(Stillwater, Okla.) — District Judge Phillip Corley has given a jury-recommended 45-year term of incarceration to an ex-convict for possessing methamphetamine with intent to distribute the drug in Stillwater and a concurrent 10-year term for possessing a rifle — four months after he was released from prison on three other Payne County drug charges.
The judge ordered on Friday that Ulysses Jacques Johnson Bush, 35, of Stillwater, serve those sentences after he completes two concurrent nine-year prison terms and a concurrent six-year prison term that he was given six months ago for probation violations in three Payne County drug cases, Court Clerk Lori Allen said. Bush is serving those sentences at the Cimarron Correctional Facility in Cushing, prison records show.
Bush, who was found guilty in his latest case by a Payne County jury in March, has nine prior felony convictions from Payne County and has been known by six other names, state Department of Corrections records show.
Bush has been incarcerated since he was arrested by Stillwater Police Officer Royce Stephens, who was conducting surveillance in the 1700 block of N. Benjamin as part of a drug investigation on March 19, 2014, according to his affidavit.
When Bush came out a residence under observation, “He was carrying a white trash bag with a long object protruding from it wrapped in gift wrap paper,” that he put in a pickup bed before getting in the truck driven by a woman not wearing a seatbelt, the affidavit said.
During a traffic stop, the officer recognized the passenger as Bush, who “is known to me to be heavily involved in the distribution of illegal drugs, particularly methamphetamine, and is reported to often carry weapons,” Stephens wrote in his affidavit.
“I had received an anonymous call the prior week concerning Bush. I was told that Bush had conducted a home invasion robbery of another drug dealer named Charles that week.
“The caller stated that Bush had pistol-whipped a 12-year-old boy during the robbery and had stolen a half-pound of marijuana and a rifle,” Stephens wrote in his affidavit.
With the help of Stillwater Police Detective Adam Elliott, Bush was searched, the affidavit said.
Bush had in a pocket a large prescription pill bottle containing several small bags of methamphetamine, the affidavit said.
Still in the pickup truck bed was an item wrapped in paper that turned out to be a .22-caliber rifle with a scope, the affidavit said.
“Bush was found to have in excess of $450 in one of his pockets. The bottle was found to contain three small empty zip top bags, a small bag containing one gram of methamphetamine, a small bag containing .5 grams of methamphetamine and another small bag containing three 10 mg. OxyContin tablets,” the affidavit said.
Bush’s criminal record includes convictions in Payne County for:
* discharging a firearm from a vehicle in 1997 for which he served about nine months of a two-year prison term;
* possessing a firearm and concealing stolen property in 1998 for which he was given a five-year prison term;
* being a felon in possession of a firearm on two occasions and drug possession for which he was given three five-year prison terms;
* possessing a drug without a tax stamp and having a firearm as a felon, for which he served about three and one-half years of an 11-year prison term;
* possessing marijuana with intent to distribute in 2010 and possession of methamphetamine and marijuana with intent to distribute and firearm possession in Glencoe in 2011, for which he was given 15 years’ probation conditioned on his completing Payne County Drug Court from which he was terminated;
* possessing methamphetamine in Stillwater after a former felony conviction for which he was originally given a four-year prison term followed by six years of probation that was revoked in November to prison.
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