(Stillwater, Okla.) — A Tulsa man — jailed on $50,000 bail following his arrest in Payne County — has been ordered to appear in court May 28 for a preliminary hearing on a charge of kidnapping his girlfriend, who was wrapped in a blanket, allegedly thrown to the ground in Stillwater and put in a vehicle that was found in a Yale restaurant parking lot.
Daniel Gene Crew, 34, who had been placed on probation last year for methamphetamine possession in Tulsa, was arrested by Payne County Sheriff’s Deputy Bobby Miller at 9:34 p.m. April 15 after employees at a Yale restaurant called 911, an affidavit said.
In his affidavit, the deputy said that he met with Oklahoma Highway Patrol Trooper Robert Burrows, “who had stopped a vehicle that was involved in a suspicious incident at Country C Store in Stillwater.
“I was advised that a male in the vehicle had pulled a female out of the vehicle by her hair and threw her to the ground in Stillwater.
“I was advised the female was wrapped in a pink blanket and the male picked her back up and put her back in the vehicle and left.
“The vehicle was parked in the parking lot of a restaurant in Yale. I was advised that two employees observed a female yell for someone to call the police because the male had stolen her car and kidnapped her so they called 911,” the affidavit alleged.
“Speaking to the victim, she advised the male started driving her vehicle in Tulsa. She advised she told him not to drive, but he refused.
“She advised she fell asleep and when she woke up, they were in Stillwater. She advised she told him several times to give her back the keys and to take her home, but he refused.
“She advised that when they were at the store in Stillwater that the male, Daniel Crew, hit her in the face. Mr. Crew advised they have been in a relationship for about five months,” the affidavit said.
If convicted of kidnapping the woman in her car, driving her to various points in Payne County and refusing to take her home, Crew could be given a 20-year prison term.
If convicted of an additional count of grabbing her by the hair and throwing her to the ground, Crew could be incarcerated for an additional year and fined $5,000, court records show.
A year before the alleged incident in Payne County, Crew was placed on three years’ probation under a deferred sentence for possession of methamphetamine in Tulsa in 2012, court records show.
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