STILLWATER -- An ex-convict from Drumright has been jailed on $50,000 bond on a sixcount felony charge including committing a pattern of property crimes in Cushing and Stroud on July 8 in a case investigated by Payne County Sheriff’s Investigator Brandon Myers.
Due to his criminal record, Roland Casey Andrew Roberts, 32, could be given three life prison sentences plus 12 years if convicted of all counts on which he has been scheduled to appear before a Payne County judge on Oct. 6, court records show.
Roberts has been charged with two counts of unauthorized use of a vehicle in Cushing, one count of unauthorized use of a vehicle in Stroud, one count of burglarizing a rural Stroud residence, one count of burglarizing a car in Cushing, and one count of committing a pattern of criminal offenses in Payne and Lincoln Counties, all on July 8.
According to an affidavit by the Payne County Sheriff’s investigator, a Cushing woman reported at 6:51 am on July 8 that her Nissan Armada was stolen from in front of her residence on N. Steele Street between 4:40 am and 5 am: “The victim had a camera that captured the time of the theft; however, the video quality was insufficient to identify a suspect.”
On the same day, at about 6:17 am, a rural Cushing woman reported that her Nissan Altima was stolen from her residence on S. Brethren Road between 4:45 am and 6:15 am: “At the time of the theft, a Glock 9mm pistol was inside the vehicle,” the affidavit alleged.
At 8:26 am, the Nissan Armada that was stolen earlier that morning on N. Steele Street was found stuck in the mud of a yard in the 6000 block of W. 9th Street in Cushing, the affidavit alleged.
“I canvassed the area and went to a location across the street and just west of where the Armada was recovered. A shop building on the property captured video footage of a suspect walking westbound in front of the shop,” onto neighboring property on 9th Street where a woman said her Ford Escape was burglarized, the sheriff’s investigator wrote in his affidavit.
At about 9 am, the investigator was notified that a Dodge Charger was stolen on E. 780 Road in rural Stroud, the affidavit said. At 8:15 pm a Nissan Altima was found in the backyard of a burglarized rural Stroud residence, the affidavit alleged.
“A game trail camera on the property captured photographs of the suspect. The individual in the still images matched the person seen in the video footage from 9th Street. Upon reviewing the photos and video, I identified the suspect as Roland Roberts,” the sheriff’s investigator alleged in his affidavit.
At 10:15 pm, Cushing police were sent on a report that a Dodge Charger had been abandoned on property and in the street on N. Violet Ave. since around 10 am, the affidavit said. “Cushing police ran the plate and confirmed it was the same vehicle reported stolen earlier that day from 780 Road in Lincoln County,” the affidavit alleged.
“Roland Roberts is a suspect in numerous auto thefts in Pawnee, Creek, Payne and Lincoln Counties. He has served two prison sentences and was convicted in 2019 of multiple auto thefts,” the affidavit alleged.
According to the state Department of Corrections, Roberts had been released from prison on Dec. 7, 2023, after serving about four years of eight concurrent sentences of about eight years for car theft in Muskogee County along with two counts of possession of a stolen vehicle, one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm, and four counts of burglary, all in 2019 in Payne County.
Roberts also was convicted of car theft and first-degree burglary in 2012 in Payne County, for which he served about five years of two concurrent seven-year sentences before he was released in 2018. Roberts had also been convicted in Pawnee County of seconddegree burglary in 2011 for which he served almost two years of a five-year sentence after his probation was revoked in 2016, DOC records show.