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Convicted rapist faces new charge

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Convicted rapist faces new charge

By
Christine Reid
Jeffrey Allen Brushwood

A 51-year-old Kingfisher man released a year ago after serving 11 years of a 30-year state prison sentence for attempted first-degree rape is back in jail on new charges.

Jeffrey Allen Brushwood, 9903 E 780 Road, was charged last week with first-degree burglary for allegedly forcibly entering a Hennessey apartment occupied by Melissa Celis.

The felony charge filed against him in Kingfisher County District Court alleges Brushwood entered the apartment “with the intent to commit the crime of sexual battery or some other crime.”

He remains jailed until his initial court appearance Wednesday when the judge will consider setting bond.

He also has been charged with two misdemeanor counts for allegedly stalking two women in Kingfisher.

An Oklahoma County jury convicted Brushwood of the attempted first-degree rape of a University of Central Oklahoma student in 2009 when he entered the woman’s apartment on the pretense of using her phone.

According to news reports on the trial, Brushwood came into the bedroom where the woman was messaging friends on her computer and forced the woman to the ground, threatening to kill her if she screamed.

He was in the process of removing her sweatpants when the friends she had messaged knocked on the front door, according to reports.

Brushwood’s criminal history includes multiple sexual offenses dating back to 1994 when he was convicted of second-degree rape in Kingfisher County.

He also was convicted of two separate charges of sexual battery in this county in 2007.

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

According to an affidavit signed by Hennessey Police Officer Christian Solis, Celis reported that a man came to the door of her apartment on July 19 and asked for her by name.

Celis, who does not speak English, told police through a translator that she did not understand what the man was saying.

She said he left and went to his truck and returned with a note that said he was giving out free massages and tried to enter the apartment, according to the affidavit.

Celis said she had to push him out of the doorway to close and lock the door. She said the man was driving a pickup truck painted in camouflage colors.

Three days later, Celis returned to her apartment with her sister after running errands and found the door pushed in with the door jamb broken.

When officers visited the apartment, they saw pry marks on the deadbolt in addition to damage to the door and jamb.

While they were at the apartment, Carmina Escarcega approached the officers and said a man driving an older model camouflage truck knocked on the door of her Hennessey residence when no one was home.

Escarcega provided police with images and video of the man with the truck in the background from her home security camera.

Celis later viewed the video footage and images and identified the man as the same person whom she pushed out of her apartment. She also identified the pickup truck, according to the affidavit.

She also idenfied him as being the same man whose image, along with a photo of a camouflage pickup truck, appeared in a Facebook post reporting his alleged harrassment of women in Kingfisher.

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.”

According to affidavits signed by Kingfisher Police Sgt. Charles Trout, Lozoya reported that a man in a camouflage pickup truck had followed her as she walked to and from work and that she also had seen the truck in her neighborhood.

Jenkins reported that the man had followed her as she shopped in Walmart, stood behind her in the cashier’s line and then followed her again when she moved to the self checkout area.

Jenkins said she alerted a Walmart employee who escorted her to her car, and then she was followed out of the parking lot by the same man driving a pickup truck, according to the affidavit.

Jenkins said the same truck drove past on another day when she stood outside the movie theater comforting her crying child. The truck then circled the block, parked in front and the man came inside the theater, according to the affidavit.

Both women identified a photo of Brushwood as the man who allegedly stalked them.

After his arrest last Tuesday, Brushwood appeared in court Wednesday and pleaded not guilty to the stalking charge.

He is scheduled to appear back in court on the misdemeanor charges at 1:30 p.m. Aug. 11.