(Stillwater, Okla.) — A Yale man remains in the Payne County Jail pending a Jan. 7 court appearance on a felony charge accusing him of stalking his estranged wife on Dec. 7 and 8 by allegedly sending her numerous electronic messages and placing numerous phone calls including ones designed to threaten and intimidate her — after being served with an emergency protective order, court records show.
Jacob Taylor Minney, 28, who was ordered held on $50,000 total bail, could be given as much as a five-year prison term and $2,500 fine if convicted of the felony charge filed this week.
Payne County Sheriff’s Deputy Bobby Miller wrote in an affidavit that on Dec. 8 he was advised of a reported EPO violation.
Deputy Scott Hopper met Minney’s estranged wife at her workplace and received screen shots of text messages and phone calls from Minney, the affidavit alleged.
“The text messages and phone calls started Dec. 7 and at the time of Deputy Hopper’s contact were still happening,” the affidavit alleged.
“In the text, there were threats made of him causing her to lose her children. Stating that she would regret some of her activities and he would end her,” the affidavit alleged.
“He makes claims of posting stuff on Facebook that will destroy her,” the affidavit alleged. Minney’s estranged wife has now changed her phone number, the affidavit said.
“Due to the continued harassing text messages and phoning her over 34 times, with at least two missed calls in a minute’s time on several occasions, and knowing there is an active EPO in effect, I believe he is stalking,” his estranged wife, Deputy Miller alleged in his affidavit.
According to Payne County court records, two months ago, Minney was charged with attempted first-degree burglary on Oct. 8 by allegedly removing a window screen of a house in rural Yale where his estranged wife was present, “but failed in the accomplishment of said burglary by the intervention of the homeowner,” a felony charge carrying a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison on conviction.
In that case, Minney was also charged with stalking his estranged wife between Oct. 7 and 8 by allegedly sending over 100 electronic messages including ones designed to threaten and intimidate her, a misdemeanor punishable by a maximum penalty of one year in jail and a $1,000 fine.
In that two-count charge filed on Oct. 22, Minney was released on $2,000 bond with an order to have no contact with the woman, court records show.
Also on Oct. 22 in another case, Minney was charged with felony stalking his estranged wife between Oct. 12 and 14 by sending over 100 electronic messages and placing numerous phone calls including ones designed to threaten and intimidate her — after he had been served with a protective order, court records show.
In that case, Minney was also charged with two misdemeanor counts of violating a protective order – on Oct. 12 by sending 30 text messages and placing 10 phone calls to his estranged wife’s phone, and on Oct. 13 by sending over 40 text messages and placing nine phone calls to her phone, court records show.
If convicted of that three-count charge on which he appeared in court on Dec. 3, Minney could be incarcerated for as long as seven years and fined $4,500, court records show. Minney has been ordered to return to court in that case on Jan. 7, records show.
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