(Stillwater, Okla.) -- A bench warrant has been issued for the arrest of an ex-convict who failed to appear in court on charges of intimidation of a witness and attempting to manufacture methamphetamine, both in Stillwater.

Richard Charles Kuhlenschmidt, 28, of Stillwater, is currently in the Okmulgee County Jail, his court-appointed attorney Debra Vincent told a Payne County judge. Kuhlenschmidt was charged with attempting to elude police and running a roadblock in Okmulgee County last month, court records show.

In Payne County, Kuhlenschmidt was charged with attempting to manufacture methamphetamine at his residence in Stillwater on Nov. 19, 2009.

Kuhlenschmidt was free on bond when he was accused three months later of making threatening gestures at a neighbor who is a witness against him in a municipal court case.

The neighbor told police that on Feb. 23 and Feb. 27, Kuhlenschmidt made a gesture toward him "as though he was pointing a gun and pulling the trigger," Stillwater Police Officer Jeff Dillon wrote in an affidavit.

The neighbor said "he could only interpret Mr. Kuhlenschmidt's gesture as a threat to shoot him," the affidavit said.

The neighbor said he was simply sitting on his porch watching his children play when Kuhlenschmidt made the threatening gesture, the affidavit said.

"He stated he was very concerned for his safety based on Mr. Kuhlenschmidt's extensive previous criminal history," the affidavit said.

Kuhlenschmidt denied making any gestures towards his neighbor or saying anything to him, the affidavit said.

Kuhlenschmidt said that his neighbor had been calling the police for various things since he moved in, the affidavit said.

Kuhlenschmidt said that he has three current municipal cases against him because of his neighbor, the affidavit said.

Kuhlenschmidt said that he believes his neighbor "is calling the police repeatedly, just to harass him into moving out of the neighborhood," the affidavit said.

Kuhlenschmidt was convicted in 2005 in Payne County of possessing methamphetamine with intent to distribute, knowingly concealing stolen property, possessing marijuana and methamphetamine with intent to distribute and possession of a controlled drug without a prescription, court records show.

He was originally given a seven-year prison term, with the balance to be suspended on his completion of the state's Drug Offender Work Camp, which denied him placement in the minimum-security program, court records show.

After Kuhlenschmidt was transported to a private medium-security prison in Cushing that also has a drug offender treatment program, his sentence was modified to probation on his completion of that program, court records show.

Kuhlenschmidt was apparently released from prison in November 2006 after being incarcerated for about a year, court records show.

Kuhlenschmidt also has a conviction from Garfield County for transporting stolen property into the state in 2004, for which he was given five years of probation, state DOC records show.

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