(Stillwater, Okla.) A 23-year-old Stillwater woman has been charged with stealing morphine tablets from a rural Perkins home where she was temporarily staying to take care of an elderly woman and a disabled man, both of whom required constant care.
Chelsea Morgen Stigleman was arrested Nov. 3 and jailed on $7,500 bail pending a Nov. 12 court appearance with an attorney, court records show.
If convicted of larceny of a controlled drug, Stigleman could be sentenced to a 10-year prison term and fined $10,000, according to the felony charge filed in October.
Payne County Sheriff’s Deputy Rockford Brown wrote in an affidavit that on July 22, a rural Perkins woman said that she had allowed Stigleman to live with her temporarily to take care of her mother and her son.
On July 3, the woman had picked up a prescription of 120 morphine tablets for her son from Perkins Drug, the affidavit said.
The woman said that she put the morphine prescription on the kitchen counter on July 3, the same day she asked Stigleman “to move out as the living situation was temporary,” the affidavit alleged.
The woman said that she believed “Chelsea (Stigleman) stole approximately 55-60 morphine pills that she had just purchased,” the affidavit alleged.
“After Chelsea left, (the woman) noticed that a significant amount of pills were missing,” the affidavit alleged.
The woman said, “no one else had access to the residence and Chelsea is the only possible suspect,” the affidavit alleged.
The woman believed “that the theft occurred while she was in the shower and the pills were left on the counter,’’ the affidavit alleged.
The woman said “Chelsea had left her Facebook page open on (the woman’s) laptop computer, and (the woman) was able to see several messages that Chelsea had sent involving the sale of prescription drugs and other narcotics,” the affidavit alleged.
“In one conversation, she claimed to have ‘30 mg roxy’ (street for oxycodone) morphine. In another conversation, she stated ‘I need some good. got 30 mg morphs also,’” the affidavit alleged.
On Aug. 25, the deputy received screenshots of these conversations from the disabled man and was given information that Stigleman was now enrolled at Oklahoma State University, from which he obtained her address and phone number, the affidavit alleged.
On Sept. 1, the deputy met with Stigleman in the Sheriff’s Office and told her he was investigating a prescription pill theft, the affidavit said.
“I told Chelsea that (the woman) captured images from her (Chelsea’s) FB page that she left open on (the woman’s) computer, and those messages contained conversations where Chelsea spoke about having morphine pills that she was wanting to get rid of,” the deputy alleged in his affidavit.
“Chelsea initially denied stealing the pills and claimed that someone was using her FB page to transact drugs unknowingly to her.
“I told Chelsea that this was highly unlikely and I believed that she was the sole person responsible for the pills theft.
“I took a restroom break and allowed Chelsea to speak with her friend whom she brought down with her to the office.
“Upon resuming the conversation with Chelsea, she told me that she knew she didn’t take 55, but she did steal some of the morphine pills, used some herself, and tried to sell some of the pills but never followed through with selling them,” the deputy alleged in his affidavit.
“When I clarified with Chelsea that she admitted to stealing morphine pills, she told me that she ‘did not think it was that many.’
“I asked her if she was under the influence of the morphine pills during the time of theft, and she nodded yes, and said that she had taken two or three,” the deputy alleged in his affidavit.
“During my conversation with Chelsea, I never promised her any special treatment from the District Attorney’s Office.
“I did however tell her that I would request they issue a letter to appear if she is charged with a crime,” the deputy wrote in his affidavit.
She gave the deputy an address in Stillwater where she said she was staying with friends, the affidavit said.
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