(Stillwater) — A former Cushing man has been sentenced to three years in prison for possessing a gun and marijuana in Stillwater while he was on probation for stabbing a Drumright man at a Cushing apartment complex parking lot.
Alec Wayne Harper, 22, of Stillwater, also was given two concurrent three-year prison terms by Special District Judge Phillip Corley for violating the rules of probation in the 2005 stabbing and also a 2005 burglary.
Harper was scheduled to have a preliminary hearing on his gun and marijuana possession charges on May 29, when he waived that right and accepted a plea bargain, court records show.
Harper pleaded guilty to possessing a .22-caliber revolver and marijuana on April 18 in Stillwater, both after a felony conviction, court records show.
In the 2005 stabbing, Harper was originally charged with assault and battery with force likely to produce death, but he pleaded no contest to a reduced charge of aggravated assault and battery.
His victim, Justin Leon Ramsey, then 21, was stabbed twice in his mid-section during a fight shortly before 10 p.m. July 13, 2005, in the parking lot of the Fountaine Bleau apartments at 1428 S. Little in Cushing, an affidavit said.
He required immediate surgery at Cushing Regional Hospital where he was taken by private vehicle shortly after the assault, Cushing Police Chief Terry Brannon said.
Harper, then 18 and living in the apartment complex, was arrested in the Fountaine Bleau parking lot, Brannon said.
About two months before that, Harper was charged with breaking into a home north of Cushing on May 17, 2005, to which he also pleaded no contest in 2007.
Harper was originally given a three-year deferred sentence on both felonies — except for one year in the Payne County Jail, with credit for the year he was in custody on $200,000 bail.
Harper was ordered to pay $6,722 restititution for the stabbing victim’s injuries, complete all requirements in a Youthful Offender Accountability Plan, obtain his GED, complete a substance program, and pay $1,649 restitution for the burglary victim’s loss, court records show.
However, seven months later following his arrest on a marijuana possession charge, District Judge Donald Worthington ruled that Harper had violated probation and changed his sentence in November 2007 to two concurrent three-year suspended sentences, except 30 days in jail.
Oklahoma Department of Corrections Probation and Parole Officer Angela Jordan had recommended to the court a month before Harper’s latest charges that he be sent to prison for multiple probation violations.
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