
By Patti Weaver
STILLWATER — A convicted rapist has been jailed on $25,000 bail pending a June 19 preliminary hearing on a felony charge of hitting a Payne County jailer in the groin with his knee and biting him on the arm, as well as a misdemeanor count of threatening to kill another jailer when he got out.
Ronald Lee Mishion, 40, who was listed as homeless in Stillwater, could be given four years to life in prison if convicted of assault and battery on a corrections officer after two prior felonies. If convicted of his misdemeanor count of threatening to kill a jailer when he got out, Mishion could be given a six-month jail term.
The day before his current charges, Mishion had been jailed on $5,000 bail on a misdemeanor charge of threatening a violent act in Stillwater, court records show.
Payne County Sheriff’s Detention Sgt. Treyton Keeling alleged in an affidavit that when he started his March 22 shift at 7:30 pm, “I was made aware by Sgt. Wil Anderson that inmate Ronald Lee Mishion had been involved with an assault on staff,” by kicking and biting.
After Mishion was taken out of a restraint chair and placed in handcuffs to be escorted to his housing unit, while officers were attempting to remove his handcuffs, Mishion refused to give up the handcuffs, turned toward a jailer and “made threats to shoot him with his ‘AK gun’ once he got out of the jail,” the affidavit alleged.
“After reviewing body worn camera from officers, I observed Ronald threaten to assault officers once he got out of disciplinary housing. He also threatened to shoot officers with his gun, and stated he would wait for them outside of the jail.
“Ronald also threatened to spit and punch (a jailer) while being secured in the restraint chair. I asked (another jailer) to show me the spot where Ronald had bitten him. I observed a red-like mark in the shape of teeth that resembled a bite mark,” the sergeant alleged in his affidavit.
According to state Department of Corrections records, Mishion had been convicted in 2007 of three counts of first-degree rape in 2006 in Oklahoma County and given three concurrent 20-year prison terms. DOC records did not indicate when Mishion was released from prison.