By Patti Weaver
(Stillwater, Okla.) — An ex-convict with a history of multiple property crimes in Pontotoc County has been given a six-year prison term for stealing a city of Perkins utility trailer — three years after his release from prison.
Zackery Lee Frederick, 32, of Ada, pleaded guilty last week to stealing the trailer equipped with a tracking device from the city of Perkins maintenance building on June 8, 2020. Frederick was sentenced by District Judge Phillip Corley in accordance with a plea agreement with the prosecution.
Perkins Police Officer Shane Dean located a white U-Haul pulling the trailer at the dead end of S. Perkins Road south of W. Knipe Street at 10:12 pm on June 8, 2020, his affidavit said. “I believed the trailer was stolen as no city crews were out working at this time in that area,” the officer wrote in his affidavit.
When the driver, Abigail Jane Hebb, 39, of Stratford, was ordered to get out of the vehicle, “I saw the passenger side door open,” the officer wrote in his affidavit. Hebb admitted that her passenger had been Frederick, her boyfriend, the affidavit said.
During a search of the U-Haul with an Arizona license tag, Perkins police found Hebb’s purse with a zipper bag containing a smoking pipe, scales, green leafy substance and a white crystal substance, the affidavit said. Four months ago, Hebb was placed on two years’ probation for grand larceny and drug possession with an order to have a substance abuse assessment, follow all recommendations, and undergo random drug testing, court records show.
The morning after Hebb’s arrest and the return of the trailer to Perkins Police Chief Bob Ernst, a woman reported that a suspicious man was on her property, Perkins Police Investigator Charles Danker wrote in an affidavit
“I arrived at the residence and observed a white male in black boxer briefs standing in the driveway next to a gray pickup. I asked what his name was and he said Zack Frederick. He was completely soaked and I asked why he was wet and he said he had been swimming. Zackery had multiple fresh cuts on his arms, body, legs and feet,” the investigator wrote in his affidavit.
“Officer Zanfardino arrived and identified Zackery Frederick as the subject that ran from the U-Haul truck. Officer Zanfardino said they retrieved his identification from the truck and Zackery said ‘yeah because I was in that vehicle,"” the affidavit said. Frederick was arrested on an outstanding warrant from Pontotoc County, the affidavit said.
“Officer Dean requested Zackery be probable cause arrested for grand larceny and conspiracy to commit felony charges and transported to the jail,” but “Zackery began complaining of chest pain and trouble breathing so he was taken by ambulance to the Stillwater Medical Center and hospitalized for a broken back from a prior unrelated accident to the 2020 Perkins trailer theft, the affidavit said.
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