By Patti Weaver
(Stillwater, Okla.) — A former Cushing man accused of punching a security guard in the face at the Stillwater Medical Center, along with possessing methamphetamine and a drug smoking pipe, has been jailed on $20,000 bail pending a Sept. 8 court appearance.
If convicted of a three-count charge, Joshua Aaron Villegas, 39, of Stillwater, who has also been known by the surname of Richardson, could be incarcerated for four years and fined $3,000, court records show.
Villegas was arrested at 9:07 pm on June 16, about 20 minutes after officers were sent to SMC for an assault, Stillwater Police Officer John Howell wrote in an affidavit.
On his way to the hospital, the officer was advised that the suspect had left on foot with no shirt on and was currently lying in a yard in the 500 block of S. Blakeley, the affidavit alleged.
After the officer saw the suspect lying on his belly next to a tree in the front yard of the residence, “He refused to tell me any information of who he was and why he was laying in the yard of the residence. After multiple attempts, he finally told me part of his name, and I was able to obtain the rest of his name from his medical bracelet on his left arm from SMC,” the officer alleged in his affidavit.
“Shortly after, Officer Devore advised me by radio to put Joshua in investigative detention. Officer Devore told me that Joshua had assaulted and battered a security guard at SMC right before he ran on foot to the location where I came into contact with him,” the officer alleged in his affidavit.
During a search incident to arrest, “I found a glass pipe containing burnt residue, a glass pipe with a bowl on the end containing burnt residue, a clear baggy containing a white powdery substance, as well as a piece of metal bent into a ‘U’ shape located in his front pocket,” the officer alleged in his affidavit.
The security guard said that after the suspect left the emergency room, “he exited the building before entering the building again on the north side,” the affidavit alleged.
The security guard said that he stopped the suspect and told him he needed to leave the premises, the affidavit alleged. He said the suspect “then tried to strike him and struck his lower left jaw,” before throwing another punch that hit his right bicep, the affidavit alleged. The security guard said he was pushed to the ground and landed on the left side of his body before the suspect left the scene, the affidavit alleged.
“I later viewed surveillance footage and observed Joshua who appeared to assault (the security guard),” as he had stated, the officer alleged in his affidavit.
