
By Patti Weaver
(Stillwater, Okla.) — An ex-convict, who was released from prison four years ago after serving time for methamphetamine possession, has been jailed on $20,000 bail pending a May 31 preliminary hearing on a charge of attacking a female emergency medical care provider at Grand Mental Health Facility in Stillwater.
Former Cushing resident Jimmy Lee Neely Jr., 39, of Ponca City, has a criminal record in Payne, Noble, Kay and Okfuskee counties, according to state Department of Corrections records.
Neely was arrested on April 11 at 9:02 am, about 10 minutes after Stillwater Police Officer Chase Mobus was sent to the mental health facility in the Cimarron Plaza on a report that Neely had assaulted a staff member there, an affidavit alleged.
“I have dealt with Jimmy in the past and have known him to be loud and combative,” the officer alleged in his affidavit.
An employee at the mental health facility said that Neely had demanded to be admitted, the affidavit alleged.
“She explained that due to Jimmy’s history of problems at the GMH facility they would not admit him on a voluntary basis. She told me that this was due to Jimmy being combative.
“He became very angry when they told him no. She stated that Jimmy told them that he would go steal a car, get into a pursuit with a law enforcement officer, and make them shoot him. After that statement, they admitted Jimmy.
“(She) said that Jimmy woke up this morning and decided to leave. When she told him that he had to stay there, he became angry. He walked toward a nearby door, but (she) stepped in the way. She told him that he would have to have an injection if he did not calm down.
“He said, ‘F…that. I am leaving.’ When (she) did not move, Jimmy reared his right shoulder and hand back. He struck her on her right shoulder. She struck the wall behind her,” the officer alleged in his affidavit.
Another female employee said, “Jimmy kicked open two doors after this to leave the building. (Both women) told me that they thought Jimmy was going to start punching them. They described how Jimmy was clenching his fists and bowing out his chest.
“They said that this is uncharacteristic for Jimmy, and that they would qualify this as new behavior. They told me that Jimmy has always been combative, but never with women,” the officer alleged in his affidavit.
According to DOC records, Neely had previously been convicted of
* methamphetamine possession in Perry in Noble County in 2016 for which he was given a seven-year prison term but served less than three years before his release in June of 2019;
* harboring a fugitive in both Okfuskee County and Kay County in 2008 for which he was given in 2009 concurrent 10-year prison terms but only served about seven years before his release in October of 2016;
* car theft and second-degree burglary in Noble County in 2004 for which he was given in 2005 concurrent nine-year prison terms but served only about seven and one-half years before his release in January of 2013;
* bogus check in Payne County in 2004 for which he was given a seven-year prison term but served only five years and three months before his release in January of 2010;
* assault and battery on a police officer in Payne County in 2004 for which he was given a five-year prison term but only served three and one-half years before his release in March of 2008;
* prisoner placing body fluid on government employee in Payne County in 2004 for which he was given a two-year prison term of which he served one year and nine months before his release in July of 2006;
* eluding a police officer in Payne County in 2004 for which he was given a one-year jail term that he served before his release in October of 2005;
* car theft and second-degree burglary in Payne County in 2002 for which he was given in 2004 concurrent five-year prison terms but only served three and one-half years before his release in March of 2008.