(Stillwater, Okla.) – A Tryon man, who got out of prison two years ago, has been jailed on $25,000 bail on a Payne County felony charge of committing domestic violence in rural Yale against his ex-girlfriend with whom he has three sons.
Due to his criminal record, Michael Robert Alston, 34, could be imprisoned for four years to life if convicted of domestic assault and battery as a subsequent offense. Alston could be given a one-year jail term if convicted of malicious injury to property.
Payne County Sheriff’s Deputy Bobby Miller was sent on Jan. 6 to the victim’s rural Yale home where she said she “told him several times to leave and he then grabbed her around her throat and began choking her,” an affidavit alleged.
“She advised after a short time he let go of her throat and got in his vehicle and left,” the affidavit alleged.
A neighbor said she saw Alston assaulting the woman, yelled to her, asked if she needed help, and at that point Alston left, the affidavit alleged.
The victim obtained an emergency protective order against Alston on Jan. 9, court records show.
In her EPO petition, the woman wrote, “He is very mean and abusive with his words and actions,” adding that she previously had a protective order against him for five years that had run out.
“I have been beat with a cord in front of my kids, punched on for hours it felt like, and left with black eyes, been strangled and told he would kill me, had a gun held to my head and said he would kill me,” she alleged in her petition.
“I am scared all the time he will be there to hurt me. With three boys with him, it makes it hard for me not to have to deal with him. And on this Sunday, Jan. 6, 2019, Michael decided to bring our youngest to my house,” after a visitation, rather than at another location, she alleged in her petition.
She alleged that Alston “grabbed me by my throat and pushed me into the grill behind me and all of my children were behind me yelling ‘Just leave, Dad, stop.’ So he left and the landlord’s girlfriend was already on the phone to the cops.”
“I don’t understand why he can’t just be peaceful. Just want him out of my life,” she wrote in her EPO petition.
According to state Department of Corrections and court records, Alston was previously convicted in Lincoln County of:
* domestic assault and battery in 2015 in Tryon, for which he was initially placed on four years’ probation that was revoked seven months later to three years in prison of which he served about one year before his release in January 2017;
* domestic assault and battery in the presence of a minor in 2013 in Tryon, for which he was given a one-year jail term concurrent to the following case;
* second-degree burglary in 2007 in Tryon, for which he was initially placed on five years’ probation that was revoked in 2013 to three years in prison of which he served less than one year.
Alston also was convicted in Payne County of second-degree burglary of a Ripley convenience store in 2007, for which he was initially placed on five years’ probation in 2008 that was revoked in 2013 to three years in prison to run concurrently to his burglary sentence in Lincoln County, court records show.
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