STILLWATER — A Mannford man, who was convicted in 2018 of rape in Creek County, has pleaded guilty to illegally using a pickup truck reported as stolen in Tulsa, attempting to elude, possessing a methamphetamine/ fentanyl mixture, having drug paraphernalia, and affixing an unauthorized license plate, all in rural Stillwater.
Todd Ellis Minney, 49, who had been released from prison in 2021 to probation that Creek County prosecutors are seeking to revoke, was placed on a four-year suspended sentence in Payne County last week for unauthorized use of a motor vehicle, as part of a plea agreement with the prosecution approved in court by Associate District Judge Michael Kulling.
Minney, who was also given four concurrent 30-day jail terms for his misdemeanor counts, was ordered to provide a DNA sample, undergo random drug tests and maintain fulltime employment by the Payne County judge at his July 22 sentencing.
Minney had been apprehended at 6:28 p.m. on April 27 after fleeing on foot into a tree line at 19th and Brush Creek Road, according to an affidavit.
Payne County Sheriff's Deputy Jeff Kramer had been sent about three hours earlier to a rural Payne County residence where a 16-year-old boy, who was home alone, reported someone was knocking on the door and wouldn't go away but might have left in a black or blue Chevy pickup, an affidavit said.
While the deputy was on the radio to report a traffic stop on a black Chevy pickup, a man 'opened the driver's door, got out of the pickup, and ran north through the intersection,' toward a tree line where he disappeared, the affidavit said.
During an ensuing search with additional officers, Minney was apprehended, Oklahoma Highway Patrol Trooper Ryan Long, a nationally certified drug recognition expert, wrote in another affidavit. 'I questioned Minney regarding his drug use, and he admitted having injected methamphetamine intravenously earlier that day prior to the traffic stop. He was offered a blood test and refused, stating, 'No, I'm going back to prison anyway,'' the affidavit said.
Minney had been convicted in Creek County of first-degree rape and lewd proposals to a child in Mannford in 2017 and sentenced in February of 2018 to two concurrent fiveyear prison terms but only served three and one-half years before being released in August of 2021 to 10 years of probation that Creek County prosecutors are seeking to revoke, court records show.
Minney had also been convicted in Payne County in April of 2018 of possessing methamphetamine in Cushing in 2016, for which he was given a five-year prison term concurrent to the above sentence, court records show. Minney had been placed on three years of probation under a deferred sentence in 2016 in Tulsa County for possessing methamphetamine in 2015, court records show.