(Stillwater, Okla.) – An ex-convict from Stillwater was given two concurrent 10-year prison terms Friday for two separate charges of possession of methamphetamine with intent to distribute after former felony convictions.
George Willard Mefford III, 47, had been released from prison in March 2014 on two earlier charges of methamphetamine possession in Payne County, state Department of Corrections records show.
At the time of his latest case, Mefford was free on $50,000 bond on a 2014 meth charge when he was arrested in February at 1 a.m. in Stillwater by Payne County Sheriff’s Deputy Dan Nack on another meth charge, court records show.
Mefford was a passenger in a pickup truck driven by a man with an outstanding arrest warrant, an affidavit said.
In a cigarette package that Mefford placed on the hood of a patrol car, the deputy found about 19 grams of methamphetamine, the affidavit said.
Mefford pleaded guilty to that case Friday, as well as possessing methamphetamine with intent to distribute in August 2014, five months after he was released from prison on his two earlier meth cases, court records show.
As part of a plea bargain approved in court Friday, Mefford was also ordered to pay almost $2,000 in fines and assessments.
District Judge Phillip Corley also revoked the balance of his probation for methamphetamine possession in 2007 and 2012 in Payne County, for which he had been given suspended sentences — after he spent about a year in prison where he completed a treatment program, court records show.
Mefford had also previously been given two concurrent three-year deferred sentences in 2001 on two other drug charges in Payne County, court records show.
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