(Stillwater, Okla.) – A Cushing woman, who was arrested twice in three weeks’ time by Payne County Sheriff’s Deputy Bobby Miller, has been ordered to appear in court June 7 on two separate cases of possessing methamphetamine with intent to distribute, possessing drug paraphernalia and driving on a suspended license in Cushing on April 21 and May 12.
Kelsi A. Elliott, 28, who remains free on $17,500 total bail, could be given as much as two life prison terms plus four years and $43,000 in fines if convicted of all counts, court records show.
In her first case, Elliott was arrested at 11:40 p.m. on April 21 at 9th and Cleveland Streets in Cushing following a traffic stop, according to Miller’s affidavit.
“I had her exit the vehicle and placed her under arrest for driving while suspended. While searching her prior to placing her in my car, I located a baggy with several pills,” which she identified as Xanax, Miller alleged in his affidavit.
Inside a purse, “I located a black zipper bag that contained a clear zip lock style baggy that contained a crystal-type substance that I believed to be methamphetamine. Also in the black bag was a blue glass meth-type smoking pipe,” Miller alleged in his affidavit.
“At the jail, I looked closer at the purse. I located a working digital scale in the purse,” with a crystal-type residue that field-tested as methamphetamine,” Miller alleged in his affidavit.
A baggy in the black bag contained a baggy of a crystal substance that field-tested as methamphetamine and two unused baggies, the affidavit alleged.
Two days after that arrest, Elliott was released on $10,000 bail, court records show.
While she was free on bail in that drug case, Elliott was again arrested by Miller, this time at 1:10 a.m. on May 12 south of Walnut and Linwood Streets in Cushing for again driving on a suspended license, court records show.
In that case, about five minutes earlier the sheriff’s deputy had stopped at a convenience store in Cushing to get something to drink and saw Elliott exit the driver’s seat of a truck at the gas pumps, according to Miller’s affidavit.
“She looked at me and then put her head down and walked into the store. I got my item and left the store. I then parked across the street in a large parking lot,” and saw Elliott drive onto Main Street with a black car following her out of the parking lot, Miller wrote in his affidavit.
During a traffic stop, “she stated she knew she shouldn’t be driving but she needed to get the truck home,” the affidavit alleged.
After Elliott was arrested for driving on a suspended license, drug-related items were found in her truck, the affidavit alleged.
A grocery bag had an open cigarette box, with a plastic baggy sticking out, that had several small baggies, four of which contained a clear crystal rock recognized as methamphetamine, along with two baggies with marijuana and two with two pills each, as well as a digital scale, the affidavit alleged.
Under the passenger seat, a bag had a glass methamphetamine pipe with residue, several unused baggies and one with a crystal-type residue, as well as another baggy with crystal-rock methamphetamine and a baggy with marijuana, the affidavit alleged.
Two orange pills were identified as Buprenorphine and two white pills were identified as hydrocodone, the affidavit alleged.
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