By: Patti Weaver
(Stillwater, Okla.) — A repeat drug offender accused of the strong-arm robbery of a pizza deliveryman at a Stillwater hotel has been jailed on $50,000 bail pending his arraignment this week on a charge of robbery by fear after multiple former felony convictions.
Jeremy Earl Rose, 27, of Bristow, who got out of prison six months ago, could be incarcerated for 30 years to life if convicted, according to the charge filed last week.
Rose was arrested at 1:15 am on Aug. 3 at a hotel on West 6th Street, according to an affidavit by Stillwater Police Officer Greg Calloway, who had been sent at 12:13 am to a pizza shop on N. Boomer Road on a robbery report.
An employee said he was robbed of about $46 by a man, later identified as Rose, who was in a room next door to where he made a pizza delivery, the affidavit alleged.
The robber “stepped on his foot, reared back his hand as if to strike (him) and told him that he was about to beat him up if he did not give him his money,” the affidavit alleged.
After taking his cash, the robber “yelled at him and said that if he called the police or if (the pizza shop) calls the police, he would come down to (the pizza shop) tomorrow and ‘whip his ass’ while he was at work,” the employee told the officer, the affidavit alleged.
Following Rose’s arrest, the officer searched his billfold, which had one $20 and two $5 bills in the main portion, and in another part of the trifold wallet, two $20s, four $5s and one $1 bill, “which is almost exactly what (the deliveryman) said was taken from him,” the affidavit alleged.
According to court records and the state Department of Corrections, Rose had previously been convicted of:
* methamphetamine possession in Oilton in 2017, for which he was initially given five years of probation, except 82 days in jail, with Creek County Drug Court, but his sentence was revoked five months later to a three-year prison term;
* drunk driving, eluding a police officer and running a roadblock in Sand Springs, for which in 2019 he was given a concurrent three-year prison term from Tulsa County;
* drug possession and eluding a police officer in Drumright, for which in 2014 he was given a three-year prison term from Creek County but served about a year;
* methamphetamine possession and attempted second-degree burglary in Payne County, for which in 2014 he was sent to the Regimented Inmate Discipline (RID) program for about six months after which he was placed on a five-year deferred sentence that was revoked in 2015 to a three-year prison term concurrent to the above case;
* mistreating a police dog in Creek County in 2018 for which he was given a one-year sentence.
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