Crawford Oliver Martin
By Patti Weaver
(Stillwater, Okla.) — An ex-convict has been given a 12-year prison term followed by eight years of probation for possessing cocaine with intent to distribute in Stillwater and delivering the drug to a confidential informant for Stillwater police in 2019.
Crawford Oliver Martin, 36, formerly of Tulsa, pleaded guilty on Feb. 15 to those charges, as well as possessing cocaine, Xanax pills and a chamber-loaded pistol in 2021, for which he was given a concurrent seven-year suspended sentence last week, court records show.
As part of a plea bargain approved by Associate District Judge Stephen Kistler, Martin was ordered to undergo random drug tests when he gets out of prison and make arrangements to begin paying $1,610 in assessments along with court costs.
Martin had been arrested on June 7, 2019, with $2,247 and cocaine in a Stillwater apartment complex parking lot — six months after getting out of prison where he served about four and one-half years of a 15-year sentence for drug possession in 2012 in Payne County, state Department of Corrections records show.
Martin had also served about three years of concurrent prison terms he got in 2006 in Payne County for assault with intent to commit a felony in 2006, drug possession in 2004, and possessing a false ID in 2004, DOC records show.
Two years after he was released on $100,000 bond in that 2019 cocaine case, Martin was arrested on May 21, 2021. in another Stillwater apartment complex after a “caller believed hand to-hand drug transactions were taking place from a vehicle in the parking lot,” court records show.
“I recognized Crawford Martin as the front seat passenger in the black SUV,” where a chamber-loaded gun, 3.5 grams of cocaine, 136 Xanax pills, and $1,100 in cash were found, Stillwater Police Investigator Adam Elliott wrote in an affidavit. Martin was ordered jailed on $250,000 bail in that 2021 case.
A Tulsa teenager arrested with him, Bianca Mae Stonebarger, then 18, was charged with possession of cocaine and Xanax pills with intent to distribute and released on $10,000 bail. She has been scheduled for a preliminary hearing this week, court records show.
