Ricardo Fausto
By Patti Weaver
(Stillwater, Okla.) — An ex-convict has been jailed on $100,000 bail on charges of trafficking methamphetamine, being a felon in possession of a gun and having a methamphetamine smoking pipe in Cushing — six months after he got out of prison.
Due to his criminal record, Ricardo Fausto, 37, who was listed as homeless in Cushing, could be given as much as a life prison term plus 11 years if convicted of the three-count charge.
Fausto was initially arrested for driving under suspension by Cushing Police Officer Cody Carpenter at 8:28 pm on Feb. 5 in the 100 block of S. Steele, court records allege.
“During a custodial search of Fausto, I located $1,308 in the left front pocket of his jeans. The money was later seized as I had reason to believe the large sum of cash was proceeds from narcotic sales,” the Cushing officer alleged in his affidavit.
“Inside the front driver’s side door, I observed a long glass smoking device with burnt residue inside. Officer Smith located a black and grey Adidas bag,” that had a large zip-lock bag with several smaller baggies that contained a crystal-like substance with 939 written on the front, the affidavit alleged.
“Officer Smith located two firearms inside the same Adidas bag. Both firearms were loaded but not chambered. Office Smith also located a clear zipped baggy with ‘Ricardo Beverly Hills’ on the front of it. Inside the baggy were two bags of smaller plastic baggies and a functioning scale. Two syringes were located inside the vehicle as well,” the affidavit alleged.
At about 8:48 pm, while the officer’s patrol car was rocking back and forth, “Fausto stated the handcuffs were too tight,” the affidavit alleged.
“While I was re-adjusting them, Fausto uttered that he had something in his buttocks area. I transported Fausto to the Cushing City Jail where Fausto voluntarily removed suspected narcotics from his boxer shorts,” the Cushing officer alleged in his affidavit.
“The total weight was 141 grams,” which is seven times the amount of methamphetamine required for a trafficking charge, the affidavit alleged.
Fausto, who previously lived in Oilton, had been released from prison in August of 2021 after serving eight months of a three-year term for possession of methamphetamine with intent to distribute in Mannford that he was given when his original five-year probationary sentence was revoked in 2020, state Department of Corrections records show.
Fausto served that Creek County sentence at the same time as a five-year prison term from Oklahoma County in 2020 for possession of methamphetamine with intent to distribute and false personation, DOC records show.
Fausto had been given a five-year suspended sentence from Creek County in 2021 for passing a forged check for $1,456 on a closed bank account to the Drumright Inn in 2020, DOC records show.
Fausto had been convicted in 2015 in Lincoln County of second-degree burglary, altering a VIN number and concealing stolen property, for which he was originally given concurrent probationary sentences that were revoked in 2016 to prison from which he was released in 2017, DOC records show.
