
By: Patti Weaver
(Stillwater, Okla.) — An ex-convict from Drumright with an extensive criminal record was given four concurrent prison terms of about 19 years after his suspended sentences were revoked last week by Payne County Associate District Judge Stephen Kistler for violating his probation in four felony cases, court records show today.
David Lee Higgins Jr., 40, had been out of prison for five months when he was charged with motor vehicle theft, grand larceny, eluding an officer, running two roadblocks, leaving the scene of an injury accident, driving on a suspended license and possessing a drug in Stillwater on April 19, an eight-count case on which he has a Dec. 15 pre-trial hearing.
According to the Oklahoma Department of Corrections and court records, Higgins, who had been released from prison on Nov. 6, 2019, was previously convicted of:
* possessing a stolen vehicle in Drumright in Creek County in 2018, for which he was given a five-year prison term concurrent to his Cushing stolen vehicle case listed below, with the balance suspended on his completion of a Drug Offender Work Camp, which he apparently finished in 11 months;
* possessing a stolen vehicle in Cushing in Payne County taken from a Drumright oil company in 2018, for which he was ordered to pay $1,500 restitution and serve a concurrent 20-year prison term, with the balance suspended on his completion of a Drug Offender Work Camp;
* assault and battery on a Payne County sheriff’s deputy and an Oklahoma Highway Patrol trooper in Payne County in 2018, for which he was ordered to pay $8,364 restitution and serve a concurrent 20-year prison term, with the balance suspended on his completion of a Drug Offender Work Camp;
* second-degree burglary of a Ripley convenience store in Payne County in 2018, for which he was ordered to pay $4,731 restitution and serve a concurrent 20-year prison term, with the balance suspended on his completion of a Drug Offender Work Camp;
* auto theft in Payne County in 2018, for which he was ordered to pay $1,198 restitution and serve a concurrent 20-year prison term, with the balance suspended on his completion of a Drug Offender Work Camp;
* domestic assault and battery in Drumright in Creek County in 2016, for which he was placed on three years’ probation;
* assault with a dangerous weapon in Tulsa County in 2014, for which he was given a three-year prison term of which he served 13 months.
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