By: Patti Weaver
(Stillwater, Okla.) — A 52-year-old woman has been jailed on $25,000 bail pending her arraignment this week on charges of possessing a stolen Honda CRV and a stolen license tag, along with methamphetamine and drug paraphernalia, while driving on a revoked license in Stillwater.
Tammie Rae Wamsley, of Guthrie, who previously lived in Perkins, has a 30-year criminal record, according to the Oklahoma Department of Corrections. Wamsley was released from prison three years ago, DOC records show.
Due to her multiple prior felony convictions, Wamsley could be given as much as a life prison term if convicted of possessing a vehicle in Stillwater that had been stolen in Tulsa. If convicted of her four additional misdemeanor counts, Wamsley could be given three and one-half years in jail.
Wamsley was arrested at 11:05 pm on June 2 at 2100 E. Sixth in Stillwater in a stolen car that she was driving with a stolen license tag, Stillwater Police Officer Bryan Luginbill alleged in an affidavit.
“I asked her about her license and she said it got suspended. I asked Wamsley if this was her car and she said it was her roommate’s,” in Tulsa, the Stillwater officer alleged in his affidavit.
“I informed Wamsley that I had observed a syringe lying in the center console of the car and asked if she had been using meth. Wamsley said she hasn’t used any for several days. I asked her again if she had been using while she was stopped so long while at the stop sign, as the syringe appeared to be used. Wamsley said no; she was just checking her phone.
“I asked Wamsley where she got the car and she said that she didn’t know it was stolen. She said she has only been driving it for about three days. Wamsley said that she was staying in Tulsa with (a man) and since she didn’t have a car, he told her she could drive it. Wamsley said she didn’t know where (he) got the car and claimed that he had it when she moved in with him.
“Wamsley’s purse was inside the vehicle and it contained two 100-unit syringes. One syringe contained about 30 units of a liquid substance. When I asked Wamsley about the syringes, she said that someone had loaded it for her a couple days ago and she identified the substance as meth.
“When I began to transport Wamsley to the SPD Jail, she told me that she had a pipe in her bra,” that was later located by a female detention officer, the officer alleged in his affidavit.
According to DOC records, Wamsley was released from prison in January of 2018 after serving eight months of two concurrent two-year prison terms for possession of heroin and methamphetamine in 2017 in Oklahoma County. She also served 10 months of a three-year prison term for stealing cash from her Perkins employer in 2015 in Payne County, court records show. Wamsley served that Payne County sentence at the same time she had three concurrent three-year prison terms for possessing a drug, stolen property, and forged evidences of debt in 2016 in Canadian County, DOC records show. Wamsley also had been convicted in 2007 of obtaining a drug by fraud in Perkins, and uttering a forged instrument in 1990; in both Payne County cases, she was given five-year suspended sentences.
DOC records also show Wamsley had multiple convictions in 1991 in Payne and Logan counties for forgery, for which she was given concurrent prison terms of three years and five years.
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