(Perry) — The mother of convicted Cushing triple murderer Robert Chad Lansford-Barela was ordered Monday to stand trial in Noble County on assorted charges including armed robbery, firing a gun into the home of a Red Rock couple and running a roadblock north of Stillwater in October.
DeGina Gay Lansford, 40, of Cushing, remained in the Noble County Jail Tuesday on $125,000 bond on an eight-count charge including drunken driving at U.S. 177 and Cimarron Turnpike, eluding an Oklahoma Highway Patrol trooper, firing shots in the air as troopers tried to talk to her, transporting a loaded gun, and driving under suspension.
Her son, Robert Chad Lansford-Barela, 21, of Cushing, remained in the Payne County Jail Tuesday pending his transportation to state prison to serve three life without parole sentences that he was given last month for killing three Cushing residents in February by shooting them in the head.
His mother could be given as much as a life prison term plus 33 years if convicted of all of her charges in Noble County, court records show. She is due to be arraigned in trial court there on Dec. 4.
She is accused of robbing a Red Rock couple of $900 in cash and threatening to kill them with a .38-caliber five-shot pistol, which she allegedly fired into their home on Oct. 13 — moments before an OHP pursuit initially began for speeding on U.S. 177 north of the Cimarron Turnpike in Noble County.
While Trooper Justin Barney was pursuing her, the Noble County Sheriff’s Department received information that she was wanted for a possible armed robbery that had just occurred, an OHP affidavit alleged.
Her pickup ran a roadblock set up by Stillwater police and struck stop sticks that deflated both front tires of her vehicle, which stopped just south of the U.S. 412 Stillwater leg in Payne County, the affidavit said.
When the trooper ordered her to show her hands, she put a gun to her head multiple times, the affidavit said.
She was drinking beer as she was sitting in the pickup with the gun to her head, the affidavit said.
She refused to exit the pickup and at one point, pointed the gun out of the window and fired a bullet up into the air, the affidavit alleged.
She then got out of the pickup, waved the gun around, and said that she wanted to kill herself, the affidavit alleged.
While officers were trying to get her to put down the gun, “she was unsteady on her feet and had very heavy slurred speech,” the affidavit alleged.
She then “fired between three and four more shots into the air during the time we were trying to talk to her,” the trooper alleged in his affidavit.
She was attempting to reload the gun while troopers tried to apprehend her, which was accomplished although she “struggled and resisted giving us her hands while we were attempting to place her in custody,” the trooper alleged in his affidavit.
“While an inventory of the pickup was being taken, a Rossi .38-caliber five-shot pistol and 30 rounds of .38-caliber bullets were found in the front seat along with three empty bottles of Busch beer,” the affidavit alleged.
She was transported to the Noble County Jail where she refused to take the state’s test for the presence of alcohol, the affidavit said.
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