Ex-convict jailed on $30,000 bail on multiple charges

    (Stillwater, Okla.)  — A 60-year-old ex-convict has been jailed on $30,000 bail pending a Sept. 7 preliminary hearing on charges of exposing himself at an apartment complex in Stillwater, threatening to beat up a woman who called police, spray-painting a door as well as two windows there, and being intoxicated in public.

    If convicted of his four-count charge, Gary Duane Mebane, who got out of prison three years ago, could be incarcerated for 11 years and seven months, court records show.

    Mebane was arrested at 6:04 pm on June 19 at Wellspring Apartments, less than an hour after Stillwater Police Officer Josh Rudluff was sent on a vandalism call to the complex where Mebane was living, his affidavit said.

    A tenant said, “Gary (Mebane) had just gone around and spray-painted a door and window,” at a neighbor’s apartment, the affidavit alleged. The apartment manager, “told me he had vandalized the property and she wanted him arrested,” the officer alleged in his affidavit.

    “Gary had spray-painted his entire door; there were also two other doors that I observed had white spray paint on them. I was told that he did those as well. There were two windows that had either spray paint or shoe polish on them. The building sign above Gary’s apartment also had black spray paint on it that was caused by Gary,” the officer alleged in his affidavit.

    The property manager “told me that Gary had also exposed himself to several people in the complex,” the officer alleged in his affidavit. “Several people on scene told us that they believed Gary was impaired by drugs or alcohol due to his behavior…He was asked if he had any alcohol and he stated he was at (a bar) earlier and had consumed alcohol before a pool tournament,” the affidavit alleged.

    After the officer talked to several residents including a man who said that Mebane was standing in Mebane’s doorway when he pulled down his pants, “I had decided that I was going to arrest Gary for indecent exposure but wanted to ask him about it first,” Rudluff alleged in his affidavit.

    Mebane “told me he wished to speak to his lawyer, so I discontinued asking any further questions,” the officer alleged in his affidavit.

    On the drive to the police department, “He told me that he would ‘start shooting the g.. d…. windows outta this f…… place.’ He also made a comment that the place needed set on fire, and he would show somebody how to do it. I told him he doesn’t want to set the building on fire, and he stated ‘I’ll blaze that m….. f…..’ He then turned his attention to being upset,” at the woman who called police, the officer alleged in his affidavit.

    “He stated, ‘I’m going to beat that f…… b….boy she going to be bruised, dude. She ain’t going to be able to walk.’ He went on to say that ‘her ribs are going to be torn up. I’ll break her f….. arm,"” the affidavit alleged.