(Stillwater, Okla.) — A Tryon man — sought for nearly two years on a bench warrant for failure to appear in court — has pleaded guilty to violating a protective order by calling his ex-girlfriend in Perkins and a misdemeanor count of calling her boyfriend and threatening to kill him by cutting his throat, all in 2011.
David Lee Alston Jr., 31, also pleaded guilty to sending a series of voice mail messages to his ex-girlfriend in which he threatened to kill her, in March 2013.
Alston was ordered by Associate District Judge Stephen Kistler last week to serve 120 days in the Payne County Jail followed by three years of probation and to pay $200 in fines and assessments.
Perkins Deputy Police Chief Steve Hensley wrote in an affidavit that the woman and her boyfriend came to the police station in November 2011 to file a complaint against Alston for violating an emergency protective order.
The woman said that Alston had called her at her workplace in Perkins and said that he was going to cut her boyfriend and slit his throat, the affidavit said.
She said she told Alston not to call her at work ever again — and he told her “he would kill them both,” the affidavit said.
While he was free on bond in that 2011 case, Alston failed to appear in court on March 2, 2012, and a bench warrant was issued for his arrest — which occurred on Jan. 23 of this year, court records show.
Last March, the woman reported that Alston, who is the father of her child, “had been making multiple threats against her life and her boyfriend’s life,” Perkins Police Lt. Jason Galt wrote in an affidavit.
“She said that on the dates of March 13, 2013, and March 15, 2013, David Alston had called her phone and left multiple messages regarding acts of violence and death,” on her voice mail, the affidavit said.
In one of those messages, Alston allegedly said, “When I get home, your face is getting stomped in…I am going to kill you,” according to the affidavit.
In another message, Alston allegedly said, “When I get home, you better be in hiding, he better be in hiding, because, I swear to God almighty and my dead son, I am going to kill you both,” according to the affidavit.
The woman and her boyfriend told the Perkins police lieutenant that they wanted to pursue charges against Alston, who might be in California, the affidavit said.
“On March 19, 2013, at approximately 5:15 p.m., I called David Alston Jr. with the number that was provided to me. A male subject answered the phone and said, ‘hello.’ I said ‘David.’ The male voice replied, ‘yeah?’ I identified myself and asked ‘Will you talk to me or are you going to hang up on me?’
“I heard a click on the other end of the phone with no further response,” the Perkins police lieutenant wrote in his affidavit for an arrest warrant.
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