A Prague man faces two more felonies in addition to the several he’s already facing for an alleged chop shop operation.
A $15,000 bench warrant was issued for the arrest of Mick Devin Vancurren, 31, after he was formally charged Oct.12 with second degree burglary and malicious injury to property over $1,000.
Court record shows that the warrant was returned and filed on March 31. Vancurren made his initial appearance on Nov. 3 before Special Judge Emily Mueller and she scheduled his pre-preliminary hearing for Nov. 17.
On that date, she set the cause for 1:30 p.m. Dec. 15. The burglary count accuses him on Aug. 20 of this year of breaking and entering into a storage unit located at Prague Self Storage, 619 E. Main Street in Prague in Lincoln County, with the intent to steal property kept in and owned by Larry Baker and that was rented by Shannon Rye, while acting in concert with Jonathan Baker.
The second count alleges that on the same day he maliciously damaged the door of a storage unit at Prague Self Storage by forcibly prying and pulling open the door and causing a loss in excess of $1,000 to the unit owned by Larry Baker.
Supplemental information filed by prosecutors shows that Vancurren was convicted in Lincoln County District Court on Feb. 24, 2020 of a felony count of possession of a stolen vehicle.
He was also convicted in Pottawatomie County District Court on March 21, 2018 of a felony offense of endangering others while eluding police.
Vancurren was already awaiting preliminary hearings on a total of six other felonies when he was charged on Oct. 12 with the two additional felony counts.
Those include intimidation of a witness and five other felonies in two separate cases, including the alleged chop shop operation.
Vancurren was formally charged June 3 in Lincoln County District Court with intimidation of witness after former conviction of two more felonies.
Preliminary hearings had been scheduled for Oct. 6. His $30,000 bond remains in effect.
On that date, Special Judge Emily Mueller continued the matter over Vancurren’s objection until 1:30 p.m. Dec. 1.
A $30,000 bench warrant was issued for his arrest the same day the intimidation of a witness charge was filed.
Court records show that the warrant was returned and filed and that he made an initial appearance before Special Judge Emily Mueller in June.
She ordered him to appear back in court on June 23 and the $30,000 bond to remain.
On June 23, she set the matter for 1:30 p.m. on July 28.
In the intimidation of a witness felony filed against him, Vancurren is accused on May 20 of this year, in Prague, of feloniously threatening physical harm to Henry Arthur, an endorsed witness in Lincoln County District Court, by sending Arthur text messages, telling him that he better not show up to testify and challenging Arthur to a gun fight.
In the two other cases, four felony and two misdemeanor charges were formally filed April 18 in Lincoln County District Court against Vancurren.
At that time he was charged with operating/dealing with a chop shop after former conviction of two or more felonies; conspiracy after former conviction of two or more felonies; pattern of criminal offenses after two or more felonies; and possession of stolen vehicle after former conviction of two or more felonies.
The two misdemeanors include destroying evidence and obstructing an officer.
He made his initial appearance before Associate District Judge Shelia Kirk on April 18. She set his bond at $10,000 and scheduled a pre-preliminary hearing for April 21.
Lincoln County and Okfuskee County deputies were involved in the investigation.
Count 1 accuses Vancurren between March 18 and April 9 this year of committing the offense by maintaining any building, lot or other premise where one or more persons are or have been engaged in altering, destroying, disassembling, dismantling, reassembling or knowingly storing any motor vehicle part known to be illegally obtained by theft, fraud or conspiracy to either alter, counterfeit, deface, destroy, disguise, falsify, forge, obliterate or remove the identity, including the vehicle ID number of a motor vehicle or motor vehicle part in order to misrepresent the identity of that motor vehicle or motor vehicle part or to prevent the ID of the motor vehicle or part or sell or dispose of the vehicle or vehicle part.
In Count 2 Vancurren, in the same time frame, is accused of conspiring and agreeing with Kenneth Simon to commit the crime of operating a chop shop. It further alleges he and Simon stored and dismantled stolen vehicles in furtherance of the conspiracy.
The third felony, pattern of criminal offenses after former prior conviction of two or more felonies, charges Vancurren with engaging in that pattern in Pottawatomie, Lincoln and Okfuskee counties as part of the same plan, scheme and adventure during that same time frame.
Count 4 accuses him of possessing a stolen 2004 Chevy truck which had been stolen from Kendall Green on March 19 this year.
The misdemeanor of destroying evidence accuses him of destroying a cell phone that he knew was about to be produced at the investigation on April 8 in the case of a Lincoln County Sheriff’s Department report in District Court with the intent to prevent the phone from being produced.
The other misdemeanor charges him with obstructing Lincoln County Sheriff Department’s Larry Stover, Sr. in the performance of his duties by providing misleading information, breaking a cell phone which was to be used as evidence and attempting to have Stover strike him.
Prosecutors also filed supplemental information against Vancurren showing on Feb. 24, 2020, in Lincoln County Disrict Court he was convicted of possession of a stolen vehicle and obstructing.
The other felony, filed March 22 in Lincoln County District Court, charges Vancurren with assault and battery with a dangerous weapon.
On that charge, he made his initial appearance March 31 before Special Judge Emily Mueller. His bond was set at $10,000.
He is accused on March 7 of assaulting and battering Arthur with a Silver Chevy truck to injure him.