February 3 , 2010 • 2:08 p.m.

District Attorney Dennis A Smith and Assistant District Attorney Mike Abel have announced that Andrew Kyle Thome, 21, formerly of Elk City, was sentenced after a plea of guilty in seven felony cases.
The defendant had a case in Custer County and one in Washita County, along with five cases in Beckham County. Venue was transferred in the Custer and Washita County cases to Beckham County.
Associate District Judge Doug Haught sentenced Thome to a serve a total of 25 years with the first 15 years in the Oklahoma Department of Corrections and the remaining 10 years on supervised probation. Each sentence was ordered to run concurrently with the others.
“The charges in the Custer and Washita County cases arose from the same circumstances as one of the Beckham County cases. Because they were related factually, it made sense to resolve all those matters at the same time,” Assistant District Attorney Abel stated. “Law enforcement personnel were trying to arrest the defendant on a warrant in another of his Beckham County cases when he went on a crime spree across three counties in one day. In addition to these new cases, this defendant was already on probation in two earlier Beckham County matters. Obviously, his probation was revoked in those cases.”
“Unfortunately, this is a very young defendant with a significant criminal background. The only option for him was a lengthy sentence in the Department of Corrections," Abel said. "We structured his sentence so that after he is released he will continue to be under the supervision of the Department of Corrections for a long time. Should he return to criminal activity, his probation can be revoked and he can go back to prison.”