(Stillwater, Okla.) — A Stillwater man and woman have been jailed on $75,000 bail each on charges of possessing nine stolen vehicles, most of which were owned by a Stillwater-based business, according to affidavits by Payne County Sheriff’s Investigator Brandon Myers.
Jason Ernest Jeffries, 20, and Cecaila Anne Bearden-Crawford, 23, who has also been known by the surname of Crawford, were arraigned this week on three counts each of knowingly concealing stolen property. If convicted on all counts, the couple could each be imprisoned for as long as 15 years, court records show.
The pair were charged with possessing six motorcycles and a utility ATV on Oct. 26 that had been stolen from Nexxus Remarketing, a man’s Ford Ranger pickup stolen in Stillwater, and another man’s 2016 Tex Mex 18-foot utility trailer stolen in Stillwater, court records show.
The Nexxus Remarketing owner, who buys and sells vehicles, owns five properties in Payne County where vehicles are stored, the investigator’s affidavit said. The owner said he had been out of work due to an injury and had not been in his shop for several months, the affidavit said.
The Nexxus owner reported on Oct. 22 that “at least 15 motorcycles, one ATV, tools, tires, engines, wheels and other vehicle parts and accessories have been taken from his shop,” the affidavit said.
The Nexxus owner received text messages on his phone from an anonymous person that “Jason Jeffries is the one that has been stealing his property,” the affidavit alleged.
A Glencoe man told the investigator that he went with Jeffries and Crawford to a storage unit where he saw several motorcycles and electronics, the affidavit alleged. Another Glencoe man showed the investigator an ATV that was stolen from Nexxus Remarketing, the affidavit alleged.
At another Glencoe site, the investigator “located a Harley-Davidson sportster motorcycle and numerous tools and equipment belonging to Nexxus Remarketing,” the affidavit alleged.
When the investigator obtained a search warrant for two storage units in Ripley rented by the couple, “I recovered five motorcycles belonging to Nexxus Remarketing and other suspected stolen property,” Myers alleged in his affidavit.
After receiving information that the couple was staying at an apartment in Stillwater, “I recognized the two and placed them under arrest,” on Oct. 26, Myers wrote in his affidavit. A woman in the apartment “admitted to driving Jason to the Nexxus Remarketing numerous times to break into and steal items from the business,” the affidavit alleged.
“Jason gained entry into the building by bypassing the locking mechanism on the roll-up door located on the south side of the building. One lock on the gate was cut, but they took the gate off its tracks and gained entry by sliding it open the wrong direction,” the affidavit alleged.
A Ripley couple “told me that Jason Jeffries and Cecaila Crawford brought a trailer and two motorcycles to their property,” the investigator alleged in his affidavit. The motorcycles had been stolen from Nexxus Remarketing and the trailer had been stolen in Stillwater, the affidavit alleged.
Another witness “told me that when he was with Jason Jeffries and Cecaila Crawford, they were driving a blue in color Ford Ranger pickup that was re-painted…He said Jason told him the vehicle was stolen out of Stillwater,” the investigator alleged in an affidavit.
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