By: Patti Weaver
(Stillwater, Okla.) — A 66-year-old Stillwater man with an extensive criminal history has avoided an Oct. 12 jury trial by pleading no contest to stabbing a man in the neck after he moved out of his house.
Johnnie Duane Brown was sentenced by Associate District Judge Stephen Kistler last week as part of a plea bargain with the prosecution for one year in jail that he was considered to have already served with credits, followed by nine years of probation — with an order to have no contact with the victim.
Brown has also been known as John D. Brown, Dee Brown, Dewayne Davidson, Dee and Ginger, prison records show.
Brown had been arrested at his residence at 9:01 a.m. on Nov. 25, 2019, according to an affidavit by Stillwater Police Officer Ricardo Inciarte.
The victim and a woman were standing in another house by the front door when Brown stabbed at the man’s neck once as the victim tried to block the attack, an affidavit alleged. The knife penetrated the man’s neck on the left side near the collar bone, the affidavit alleged.
Brown then went back to his house, the affidavit alleged. After a black folding knife was found in grass near Brown’s residence, the victim “confirmed it was the knife used by Johnnie Brown,” the affidavit alleged.
In an earlier case, Brown was accused of hitting a Payne County jailer with a shoe, as well as shoving, pushing, scratching, biting and contending with him on Oct. 13, 2018. Brown had originally been scheduled to stand trial today on that charge, but it was dismissed by the prosecution on Aug. 4, court records show.
According to the state Department of Corrections, Brown has a 32-year felony record in Payne County consisting of:
* first-degree rape and grand larceny in 1987, for which he was given two concurrent five-year prison terms and served less than four years;
* uttering forged instruments in 1992, for which he was given a two-year prison term and served 14 months;
* drug possession in 1997, for which he was given in 1999 a 10-year prison term and served seven and one-half years;
* drug possession in 1998, for which he was given in 1999 a concurrent 10-year prison term and served seven and one-half years;
* drug possession also in 1998, for which he was given in 1999 a concurrent 10-year prison term and served seven and one-half years;
* throwing human waste on a corrections officer, two counts in 2008, for which he was given in 2009 two concurrent three-year prison terms and served one year;
* assault and battery on a corrections officer in 2009, for which he was given a concurrent three-year prison term and served one year prior to his release in September of 2010.
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