(Stillwater, Okla.) — A Stroud man who admitted chasing his girlfriend, forcefully placing her in his car, holding a gun to her side, attempting to drive her to another location and severely beating her, all in Cushing, was given a 10-month jail term Friday as part of a 10-year probationary sentence.
On his release from custody, Nathan Alan Wright, 31, who was arrested at a Cushing residence, must have a mental health evaluation along with any recommended treatment, complete the Menders program, pay the costs of his incarceration and have no uninvited contact with his victim.
Wright must also perform 40 hours of community service within one year with Payne County Environmental Officer Darrell Varnell, Associate District Judge Stephen Kistler ordered Friday.
Wright must pay $1,007 restitution, $250 to the victims’ compensation fund and $150 for a DNA fee, the judge ordered.
Wright had pleaded guilty to kidnapping his girlfriend and punching her in the face, where she received a fracture, court records show.
Cushing Police Officer Brandon Hise had been sent to the Wilshire Inn regarding a woman screaming for help from a red Toyota Corolla at 10:35 p.m. July 8, 2011, while the vehicle was leaving the motel and traveling west on Main Street, according to his affidavit.
While searching for the car, the Cushing officer was notified that a woman had run into a convenience store on East Main Street and was asking for help, the affidavit said.
The woman was sitting on the floor shaking and fidgeting while yelling for help, the affidavit said.
She said “her boyfriend, Nathan, was going to kill her,” the affidavit said. She had a swollen left eye and abrasions on her legs, the affidavit said.
The officer put her inside his patrol car until an ambulance arrived to take her to the Cushing Regional Hospital where she was treated for a facial bone fracture, bruises and abrasions, the affidavit said.
After she was semi-calm, “I was able to determine that Nathan Wright, the man she lived with, had struck her in the face with his fist, grabbed and pulled her by the hair and forcibly dragged her into the car at the Wilshire Inn,” the officer wrote in his affidavit.
“Then he drove them west on North Street and pulled a pistol out from under his seat stating that he was going to kill her because he could not lose custody of his 5-year-old son, who was in the vehicle witnessing the event,: the affidavit said. The child was subsequently taken into DHS custody, Cushing Deputy Police Chief Tully Folden said.
The woman said that when he stopped the car at a stop sign, she fled from the vehicle, went into the convenience store, sought help, and Wright drove off, the affidavit said.
She said “he would probably go to Stillwater or his drug dealer’s house in Tulsa, but could not identify who that was or where in Stillwater he may go,” the officer wrote in his affidavit.
Area authorities were alerted to be on the lookout for Wright and his vehicle, the affidavit said.
Wright was arrested Aug. 4 on a warrant at a house in the 1100 block of E. Greelee Street in Cushing, Folden said.
“We had received information from DHS that he was at that residence,” Folden said.
Wright has been held since then on $50,000 bail, court records show. He was given credit Friday for the time he has already served in the Payne County Jail, court records show.
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