(Stillwater, Okla.) — A Cushing woman — who was twice convicted of possessing methamphetamine in 2005 — has been jailed on $50,000 total bail from two recently-filed drug charges pending a Jan. 6 appearance in court.
In her latest case, Laurie Darlene Bacon, 41, was arrested by Payne County Sheriff’s Deputy Dan Nack for allegedly possessing marijuana and a smoking pipe across the street from Cushing High School on Dec. 17.
At the time, Bacon had been free on $10,000 bail on a charge of possessing methamphetamine and drug paraphernalia at her residence in the 500 block of S. Little Street on Nov. 21, court records show.
After she was arrested on Dec. 17, she was jailed and her bond was revoked — which made her new total bail $50,000, court records show.
In 2006, Bacon had been convicted in two separate Cushing cases of possessing methamphetamine in the presence of a child — and possessing substances with intent to manufacture the same drug, possessing a drug within 1,000 feet of a minor and having a drug without a prescription, all in 2005.
She was placed on 10 years’ probation with a requirement that she complete a one-year in-patient program at Jordan’s Crossing Treatment Center in Oklahoma City in lieu of drug court.
However, eight months after she went into that residential treatment program, she was discharged for having contraband in the facility, state Department of Corrections Community Sentencing Specialist Dee Miller wrote in a report to the court in August 2006.
Three months later, then-District Judge Donald Worthington revoked part of her probation and gave her a three-year prison term of which she apparently served nine months, court records show.
When she was arrested about six weeks ago at her residence in Cushing, Larry Steven Wallace Jr., 36, of Cushing, was also arrested for alleged possession of methamphetamine and drug paraphernalia. He was freed on $1,000 bail pending a Jan. 15 court appearance.
In that Nov. 21 case, a team of Payne County sheriff’s deputies served a search warrant at Bacon’s residence, which had “a hang-out type room, with tattoo equipment throughout the room,” Nack wrote in an affidavit.
In the tattoo room, from which Wallace emerged, a set of gravity scales was on the top of an end table, which contained a drawer with a small baggy having methamphetamine residue and two white prescription pills, the affidavit alleged.
“One loaded syringe with approximately 15 cc’s of clear liquid was located inside a wooden end table. Two additional used syringes were located in the trash can of this room rolled up with sandwich baggies,” the affidavit alleged.
In Bacon’s bedroom, the deputy found three small yellow baggies, two of which contained residue field-tested as positive for methamphetamine, the affidavit alleged. A spoon with cotton had a small marijuana-type pipe, the affidavit alleged. Three more used small yellow baggies were in her trash can, the affidavit alleged.
If convicted of both of her current drug charges, Bacon could be incarcerated for 42 years and fined $22,000, due to her prior criminal record.
If convicted of his charges, Wallace could be incarcerated for 11 years and fined $6,000, court records show.
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