Rusty Alan Faires
By Patti Weaver
(Stillwater, Okla.) — An ex-convict with a criminal record in four counties has been scheduled for arraignment today by video from the Payne County Jail on a felony charge alleging he hit an employee at Grand Lakes Mental Health Facility in Stillwater in the face with a phone.
Former Cushing resident Rusty Alan Faires, 33, of Stroud, could be given a prison term from four years to life if convicted of assault and battery on an emergency medical care provider, due to his multiple prior felony convictions.
“Once Rusty was placed in a cell, he defecated into the jail toilet. Rusty retrieved a syringe from his feces and injected what was believed to be methamphetamine into his forearm,” Stillwater Police Officer Justin Sappington alleged in an affidavit filed last week.
The officer had been sent at 3:08 pm on Halloween to the Grand Lakes Mental Health Facility in Cimarron Plaza regarding an open 911 line, his affidavit said.
“When I arrived, I made contact with Rusty Faires in the Admit Room. Rusty was screaming and causing a disturbance. When the Admit Room door was unlocked, Rusty attempted to run towards the door. Rusty was handcuffed and placed in investigative detention due to his actions,” the officer alleged in his affidavit.
An employee, who is a certified peer recovery support specialist with Grand Lakes, “helps patients in the facility with finding addiction recovery resources and assists medical personnel with numerous tasks in the facility,” the affidavit said.
She “stated that Rusty, who was a current patient with Grand Lakes, assaulted her today (Halloween) by striking her in the face with a phone,” the affidavit alleged. She had “an injury on her forehead that looked to be consistent with the assault she described,” the affidavit said.
“Rusty refused to speak with me about the incident. Rusty was subsequently arrested and transported to the Stillwater Jail for booking,” the officer wrote in his affidavit.
According to court records and the state Department of Corrections, Faires, who got out of prison five years ago, has convictions for:
* Drug possession in 2012 in Payne County, for which he was originally placed on seven years’ probation except 150 days in jail in 2013, but that was revoked in 2015 to prison to serve concurrently with Creek County and Lincoln County convictions;
* Grand larceny and concealing stolen property in 2013 in Creek County, for which he was originally placed on four years’ probation in 2013, but that was revoked in 2015 to two years in prison;
* Second-degree burglary in 2013 in Lincoln County, for which he was originally placed on three years’ probation in 2013, but that was revoked in 2015 to five years in prison;
* Attempting to elude an officer and running a roadblock in 2013 in Payne County, for which he was originally placed on five years’ probation except 150 days in jail in 2013, but that was revoked in 2015 to prison;
* Methamphetamine possession in 2014 in Payne County, for which he was given a six-year prison term in 2015 to serve concurrently with his Creek County and Lincoln County convictions;
* Possessing a firearm as a felon in 2017 in Creek County, for which he was originally placed on probation for three years, but that was revoked in 2018 to six months in jail;
* Possessing contraband as an inmate in 2019 in Creek County, for which he was originally placed on probation for five years, but that was revoked in June of 2021 to five years in prison with credit for time served concurrently to the following sentence;
* Bail jumping in 2020 in Creek County, for which he was given in June of 2021 nine months in jail with credit for time served;
* Domestic abuse in 2020 in Lincoln County, for which he was given in June of 2021 six months in jail followed by two and one-half years of probation concurrent to the following sentence;
* Possessing a stolen vehicle in 2019 in Lincoln County, for which he was given in June of 2021 six months in jail followed by one and on-half years of probation;
* Possessing a stolen vehicle in 2020 in Grady County, for which he was given in September of 2020 10 years of probation.
