By: Patti Weaver
(Stillwater, Okla.) — A homeless ex-convict, who got out of prison 10 months ago, has been jailed on $50,000 bail on a charge of possessing a stolen pickup truck on Christmas Eve in the parking lot of Atwood’s in Cushing.
Due to his long criminal record, Timothy Wayne Stanley, 44, could be given a life sentence if convicted of possessing a gold Toyota Tacoma truck that had been stolen in Stillwater.
Stanley has also been known by the aliases of Tim Smith, Big A. Malone, Big A Stanley, Mopar Stanley and Timothy X Stanley, according to the state Department of Corrections.
Stanley, a former Stillwater resident, gave a false first name when he was spotted by Cushing Police Officer Christopher Haywood in the stolen truck, an affidavit alleged.
“I was familiar with a vehicle matching its description, which had been stolen from Stillwater about a month ago,” the Cushing officer wrote in an affidavit filed last week.
“I had been given information from Deputy Chief Myers that the vehicle would also be displaying an Oklahoma plate,” that was from a Ford F150 in Tulsa, the Cushing officer wrote in his affidavit.
“I was also advised the vehicle would be driven by a Timothy Wayne Stanley,” who gave another first name and birth date when contacted by the Cushing officer, Haywood alleged in his affidavit.
Asked where he got the truck, Stanley told the Cushing officer “his son gave it to him and that he was on his way to do a plumbing job,” the affidavit alleged.
After another officer recognized him and told him to stop lying, “Timothy then confessed and admitted — stating he was Timothy Wayne,” the affidavit alleged.
“I then asked Timothy if his son gave him the truck or if he stole it. Timothy said, ‘No, I stole it,"” the Cushing officer alleged in his affidavit.
When Stanley appeared before a judge by video from the Payne County Jail on Monday, his case was continued to Feb. 8, a jail spokesman told KUSH Tuesday.
According to court records and the DOC, Stanley had previously been convicted of:
* leaving a personal injury accident in Payne County in 1992, for which he was given in 1997 a two-year prison term of which he served about 10 months;
* second-degree burglary and grand larceny in Payne County in 1997, for which he was given in 1997 prison terms of five years and three years to run concurrently to the above sentence;
* possession of a stolen vehicle in Payne County in 1997, for which he was given in 1997 a five-year prison term concurrent to the above sentence;
* two separate charges of uttering a forged instrument in Payne County in 1998, for which he was given in 2003 two concurrent three-year prison terms;
* possession of a stolen vehicle in Payne County in 1998, for which he was given in 1998 a five-year prison term;
* larceny of a motor vehicle in Payne County in 1998, for which he was given in 1998 a concurrent three year prison term;
* larceny of a motor vehicle in Cushing in Payne County in 2002, for which he was given in 2003 a 15-year prison term concurrent to the following Beckham County sentence, but served five years;
* unauthorized use of a vehicle and running a roadblock in Beckham County in 2001, for which he was given in 2002 two concurrent 10-year prison terms;
* unauthorized use of a vehicle in Custer County in 1998, for which he was given in 1999 a four-year prison term;
* embezzlement in Oklahoma County in 2001, for which he was given in 2002 a 10-year prison term;
* possession of a stolen vehicle in Oklahoma County in 2001, for which he was given in 2002 a 10-year concurrent prison term;
* endangering others while eluding an officer in Noble County in 2019, for which he was given in 2019 a 15-year prison term with the balance suspended on completion of the Bill Johnson Drug Offender program.
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