Tommy English Jr
(DOC file photo)
By Patti Weaver
(Stillwater, Okla.) — A homeless Stillwater man, who has a college degree, has been given a three-year prison term for possessing heroin and methamphetamine with intent to distribute, along with being a convicted felon in possession of a pistol.
Tommy Alan English Jr., 44, pleaded guilty last week to his charges that included a misdemeanor count of breaking and entering an apartment, for which he was given a concurrent one-year jail term by District Judge Phillip Corley, who also revoked a two-year probationary sentence that he had been given last year for possessing a stolen vehicle.
In his latest case, English was arrested at an apartment in the 200 block of N. Duncan on July 10 at 7:40 pm, less than an hour after officers were sent there on a report of a man with a gun, Stillwater Police Officer Christopher Boren wrote in an affidavit.
A felony count of pointing a loaded 9 mm pistol at another man in the apartment was dropped by the prosecution before English pleaded guilty to his other charges last week, court records show.
The property owner said, “there should be no one in the apartment and gave us permission to make entry,” the officer wrote in his affidavit.
“I opened a backpack and found loose 9 mm ammunition. In another bag, I located a small, locked metal box covered in tape. In a suitcase, I located a make-up style bag,” with several loaded syringes and vials of an amber-colored liquid. In the same suitcase that the bag was located in, we found the handgun,” a chamber-loaded 9 mm, the officer wrote in his affidavit.
“I located five loaded syringes, two vials full of an amber-colored liquid, several small baggies with small amounts of a white crystal-like substance, several baggies containing a brown/black tar-like substance. I found a scale and 40 baggies of various sizes,” the officer wrote in his affidavit.
A woman, who was with English, was charged only with misdemeanor breaking and entering the apartment, court records show.
In addition to a 2021 conviction for possessing a stolen vehicle, English had been convicted in 2007 of felony domestic violence for which he served about eight months of a two-year prison term followed by two years of probation, state Department of Corrections records show.
