An Okmulgee man is in jail after he allegedly threatened State Senator Roger Thompson this past week.
According to Okmulgee County Sheriff’s investigator Duston Todd, Steven Cates came to the sheriff’s office and asked about security measures for a nearby political public forum.
Steven Cates 1“While Cates was speaking with deputies he then began making threats towards the Senator’s safety and attempted to leave in order to go to where the location where the Senator was speaking,” Todd said.
When deputies tried to stop the 60-year-old Cates he was said to have started fighting deputies. After being taken into custody, he allegedly made threats toward the officers.
Cates was booked into the Okmulgee County Jail for Assault and Battery on a Police Officer, Resisting Arrest, and two counts of Threatening to Perform an Act of Violence. Bond has been set at $310,000.
That same day, officers arrested 28-year-old Brooke Deerinwater of Tulsa for Child Neglect as well as Trespassing.
Sheriff’s Office investigators were at Wal-Mart in Okmulgee looking for a suspect in an unrelated matter when they discovered two children, aged 1 and 10, unattended in a vehicle in the Wal-Mart parking lot.
Upon further investigation it was discovered that Deerinwater had left her children unattended in the vehicle for over 40 minutes while she was inside the store attempting to shoplift.
Investigators also learned that Deerinwater had previously been trespassed from Wal-Mart stores for shoplifting. While investigating the incident it was determined that the 1-year-old child was ill and in need of medical attention at the time Deerinwater was in the store. That child was transported by ambulance to a local hospital where it was evaluated and released. Brooke Deerinwater 1
Deerinwater was arrested and booked into the Okmulgee County Jail on charges of Child Neglect and Trespassing. She also had outstanding warrants in connection with a previous shoplifting case in Tulsa County.