By: Patti Weaver
Stillwater, Okla.) — A 31-year-old Texas man, described as appearing paranoid, admitted Friday that he broke bones around a Stillwater man’s right eye and a window at the victim’s residence, for which he was ordered to pay $11,408 in restitution for medical expenses and property damage.
John Jacob Scoggins of Gainesville, Texas, was ordered Friday to serve 90 days in the Payne County Jail followed by six years and nine months of probation, undergo a substance abuse evaluation, have random drug tests, show proof of employment, and pay $1,360 in assessments plus court costs.
Scoggins, who has been in custody for the past two and one-half months, plans to move to Texas and work on a pipeline, Payne County District Judge Phillip Corley was told in court Friday.
The victim had a cut on the bridge of his nose, dried blood coming from his nostrils, and a severely swollen right eye that he was unable to open, Stillwater Police Officer Alonzo Cordova wrote in an affidavit.
The victim was frantic when he walked into a convenience store on W. 6th Street in Stillwater at 10:55 p.m. on Feb. 17 and said he was attacked at his residence on W. 8th Street, the affidavit said.
The victim said his attacker was at his residence periodically throughout the day and that when he woke up, Scoggins “hit him with a closed fist on the right side of his face around his right eye,” the affidavit said.
The victim said that after he ran out of his house to the convenience store, he heard Scoggins break the glass of a window at his house, the affidavit said.
The victim was transported by ambulance to the Stillwater Medical Center for “a right eye orbital fracture and several broken bones around his eye,” the affidavit said.
The victim said that Scoggins “appeared paranoid and was making statements about being spied on by an unknown government agency,” the affidavit said.
While Scoggins was being booked into the Stillwater City Jail, “Sgt. Rager stated John appeared paranoid and was speaking erratically,” the affidavit said.
“I noticed what appeared to be a large amount of dried blood on John’s hands,” and was informed by the sergeant that his clothing was saturated with a substance consistent with blood, the officer wrote in his affidavit.
“As the booking process continued, I heard John state several employees from ‘L3’ were coming after him and that he was acting in self-defense,” the officer wrote in his affidavit.
Since Scoggins was given a deferred sentence for aggravated assault and battery, as well as malicious injury to property, he will not have a criminal record if he successfully completes his probation.
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