(Stillwater, Okla.) — An ex-convict – who has a history of domestic violence in Grady County and Canadian County — has been charged in Payne County with abusing his girlfriend by hitting her in the face and knocking her to the ground on Saturday.
Kenneth Paul Sneddon, 33, of rural Perkins, was arraigned Thursday from the Payne County Jail where he was ordered held on $25,000 bail pending a court appearance on March 2 when he can seek a preliminary hearing, court records show.
Sneddon was released from prison in October 2013 after serving about one-third of a three-year sentence for domestic violence in the presence of a child in Grady County in 2012, on which he remains on probation, state Department of Corrections records show.
Sneddon had also been convicted of domestic violence in the presence of a child in 2008 in Canadian County for which he was given a five-year sentence, court records show.
Two years earlier, Sneddon had been convicted of misdemeanor domestic abuse in 2006 in Canadian County for which he was given a one-year sentence, court records show.
Sneddon was convicted of felony drunk driving in 2006 in Oklahoma County for which he was placed on five years’ probation in 2007, DOC records show.
Last summer while he was living in Agra, Sneddon was charged with actual physical control of a vehicle while under the influence of alcohol in Enid, a felony on which he has been scheduled to appear in Garfield County District Court on Feb. 2, court records show.
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