(Stillwater, Okla.) — An ex-convict from Perkins, who was arrested on the Cimarron Golf Course last Friday night, was scheduled to be arraigned this afternoon from the Payne County Jail where he was being held on $50,000 bail on charges of assault with a dangerous weapon after a former felony conviction and joyriding.
The latest arrest for Ray Daniel Smith, 34, came less than a week after he had been released from the Payne County Jail on Thanksgiving weekend on $50,000 bail pending his Dec. 19 sentencing on assault charges, court records show.
While being transported to jail Friday night, “Ray said, ‘I’m insignificant. I’m a dead man walking. Ok, this is how they want it. People are going to remember me, you just watch what happens,’” Perkins Police Officer George Hannon alleged in an affidavit.
“Ray asked, ‘Do you know how to stay out of trouble? You keep your mouth shut and then they have nothing,’” the officer alleged in his affidavit.
Believing that “there was a possibility that Ray may try to fight at the jail,” the Perkins officer radioed a dispatcher to advise the jail staff of a possible threat, according to his affidavit.
Perkins Police Chief Bob Ernst had called Hannon on his cell phone about 8 p.m. Friday to ask him to check on a vehicle and individuals at the Cimarron Golf Course entrance, the affidavit said.
When the Perkins officer arrived, a male was running toward an older model Chevrolet pickup that had front-end damage consistent with hitting the tree it was stopped against, Hannon wrote in his affidavit.
The man, who is the defendant’s nephew, William Andrew Smith, 26, told the officer that his uncle “had taken his truck and crashed into the tree,” the affidavit alleged.
Asked where his uncle was now, “William advised me that Ray had pulled out a knife and was on the golf course,” the Perkins officer alleged in his affidavit.
“While talking to William, his brother, Dakota Lee Smith, 19, came up to me and advised that Ray pulled out a knife and said, ‘I’ll kill you,’” the officer alleged in his affidavit.
“Dakota then advised that Ray got down on his knees and put the knife against his own forearm,” the affidavit alleged.
Asked where his uncle was now, “Dakota pointed to the driving range portion of the golf course,” the affidavit alleged.
“When I walked onto the driving range, I was able to see Ray sitting on the grass holding his hands up,” which appeared to be empty, the officer wrote in his affidavit.
“As I approached, Ray advised that the knife was to his right,” about 15 feet from him — which the officer said he put in his own pocket for safekeeping, the affidavit alleged.
“I continued to approach Ray who got up and started to pull his red hoodie off,” before saying “I don’t really have a gun. I just told them that,” the officer alleged in his affidavit.
“Ray was not wearing a shirt. Ray was also wearing red shorts,” which he pulled away to show he was not carrying any weapons, the officer wrote in his affidavit.
“I did not find any weapons in the red hoodie,” which the officer gave to the defendant to put back on, Hannon wrote in his affidavit.
Asking the defendant to explain what happened, “Ray said, ‘I won’t rat on my family.’ Ray never gave me a straight answer about what took place,” the officer wrote in his affidavit.
According to court records, Smith pleaded guilty last summer to holding a knife to his girlfriend’s throat, punching her in the face, punching a female neighbor in the face, throwing a cinderblock through a window that landed on a woman’s toe and damaging the trailer, all on Jan. 20.
Smith was originally scheduled to be sentenced in that case in October, but he failed to appear in court and a bench warrant was issue for his arrest, court records show. Smith was arrested in Newkirk in November, released on $50,000 bail and ordered to appear in court on Dec. 19 for sentencing in Payne County.
Five months before that January incident at a Stillwater trailer park on E. Raintree where Smith was then living, he was charged with assault and battery on a man at a rural Stillwater trailer park on Aug. 16, 2013, on E. 44th, to which he also pleaded guilty last summer. He has also been scheduled for sentencing on Dec. 19 in that case.
Smith, who apparently got out of prison in January 2013, had been convicted in 2005 of second-degree burglary and second-degree forgery in Perkins, for which he was given a seven-year prison term followed by 13 years of probation on which he remains, court records show.
After Smith served that Payne County prison term, he remained incarcerated for one and one-half years for assault and battery on an employee at the Lawton Correctional Facility in 2005, state Department of Corrections records show.
Smith had also previously served three years of two five-year prison terms for obtaining merchandise by bogus check in 2002 and unauthorized use of a vehicle in 2004, both in Payne County, DOC records show.
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