OKLAHOMA CITY – A Del City man is accused of smashing a window in the Oklahoma City Federal Office Building, and an Oklahoma City resident with a lengthy criminal record was indicted for attacking a U.S. Postal Service supervisor.
Rickey Dion Williams, 45, was indicted in OKC’s Western District federal court on a charge of destruction of government property.
Williams is accused of making an unauthorized entry of the Oklahoma City Federal Office Building campus last December while armed with a hatchet and a knife “and proceed[ing] to break a large pane glass window…” Damage was estimated at $5,000.
An inspector with the Federal Protective Service wrote in an affidavit that Williams told him he broke the window “to get their attention” and was “an angel of God and needed to speak with a federal police officer because he had classified information to share.” Williams also claimed a $2 million bounty “was placed on him by an unnamed entity,” the inspector reported.
Williams is a convicted federal offender and “local affiliated gang member,” the inspector related in his affidavit.
Nevertheless, Williams was granted pretrial release from custody on $5,000 bond May 9. However, the court required him to submit to medical or psychiatric treatment as directed by the U.S. Probation Office and to complete a program of residential substance abuse treatment.
Jimmy Deray Edwards, 47, who also is known by nine aliases, was indicted last October on a charge of assault on a federal employee.
The incident occurred last September while the postal supervisor was accompanying a U.S. Postal Service carrier walking his route. Edwards “inexplicably targeted his attention” toward the supervisor, ranted obscenities, attacked the supervisor and kicked him twice.
Police who arrived in response to a 9-1-1 call found Edwards outside a liquor store parking lot, “quite agitated and highly intoxicated.” It took four officers to subdue Edwards with prison restraints and a “spit mask,” reports show.
Edwards has “a significant criminal history, replete with multiple episodes of DUI, drug possession, public drunkenness and interfering/obstructing officers, among others,” an assistant U.S. attorney wrote in a sentencing memorandum to the court. Multiple times Edwards has “displayed defiant, disruptive and belligerent behavior toward those in authority,” the prosecutor added.
Oklahoma Department of Corrections records show Edwards has amassed a record of multiple convictions in Oklahoma County for carrying weapons, possession of drugs, driving under the influence of intoxicating substances, possession of a stolen vehicle, possession of motor vehicle parts with an altered vehicle identification number, use of a false ID, and obstructing an officer.
DOC records also show Edwards was disciplined for menacing and for disruptive behavior while in prison.
The court granted Edwards pretrial release on $5,000 bond on Oct. 28, 2021, but revoked his bond on Jan. 7, 2022. A probation officer informed the court that Edwards tested positive for the presence of cocaine in four consecutive drug tests, another test was positive for the presence of alcohol, and then he missed his next scheduled drug test.
Edwards is scheduled to appear before U.S. District Judge Robin Cauthron on May 24 for sentencing on his guilty plea to assaulting, intimidating and interfering with a postal employee.