Burglary charge related to fire

A Stroud man who admitted he and another individual were inside a building when it went up in flames last October has been charged with burglary.

Formal charges of second degree burglary were filed in Lincoln County District Court March 26 against Joshuah Dylan Standley, 33.

He also was charged with obstructing an officer, a misdemeanor.

He appeared before Special Judge Emily Mueller March 22 this year on those charges and she set the matter for 1:30 p.m. on April 4.

The second degree burglary count accuses Standley on Oct. 23. 2023 of breaking and entering into a building located at 722 N. Park Avenue in Stroud owned by Marshall Horn in which property of value was contained by back upstairs door, with the intent to commit larceny.

The obstructing an officer charges him with on March 21, 2024 of obstructing Stroud Police Chief Clint Gaylord by raising his fists and ignoring the officer’s commands.

Gaylord said that while Standley has admitted he was in the building with another individual when it went up in flames, Standley has denied he has any knowledge of how the fire started.

The Stroud police chief stated recently the State Fire Marshal’s Office which investigated the blaze, was unable to determine the origin of the fire of how it began or the causation.

In a probable cause affidavit, Stroud Police Investigator Wade Martin states that surveillance video from Stroud Drug at 406 W. Main showed two subjects running from the location of the fire just prior to the fire being reported.

Gaylord states in the affidavit that two days after the fire, on Oct. 25, 2023, at around 1:30 p.m. he saw Standley walking on West 1st Street, one block south of the fire location.

He noted he had similar characteristics as one of the subjects seen in the surveillance video obtained from Stroud Drug.

The affidavit states Gaylord obtained information from a subject who wished to remain anonymous that Standley had been overheard saying that he was in the structure when the fire began with a subject named Kyle Self.

Gaylord said recently that no charges have been brought against Self.

Gaylord further states in the affidavit that on March 21, 2024 he conducted a consensual interview with Standley at the Stroud Police Department. Standley was brought to the Police Department by Investigator Martin.

In the interview Standley states he and Self were upstairs and had stayed the previous night, but claimed they didn’t go downstairs any time until they ran downstairs and out the front door when the fire began.

Standley, shown a still photo, pointed out himself and Self as the person beside him. He was later transferred to the Lincoln County Jail in Chandler by Officers Damon Bounds and Jimmy Brown.

Standley, who has several previous felony convictions, was charged in Lincoln County District Court Jan. 8, 2024, with driving a motor vehicle while under the influence of drugs.

A $5,000 bond has been set on that charge. His next appearance in that case is scheduled for April 15.

Supplemental information filed in that case by Assistant District Attorney Rachel Thompson shows that Standley has been convicted of four felonies since 2014.

On Dec. 17, 2014, he was convicted in Lincoln County District Court of knowingly concealing stolen property.

On Sep. 18, 2019, he was convicted in Creek County District Court of driving while under the influence and placing bodily fluids on a government employee.

On June 14, 2019, he was convicted in Creek County District Court of manslaughter. Court records show that he pleaded guilty to the charge as a result of a plea agreement. He was sentenced to four years in the Department of the Corrections and received credit for time served.