(Stillwater, Okla.) — An ex-convict from Creek County with a 26-year criminal record has been charged in Payne County with stealing a 2016 Chrysler while it was running in the Ampride parking lot in Perkins.
If convicted of his Payne County charge, Jeremy Scott Little, 46, could be given as much as a life sentence due to his prior felony convictions.
Little was arrested on Nov. 7 by Lincoln County Sheriff’s Deputy Kevin Roe with a stolen vehicle taken from Cushing, according to a Perkins police affidavit.
Little, who previously lived in Bristow and Stroud, was being held in the Lincoln County Jail on $10,000 bail on a felony charge of stealing a car in that county, court records showed Thursday.
In Little’s Payne County case, Perkins Police Officer George Hannon was advised at 4:39 a.m. on Nov. 5 that a vehicle had just been stolen at Ampride and was headed south on Perkins Road, possibly to the casino, an affidavit said.
Iowa Tribe Officer Wesley Chasteen said the suspect bailed out of the vehicle, which was recovered parked in the roadway at Main and Knipe Street, while Chasteen continued to pursue another vehicle with assistance from Payne County deputies, according to the affidavit.
“I secured the (stolen) vehicle and drove to Ampride to pick up my victim,” who said he left his vehicle running while he went in to change out the newspapers, the Perkins officer wrote in his affidavit.
The owner of the stolen vehicle said that his wallet containing $5, three credit cards and a bank card was also taken, the affidavit said.
Ampride video showed that the suspect, who told a clerk he was from Bristow, arrived in another vehicle with a woman, the affidavit alleged.
When the Perkins police officer sent the suspect’s photos from Ampride, Bristow Police Investigator Kevin Webster identified the male suspect as Little on Nov.7, the affidavit alleged.
The next day, Perkins Police Investigator Charles Danker went to the Lincoln County Jail to interview Little, who said he didn’t remember anything about a stolen vehicle in Perkins and was probably high, the affidavit alleged.
“Jeremy said he may have stolen the car but he doesn’t remember anything about it. Jeremy said he got out of prison about a year ago and is homeless. Jeremy said that he can’t see good enough to work so he splits wood. He said the reason he stole the Mazda car was so him and her could stay warm,” the affidavit alleged.
Advised that cards stolen from the vehicle were used at the Cushing Walmart, Little said “he never steals cards, but has always stolen cars,” which he used to sell to chop shops to support his drug habit, the affidavit alleged.
According to court records and the state Department of Corrections, Little previously was convicted of;
* eluding a police officer in Creek County in 2015, for which he was given in 2016 a 15-year suspended sentence that the prosecution is now seeking to revoke;
* car theft and grand larceny in Creek County in 2010, for which he was originally given in 2012 a five-year prison term followed by 15 years of probation, part of which was revoked in 2016 to six years’ incarceration of which he served about one and one-half years before his release in October 2017;
* conspiracy to manufacture a drug and possession of a precursor to manufacture a drug in Creek County in 2003, for which he was given a 12-year prison term and served about eight years;
* two counts of unauthorized use of a vehicle and one count of third-degree arson in Creek County in 2003, for which he was given a concurrent 12-year prison term and served about eight years;
* unauthorized use of a vehicle, third-degree arson and concealing stolen property in Creek County in 2003, for which he was given a concurrent 12-year prison term and served about eight years;
* escape after lawful arrest in Okmulgee County in 1997, for which he was given in 1998 a 10-year prison term and served less than half;
* car theft in Okmulgee County in 1997, for which he was given in 1998 a concurrent 10-year prison term and served less than half;
* stolen vehicle possession in Creek County in 1997, for which he was given a concurrent 10-year prison term and served less than half;
* car theft in Okmulgee County in 1994, for which he was given four years and three months incarceration and served less than half;
* second-degree burglary in Creek County in 1991, for which he was given in 1992 two and one-half years incarceration and served less than one year;
* six counts of second-degree burglary in Hughes County in 1992, for which he was given two and one-half years incarceration and served less than one year.
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