An Oklahoma City police officer who resigned last year to avoid criminal charges after a drive-by shooting at a strip club was arrested again after his ex-girlfriend reported he broke into her house, according to a police report released Friday.
Michael Wayne McKethan Jr., 37, was arrested April 10 on a burglary complaint.
According to the report, McKethan broke into the woman's home in the 2700 block of NW 164 Terrace just before 10 p.m.
“It's an old girlfriend of his,” said Scott Adams, McKethan's attorney.
“He didn't do anything wrong. After all the facts come out, I'm sure he will be acquitted or charges won't even be filed. He didn't commit any crimes.”
Court records list the woman as Toni Ann Cooper. She told police she had been living with McKethan, but broke up with him and moved out of his house March 1.
What is alleged.
Cooper said she was in her bathroom when McKethan walked in and surprised her. She told him to leave and refused his request to take him back.
McKethan then grabbed a glass bathroom sink and broke it on the floor, and went to the living room and ripped a television from the wall and threw it to the ground, Cooper told officers.
Cooper filed a victim's protective order against McKethan earlier that day, court records show.
McKethan resigned from the Oklahoma City Police department in 2011 after he and another officer were charged with a drive-by shooting two years earlier at Night Trips, an Oklahoma City strip club. In return for both officers' resignations, prosecutors dropped charges in the case.
Charges in a separate insurance fraud case also were dropped after McKethan agreed to pay restitution.
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