
By: Patti Weaver
(Stillwater, Okla.) — An arrest warrant has been issued for a Cushing man accused of breaking into DBI company property at 600 N. Euchee Valley Road, stealing a 2016 Dodge 2500 truck, and attempting to elude a Payne County sheriff’s deputy by speeding into Lincoln County.
The suspect, identified as Christopher James McDonald, 32, could be incarcerated for as long as 13 years if apprehended and convicted of the charges filed in Payne County last week.
Payne County Sheriff’s Deputy Joseph Henninger was sent at 1:57 am on the day before Thanksgiving to DBI for an alarm call on company property, according to an affidavit filed last week.
The company property has “a pipe gate with a metal tab welded on the pipe to secure the chain with a lock,” according to the affidavit.
The tab was broken off and pry marks were located on the south walk-in door at the business, the affidavit said.
Missing from the property was “a 2016 white Dodge 2500 4-door long bed diesel truck with a dark room on it (camper shell) with a dent in the rear bumper; the camper shell had the business name on both sides,” according to a DBI employee, the affidavit said.
GPS on the truck indicated that it was at East 80th and Rosebud, according to the affidavit.
“When I arrived in the area, I observed a set of tail lights…. As I attempted to get closer to the vehicle, it started accelerating,” the deputy wrote in his affidavit.
“I advised dispatch that I was in pursuit of the vehicle. The vehicle went south on Rosebud from 80th, east on Fairlawn, then south on Skinner Ave. to Highway 33. Once on Highway 33, the vehicle went west to Oak Grove at a speed of 96 mph. The vehicle turned south on Oak Grove Road,” and ran the stop sign at Oak Grove and 9th, the deputy alleged in his affidavit.
“The vehicle continued through Eseco Rd. and Texaco Rd. continuing south into Lincoln County. The vehicle continued south on N3570 Rd. and crashed into a tree approximately one-half of a mile south of Texaco and N3570 Rd.
“When I approached the driver’s side of the vehicle, I observed the rear drive door to be open. I observed footprints in the mud heading south from the vehicle. I followed the footprints south until I could not locate the footprints any more. I was unable to locate the subject,” the deputy wrote in his affidavit.
Found in the truck were two backpacks that did not belong to the company, the affidavit said.
One of the backpacks had a wallet with an Oklahoma ID card for Christopher James McDonald, the affidavit alleged.
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