(Stillwater, Okla.) – A 59-year-old Cushing woman with an extensive criminal record was given a 10-year prison term followed by five years of probation Friday for setting fire to two unoccupied buildings in Cushing, one in the 200 block of S. Steele and the other in the 300 block of E. 2nd Street, both on Sept. 2, 2017.
Judy Diane Daniels, who has also been known by the surnames of Alvarado, Cook, Hickey, Skinner and Weiss, had already been sentenced to prison in January for violating the terms of her probation in four Payne County cases, state Department of Corrections records show.
District Judge Phillip Corley accepted a no contest plea Friday from Daniels, who had been scheduled to stand trial on Sept. 24 on her arson charges, for which she could have been given as much as two life prison terms due to her prior felony convictions. Corley ordered that all of her prison terms be served concurrently.
In accordance with a plea bargain with the prosecution in her arson case, the judge ordered Daniels to make arrangements to begin paying $2,035 restitution, $700 in fines and $100 in victims’ compensation fund assessments plus court costs on her release from prison, a court official told KUSH Monday.
According to court records and the state Department of Corrections, Daniels under the surname of Alvarado was convicted in Payne County of:
* uttering a forged instrument in 2000 for which she was given a two-year prison term in 2002 followed by five years’ probation;
* six counts of second-degree forgery in 2003 for which she was given a five-year prison term in 2004 followed by 15 years’ probation;
* seven counts of uttering a forged instrument in 2004 for which she was given a concurrent five-year prison term in 2004 followed by 15 years’ probation;
* two counts of forging written instruments in 2008 for which she was given a five-year prison term in 2009 of which she served less than two years prior to her release in 2011;
* delivery of a forged check in 2013 for which she was given a seven-year suspended sentence in 2015;
* uttering two or more bogus checks exceeding $1,000 in 2013 for which she was given a 10-year suspended sentence in 2015.
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