(Stillwater, Okla.) A Yale ex-convict with a 26-year criminal record has been charged with punching a Payne County sheriff’s deputy investigating a report of an intoxicated man being run over by a vehicle.
David Wayne Davis, 45, was arraigned Friday from the Payne County Jail where he was ordered held on $20,000 bail pending a Nov. 18 court appearance with an attorney.
Due to his prior felony convictions, Davis could be sentenced to three years to life in prison if convicted of assault and battery on a law enforcement officer, according to the charge filed Friday by Payne County First Assistant District Attorney Kevin Etherington.
Payne County Sheriff’s Deputy Dakota Murley was sent at 6:20 p.m. on Oct. 8 to 28010 E. 68 in rural Yale “for an intoxicated subject that had been run over by a vehicle,” according to his affidavit.
“Upon my arrival, I walked up to a vehicle in the roadway with an intoxicated male, later identified as David Davis, laying across the seat of the vehicle with blood all over him.
“The passenger-side door was open so I walked around to it and asked Davis if he was okay. He advised he was good.
“When Cushing paramedics arrived, Davis got up out of the vehicle and tried to walk away. “I told him to come back to the ambulance to speak with the paramedics.
“As I told him to come to the ambulance, Davis said, ‘f… you, b….’ and punched me in the chest and face,” the deputy alleged in his affidavit.
“Myself and Deputy Rose subdued Davis’ hands and placed him in handcuffs.
“We walked Davis to the front of my patrol vehicle so Cushing paramedics could check for injuries from being run over by the vehicle.
“When I tried to take the handcuffs off of Davis, so the medic could take his blood pressure, Davis again said ‘f…. you b….’ and tried to fight.
“Davis was kept in custody and Cushing medics advised since he was not being cooperative, they would not transport him to the hospital; however, he needed to be checked by a doctor for injuries immediately.
“Davis was placed in the back of my patrol vehicle and advised he was under arrest for assault and battery upon a police officer, and he was being transported to Stillwater Medical Center to be checked for injuries,” the deputy wrote in his affidavit.
After Davis was checked for his injuries and released from the Stillwater Medical Center, he was taken to the Payne County Jail, the affidavit said.
Davis apparently got out of prison two and one-half years ago after serving about 10 months of two concurrent three-year sentences for eluding a police officer in Creek County in 2011 and drunk driving in Payne County in 2009, on which he remains on probation, state Department of Corrections records show.
According to DOC records, Davis was also convicted of:
* attempting to elude a police officer and running a roadblock in Payne County in 2007, for which he was given two concurrent three-year prison terms in 2012, of which he served about 10 months;
* intimidation of a witness, two counts, in Payne County in 1996, for which he was given two concurrent four-year and 125 days prison terms in 2001, of which he served less than two years; * intimidation of a witness, one count, in Payne County in 1996, for which he was given four years and nine months of probation in 1997;
* grand larceny, four counts, in Payne County in 1988, for which he was given probationary terms of two years to five years.
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