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$750,000 bond set for Brushwood

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$750,000 bond set for Brushwood

By
Christine Reid

A repeat sex offender whose convictions include rape, attempted rape and sexual battery remains jailed in the Kingfisher County Criminal Justice Center after Associate District Judge Lance Schneiter set bond at $750,000 on his latest charge.

Jeffrey Allen Brushwood, 51, 9903 E. 780 Road, Kingfisher, pleaded not guilty Wednesday to a felony charge of first-degree burglary for allegedly forcibly entering a Hennessey apartment occupied by Melissa Celis last month.

The charge alleges Brushwood entered the apartment “with the intent to commit the crime of sexual battery or some other crime.”

He also pleaded not guilty last week to two misdemeanor counts of stalking for allegedly following two Kingfisher women.

Brushwood was released from state prison last year after serving 11 years of a 30 year sentence for the attempted first-degree rape of a University of Central Oklahoma student in 2009.

An Oklahoma County jury convicted Brushwood after hearing testimony that he entered the student’s apartment on the pretense of using her phone and then barricaded her in her bedroom and forced her to the ground.

According to news reports of the trial, Brushwood threatened to kill the woman if she screamed and was in the process of removing her sweatpants when he was interrupted by the woman’s friends knocking at the front door.

Celis told police that a man she later identified as Brushwood knocked on the door of her Hennessey apartment and asked for her by name.

When Celis, who doesn’t speak English, was not able to understand what the man was saying, he went to the camouflage pickup truck he was driving and returned with a note saying he was offering free massages.

Celis said he then tried to enter her apartment, but she was able to push him out of the doorway and close and lock the door.

Three days later, Celis returned to her apartment after running errands to find the door jamb broken and the door pushed in, she told police, she told police.

The separate misdemeanor stalking charges allege that Brushwood had been repeatedly following Napakan Jenkins and Kathryn Lozoya “in a manner that would cause a reasonable person to feel frightened.”

Based on the prior offenses, Brushwood faces up to life in prison if convicted of the current burglary charge.

The two misdemeanor stalking charges carry maximum sentences of one year in the county jail.

He is due back in court on all three charges at 1:30 p.m. Aug. 11.