, drug possession and drug paraphernalia possession, all in 2018, court records show.
According to Osage County court records, Butcher was placed on three years of probation under a deferred sentence on Aug. 23, 2023, for drunk driving, drug possession and transporting an opened container of an intoxicating beverage.
