00KUSH.comNews WeatherSports ObituariesVideoContact UsHillcrest HospitalMusic Published on: 05/21/2015 (Stillwater, Okla.) — An ex-convict, who moved to Perkins after he was released from prison about three years ago, has been jailed on a felony charge accusing him of stealing clothing and a pair of shoes, with a total value of more than $500, from Belk’s department store in Stillwater on May 11.
Paul Uriah Baker, 36, who previously lived in Stillwater, remains held in the Payne County Jail on $5,000 bail pending a June 1 appearance on a charge of grand larceny of merchandise from a retailer after nine prior felony convictions.
Baker’s last felony conviction occurred in Logan County where he was charged about five months after he was released from prison with petty larceny after a former felony conviction and possessing methamphetamine within 1,000 feet of a school in Guthrie in 2011, court records show.
In that two-count case, Baker was given two concurrent prison terms of five years and 15 years, with the condition that the balance of his sentences would be suspended on his completion of a Drug Offender Work Camp, court records show. He was released to probation in 2012, records show.
Baker was apparently first sent to prison in 1999 for false personation in Lincoln County, for which he served about a year, state Department of Corrections records show.
About two years after he got out of prison, Baker was again incarcerated, this time in 2002 for violating the probation he was given in 1997 in Payne County shoplifting and concealing stolen property cases, DOC records show. He served two concurrent one-year prison terms, DOC records show.
About five years after he got out of prison that time, Baker was given eight concurrent five-year prison terms for violating his probation in eight Payne County cases following his termination from Payne County Drug Court. Those cases were:
* possessing methamphetamine and stolen property in Stillwater in 2005;
* concealing stolen property on another occasion in Stillwater in 2005;
* concealing stolen property on another occasion in Stillwater in 2005;
* concealing stolen property on another occasion in Stillwater in 2005;
* possessing marijuana in Stillwater in 2005;
* possessing marijuana in 2007;
* shoplifting at a Stillwater department store in 2007 after a former felony conviction;
* petty larceny at a Stillwater drug store in 2008 after a former felony conviction.
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