By: Patti Weaver
(Stillwater, Okla.) — A Stillwater man, who served a prison sentence for attacking a man with a knife in 2007, has been given a 10-year prison term for punching his fiancée in the leg and placing her in a headlock last May.
When he is released from prison, Blake Jared Crawford, 31, must serve 10 years of probation for child abuse, with conditions including taking a 52-week batterers’ intervention program and a parenting class, along with paying a $250 fine and $100 to the victims’ compensation fund, court records show.
Before Crawford pleaded guilty to those May 4 charges last week, the prosecution dropped a six-count charge involving the same victim for which he had been jailed on $200,000 bail since last July, court records show.
In his latest case that was dismissed last week, Crawford had been accused of raping his fiancée, threatening her with a knife, choking her, beating her and confining her, all on July 12, 2018 — while he was free on $10,000 bail in his earlier case.
According to court records, in April of 2010, Crawford was given a one-year jail term for misdemeanor domestic assault and battery in Payne County.
Also in April of 2010, Crawford was found to have violated his probation on a 2007 felony charge of attacking a Stillwater man with a knife and given a three-year prison term followed by two years of probation.
Crawford was released from prison in August of 2011 after serving about eight months, state Department of Corrections records show.
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