(Stillwater, Okla.) — A Stillwater businessman has been given a 25-year prison term for assorted drug charges including methamphetamine trafficking, as part of a plea bargain approved in court by District Judge Phillip Corley last week.
Robert Kevin Brooner, 51, an ex-convict from whose office and vehicle a large quantity of drugs were seized, pleaded guilty Friday to all of his charges including delivering methamphetamine on two occasions last summer to a confidential informant, court records show.
Brooner has been jailed on $300,000 bail since his arrest eight months ago at his business at 4603 S. Perkins Road in Stillwater, court records show.
“Units were placed in the area of Brooner’s residence and in the area of his business,” to arrest him on two drug delivery warrants before his property was searched on Sept. 11, 2014, Stillwater Police Officer Trevor Meridith wrote in an affidavit.
Stillwater Police Sgt. Kenneth Higgins and Payne County Sheriff’s Deputy Gregg Russell “conducted a felony traffic stop on Brooner’s vehicle in front of the north gate leading onto his property,” where Brooner was arrested shortly before 9 a.m. that day, the affidavit said.
When Stillwater Police Detective Royce Stephens walked to the passenger side of the vehicle, he saw a partially open zippered pouch on the center console, the affidavit said.
“Detective Stephens stated he shined his flashlight on the pouch and immediately recognized the crystalline substance to be methamphetamine,” which weighed 26.6 grams, the affidavit said.
“Detective Stephens also located another zippered bag on the driver’s side of the vehicle,” that had a set of digital scales with methamphetamine residue and various baggies commonly used to package the drug, the affidavit said.
“Upon searching his office within the business, I located a Crown Royal bag containing a set of working digital scales and a small translucent green-colored zip top bag,” containing smaller bags, three with 13 and one-half Carisoprodol pills, two with 33 and a half Diazepam pills, one with 17 Oxycodone pills, one with a phentermine hydrochloride pill, and one with a gram of psilocybin mushrooms, the affidavit said.
“Within Brooner’s office, I also found two glass methamphetamine pipes, various straws with residue, a working police scanner that was turned on and actively scanning when we made entry and a video surveillance monitor that was turned on and showing the camera views from outside of the business when we made entry,” Meridith wrote in his affidavit.
“Deputy Dan Nack located various packaging materials and paraphernalia, as well as four hits of LSD in a Dodge pickup parked outside of the shop in the east lot. Deputy Nack also located a Centurion brand gas generator,” that had been stolen and was found on Brooner’s property, the affidavit said.
According to the state Department of Corrections, Brooner had been convicted in 1998 in Noble County of drug distribution and given a 15-year sentence on which he was paroled in 2004 after serving about six years.
Court records show that Brooner was also convicted in 1998 in Payne County of:
* possession of drugs with intent to distribute along with unlawful use of a police scanner and given a five-year sentence;
* possession of a drug with intent to distribute along with maintaining a house where drugs were kept and given a five-year sentence;
* possession of a drug and given a five-year sentence.
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