(Stillwater, Okla.) — An ex-convict from Agra was given a five-year prison term Friday for trying to run over Cushing Police Officer Bill McCarty — who then shot him in the hand.
Marion Lynn Deal, 39, had been paroled four years ago from prison after serving 10 years for assault and battery on another police officer in Payne County in 1996.
In court Friday, Deal pleaded guilty to using a vehicle to assault the Cushing police officer and being a felon in possession of a .380 caliber handgun, along with marijuana and drug paraphernalia, all on Feb. 4.
Deal also pleaded guilty to escaping on Nov. 27, 2010, from Payne County Sheriff’s Deputy Brandon Myers, who had been sent to a vacant house in Ripley on a report that Deal and a woman were trespassing, court records show.
As part of a plea bargain recommended by prosector Mike Kulling, Deal was given four concurrent-five year prison terms by Associate District Judge Stephen Kistler Friday.
District Attorney Tom Lee ruled that the Cushing police officer was justified in firing his service weapon once — striking Deal in the hand — after Deal drove his vehicle at the officer, who was attempting to serve an arrest warrant on him at the La-Ze-L Motel in Cushing on Feb. 4.
Deal, who eluded police on icy streets, was apprehended that afternoon in Cushing and treated for his wound at Cushing Regional Hospital, Lee said.
Deal’s fiancee, Crystal Michelle Wright, 30, who lived with him in Agra, was charged with harboring him that day. She is due to appear in court April 4.
Cushing police were attempting to serve outstanding arrest warrants on Deal when Deal and Wright left the motel room and got into a car — which he refused to exit, court records show.
After Wright got out of the car, Deal drove out of the motel parking lot at a high rate of speed and McCarty fired a shot at the vehicle, which was attempting to run him over and would not stop, Cushing Police Detective Adam Harp wrote in an affidavit.
Wright was told that if she heard from Deal to contact police and she assured the detective that she would, the affidavit alleged.
Shortly after 2 p.m. that day, Deal was arrested hiding behind a dog house in the back yard in the 400 block of S. Harrison, where Wright was found inside his car parked in the carport, the affidavit alleged.
At the Cushing hospital, Deal told the detective “he and Wright were getting ready to leave to go wherever, possibly out of the state,” the affidavit alleged.
“Deal said that he called his cousin to pick Wright up at the Lazy L motel after we had already interviewed her,” the affidavit alleged.
“Wright admitted that she had not been honest with me and told me that shortly after the officer dropped her back off at the motel that she received a telephone call from Deal,” the detective wrote in his affidavit.
“Wright said that Deal told her that he was at Boot Hill Bar and that he had been shot and was bleeding really bad. Wright said that she asked Deal why he doesn’t turn himself in, and he said that he didn’t want to go to jail,” the affidavit alleged.
“Wright said that after about five minutes that she heard a honk outside. Wright said that Deal’s cousin was at the motel and told her that she had got a phone call from Deal and wanted her to come with her. Wright said that she put her stuff in the car, and they left to go where Deal was,” at a house, the affidavit alleged.
Wright said that she and Deal went to his car to get her pills, the affidavit alleged.
“Wright said that Deal told her that if she got out of the car that he would shoot her. Wright said that Deal had a small black gun,” the affidavit alleged.
“Wright said that she told Deal that she did not want to go with him. Wright said that when we showed up that Deal put the gun in between some things in the backseat area,” the affidavit alleged.
“I asked Wright why she did not call us after we had already spoken earlier in the day, and she said that she did not know,” the detective alleged in his affidavit.
Deal had been paroled from prison in March 2007 after serving about half of a 20-year sentence for assault and battery on a police officer in Payne County after a former felony conviction, state Department of Corrections records show.
Deal also previously served three years of a seven-year prison term for grand larceny and uttering forged instruments in 1990 in Payne County, DOC records show.
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