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| Aaron A. Nibbs |
Another Career Criminal for the Soft on Crime Apologists
Much of crime is driven by career criminals and drug use is either interwoven or the financing scheme for a lot of the crime. We are told that Oklahoma locks up too many people but the raw truth is that you have to work really, really, hard to get yourself put in prison in Oklahoma. This week's soft on crime career criminal will demonstrate just how lenient the criminal justice system is and how long it takes before a criminal really pays any price for their crimes.
Meet Aaron Ahead Nibbs, an American Indian and a career criminal. Nibbs showed up on the adult criminal databases on June 24th of 2008 for CM-2008-547, up in Blaine County. CM stands for Criminal Misdemeanor and it is usually the entry point for criminals. This was a domestic abuse in the presence of a minor child, pleaded down to assault and battery to give the guy a break. Nibbs pleads guilty on July 10th 2008 and but as so many criminals do, Nibbs refuses to pay his court costs and fines. In August of 2011 he enters a payment plan agreement, pledging to pay $50.00 per month in order to stay out of county jail.
By March of 2012 Nibbs was still not paying and an arrest warrant for failure to pay is issued. Nibbs is arrested eventually and once again enters a payment plan of $100.00 per month. By August of 2012 he has agreed to a third payment plan but by January of 2013 another warrant is issued for his arrest for failure to pay. In September of 2013 Nibbs agrees to a fourth payment plan but by February of 2014 a bench warrant is issued for failure to pay. And another bench warrant is issued by March of 2015 again for failure to pay. By April of that year Nibbs isn't paying anything and he is missing court hearings so once again a bench warrant is issued.
The judge has had enough, seven years of refusing to pay court costs and fines. Nibbs is jailed and to get out he either agrees to pay $800.00 and sign yet another payment plan or sit in jail with $50.00 per day going toward the $800.00. Obviously there is a disconnect here, it costs the taxpayers around $40.00 per day to keep him in county jail. Nibbs lasts four days, $200.00 gets credited toward his fines and fees and Nibbs signs another payment plan with him beginning to pay on 5/29/2015. Seven years have passed. Little money spent by Nibbs on lawyers, bond, or court fines, he is thumbing his nose at the courts.
And that was just one count from his crime spree. Another case, CM-2008-548 was filed, another assault and Battery case. Nibbs again pleads guilty and is sentenced to 90 days suspended sentence, to run concurrently with his earlier criminal case. By January of 2009 some heat is turned up on Nibbs, not paying his fines and fees, an application to revoke the suspended sentence is filed. Nibbs doesn't show up for court of course and an arrest warrant is issued for failure to comply. Another bench warrant is issued in November of 2009 for the same thing, failure to comply. Nibbs signs yet another cost payment plan for $50.00 per month in August of 2011. By March of 2012 yet another bench warrant is issued against him for failure to pay and for failure to appear at the court hearings.
By August of 2012 Nibbs is signing yet another payment plan for $100.00 per month but he isn't paying so in January of 2013 another arrest warrant is issued for Nibbs. In September of 2013 Nibbs signs another payment plan to get out of jail, $100.00 per month but by February of 2014 he is facing another arrest warrant for failure to pay and failure to appear.
And by October Nibbs has been caught and agrees to once more sign a payment plan for his debts but as usual he isn't paying so another arrest warrant is issued in March 2015. This time his bond is up to $13,000 but Nibbs isn't learning, by December of 2014 he is once again refusing to show up or pay anything. This time Nibbs is jailed, ordered to pay $800.00 and sign a new payment plan or sit out the balance in jail at $50.00 per day. Again he sits in jail for four days and signs a new payment plan for $100.00 per month in May of 2015.
Nibbs wasn't just sitting around or working forty hours a week, he was out committing other crimes. In August of 2011 for DUI and driving without a license. Nibbs pleads guilty, one year suspended, $250.00 fine and $100.00 paid to the victims compensation fund. By March of 2012 his suspended sentence was revoked and by August he was arrested. Nibbs appears to have bonded out, fails to appear and another warrant is issued and his bond forfeited. By October 2012 he shows up in court but by mid December he isn't showing up and another arrest warrant is issued. The warrant is re issued in October of 2013 and he is arrested again..
Nibbs gets caught again , CM-2015-150 in April of 2015 for unlawful carrying of a weapon. Nibbs pleads guilty. Before the month is out another bench warrant is issued for failing to comply. Nibbs gets 20 days in the county jail
The same month Nibbs is arrested in Blaine County for a felony, drug possession, possession of paraphernalia, CF-2015-0075. He gets a deferred sentence but four months later he as usual isn't paying, another warrant is issued and his deferred sentence is reinstated. But Nibbs also has a Canadian County case with a five year prison sentence so Nibbs was to serve the sentence for this felony concurrently.
The prison sentence for the other crime was for unauthorized use of a vehicle, September of 2015, Nibbs pled guilty in January of 2016, four years prison term to run concurrently with the Blain County case and with another case, CF-2015-863. Nibbs finally wound up in state prison, Lexington.
CF-2015-863 in December of 2015, for possessing firearms after a conviction or during probabtion, possession of drugs, and possession of drug paraphernalia. As usual Nibbs doesn't fight the charges, pleads guilty, gets the four year sentence that is served concurrently with the other felony above and of course the time on the misdemeanor runs as well.
So Nibbs finally spends some serious time in state prison but not much of it. His five year sentence (with the four year and misdemeanor sentence) starts in January of 2016 but by May 2018 he is back out on the streets being arrested again on CF-2018-2445, attempted robbery with a firearm, aggravated attempting to elude a police officer, actual physical control of a vehicle (a DUI type charge, usually passed out sitting still and not moving when arrested), possession of drug paraphernalia, not having a drivers license, and again having a firearm in his possession after a felony conviction.
Nibbs no doubt had a juvenile criminal history to go along with what is on the public record and he probably learned not to take the criminal justice system seriously. No need to pay, just commit the crimes, use the public defender and OR bonds. Admit to anything because you will be back out on the streets before too long, and no need to pay fines or fees. What they gonna do? Lock you up? Not for long. He also learned that once you have one serious crime all other crimes can be done with no consequences as you will serve the time concurrently. The system is broken. It is a never ending conveyor belt of misery, crime, ruined lives, simply because we aren't strict enough on the small time crimes and people like Nibbs learn how to navigate the system.
What is needed is truth in sentencing, five years means five years prison time. Upon release ex cons ought to be working a job the next week or back each day in some program be it school, training, education, something that provides structure. We need dirt cheap prisons and plenty of space, where the prisoner works his butt off and is too tired at the end of the day to cause problems. Teach them work ethic, either working, training, or learning for the entire sentence. The state ought to turn a profit from prison labor, enough to pay for the system, incarceration, litigation, victim compensation, everything.
