By: Patti Weaver
(Stillwater, Okla.) — A state prison inmate has avoided a July 27 trial in Payne County by pleading guilty to punching a guard in the face at the Cimarron Correctional Facility while he was being held at the private prison in Cushing on Oct. 29, 2019.
Former Cushing resident Timothy Tyrone Tippett, 37, of Stillwater, accepted a plea bargain last week for an additional two years of incarceration after he completes three concurrent 10-year prison terms at the Jess Dunn Correctional Center in Taft.
According to the state Department of Corrections and court records, Tippett was previously convicted of:
* methamphetamine possession in Cushing in 2015 for which he was originally given probation that was revoked in 2018 to the balance of a 10-year sentence;
* being a felon in possession of a firearm in Oklahoma City on two occasions in 2017 for which he was given two concurrent 10-year prison terms concurrent to his Payne County drug sentence;
* drunk driving in Oklahoma County in 2008 for which he was given in 2011 a four and one-half year prison term that he discharged in two and one-half years.
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