By Patti Weaver
STILLWATER — An ex-convict from Drumright has been given a 10-year prison sentence followed by 10 years of probation for committing a pattern of property crimes in Cushing and Stroud on July 8, 2025, in a case investigated by Payne County Sheriff’s Investigator Brandon Myers.
Roland Casey Andrew Roberts, 33, pleaded guilty last week to a six-count charge before Payne County Associate District Judge Michael Kulling, who ordered him to pay $5,549.62 restitution, undergo random drug tests and maintain employment while on probation after completing his prison term.
Roberts, who has been in custody since Aug. 27, 2025, was facing the possibility of being given three life sentences plus 12 years if convicted on all of his counts, court records show.
According to an affidavit by the Payne County Sheriff’s investigator, a Cushing woman had reported at 6:51 am on July 8, 2025, that her Nissan Armada was stolen from in front of her residence on N Steele Street between 4:40 am and 5 am: “The victim had a camera that captured the time of the theft; however, the video quality was insufficient to identify a suspect.”
That same day at about 6:17 am, a rural Cushing woman reported that her Nissan Altima was stolen from her residence on S. Brethren Road between 4:45 am and 6:15 am: “At the time of the theft, a Glock 9 mm pistol was inside the vehicle,” the affidavit said.
At 8:26 am, the Nissan Altima that was stolen earlier that morning on N. Steele Street was found stuck in the mud of a yard in the 6000 block of W. 9th Street in Cushing, the affidavit said.
“I canvassed the area and went to a location across the street and just west of where the Armada was recovered. A shop building on the property captured video footage of a suspect walking westbound in front of the shop,” onto neighboring property on 9th Street where a woman said her Ford Escape was burglarized, the sheriff’s investigator wrote in his affidavit.
At about 9 am that day, the investigator was notified that a Dodge Charger was stolen on E. 780 Road in rural Stroud, the affidavit said. At 8:15 pm a Nissan Altima was found in the backyard of a burglarized rural Stroud residence, the affidavit said.
“A game trail camera on the property captured photographs of the suspect. The individual in the still images matched the person seen in the video footage from 9th Street. Upon reviewing the photos and video, I identified the suspect as Roland Roberts,” the sheriff’s investigator wrote in his affidavit.
At 10:15 pm, Cushing police were sent on a report that a Dodge Charger had been abandoned on property and in the street on N. Violet Ave. since about 10 am, the affidavit said. “Cushing police ran the plate and confirmed it was the same vehicle reported stolen earlier that day from 780 Road in Lincoln County, ” the affidavit said.
According to the state Department of Corrections, Roberts had been released from prison on Dec. 7, 2023, after serving about half of eight concurrent sentences of about eight years for car theft in Muskogee County, along with two counts of stolen vehicle possession, one count of being a felon with a firearm, and four counts of burglary, all in 2019 in Payne County.
Roberts had also been convicted of car theft and first-degree burglary in 2012 in Payne County, for which he served about five years of two concurrent seven-year sentences before his release in 2018. Roberts had also been convicted in Pawnee County of second-degree burglary in 2011 for which he served about two years of a five-year sentence after his probation was revoked in 2016, DOC records show.
