By Patti Weaver
STILLWATER — A 52-year-old Glencoe man on probation for possessing methamphetamine with intent to distribute has been jailed on $100,000 bond pending a July 7 court appearance on a felony charge accusing him of slapping his girlfriend in the face, punching her in the hip and twisting her ankle while threatening to break it off.
If convicted of domestic violence as a second offense, Kenneth Edward Bonnell could be given a four-year prison term and a $5,000 fine, court records show.
Bonnell was arrested three days after the alleged May 26 attack, according to an affidavit by Payne County Sheriff’s Deputy Spencer Gedon, who had been sent on May 29 to Hillcrest Hospital in Cushing where a nurse said the victim had left after being treated for a sprained ankle.
Contacted at her relative’s house in Cushing, the woman “told me her and Kenneth (Kenny) Bonnell had previously been in a dating relationship for about three years but had broken up several months prior,” and “gotten back together a few days ago,” the deputy wrote in his affidavit.
She said, “they originally split up because Kenny would not stop hitting her,” the affidavit alleged.
She said that she was in the bedroom at his travel trailer in Glencoe when “Kenny started going through her phone,” and “saw two people on her phone he did not know and slapped her twice with an open hand on the right side of her face in the cheek area.
“She went on to say Kenny then punched her twice in the left hip area with a closed fist. She then said Kenny grabbed her left foot and twisted it counterclockwise.
“She said Kenny said, ‘I’m gonna break this mother f….. off so you can’t leave.’ She said while Kenny was twisting her foot, she started praying out loud for God to help her. She said Kenny told her ‘God’s not here.’
“She said while Kenny was twisting her foot she heard and felt a ‘pop’ in her ankle and felt significant pain in her left ankle.
“She said there was a knock at the door, and Kenny quit twisting her foot and went into the living room and answered the door. She said a tall man whom she did not know came into the living room. She said she was waving at the man trying to get his attention to call 911, but the man just looked at her.
“She then said she bolted for the door wearing only shorts and a spaghetti strap top and no shoes. She said as she got near the front door, Kenny tried to grab her leg but was not able to hold her and she ran out of the front door. She said it was storming outside, but she walked, and hitch hiked back to Cushing to her (relative’s) house,” the affidavit alleged.
She said the assault happened on May 26 between 10:30 pm and 11 pm and did not arrive at her relative’s house until early the next morning, the affidavit alleged.
The deputy wrote in his affidavit that he did not observe any marks on her face, but her “ankle was swollen on the outside portion and above the swelling was an indentation she said was not there before the incident. I also observed bruising on the inside of her ankle and a small swollen area above the arch on the inside of her left foot.”
That day at 12:21 pm, “myself, Sgt. Ross and Deputy Secrest arrived,” at Bonnell’s residence where when the deputy knocked on the door, “Kenny cracked the door and stuck his head out.
“When he saw us, he closed the door and refused to open it. Sgt. Ross opened the door, grabbed Kenny, and handed him off to me,” to be handcuffed, Deputy Gedon alleged in his affidavit.
According to Payne County court records and the state Department of Corrections, Bonnell was originally placed on 10 years of probation in 2018 for possessing methamphetamine with intent to distribute in Stillwater in 2017. But in 2019, Bonnell was found in violation of his probation and sent to prison to undergo drug treatment after which the balance of his sentence was suspended in 2020.
In 2020, Bonnell was convicted of misdemeanor domestic violence in Payne County in 2019, for which he was given a one-year jail term, court records show.
