(Stillwater, Okla.) — A Glencoe man has been ordered to appear in court Dec. 1 on charges of stalking his estranged wife, breaking into a house, threatening to kill a man, firing a shotgun into the ground four times to intimidate people in the house and obstructing Payne County Sheriff’s Deputy Bobby Miller, all in November.
Richard Dale Maxwell, 42, who remains in the Payne County Jail on $100,000 total bail, was given a court-appointed attorney Friday to represent him on all of his charges in Payne County.
If convicted of stalking between Nov. 6 and Nov. 10 his estranged wife, who had obtained an emergency protective order against him on Nov. 4, Maxwell could be given a five-year prison term and a $2,500 fine, court records show.
If convicted of first-degree burglary, threatening a violent act, wrongfully discharging a firearm in public and obstructing a sheriff’s deputy by refusing to come out of his residence, all on Nov. 11, Maxwell could be incarcerated for 22 and one-half years and fined $11,000, court records show.
Maxwell’s wife wrote in a protective order petition that on Oct. 14, her husband, from whom she is separated, “hit me and took my car and phone, kept me from leaving the house while threatening to punch me in the hall and break my nose.”
“On Oct. 18, 2014, I left my house and went to stay at my son’s house. On Oct. 27, 2014, he came over there and threw me to the ground, hit me in the face and kicked me in my side. I have pictures of the bruises.
“On Oct. 31, 2014, he came to my dad’s house with a loaded shotgun threatening to kill me. I called the cops and filed a report.
“Since that time, he has texted me approximately 20 times a day threatening to kill me if I don’t come home.
“He has called me at least 20 to 30 times a day attempting to talk to me because I don’t answer his calls.
“Nov. 4, 2014, (he) called me at work threatening to come get me from work to take me home and kill me and him both.
“He called a marriage counselor today (Nov. 4), threatened to kill himself, and she called the cops to go talk to him.
“Today (Nov. 4) at work I had to hide out in a locked room because he threatened my safety.
“I am in fear of my life.
“I don’t feel safe anywhere including work.
“I need a protective order to keep him away and make him stop,” she wrote in her petition for an EPO, which was granted on Nov. 4, court records show.
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