(Stillwater, Okla.) – A Cushing man arrested by a Perkins police officer during a traffic stop has been charged with possessing methamphetamine, marijuana and a smoking pipe described as drug paraphernalia, all on Thursday.
Hunter Lewis Judd, 30, remained in the Payne County Jail on $7,500 bond this morning pending his arraignment this afternoon on the three-count charge, a sheriff’s spokesman told KUSH.
If convicted of all counts, Judd could be incarcerated for 12 years and fined $16,000, according to court documents filed by Payne County First Assistant District Attorney Kevin Etherington Friday.
Perkins Police Lt. Jason Galt was traveling east on Highway 33 in a Perkins police car at 2:43 a.m. Thursday when he saw a truck traveling west without operable tag lights, his affidavit alleged.
After the truck turned south onto Perkins Road from Highway 33, the Perkins officer conducted a traffic stop on the truck driven by Judd, who had a large knife attached to his belt, the affidavit alleged.
“I instructed Mr. Judd to take off his belt and place it in the bed of the truck,” which Judd did, the affidavit alleged.
The Perkins officer then told Judd that he was being arrested because his driver’s license was revoked, the affidavit alleged.
Judd said that the only reason he was driving was because his passenger was intoxicated, the affidavit said.
His female passenger “admitted to drinking too much at a bar where she bartended. She said she had just met Mr. Judd that night and did not know him very well,” the affidavit said.
She pleaded guilty Friday to public intoxication for which she was placed on probation for six months, court records show.
When the Perkins officer returned to his patrol car, “I observed an overwhelming odor of what I recognized to be marijuana coming from the back seat of my patrol car,” the affidavit alleged.
“Mr. Judd stated he had a ‘pipe’ in his boot,” which he said his passenger handed him when they were pulled over, the affidavit alleged.
However, the passenger said “she was drunk, but did not use drugs and did not know anything about the pipe,” the affidavit said.
When Judd’s pickup truck was inventoried, “I immediately noticed several large crystallized objects on the driver’s side floor mat,” the Perkins officer alleged in his affidavit.
The substance field-tested as positive for methamphetamine, the affidavit alleged.
“Mr. Judd adamantly denied any knowledge of the methamphetamine. Mr. Judd stated he only smokes marijuana,” the affidavit alleged.
“Mr. Judd informed me he had been out of state for two months on business and multiple people had driven his truck, although he was unable to provide the names of the people who had driven the truck,” the Perkins officer alleged in his affidavit.
Payne County Sheriff’s Deputy Jacob Secrest handed the Perkins officer an orange tube-like container with a crystal substance in the grooves of the cap that he had located on the driver’s side near to the gear shifter, the affidavit alleged.
When Judd’s passenger was again questioned, she denied any knowledge of the crystal substance and again said “she was drunk but that was it,” the affidavit alleged.
She said she had four or five beers and five fireballs, a cinnamon-based whiskey, the affidavit said.
While Judd was being transported to the Payne County Jail, “Mr. Judd continually stated he did not have knowledge of methamphetamine in his vehicle and the only thing he did was smoke marijuana,” the affidavit said.
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