(Stillwater, Okla.) — An ex-convict from Yale with a 14-year criminal history was charged today with being a felon in possession of a .22-caliber rifle in a case investigated by the Payne County Sheriff’s Department in July.
Because of his criminal history, Butch Dwayne Saunders, 34, could be given a three-year to life prison term if convicted of possession of a firearm after two or more former felony convictions.
A year after he got out of prison in March 2009, Saunders was charged with possessing methamphetamine in Yale, for which he was placed on six years’ probation, with an order to comply with the methamphetamine registry and pay $2,550 in fines and assessments.
According to the state Department of Corrections, Saunders was also convicted in Payne County of:
* drunk driving and leaving the scene of an injury accident in 2001 in Yale at age 20, for which he was sent to the state’s prison boot camp program for 102 days;
* second-degree burglary in 2001, for which he was originally given a two-year probationary term that was revoked to a two-year prison term in 2005;
* assault and battery on a Yale police officer and escape from the city jail in 2001, for which he was originally given a two-year probationary term that was revoked to a concurrent two-year prison term in 2005;
* first-degree burglary in Yale in 2001, for which he was originally given a two-year probationary term that was revoked to a concurrent two-year prison term in 2005;
* attempted robbery with a dangerous weapon in Yale in 2001, for which he was originally given a seven-year probationary term that was revoked to a concurrent five-year prison term in 2005;
* drunk driving in the Yale area in 2005, for which he was given a concurrent five-year prison term in 2005.
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