(Stillwater, Okla.) — A Cushing man who admitted Friday that he had endeavored to manufacture methamphetamine at his residence remains jailed on $50,000 bail pending his sentencing on July 2.
Charles Lee Herring, 53, has a plea bargain for a one-year jail term, nine years of probation, Drug Court, fines, costs, and 100 hours of community service, court records show.
His co-defendant Mary Margaret Vaughan, 46, who lived in the same residence, remains jailed pending a May 2 court appearance.
Payne County Sheriff’s Deputy Dan Nack, who arrested the pair on Dec. 4, 2013, alleged in an affidavit that Herring said, “he does not know how to cook meth; however he buys pseudoephedrine for Mary to do so, and gets meth for it. He advised that this has been going on for several years.”
“Mary advised that she does cook meth. She advised that she also purchases pseudoephedrine for that,” the affidavit alleged. Their home in the 1100 block of E. Greelee in Cushing was searched on Dec. 4, 2013, by a team of deputies from the Payne County Sheriff’s Office, the affidavit said.
In the bedroom beside the bed were “two individual shake method methamphetamine labs,” Nack alleged in his affidavit. Ten additional “older one-pot or shake method methamphetamine labs were also found here,” the affidavit alleged.
Thirteen additional bottles were located in a bathroom cabinet — four containing a liquid, one of which was field-tested as positive for methamphetamine, the affidavit alleged.
“Several of these were also hand-labeled Thursday, Friday, Saturday, etc.” the affidavit said. “These were all identified as used methamphetamine labs, each representing an individual meth cook capable of producing methamphetamine,” the affidavit alleged. “Mary states that the purpose to label the bottles with days is to identify later when she made it after the bottle is stored. Both agreed that each bottle represents at least one cook done,” the affidavit alleged.
