A Prague man who earlier was bound over on several felonies stemming from a reported crime spree he went on following a reported armed burglary he and a Shawnee man allegedly committed last October has been set for the felony disposition docket and scheduled for trial.
Shawn David Morgan, 31, of Prague, was charged in Lincoln County District Court Oct. 25, 2023 with three felonies. He was taken into custody on Nov. 1 after he had eluded law enforcement since the armed burglary of the marijuana grow on Oct. 22, 2023.
On Nov. 3, five more felonies were filed in Lincoln County District Court against Morgan.
Appearing for his arraignment before District Judge John Canavan, Morgan pleaded not guilty to all the charges in the cases filed against him. The judge received the plea, set the cases for the felony disposition docket on May 7 and jury trial was scheduled for 9 a.m. June 10.
At the conclusion of his preliminary hearing, he was bound over to stand trial.
The armed burglary of the marijuana grow sparked a huge manhunt seeking the two.
Both individuals have prior felony convictions. Christopher Lamar Irving, 38, from Shawnee, was arrested about five to six hours after the marijuana grow burglary on Oct. 22 and taken into custody by Lincoln County Sheriff’s Capt. Chuck Brewer and Lt. Tony Long.
His pre-preliminary hearing on those charges has been continued until 1:30 p.m. April 11.
Brewer noted in an affidavit that at the time of his arrest Irving was uncooperative and provided two fictitious names and dates of birth on scene as officers tried to identify him.
Irving faces charges of second degree burglary, possession of a firearm after former felony conviction and possessing firearm during commission of felony.
He appeared before Associate District Judge Sheila Kirk on Oct. 30 who set his bond at $7,500. He made his initial appearance on Nov. 6 and the judge set his pre-preliminary hearing for Dec. 21.
A $50,000 bench warrant was issued for the arrest of Morgan on Oct. 25, the same day he was charged with second degree burglary, possessing firearm during commission of a felony and possession of firearm after felony conviction.
In Count 1 Morgan is accused on Oct. 22, 2023 of breaking and entering into a building located at 890483 S. 3390 Road in Lincoln County owned by a marijuana business in which property of value was contained, with the intent to steal things.
Count 2 charges Morgan with possessing firearm during commission of a felony on the same date by breaking into a business with intent to steal things kept inside. The information states Morgan possessed a AR type of gun, capable of raising in the mind of one threatened with a device that it was a real firearm.
In Count 3 he is accused on the same date of having a firearm in his possession, a AR type of gun, after he had been convicted on May 4, 2022 in Pottawatomie County District Court of endangering others while eluding police.
The five other felonies against Morgan include another second degree burglary count, three third degree burglary charges and a count of larceny of an automobile, aircraft or other vehicle. One of the third degree burglary counts has been reduced and amended to attempted burglary.
Supplemental information filed by Assistant District Attorney Kelly Trimble states that in addition to Morgan’s conviction last year in the Pottawatomie County case he was also convicted on May 21, 2019 in Cleveland County District Court of attempted second degree burglary.
Supplemental information filed in Irving’s case by Assistant District Attorney Rachel Thompson shows that Irving has at least five prior convictions, all in Pottawatomie County.
They include two convictions on Jan. 24, 2011 for kidnapping and for assault and battery with a dangerous weapon; Nov. 30, 2016 for possessing a firearm after felony conviction; on May 10, 2017 for the same charge; and on Oct. 11, 2022 for harboring a fugitive, Brewer says in a probable cause affidavit that he responded on Oct. 22 to a burglary at a marijuana grow business located at 890483 S. 3390 Road in Lincoln County. Brewer pointed out LCSO deputies were on scene and observed two persons fleeing the area.
He stated one was armed with a rifle and Deputy CJ Hyde observed his face clearly before the suspect ran from deputies.
According to the affidavit, surveillance video showed two armed males on the exterior of the business.
Brewer said that deputies determined these were the same suspects they had observed fleeing from the business through a field.
As the deputies tracked and pursued the suspects on foot, they located a vehicle in the field and it was a blue/ gray BMW and appeared stuck in deep sand.
Brewer reported that once he arrived at the vehicle he observed a large quantity of marijuana and marijuana products in tubs in the rear seat of the vehicle.