(Stillwater, Okla.) — A Stillwater woman — who was released from prison in 2007 after serving time for concealing jewelry stolen from a Cushing physician’s home — has been charged with smuggling contraband into the Payne County Jail by hiding the drug, a used syringe, a cigarette and a lighter in a body cavity on June 20.
Christina Marie Ferraro, 30, who was jailed that day after being arrested for obstructing an officer, also has been charged with delivering methamphetamine to another female prisoner on June 20.
Ferraro, who remains held on $35,000 bail, appeared before a judge Monday on a variety of charges and was ordered to return to court Thursday afternoon.
Ferraro told another female prisoner — while she was pulling “a bag that she put in there” — that “if she didn’t get it out, she would die,” Payne County Sheriff’s Deputy Dan Nack alleged in an affidavit.
Another female prisoner claimed that she saw Ferraro and two other female inmates “shoot up, using the syringe, lighter, dope, and a spark from the dinner trays,” the affidavit alleged.
The contraband that was removed from the women’s cell “included one tampon box, one loose tampon, one syringe, one blue baggy ripped open, one partially smoked cigarette and one lighter,” the affidavit alleged.
“The syringe was well-used with much of its printed letters on the tube worn off. The blue baggy contained a white residue,” which field-tested positive for methamphetamine, the affidavit alleged.
Ferraro was paroled from prison in 2007 after serving less than one-third of a six-year sentence for possession of methamphetamine in Stillwater in 2005, state Department of Corrections records show.
She also had been convicted in Payne County of knowingly concealing stolen property in 2003 and drug possession in 2000, DOC records show.
Her latest arrest came on June 20 for allegedly lying to Deputy Nack when asked if her brother was hiding in a shed behind a residence in Stillwater, court records show.
At the time, she was free on $25,000 bond on a charge of possessing methamphetamine and drug paraphernalia on April 24, following that arrest by Deputy Nack, court records show.
Five months earlier, she had been freed on $10,000 bond after being arrested for shoplifting from Walmart on Perkins Road in Stillwater, on Nov. 29, 2011, court records show.
She was given a six-year prison term in 2006 after admitting to possessing methamphetamine and drug paraphernalia — following her arrest with six co-defendants at a Stillwater trailer where 9.2 grams of the drug was found in 2005, Stillwater Police Officer Tom Comstrock wrote in an affidavit.
“I observed Christina (Ferraro) throw down a blue bag in the hallway and a cigarette package in the bedroom just before she jumped on the bed and tried to jump through the wall. I later found the blue package contained crystal methamphetamine and the cigarette package contained marijuana.
“Christina was extremely intoxicated on methamphetamine, she could not sit still or stop talking. She was overly paranoid and could not keep up with simple conversations,” the officer alleged in his affidavit.
In 2003, she had admitted concealing jewelry that had been stolen from a Cushing physician’s residence in 2002, court records show.
She was ordered to serve 120 days in jail, pay restitution, enroll in and complete the Payne County Drug Court program and serve probation, court records show.
In 2005, she was terminated from Drug Court after continued positive drug tests, court records show. Later that year, her probation was revoked to a five-year prison term — of which she served one year and seven months, DOC records show.
If convicted of her latest felony charges of smuggling contraband into the Payne County Jail and delivering methamphetamine to another prisoner there, both on June 20, Ferraro could be given two life prison terms, court records show.
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