(Stillwater, Okla.) — An ex-convict who admitted secretly photographing a neighbor in her residence in Stillwater has been given a five-year prison term for being a peeping tom, as part of a plea bargain approved in court by District Judge Phillip Corley last week.
Kenneth Alan Lewis, 37, of Stillwater, had gotten out of prison in 2002 after serving sentences for two burglaries in 1977, state Department of Corrections record show.
Lewis has been held in the Payne County Jail since his arrest a year ago by Stillwater Police Sgt. David Duncan, court records show.
The police sergeant had been dispatched to the victim’s residence at 11:15 p.m. on Jan. 22, 2014, to assist another officer on a report that a male dressed in all black was looking in her window, Duncan wrote in an affidavit.
Duncan located Lewis directly behind the victim’s residence, the affidavit said.
Lewis was out of breath from running, extremely nervous and intoxicated, the affidavit said.
“He claimed he was ‘chasing a guy,’” the affidavit said.
“He admitted to drinking and said he had just left the strip bar,” the affidavit said.
Asked for his identification, Lewis said he didn’t have it and gave the officer a false surname, along with a false birth date, the affidavit said.
After the police sergeant arrested Lewis for public intoxication, he discovered that Lewis had a digital camera, the affidavit said.
Asked what was on the camera, Lewis became silent and said that the sergeant could not look at it, the affidavit said.
“He said there were pictures of him doing drugs on the camera,” about which the police sergeant said he didn’t care, but was “just curious if there were pictures of his neighbor on the camera,” the affidavit said.
“He said there were just pictures of him and marijuana,” the affidavit said.
The police sergeant seized the camera so he could search it with a warrant, the affidavit said.
When Lewis was transported to the area of the victim’s residence, the victim said she knew him as “Kenny Lewis,” the affidavit said.
When the police sergeant looked again at Lewis, he recognized him from prior contacts years ago, the affidavit said.
Lewis then said “you know who I am,” the affidavit said.
When the police sergeant looked at the east side of the victim’s house, he saw that the leaves under the front window were freshly trampled down and “it appeared that someone had spent a considerable amount of time standing looking in the window,” the affidavit said.
The victim said she had been having problems with someone peeking into the window and installed a trip-wire that the suspect hit when he fled, the affidavit said.
According to court records, in October 2006, Lewis stood trial on charges of concealing keys stolen from Oklahoma State University, possessing burglary tools and obstructing an officer by giving a false name.
A Payne County jury acquitted Lewis of the felony charge of concealing stolen OSU keys, but convicted him on the other two misdemeanor counts, for which he was given a three-month jail term and $350 fine, court records show.
In 1998, Lewis had been convicted in Payne County of two charges of second-degree burglary after a former felony conviction, for which he was ordered to pay $5,162 restitution and given a 10-year prison term of which he served four years and two months, DOC records show.
In 1997, Lewis was convicted in Payne County of knowingly concealing stolen property and possessing an ID with someone else’s photo, for which he was given probation that was revoked the following year to a concurrent two-year prison term.
In 1997, Lewis was also convicted of delivery of marijuana in 1996 in Payne County, for which he was given a two-year prison term in 1998, DOC records show.
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