Printiss Skylar Romine
(DOC file photo)
by Patti Weaver
STILLWATER — A 25-year-old man, whose co-defendant has not been apprehended, has been placed on seven years’ probation for stealing mail from a mailbox in the 700 block of E. Walnut Street in Cushing on Oct. 28, 2023.
Printiss Skylar Romine, 25, of Cushing, who was sought for about six months before being arrested on Jan. 14, 2025, had pleaded guilty on April 1, 2025, to stealing mail from 15 different Cushing mailboxes, but last week the state dismissed 14 counts as part of a plea agreement with the prosecution for a seven-year deferred sentence on a single count, court records show.
In court on March 3, Payne County Associate District Judge Michael Kulling ordered Romine to pay restitution, the amount to be determined by June 2.
Romine’s deferred sentence in Payne County runs concurrently with a seven-year deferred sentence in Lincoln County he was given on Jan. 20 for a rural Cushing burglary for which he completed the state’s Regimented Inmate Discipline boot camp prison program, to be followed by a substance abuse evaluation and any recommended treatment, Lincoln County records show.
Romine’s Payne County case was filed two years ago after Cushing Police Officer Christopher Haywood was sent on Oct. 28, 2023, to a house in the 700 block of E. Walnut about mail being stolen from a mailbox next to the curb, an affidavit said.
A Cushing man “explained that he had been reviewing his camera footage, as one of his cameras points at his mailbox, which faces the street, just next to the curb of E. Walnut Street.
“While reviewing camera footage, he said he observed two subjects walking westbound down the road. He explained that he was waiting for documents relating to his mortgage and was concerned whoever stole the package now had access to sensitive information,” the affidavit said.
In the video, one suspect walked in front of the mailbox, opened it, and continued walking while a second suspect examined the mailbox and removed the contents from inside, the affidavit alleged. Both suspects in dark clothing continued walking west, the affidavit said.
Cushing Police Officer Jason Beal discovered that two suspects matching the description in the video had walked into the Maveric at 609 E. Main at about 1:10 am, the affidavit alleged. The suspects were identified as Printiss Romine and Casey McAlister, now 27, the affidavit alleged.
Officer Beal learned where McAlister was employed and contacted the manager, who said he was not working that day but had his contact phone number, the affidavit alleged.
“I dialed the number with my department-issued phone. A male answered the phone, and I asked if who I was talking to was Casey. The male said he was not Casey and that he was Printiss and explained that I needed to talk to him as well.
“I explained to Printiss that I needed to speak with them in person and that if they met with me, I would not take them to jail today for the mail they had stolen. I further explained to Printiss that he and Casey needed to present and return all the mail taken.
“Printiss asked if I could meet them near Timber Ridge Apartments. I advised them I could meet them at the bridge, just north of the Timber Ridge Apartments. Printiss said they would come.
“At about 11:30 am, I met with Casey McAlister and Printiss Romine at the bridge just north of 306 S. Timber Ridge Drive. There, Romine surrendered a black duffle bag, which was filled to the top with opened and assorted mail from throughout the city of Cushing.
“I asked both subjects why they had taken people’s mail. Both said they didn’t know,” Officer Haywood alleged in his affidavit.
Before Romine was arrested in his Payne County mail theft case, he was charged in Lincoln County with two co-defendants with breaking into a rural Cushing man’s house on May 1, 2024, where multiple guns were stolen.
His co-defendants in the Lincoln County case, Cameron Tyce Wedin, now 25, of Oilton, and Tommy Nathanel Tilley, now 21, of rural Cushing, both pleaded guilty on June 25, 2024, to second-degree burglary for which they were each given seven-year prison terms, with the balance suspected on their completion of the RID prison boot camp program, Lincoln County court records show.
