By: Patti Weaver
(Stillwater, Okla.) — A Stillwater man — on probation for choking and repeatedly threatening to kill his ex-girlfriend — has been charged with violating an emergency protective order on Dec. 4 that she had obtained against him eight months ago.
Due to his prior felony domestic violence convictions, Samuel Dallas Broshear, 42, could be sentenced to a prison term of three years to life if convicted of violating a protective order as a subsequent offense. Four months ago, Broshear had been convicted of violating another protective order in 2018, court records show.
Broshear remains held in the Payne County Jail on $54,000 total bail pending a Jan. 6 court appearance.
His latest arrest occurred three weeks before Christmas when police were sent to a business on Perkins Road at 6:50 p.m. on a report that a man “was inside the store yelling an employee,” for about 15 minutes, Stillwater Police Officer Brayley Running wrote in an affidavit.
When the officer talked to him, “Broshear advised that he had recently been released from jail approximately three months ago. Broshear advised he was in jail for domestic violence charges,” the affidavit alleged.
“Broshear advised me that nothing was wrong and he was just there talking with his girlfriend,” but he was arrested since she had a valid protective order against him, the affidavit alleged.
Less than four months earlier, Broshear had pleaded guilty to two separate felony charges of domestic assault and battery by attempted strangulation of the woman, who is the mother of his baby, court records show.
In both cases, Broshear was given concurrent sentences of 180 days in jail, with credit for time already served, followed by two and one-half years of probation, with an order to take a 52-week batterers’ intervention program, undergo random drug tests, have a DNA sample, and pay the cost of his incarceration along with court costs.
On April 8, Stillwater Police Officer Zachary Gulick had been sent to the woman’s apartment after she said Broshear “was coming down from using drugs,” and had “threatened to kill her and had white around his mouth as if he was foaming at the mouth,” an affidavit said.
Initially the woman did not want to press charges against him for threatening her, but about 90 minutes later she changed her mind, the affidavit said.
When the woman went to the police station, she reported that Broshear had choked her three times, the affidavit said. She said during one of the times, her neck popped and still hurt, the affidavit said. She said “while Samuel was choking her, Samuel told her he was going to kill her,” the affidavit said.
Six months earlier, while the woman was 32 weeks pregnant with his child, Broshear was charged with choking, punching and headbutting her in the head, court records show. In that case, Stillwater Police Officer Shawn Millermon was sent to the Stillwater Medical Center emergency room on Oct. 25, 2018, where the woman reported pain in her upper abdomen, but did not know if she was punched there, the affidavit said. “She stated her bottom jaw on the left side was sore along with her head hurting,” the affidavit said.
The pregnant woman said that when she told Broshear to leave her apartment, he called her names, grabbed her by the throat with both hands, and shoved her into the door frame of the bedroom onto the bed, the affidavit said. As Broshear continued to strangle her, he told her, “I’m gonna kill you,” the affidavit said.
In her petition for a protective order against Broshear on April 9, she wrote that Broshear told her on April 8 “if my mom comes or the police show up, my kids will be in DHS custody because he will kill me.”
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