By: Patti Weaver
(Stillwater, Okla.) — A Stillwater man, who admitted burglarizing a Perkins woman’s house, has been sentenced to nine months in the Payne County Jail, followed by four years and three months of probation as part of a plea bargain with the prosecution approved in court last week.
At the time of his latest offense, Connor Pete Prickett, 26, was already on probation for three other property crimes, court records show.
In court District Judge Phillip Corley warned Prickett, “Next time, I might not follow a recommendation like this.” Prickett was also given a $500 fine and ordered to pay $50 to the victims’ compensation fund.
A woman said she was working out of town when her boyfriend told her that while he was at the grocery store on July 22, her home was ransacked and property was missing, Perkins Police Officer Daryn Zanfardino wrote in an affidavit.
She believed that Prickett, who used to live close to her, was the burglar, the affidavit said.
She said the stolen property included a grinder, $67, an ounce of marijuana for which her boyfriend had a marijuana license, an iPhone, a drone, a pill crusher and a spare key, the affidavit said.
“Field Training Officer Laster and I were able to locate some smudged fingerprints on the inside of the window,” that had been broken, the Perkins officer wrote in his affidavit.
“Laster was able to locate what appeared to be a shoe print located on the southwest corner of the sink,” the affidavit said.
When the Perkins officer talked to Prickett’s girlfriend in Stillwater, she said that he was not home, but in jail on a Drug Court sanction, the affidavit said.
She said Prickett had told her that he had taken some stuff from the Perkins woman’s residence, the affidavit said. She said an iPhone was in her vehicle that Prickett had tried to hide from her, the affidavit said. That iPhone was later identified as the one stolen from the Perkins house, the affidavit said.
When the Perkins officers went to the Payne County Jail to interview Prickett, he asked for his lawyer to be present so they did not talk to him, the affidavit said.
According to Payne County court records, Prickett had been given three concurrent five-year suspended sentences in 2017 for auto burglary, grand larceny, and second-degree burglary. Prickett had previously been given a three-year suspended sentence for making a false pawn statement in 2014 in Payne County, court records.
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