Stillwater man jailed on domestic violence charge

  (Stillwater, Okla.) — A Stillwater man accused of financially exploiting a vulnerable man has been jailed on $12,500 total bail due to a new charge of domestic violence of his girlfriend and interfering with an emergency phone call.

    Richard Allen Foster Jr., 39, who had been convicted of inflicting corporal injury on a spouse in Santa Clara County, California, in 2013, has been ordered to appear before a judge Tuesday for arraignment on his Payne County charges, court records show.

    If convicted on all of his charges, Foster could be incarcerated for as long as 15 years and fined $18,000.

    Foster was arrested at 8th and Janes Court at 5:35 pm on Oct. 23, less than 30 minutes after Stillwater Police Officer Alonzo Cordova was dispatched to Foster’s residence regarding a physical domestic incident, an affidavit alleged.

    A woman said “she had been assaulted by her boyfriend, Richard Foster, and that a knife was involved,” an affidavit alleged.

    When the officer got out of his patrol unit, the woman “was standing outside — saying Richard ran out the back door just before I arrived,” he alleged in his affidavit.

    “Other responding officers searched the area for Richard while I went inside to speak,” to the woman, who said “she was intending to go and visit her son, but told me Richard did not want her to leave,” until 6 pm, Officer Cordova alleged in his affidavit.

    She said she was unaware it was only 5 pm when she started to leave, the affidavit said.

    “Because she was leaving before Richard wanted to, she said he got upset and the two started arguing in the bedroom. The arguing continued until Richard grabbed a hold of (her) and pushed her down the hallway,” where “she hit the wall hard enough for it to cause a wood panel to come off the wall,” the affidavit alleged.

    “I was able to see the wood panel lying on the ground, and the pipes behind the wall exposed,” Officer Cordova alleged in his affidavit.

    She said “Richard then grabbed her by her hair and hit her in the face,” the affidavit alleged.

    She said “she was eventually able to get away from Richard and run into the kitchen. (She) stated she was in fear for her safety and grabbed a kitchen knife while trying to dial 911. (She) said Richard still came towards her and wrestled the knife away from her; and at some point during the altercation, (she) had broken four of her fingernails.

    “After Richard took the knife from her, he went into the back bedroom. (She) said she was on the phone with dispatch, and when they asked for Richard’s description, he overheard her giving it to them. (She) said Richard came back, grabbed ahold of her phone and threw it — causing the battery to come off the back.

    “She said Richard then returned to his room. (She) said she grabbed the different pieces of her cell phone and put it back together. She then turned it back on and called dispatch back.

    “As she was doing this, she said Richard walked out of the room, holding different colored clothing, and walked out the back door,” shortly before police arrived, the affidavit alleged.

    While she was speaking, “I noticed she was grabbing her right side, just between her hip and ribs,” and would occasionally wince in pain, the officer wrote in his affidavit.

    She “stated she was fine, but that her side hurt,” and didn’t want an ambulance to check her injuries, the affidavit alleged.

    When the officer asked if he could look at her injury, “She lifted her shirt slightly and just above her right hip, I saw several abrasions. The skin was also raised and beginning to swell. As I was doing this, I heard Sgt. Hansen call out on the radio that he was out with Richard at the corner of 8th and Janes Court,” Officer Cordova wrote in his affidavit.

    “I knew probable cause existed to place Richard under arrest for domestic assault and battery and interfering with an emergency phone call. I then relayed this to Sgt. Hansen, who placed Richard under arrest,” Officer Cordova alleged in his affidavit.

    Over a year ago, Foster had been accused of financial exploitation of a vulnerable adult, but he was not arrested on that felony charge until last week.

    In that case, a program coordinator for Community Access, which provides live-in care for developmentally disabled individuals, believed that Foster, who was fired as a caregiver from the facility, was responsible for stealing a client’s Nintendo gaming system valued at $250, an affidavit alleged.

    An investigation revealed that Foster pawned the gaming system on Jan. 14, 2020, after claiming he had owned it for a year, Stillwater Police Officer David Adney alleged in an affidavit.