(Stillwater, Okla.) — A Cushing teenager who was ordered into the state prison’s boot camp program six months ago was released from custody Friday to 10 years of probation with extensive conditions.
Eddie Mathew Wright, 19, had pleaded guilty to possessing a stolen truck, running three roadblocks, endangering the Yale police chief while running a stop sign, offering a bribe and driving on a revoked license.
Associate District Judge Stephen Kistler had ordered Wright into the Regimented Inmate Discipline (RID) program in September, but Wright only arrived at the state’s Lexington Reception and Assessment Center Dec. 30 and never got to the RID program.
In court Friday, the judge followed prosecutor Debra Vincent’s recommendation that Wright be placed on probation — conditioned on his keeping a job, attending Alcoholics Anonymous or Narcotics Anonymous for a year, performing 50 hours of community service and paying $400 restitution.
Wright was already on probation when he was apprehended about 4:30 a.m. Aug. 7, 2011, at Perkins Road and Sixth Street in Stillwater by the Yale Police Department.
When Yale Police Chief Phillip Keeling tried to stop him, Wright had increased his speed to over 100 mph and ran a stop sign at Highway 51 and Highway 18 — endangering the chief’s safety.
Wright admitted he ran three roadblocks — one at Highway 51 and Mehan Road, another at Highway 51 and Brush Creek Road, and another at Highway 51 and Perkins Road.
Wright admitted he offered “a ‘G’ to let me walk out of here,” to Yale Police Officer Josh Fry, court records show.
Wright had only been out of jail for a few weeks when he had that run-in with the law, court records show.
Last June, after he admitted stealing three vehicles from Cushing residents and gasoline in Yale, all in December 2010, Wright was placed on five years’ probation except 180 days in jail. With credit for time he had already served, he was released a month later.
As conditions of that probationary sentence, Wright was ordered to pay $7,164 in restitution and reminded that he still owed $788 in restitution from a juvenile case, court records show.
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