(Stillwater, Okla.) — A Cushing woman on drug probation — who was previously convicted of failing to compel her daughter to attend grade school — has been jailed on $5,000 bail on a charge of concealing a tomahawk, cologne and several shirts, all allegedly stolen from a Cushing man. Stephanie Renee Flint, 37, was given a court-appointed attorney and ordered to appear in court on May 5 when she can seek a preliminary hearing on her latest charge. Flint was arrested shortly after noon on April 19 at the alleged victim’s house, according to an affidavit by Cushing Police Officer Matthew Piatt. The homeowner told police that when he left his residence the previous night about 4 p.m., it was secured, the affidavit said. He said when he arrived the next day, “he noticed things were moved around in the residence and he was missing property,” the affidavit said. He said “he found his property in the back yard sacked up,” the affidavit alleged. A Cushing woman said she saw a female wearing an outfit similar to nurse’s scrubs and carrying a black backpack leave the back yard of the man’s house minutes before he arrived, the affidavit said. She later identified Flint as the suspect, the affidavit said. Cushing Police Officer Bill McCarty located Flint, who was wearing clothing matching the description and carrying a black backpack, about three blocks from the man’s house, the affidavit alleged. “Flint was asked for consent to search her backpack and she took items out of her backpack to include clothing and a tomahawk with a smoking pipe attached,” the affidavit alleged. Flint then admitted she was at the house where she said her sister resided, the affidavit alleged. “Once at the residence, Flint denied entering the residence or taking property,” from it, the affidavit said. “While I was speaking with Flint, I saw she had blue sparkling powder in her hairline on the right side of her head and on her neck and shirt,” Piatt wrote in his affidavit. When Piatt went inside the house with the man, the officer saw a blue sparkling powder in the bathtub where someone had bathed, the affidavit said. Piatt said he also saw an unsmoked broken cigarette in the trashcan and blood on the couch and loveseat in the living room, the affidavit said. “When I confronted Flint about the similarities of the blue sparkling powder on her and that was also in the bathtub, she stated she was homeless…and needed to take a shower and use the bathroom,” the officer alleged in his affidavit. “Flint stated the back door was unlocked and she saw the property in the backyard when she walked by the residence,” the affidavit alleged. The homeowner identified the tomahawk as property he had in his closet, the affidavit said. “When asked about the tomahawk, Flint stated, ‘It’s the only thing I stole, took, whatever,"” the affidavit alleged. The man identified a bottle of cologne as his property that was in Flint’s backpack, the affidavit alleged. He also identified clothing in her backpack “as his clothing that came from his closet,” the affidavit alleged. After Flint cursed and began walking away, the officer asked if she was disputing the claim on the property and she said “It’s all theirs — they can have it,” the affidavit alleged. Three individuals said they did not give Flint permission to enter the house and wanted to press charges against her, as well as testify in court, the affidavit alleged. Four months before that incident, Flint admitted being intoxicated outside the Cushing Senior Citizens’ Center and possessing a drug without a prescription in August, court records show. Flint was placed on one year’s probation with conditions including having a drug/alcohol evaluation, complying with any recommended follow-up, undergoing four random drug tests within six months, performing 10 community service hours and paying a $100 fine, court records show. In that case, Flint was arrested shortly after 11 p.m. on Aug. 9, 2013, by Cushing Police Officer Justin Sappington, who had been sent there on a report of a possibly intoxicated woman on the Cushing Senior Citizens’ Center premises, court records show. “When I arrived, I observed Stephanie Flint sitting on the south curb of the 200 block of E. Cherry Street,” the officer wrote in his affidavit. “When Flint stood up, it was obviously that she was extremely unsteady on her feet,” according to the affidavit by the officer, who said he stopped an intoxication test for her safety. At the city jail, Cushing Police Officer Rachel Hentges found several pills in Flint’s right front pocket — one of which was identified as a scheduled drug, the affidavit said. Two years before that incident, Flint was charged with violating the compulsory education act following an investigation by then Cushing Police Chief Terry Brannon, court records show. She pleaded guilty and was placed on six months’ probation under a deferred sentence, with an order to perform 25 hours of community service and pay a $50 fine, court records show. Nine months later, her deferred sentence was changed to a conviction, court records show.
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