STILLWATER — A 40-year-old former Drumright man convicted of nine burglaries in Oilton has been jailed on $7,500 bond pending an Aug. 3 court appearance at which he can seek a preliminary hearing on a Payne County charge of carrying a handgun on Main Street in Cushing.
If convicted of being a felon in possession of a firearm, Christopher Sean Eiseman of Cushing could be given a 10-year prison term, according to the charge filed last week.
Cushing Police Officer James Robinson was sent at 8:10 pm on July 17 with Officer Brody Todd to the area of 1100 E. Main Street 'in reference to a male wearing a red shirt and carrying a guitar case who was reportedly walking down the roadway and pointing a firearm at passing vehicles. Callers also advised the male had a black dog and a beard,' an affidavit alleged.
Video surveillance from a business on Main Street showed two men, one of whom was unidentified and wearing a red shirt, walking northbound on Highland Avenue before crossing Main Street, the affidavit alleged.
'As they crossed Main Street, the unidentified male appeared to be holding a handgun with a silver slide and was observed pointing the firearm at two westbound vehicles traveling on Main Street. I also observed that the male in the red shirt appeared to have a bald head,' Officer Robinson alleged in his affidavit.
Additional video footage from two other businesses on Main Street timestamped at 8:08 pm and 8:09 pm on July 17, showed the same two individuals walking north through the parking lot across the street and continuing toward the 1100 block of E. Katy, the affidavit alleged Officer Robinson went to the 1100 block of E. Katy in an attempt to make contact with anyone at a residence where two males and a female were outside near the back of the property, the affidavit alleged.
'As I rounded the corner, one male remained outside while the second male and the female entered a makeshift tent. Based on facial features, I identified the male who entered the tent as Christopher Eiseman. I recognized all individuals from numerous prior encounters.
'While observing Christopher, I noted that he had a bald head and could identify him as being the one in the videos, consistent with the physical characteristics of the male observed in the surveillance footage.
'After reviewing all video and being in law enforcement for over 10 years, I can identify the object Christopher was holding to be a pistol,' Officer Robinson alleged in his affidavit.
Eiseman was hiding in a bathroom when he was arrested at 11:06 pm on July 18 after Officer Robinson obtained a nighttime search warrant to enter the residence, the affidavit alleged.
During an interview at the Cushing Jail, 'I told Christopher I had video of him walking across Main St. at Highland pointing a gun at cars. I also told him that multiple officers had identified him as being the individual in the video. Christopher again said it was not him,' Officer Robinson wrote in his affidavit.
According to court records and the state Department of Corrections, Eiseman had been sent to the Regimented Inmate Discipline (RID) prison boot camp program in 2005 for nine counts of second-degree burglary in Oilton, followed by probation that was changed in 2011 to three years' incarceration; he served eight months before he was released in February of 2013.
Eiseman concurrently served seven months of a three-year sentence for attempted second-degree burglary in Cushing in 2010. Eiseman had also originally been placed on three years of probation in 2008 for leaving the scene of an accident involving injury in Payne County in 2007 that was changed in 2012 to two years of prison of which he served one month concurrently, DOC records show.