March 22, 2016
- By Paul Joseph, Paragon Communications News Director -
An Elk City man has pleaded into a substance abuse/behavioral program after an officer involved shooting last year involving the then 21-year-old man.
Patrick Dewayne Brown, Junior, recently entered into a plea agreement on a number of charges that included larceny of an automobile, eluding and resisting a police officer and reckless driving following a July 2015 incident.
The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation was called in to investigate because Brown was thought to have been hit with gunfire during his arrest.
According to an OSBI press release at the time of the incident, Patrick Dewayne Brown, Junior was pulled over by Sayre police and found to be driving with a suspended license. When officers attempted to arrest him, he drove off with police in pursuit. Police forced the truck off the road and were able to arrest him and place him inside a police cruiser, but Brown was somehow able to work himself from the back of the car to the front and then drive away in the officer’s vehicle.
Another officer pursued the stolen cruiser eventually hitting and disabling it momentarily, but Brown was again able to drive the vehicle through a ditch where he swerved toward an officer.
An Erick officer and two Beckham County Deputies joined in on the pursuit with one using the tactical vehicle intervention maneuver on Brown’s stolen police cruiser. Brown was arrested again about a half mile east and two miles north of the intersection of Highway 6 and Highway 152, northeast of Sweetwater.
At some point during the chase, the OSBI report says numerous officers from both the Erick and Sayre Police Departments shot at Brown.
He was found to have been hit by a bullet in the shoulder and was air lifted to an Oklahoma City hospital where he was treated and released.
On the charges of larceny of an automobile and eluding an officer, Brown was recently sentenced to 10 years in the custody of the Oklahoma Department of Corrections with all of it suspended upon the completion of the Bill Johnson substance abuse/cognitive behavioral program in Alva as well as fines and court costs.
On the charge of escaping from arrest, Brown received a five year sentence in the DOC with it suspended following completion of the Bill Johnson program. He additionally received lesser sentences and fines on the other charges all suspended with the completion of the program in Alva.
The sentences will all run concurrent.
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