(Stillwater, Okla.) — Bench warrants have been issued for the arrest of a Cushing woman who failed to appear in trial court before a judge Friday on a forgery charge and before another judge four days earlier on a charge accusing her of possessing marijuana at a Cushing park.
If convicted of her charges, Christy Lynn McEntire, 24, could be incarcerated for 10 years and fined $3,000, court records show.
At the time of her marijuana charge, McEntire was free on $5,000 bail on a felony charge accusing her of passing a $100 forged check to Bill’s EZ Out last August, court records show.
A woman had reported to Cushing police that on July 31, 2013, “her wallet was stolen from her purse while she was at the women’s clinic in Stillwater, Oklahoma, and the suspect in the theft was Christy McEntire,” Cushing Police Sgt. Adam Harp wrote in an affidavit.
The alleged victim said that she was contacted by an employee at Bill’s EZ Out on Main Street that a check was returned to their store, the affidavit said.
That check was written to Bill’s EZ Out on Aug. 7, 2013, for $100, the affidavit said. McEntire’s name was in the memo section of the check, while the alleged victim’s name was printed in the signature section, the affidavit said.
On the top of the check was a driver’s license number belonging to McEntire, the affidavit said.
When McEntire called the police department on Aug. 14, 2013, “I asked McEntire about the forged check that she passed at Bill’s EZ Out and she said that she did not know what I was talking about,” Harp wrote in his affidavit.
While she was free on bail on that felony charge, McEntire was accused of possessing marijuana and drug paraphernalia at Roy Kemp Park in Cushing in January of this year, court records show.
The Cushing police sergeant had been sent shortly after 5 p.m. on Jan. 17 to the park in the 800 block of E. Oak Street on a report of a white woman in a pink hoodie possibly smoking marijuana on a park bench, according to Harp’s affidavit.
“I made contact with Christy and told her that someone had called the police department and gave a description of her possibly smoking marijuana in the park. Christy denied smoking marijuana in the park and said that she was smoking cigarettes,” Harp wrote in his affidavit.
Asked if she had any cigarettes, McEntire reached into the front hoodie pocket and retrieved a pack and a lighter, the affidavit said.
“I asked Christy if she had anything else in her front hoodie pocket, and she reached into the pocket with both hands and I could hear what sounded like a wrapper crinkling in her left hand,” Harp wrote in his affidavit.
“I asked Christy what she had in her left hand and she just stared at me and did not say anything. I again asked Christy what she had in her left hand and she said she smokes.
“I asked Christy if she would remove her left hand and show me the item and she handed me a clear plastic baggy containing a green leafy substance believed to be marijuana,” which she said belonged to her, Harp alleged in his affidavit.
“It should be noted that Christy was at the park with her four-year-old child,” the affidavit alleged.
“Before placing Christy into the police car, she told me that she had a smoking pipe in her hoodie front pocket, which she said that she used to smoke marijuana while at the park,” Harp alleged in his affidavit.
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