By: Patti Weaver
(Stillwater, Okla.) — A 65-year-old Stillwater man with an extensive criminal history has been ordered to appear in court on Jan. 6 on a charge alleging he stabbed a man in the neck after he moved out of his house.
Johnnie Duane Brown remains jailed on $50,000 bail. Brown could be given a prison term of 20 years to life if convicted of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon after prior felony convictions.
Brown has also been known as John D. Brown, Dee Brown, Dewayne Davidson, Dee and Ginger, prison records show.
Brown was arrested at his residence at 9:01 a.m. on Nov. 25, according to an affidavit by Stillwater Police Officer Ricardo Inciarte.
Earlier that morning, Brown’s former housemate realized he had left two items with sentimental value at Brown’s residence after moving out, the affidavit said.
He went to Brown’s residence to ask for the two items, but Brown refused his request and said he could have them after he paid Brown for rent, the affidavit alleged.
A short time later, a 13-year-old boy asked Brown for one of the two items, and Brown gave one of them to the boy at 7:15 a.m., the affidavit alleged.
At 8:05 a.m. Brown’s former housemate saw Brown approaching a residence with a knife in his hand, the affidavit alleged.
Brown’s former housemate and a woman were standing in the residence by the front door when Brown approached the door and stabbed at the man’s neck once as the victim tried to block the attack, the affidavit alleged. The knife penetrated the man’s neck on the left side near the collar bone, the affidavit alleged.
Brown then went back to his house, the affidavit alleged. When police arrested him, Brown did not have a knife in his possession, the affidavit said.
After a black folding knife was found in the grass near Brown’s residence, the victim “confirmed it was the knife used by Johnnie Brown,” the affidavit alleged.
In another case occurring a year earlier, Brown was accused of hitting a Payne County jailer with a shoe, as well as shoving, pushing, scratching, biting and contending with him on Oct. 13, 2018. Brown has been scheduled to stand trial on May 20, 2020, on a felony charge of assault and battery on a corrections officer, as well as a misdemeanor count of threatening to kill the jailer.
According to the state Department of Corrections, Brown has a 32-year felony record in Payne County consisting of:
* first-degree rape and grand larceny in 1987 for which he was given two concurrent five-year prison terms of which he served less than four years;
* uttering forged instruments in 1992 for which he was given a two-year prison term of which he served 14 months;
* drug possession in 1997 for which he was given in 1999 a 10-year prison term of which he served seven and one-half years;
* drug possession in 1998 for which he was given in 1999 a concurrent 10-year prison term and served seven and one-half years;
* drug possession also in 1998 for which he was given in 1999 a concurrent 10-year prison term and served seven and one-half years;
* throwing human waste on a corrections officer, two counts, in 2008 for which he was given in 2009 two concurrent three-year prison terms and served one year;
* assault and battery on a corrections officer in 2009 for which he was given in 2009 a concurrent three-year prison term and served one year prior to his release in September of 2010.
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