(Stillwater, Okla.) — An ex-convict from Cushing who was released from prison last summer after serving two years for a car burglary pleaded guilty Friday to using an SUV in Cushing without the owner’s consent in January.
Gary Don Cook, 29, was ordered to serve 180 days in jail followed by 14 and one-half years of probation, to enroll in and successfully complete the Payne County Drug Court program and to pay restitution, expected to be $1,166.
Cook, who has five prior felony convictions in Payne County, was sentenced Friday by Associate District Judge Stephen Kistler in accordance with a plea bargain recommended by prosecutor Mike Kulling.
In 2005, he was convicted of stealing a lawnmower from the front porch of a house in Cushing in 2004; of unauthorized use of a vehicle in rural Payne County in 2003; of second-degree bruglary in Ripley in 2002; and of second-degree burglary in Cushing in 2001, court records show.
In 2008, he was convicted of breaking into a vehicle in Payne County in 2007 and given a six-year prison term, of which he served about two years, court records show.
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