By Patti Weaver
STILLWATER — An ex-convict from Glencoe with a criminal record in four counties has been given four concurrent 20-year prison terms for choking his girlfriend and threatening her with a weapon in two different attacks in 2024.
Due to his prior felony convictions, Jaymie Dustin Pratt-Bregg, 32, could have been given as much as four life sentences if he hadn’t accepted a plea agreement with the prosecution that was approved in court by Payne County Associate District Judge Michael Kulling on April 15.
Pratt-Bregg, who had been released from prison in August of 2023, pleaded guilty to threatening his girlfriend with a hammer and choking her in March of 2024, and threatening her with a knife as well as choking her in December of 2024.
Pratt-Bregg must register as a violent offender when he gets out of prison, the judge ordered.
Stillwater Police Officer Joshua Gomez had been sent at 2:34 am on March 3, 2024, to the 3100 block of S. Main Street after a caller “stated there was a male who dragged a female through the grass by her hair behind the apartments by the dumpster,” an affidavit said.
She said that her boyfriend “had strangled her and stabbed her with a screwdriver,” the affidavit said. She said, “Jaymie told her he was going to drag her into the dark and kill her,” the affidavit said. She said, “as Jaymie was dragging her across the parking lot, she was yelling for help. She said that Jaymie put his hand over her mouth and nose to keep her from yelling.
“She said that while she was struggling to breathe, her vision began to fade. She said that Jaymie then started to punch her all over while she was curled up in the fetal position. She told me that she began to throw up, and people came outside, so Jaymie stopped hitting her.
“She said that Jaymie put her in the car and then got in with her. She told me that Jaymie was holding a hammer and wouldn’t let her leave for a couple hours. She said that eventually she was able to get the hammer from Jaymie and get out of the car and ran to somebody who was standing outside and asked them to call the police,” the officer wrote in his affidavit.
The woman had bruises on her legs, arms, the left side of the neck and middle of her back, which appeared to be from a day or two to a week or more old, the affidavit said.
Nine months later at 9:05 pm on Dec. 21, 2024, Stillwater Police Officer Jonathon DeVore was sent to a hotel on W. 6th Avenue on a report of a woman in a room yelling “stop” and “get off of me,” an affidavit said.
In that attack, when Pratt-Bregg’s girlfriend was taken to the Stillwater Medical Center Emergency Room, “I observed bruising on her face, neck and arms. I was advised that the bruising extended to her abdomen and legs. She stated that she had been dating Jaymie for approximately one year, and the domestic violence has occurred for the duration of the relationship.
“Before officers arrived on scene, she stated that Jaymie had strangled her and attempted to smother her with a pillow. She stated that Jaymie held a knife with the blade extending below his fist toward her. Jaymie then stated that he was going to kill her. She stated that Jaymie knew that police were responding and stated that he would kill her before police were able to help her.
“She stated that when I began kicking the entry door, Jaymie dropped the knife. She stated that she believed if officers had not arrived that Jaymie would have killed her,” the affidavit said.
Pratt-Bregg had been released from prison in August of 2023, to six years of probation after being incarcerated for a year for possessing methamphetamine with intent to distribute in Payne County, state Department of Corrections records show. He had also been imprisoned between 2014 and 2016 on concurrent sentences for auto larceny in Cleveland and Kay counties, as well as drug possession in Custer County, DOC records show.
