June 21, 2016
By Paragon News Director Paul Joseph
Three people from Elk City have all pleaded to possession of a controlled substance charge.
The final individual of the three originally arrested and charged in August of 2015 has pleaded guilty.
30-year-old Robert Wade Ramber pled guilty and was sentenced for his role in an incident that happened on August 12 of last year at a residence in the 700 block of West Third Street. The charges all follow a welfare check by police regarding a woman that was allegedly assaulted.
According to a probable cause affidavit, when Elk City Police arrived at the home, they were told by an informant outside that a woman inside the residence had been beaten and not allowed to leave. The informant also told police that the woman had been assaulted by one of the men inside the residence.
Once police were inside, they found 27-year-old Jackie Johnson and Ramber who told officers that he’d just arrived at the residence and had found the victim lying in his front yard passed out and brought her inside. The victim was found in an upstairs bedroom conscious but not responsive. According to the police report, she was alive but officers observed multiple bruises all over her body from head to toe, some were deep bruises.
Emergency medical personnel later said that the woman had been raped, according to the report.
As police were clearing the home in order for them to write a search warrant for the residence, Ramber was allegedly seen to pull an object out of his right front pocket and throw it on the floor close to him. He then picked up one of several children in the residence and a shirt but placed the child on a nearby bed. The report says police believed Ramber was trying to disguise what he threw on the floor.
Ramber and Johnson refused to leave the residence and following an altercation with police, both were tased and finally cuffed along with another man found in the residence, 40-year-old Herbert Audie Shipman.
In the bedroom, officers observed a gutted, light bulb with a hole in the top that contained white and burnt residue. It later field tested positive for Methamphetamine.
Found in the residence were five pieces of tin foil with white crystals inside, a pen converted into a pipe, a glass piece, a metal pen cap and two straws – all with residue.
According to the report, Johnson, who was described as uncooperative, attacked one of the police officers screaming that she couldn’t be arrested because she was a Mom.
Last October, Johnson was sentenced to 60 days in the Beckham County jail for each charge of assault and battery on an officer, child neglect, possession of a CDS and possession of drug paraphernalia with all sentences to run concurrent and all charges carrying court costs.
In March of 2016, Shipman was sentenced on a possession of a controlled substance charge to 8 years on the custody of the Oklahoma Department of Corrections with all suspended upon completion of a Bill Johnson Substance Abuse program.
Then, recently, Ramber was given a five year deferred sentence with all but six months suspended with credit for time served.
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