(Stillwater, Okla.) – A former Payne County man was arraigned Thursday on a charge of attempting to escape from detention after being ordered into the state Regimented Inmate Discipline (RID) prison boot camp program on Sept. 19.
If convicted of attempted escape from detention, Isziah Demond Hurtt, 20, who remains in the Payne County Jail, could be given a prison term of one to seven years, court records show.
Six months ago, Hurtt had pleaded guilty to breaking into a Stillwater home through an unlocked back door on Aug. 30, 2017, and possessing marijuana with intent to distribute on Aug. 9, 2016 in Stillwater, court records show.
At the time, Payne County Associate District Judge Stephen Kistler allowed Hurtt to remain free on a personal recognizance bond under the Delayed Sentencing Act for young offenders, pending his Sept. 19 sentencing.
However on July 23, Department of Corrections Probation and Parole Officer Juan Perez recommended to the judge that Hurtt be sentenced to incarceration in the RID program after he failed to report as directed, court records show.
“On July 9, 2018, Hurtt called this officer and advised he was residing in Kansas. Hurtt failed to give his address in Kansas and did not reveal why he had moved there. During the phone call, Hurtt was scheduled to report back to the probation office in Oklahoma on July 16, 2018. Hurtt failed to report as directed,” Perez wrote in a report to the judge.
While Hurtt was in court on Sept. 19, the judge revoked his bond and ordered him into the RID program, but Hurtt left the courtroom without permission and was detained by officers, court records show.
In addition to his felony charges of second-degree burglary and possessing marijuana with intent to distribute, Hurtt had also pleaded guilty six months ago to misdemeanor counts of marijuana possession on Dec. 16, 2017, and also on Sept. 22, 2017, both in Stillwater, court records show.
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