George Hall
(PCSD file photo)
By Patti Weaver
STILLWATER — An ex-convict has been accused of assault and battery on a sheriff’s deputy, breaking and entering a rural Stillwater man’s residence, and being intoxicated in public — four months after he was released from prison.
George Ivo Hall, 66, of Stillwater, who has a 35-year criminal record, has been jailed on $50,000 bond with an order to appear in court on March 2 at which time he can seek a preliminary hearing.
Hall was arrested at 11:02 pm on Jan. 23 after a man reported “there was an older male who had attempted to make entry into his residence,” in the 2400 block of Kimber Lane in rural Stillwater, Payne County Sheriff’s Deputy Daryn Zanfardino alleged in an affidavit.
He said, “he had pushed the subject backwards and shut the door before he could make it further inside,” the affidavit alleged.
“Deputy Jones and I arrived in the area and began looking for the individual,” before spotting a man standing in the doorway of another house a block away, Deputy Zanfardino alleged in his affidavit.
“Hall asked me if he was going to go to jail, and I informed him that it was a possibility at this point based on my observations of intoxication and that I needed to hear what the reporting party had to say from my partner.
“While waiting with Hall, he stated that he didn’t want to go to jail…Hall then stated, ‘Try me up for size.’ I asked Hall what he meant by that, and he informed me that he was going to keep that to himself.
“I began placing Hall in handcuffs, and he began pulling his right hand away as I was handcuffing him,” before touching the deputy’s genital area over the pants, Deputy Zanfardino alleged in his affidavit.
“I immediately stepped back and informed Hall that he was going to be receiving an assault charge for that, and that he could not touch (me) like that. Hall immediately claimed that he was handcuffed, and I again stated that he could not touch me like that, and he stated that he was sorry,” the deputy alleged in his affidavit.
“During my search of Hall’s person, a small pocketknife was removed, a light green piece of folded paper that contained a green leafy substance consistent with marijuana, (and) a bottle of Cruzan aged rum that contained a clear liquid on the bottle stating that it was 40% alcohol by volume.
“I learned that (the reporting party) informed Deputy Jones that Hall had knocked on his door, and when he answered it, he began trying to walk inside his residence, and he told Hall no. Deputy Jones informed me that (the reporting party) had to physically restrain Hall after he had made it past the threshold into his residence and was able to get him pushed out and the door closed.
“(The reporting party) did want to press charges for Hall entering his residence after he told him not to,” the deputy alleged in his affidavit.
According to the state Department of Corrections, Hall had been released from prison on Sept. 4, 2025, after serving less than half of a 10-year sentence for assault and/or battery with a dangerous weapon in 2021 in Payne County.
Hall had also been convicted in Payne County and incarcerated for being a prisoner placing body fluid on a government employee in 2018, 2011 and 2005, assault and battery on a police officer in 2010, entering with intent to steal copper in 2006, assault and/or battery with a dangerous weapon in 1999, drug possession in 1995, and concealing stolen property in 1990, DOC records show.
