By: Patti Weaver
(Stillwater, Okla.) — A 31-year-old Yale man accused of breaking into a female neighbor’s house while she inside it has been released from the Payne County Jail on $25,000 bail pending a June 8 court appearance.
If convicted of first-degree burglary, Stephen Wayne Vieyra could be imprisoned for seven to 20 years and fined up to $10,000, court records show.
Vieyra was arrested about 10 minutes after his neighbor called police at 12:48 pm on May 7 — “saying she needed police at her home, then yelled (another woman’s name) several times, then said she would have to call us back and disconnected,” Yale Deputy Police Chief Ken Moore wrote in an affidavit.
“Prior to my arrival, Yale dispatch received a 911 call from a female at that residence saying they needed us now. I then activated my emergency lights and siren,” Moore wrote in his affidavit.
“I arrived and saw a male on the ground; (the other woman) had him at gunpoint,” Moore wrote in his affidavit.
“I told (that woman) to give me the firearm. I secured the weapon and then placed the male in cuffs,” Moore wrote in his affidavit.
Asked what happened, Vieyra’s neighbor said “that this man (Vieyra) had broken into her house and tried to grab her. Other people at the scene told me they saw Vieyra come out of (her) residence,” Moore alleged in his affidavit.
“The front metal storm door was damaged and will most likely have to be replaced,” the affidavit alleged.
“Mr. Vieyra had left his small children at home by themselves to go to his neighbor’s home and burglarize it with his neighbor in the home at the time,” the affidavit alleged.
“Mr. Vieyra was under the influence of an intoxicating substance,” the affidavit alleged.
“After Mr. Vieyra was cuffed, patted down, and placed in the back of a patrol car, Mr. Vieyra tried to slip his handcuffs to the front, and I could see footprints on the rear passenger door; it looked like he was also kicking the door,” Moore alleged in his affidavit.
“Officer Haley and I had to remove Mr. Vieyra from the car, remove his handcuffs and re-apply them,” Moore alleged in his affidavit.
“Officer Haley transported Mr. Vieyra to the Payne County Jail for booking; during the drive, Mr. Vieyra spit inside the patrol car,” the affidavit alleged.
Vieyra is 6’1′ tall and weighs 220 pounds, while his female neighbor is about 5′ tall and around 100 pounds, the affidavit alleged.
Although the deputy police chief requested an ambulance to check on Vieyra and his neighbor, Vieyra declined to be examined, but his neighbor was checked by staff with the Cushing ambulance service, the affidavit alleged.
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