
By: Patti Weaver
(Stillwater, Okla.) — A Stillwater man on probation for three property crimes has been jailed on $5,000 bail pending his arraignment Sept. 3 on a felony charge of breaking a window in a woman’s house in Perkins and entering to steal property.
Due to his criminal record, Connor Pete Prickett, 26, could be sentenced to six years to life in prison if convicted of second-degree burglary after four prior felony convictions.
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, according to an affidavit by Perkins Police Officer Daryn Zanfardino.
She believed that Prickett burglarized her home, the affidavit alleged. She said that Prickett used to live close to her, the affidavit said.
She said that the stolen items 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, according to the affidavit.
“Field Training Officer Laster and I were able to locate some smudged fingerprints on the inside of the window,” 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 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 alleged. She said an iPhone was in her vehicle that Prickett had tried to hide from her, the affidavit alleged. That iPhone was later identified as the one stolen from the Perkins residence, the affidavit alleged.
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 was 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 show.
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