A Prague man who waived his preliminary hearing on a charge of felony assault and battery charge following a reported altercation with his girl friend has entered a no contest plea and has been given a deferred term.
Trevor Wade Mills, 23, was formally charged in Lincoln County District July 10, 2024 with domestic assault and battery by strangulation. Appearing recently before District Judge Sarah Bridge to make a plea, Mills, as the result of a plea bargain and upon the state’s recommendation entered a no contest plea. Judge Bridge received the plea.
She found Mills guilty as charged and deferred sentencing for a period five years. She handed him a $100 judicial assessment,, $100 VCA, court costs and is to pay 991 fees.
Judge Bridge ordered him to complete a 52-week batterer’s course, perform 50 hours of Community Service and placed Mills on Supervised probation with Oklahoma Court Services.
She further ordered him to reappear for review at 9 a.m. on May 20, 2025 and to report to the Probation Office and Court Clerk’s Office.
Assistant District Attorneys Rachel Thompson and Kelly Trimble prosecuted the case for the state and Attorney James Hodgens was Mills’ defense attorney.
On Oct. 17, 2024 Mills waived his preliminary hearing.
Appearing in December before Judge Bridge for a felony disposition docket, the judge continued Mills’ case until 9 a.m. Jan. 28, 2025 for a plea.
Mills was accused on May 10, 2024 in Lincoln County of committing an assault and battery by strangulation or attempted strangulation against Brooke Stanley, his girl friend, by choking her.
Lincoln County Sheriff Detective George Kelly Coleman, in a probable cause affidavit, stated he reviewed a report that Stanley had called 911 stating that she had been on the phone with her boy friend Mills when he reportedly shot himself.
She said she had heard what sounded like a gunshot then what sounded like the phone falling to the floor.
Stanley gave a Meeker address in Lincoln County.
According to the affidavit, when deputies arrived they talked with Trevor’s uncle Shane and Mills who were standing outside.
Mills said a domestic situation had occurred but denied a physical altercation with his girl friend and noted she had left.
Deputies noticed blood on Mills’ shirt near the inner side of his elbow and he told them he had cut himself on glass and didn’t need medical attention.
He refused treatment even though an ambulance had responded.
Deputies contacted Stanley at the Stroud Police Department and she told them Mills had shoved her shoulder with his hands and was being aggressive with her.
She further advised the deputies that Mills had driven recklessly after they had gone to dinner in Shawnee, that he had been drinking, he became very angry and punched the glass door breaking the glass, cutting his arm.
Stanley informed the deputies he later choked and pushed her and after she had left kept calling her and threatened to shoot himself and that he wanted her to hear it.