Kidnapping call leads to illegal gun arrest

A call to police regarding an alleged kidnapping has led to the arrest and charge of having an illegal firearm for a Lawton man.

Marcus Duane Yackeschi, 28, made his initial appearance Wednesday in Comanche County District Court where he received a felony charge of possession of a firearm after former felony convictions, records indicate. Due to his priors, he faces up to 30 years in prison if convicted.

More charges may follow continued investigation.

Lawton Police Officer Axle Ocasio stated he was called around 6:45 a.m. Monday by a woman who claimed her ex-boyfriend, Yackeschi had held her against her will.

The woman said she’d come home around 3 p.m. Oct. 18 to find Yackeschi inside the home without permission and that he ordered her inside at gunpoint, the probable cause affidavit states. She said they argued and though she kept telling him to leave, he refused, Ocasio stated. She told the officer Yackeschi had awakened her by choking her neck and that he destroyed her cell phone.

Yackeschi then took her keys and began to walk away, according to the woman, and when he gave them back, her vehicle keys were missing, the affidavit states. Yackeschi refused to leave and, the woman said, he pointed the gun at her and threatened to shoot her in the stomach, Ocasio stated.

On Oct. 20, the woman said Yackeschi finally gave her the vehicle keys back, allowing her to escape.

When officers went to the home in the 1900 block Southwest D Avenue and caught Yackeschi fleeing through a window, according to the affidavit.

Yackeschi has prior felony convictions: Cotton County, May 2015, malicious injury to property; Jefferson County, November 2017, domestic assault and battery in the presence of a minor child; and Stephens County, July 2020, domestic assault and battery – second and subsequent and preventing a witness from giving testimony, records indicate.

Held on $75,000 bond, Yackeschi returns to court at 3 p.m. Jan. 7, 2025, for hi preliminary hearing conference.