By: Patti Weaver
(Stillwater, Okla.) — A convicted drug offender has been ordered to appear in court on Nov. 4 on a felony charge of delivering methamphetamine to a police informant in the parking lot of a Stillwater business on Perkins Road.
If convicted, Robert Earl Johnson Jr., 33, who was listed as homeless in Stillwater and jailed on $15,000 bail, could be given as much as a life prison term, court records show.
Johnson was arrested at 10:15 a.m. on Sept. 25 after arriving in the business’s parking lot on a bicycle, Stillwater Police Officer Josh Carson wrote in an affidavit.
The informant had contacted Johnson on Facebook Messenger and set up the purchase, the affidavit alleged.
“I removed the ‘buy” money used for the purchase from Robert’s right hand,” the Stillwater officer alleged in his affidavit.
“Robert stated he was asked to deliver ‘sugar’ to CI (confidential informant) in exchange for $100.
“Robert told me he was doing it for a friend,” the Stillwater officer alleged in his affidavit.
A small amount of the substance tested as positive for methamphetamine, the affidavit alleged.
According to court records, Johnson had previously been convicted in Payne County of:
* possessing marijuana in 2012, for which he was ordered into the Drug Court program in 2013, but terminated a month later and given a one-year jail term;
* having contraband in jail in 2012, for which he was initially given in 2013 a five-year suspended sentence except 180 days’ incarceration with an order to comply with the methamphetamine registry, but seven months later ordered into the Drug Court program in 2013 from which he was terminated a month later and given a concurrent one-year jail term;
* possessing a drug in 2013, for which he was ordered into the Drug Court program in 2013, but terminated a month later and given a 10-year suspended sentence except one year in jail in 2014, only three years later to be found in violation of his probation and sent to jail for 180 days, then two years later revoked to six months in jail;
* possessing marijuana in 2016, for which he was given in 2017 a 10-year suspended sentence except 180 days in jail, then two years later to be found in violation of his probation and given a six-month term, with credit for the time that he had already served.
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