On June 29, Deanna Jean Thomas, 44, was charged with failure to register as a sex offender, a felony, according to court records. Prosecutors said Tuesday they are seeking to have Thomas' suspended sentence revoked.
Sequoyah County Sheriff's Deputy Pamela Crutchfield reported that she received information on June 21 that Thomas was in violation of the state sex offender registry law. Thomas had allegedly moved to an unknown address east of Rocky Point Store north of Sallisaw. According to court records, Thomas last registered with the county sheriff's department on May 30 and listed her address in Sallisaw.
Thomas was convicted, along with her husband, of various sex crimes. She entered a blind plea in district court in 2003 for her role in the 2001 incident, and received 20-year prison sentences for those counts, to run concurrently.
Thomas' husband, Kenneth Thomas, is serving a combined 55-year prison sentence after he was convicted in 2003 of two counts of kidnapping, sodomy, robbery by force and fear, and first-degree rape.
In 2005, former Sequoyah County District Judge John Garrett suspended the remainder of Deanna Thomas' prison sentence.
According to court records, Thomas and her husband approached two juveniles at a walking trail in Sallisaw and asked them for a ride to their home because they were having car trouble. Once in the back of the victim's truck, Kenneth Thomas allegedly gave the juveniles directions to their home, which turned out to be a dead end.
Kenneth Thomas then took control of the vehicle at gunpoint and drove them to a location in Sallisaw, where he raped the female juvenile and forced the male juvenile at knifepoint to engage in sexual activity with his wife and with the juvenile girl. The juveniles escaped from the couple.
