By: Patti Weaver
(Cushing, Okla.) — A former Cushing man has been sent to prison for multiple felonies including breaking into the First Christian Church in Cushing, followed by a string of rural property crimes two days later — for which he was arrested in the woods northeast of Walmart after a manhunt in March.
Brandon Windell Hill, 22, of Edmond, who pleaded guilty Friday to his latest crimes, was given concurrent five-year prison terms, with the balances suspended on his completion of the Bill Johnson Drug Offender Work Camp.
When District Judge Phillip Corley asked Hill in court Friday why he kept stealing other people’s property, Hill blamed his behavior on drugs.
Last year after Hill was released from the state’s Regimented Inmate Discipline (RID) boot camp program where he served 10 months, Hill was placed on seven years’ probation under deferred sentences for car theft, eluding a police officer, and multiple burglaries in 2019 in Payne County, state Department of Corrections records show.
In court when the judge ruled Friday that Hill had violated the terms of his probation in those 2019 cases, he changed Hill’s penalties to five-year suspended sentences. The judge told Hill that having so many felony convictions would make it difficult for him to find a job.
But the judge emphasized to Hill, “It’s not too late to turn around. Do you understand that?” to which Hill replied, “Yes, sir.”
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