By: Patti Weaver
(Stillwater, Okla.) — An ex-convict, who previously lived in Cushing, was charged today with assault with a dangerous weapon and public intoxication, both on Sunday in Stillwater.
Jimmy Lee Neely Jr., 36, of Fairfax, who had been released from prison a year ago, was being held in the Payne County Jail pending his arraignment this afternoon on the two-count charge.
According to court records and the Oklahoma Department of Corrections, Neely had previously been convicted of:
* larceny of an auto in Payne County in 2002 for which he was given in 2004 a 5-year prison term and served three years and five months;
* second-degree burglary in Payne County in 2002 for which he was given in 2004 a concurrent five-year prison term and served three years and five months;
* passing a bogus check in Payne County when he lived in Cushing in 2004 for which he was ordered to pay $2,795 restitution and serve a concurrent seven-year prison term, but was only incarcerated for five years and three months;
* eluding a Perkins police officer in 2004 in Payne County for which he was given in 2004 a concurrent one-year prison term that he served;
* assault and battery on a Payne County jailer in 2004 for which he was given in 2004 a concurrent five-year prison term and served three years and five months;
* second-degree burglary of Perry Monument and Stone and theft of a truck there in Noble County in 2004 for which he was given in 2005 a nine-year prison term concurrent to his Payne County sentences and served seven years and five months;
* eluding a police officer and harboring a fugitive in Kay County in 2008, for which in 2009 he was given two concurrent 10-year prison terms and served seven years and one month;
* possessing methamphetamine in Perry in Noble County in 2016, for which he was given a seven-year prison term and served two years and eight months prior to his release in June of 2019.
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