Another Installment of Hug a Thug Theater
The liberals and libertarians would have you think that we lock up too many criminals here in Oklahoma and that people get sent to prison at the drop of a hat. The reality is that you have to work really, really hard to land in prison by screwing up time and time again and not learning from the slap on the wrist penalties normally dealt out.
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| Meet David L Gamble |
DOB 3/02/1984.
CF-2010-7112 11/01/2010 STATE OF OKLAHOMA v. DAVID LEROY GAMBLE
CM-2012-230 01/24/2012 STATE OF OKLAHOMA v. DAVID LEROY GAMBLE
CF-2013-6582 09/30/2013 STATE OF OKLAHOMA v. DAVID LEROY GAMBLE
CF-2014-376 01/14/2014 STATE OF OKLAHOMA v. DAVID LEROY GAMBLE
CF-2003-6207 11/12/2003 STATE OF OKLAHOMA v. David Leroy Gamble Gamble,
CF-2005-1728 03/30/2005 State of Oklahoma v. Gamble, David Leroy Gamble,
CPC-2010-10029 10/12/2010 State of Oklahoma v. Gamble, David Leroy
CF-2010-7112 11/01/2010 STATE OF OKLAHOMA v. DAVID LEROY GAMBLE
CPC-2011-9477 11/07/2011 State of Oklahoma v. GAMBLE, DAVID LEROY
CM-2012-230 01/24/2012 STATE OF OKLAHOMA v. DAVID LEROY GAMBLE
CF-2013-6582 09/30/2013 STATE OF OKLAHOMA v. DAVID LEROY GAMBLE
CF-2014-376 01/14/2014 STATE OF OKLAHOMA v. DAVID LEROY GAMBLE
This week's over achiever started his adult criminal career in 2003 when he was nineteen years old with Oklahoma County CF-2003-6207 for possession of controlled dangers substance with intent to distribute, possession of controlled dangerous substance. He was sentenced to 15 years with all time suspended and ordered to attend drug counseling. He repeatedly refuses to show up in court or for drug counseling and has several warrants issued against him, is arrested, and turned loose once again. By 2008 he is sentenced to four years in prison minus time served in jail. By April 2010 Gamble is released from prison and agrees to pay $50.00 per month on his fines and court costs. He pays just $95.00 of the costs as of this year.
In 2005 Gamble earned Oklahoma County case CF-2005-1728 which shows a charge of possession of controlled dangerous substance with a failed attempt to complete the drug court program. He is released once again and put through counseling and drug court but just three months later a warrant is issued because Gamble isn't showing up. He is released again on OR bond and three months later another warrant is issued because he once again isn't showing up to court or treatment. About one year later Gamble is back out on the street and agrees to begin paying every month to pay for his court costs. He pays $30.00 in September of 2007, then another $60.00 in March of 2008, then is returned to jail in July of 2008. He is sentenced to four years in prison but again served concurrently with the previous sentence from the 2003 felony charge. He spends some time in prison because he next pops up in November of 2014 being arrested for not paying his court costs on this case. By November of 2016 Gamble is back out on the street and begins paying $50 per month on his court costs. This lasts for two months and stops until Gamble catches up in March of this year, probably to avoid going back to prison.
Gamble either laid low or was luckier as the next case pops up in 2010, Oklahoma County case CF-2010-7112 which shows another arrest for distribution of controlled dangerous substance and possession of proceeds, after former conviction. On 7/8/2011 Gamble was released from the Oklahoma County Jail on 7/5/2011 on an OR bond, no bondsman involved, no bail bond paid other than a $25.00 fee.
While out of jail on an OR/Conditional Release, Gamble was caught on 11/04/2011 and later charged with offering to engage in an act of lewdness in Oklahoma County case CM-2012-230.
The court record shows a failure to appear in court on 2/3/2012. With no bondsman to chase him down Gamble is on the run for ten months till he is returned to custody and appears in court.
Ever the busy beaver Gamble is next charged with Oklahoma County case CF-2013-6582 which shows a charge filed 9/30/2013, more than a year and a half later, for incurring forfeiture of bail. Keep in mind that this was an OR bond, Own Recognizance bond, so no bail bondsman was responsible for returning him to jail. The criminal justice system will likely never collected the fines, fees, and jail costs for prosecuting Gamble for his criminal acts much less thousands of dollars in the forfeited OR bond.
On 12/2/2013 David Gamble was arrested and jailed for his three warrants.
And while out on OR bond once again Gamble was charged with CF-2014-376 in early January of 2014 charged with eluding an officer, driving without a license, driving without insurance, and misdemeanor traffic offenses. This is the offense that earned Gamble the nine years in prison that wasn't suspended and is the only crime for which he was truly punished.
Finally in June of 2014 Gamble is sentenced to thirty years in prison with all but nine years suspended, the other sentences running concurrently which means he was punished for one crime and served zero time for the earlier felonies. However it was a short nine year as he was out on the streets again in November of 2016, two years after being sentenced to nine years in prison.
Thirteen years of criminal activities and he might have spent four years in prison for his acts instead of the over forty years of prison that the crimes carried.
And people wonder why criminals never stop committing crimes. Because Gamble made a living for thirteen years and every time he was caught the public defender plead his case out as guilty, the drug courts and regular courts kept releasing him, and he didn't pay a dime in bail bond during all those years.
