(Stillwater, Okla.) — A man who admitted pointing a gun at a woman in a Cushing restaurant was transported from the Payne County Jail to the Tulsa County Jail by immigration authorities on Monday, according to Sheriff R.B. Hauf.
Wencesloa Moreno, 30, who listed a Cushing address, had pleaded guilty Friday to pointing an RG .25-caliber handgun at a woman inside Nuevo Vallarta restaurant in Cushing on July 23.
Moreno, who speaks very little English and was provided with a Spanish translator by the court, was given a five-year probationary sentence, except 90 days in jail, which he had already served, as part of a plea bargain.
However, Moreno was not released from custody Friday following his sentencing by District Judge Donald Worthington — since Moreno was also being held for immigration authorities, who picked him up Monday.
Moreno had been arrested by Cushing Police Officer Justin Sappington, who was sent to Nuevo Vallarta restaurant at 211 N. Cleveland about 6:10 p.m. July 23 on a report that a woman called the police department and said that someone was trying to kill her, the officer wrote in an affidavit.
She said that the man that threatened her just left on foot, the affidavit said.
Sappington and Officer Jerrod Livergood located Moreno, who was initially arrested for public intoxication, the affidavit said.
The woman said that Moreno was intoxicated when he came into the restaurant and asked her “how much money he would have to pay for her to come with him,” the affidavit said.
She said “she told him that no amount of money could buy her,” the affidavit said.
She said that Moreno then grabbed her, took her back to the waitress station, and produced a small black handgun, the affidavit said.
She said that Moreno’s friends walked by and told him that he needed to leave, which he did — but he came back into the restaurant again, the affidavit said.
She said that “Moreno then put the muzzle of the handgun to her chest and told her that she was going to come with him,” the affidavit said.
She described the gun as small and black, possibly a .22 or .25-caliber, the affidavit said.
When Moreno’s vehicle was searched, two live .25-caliber rounds were found in the driver’s side floorboard, the affidavit said.
A box of .25-caliber ammunition and a manual for an RG .25-caliber automatic pistol were found in the center console, the affidavit said.
“I later canvassed the area and found an RG .25-caliber handgun just west of the restaurant,” the officer wrote in his affidavit.
“The weapon was found in the grass next to a building on the north side of Moses Street,” the affidavit said.
The victim identified the weapon as the gun Moreno had put to her chest, the affidavit said.
She said “the entire incident occurred in front of her young child as well,” the affidavit said.
When the mother and her son were shown pictures of Moreno and another man, they both pointed to Moreno, the affidavit said.
The victim said that there were two other witnesses to the incident, the affidavit said.
“Moreno was transported to the police department and placed into a cell without incident.
“I was unable to conduct an interview with Moreno due to the fact that he spoke very little English,” the officer wrote in his affidavit.
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