Adam Dalaney Blevins
(DOC file photo)
By Patti Weaver
(Stillwater, Okla.) — A Cushing man — who remains on felony probation in Creek and Muskogee counties — has been charged in Payne County with driving under the influence of an intoxicating substance as a third offense stemming from his arrest by Sheriff’s Deputy Donato Lomboy on Highway 33 and Rose Road in Ripley at 10:14 am on Feb. 8, according to court records.
The defendant, Adam Dalaney Blevins, 33, had been charged a month earlier in Muskogee County with driving under the influence of drugs on Jan. 4 in Muskogee and released on $2,000 bond pending a Feb. 20 court appearance, court records show. Blevins was freed on his Payne County DUI charge on $5,000 bond on Feb. 9 and ordered to appear in court on April 8 with an attorney, court records show.
In his Payne County case, Deputy Lomboy alleged in an affidavit he was traveling west on State Highway 33 near Rose Rd. “when I observed a silver Hyundai traveling east at a radar-indicated speed of 100 mph. I was on patrol in that particular area due to a reckless driver broadcast of a vehicle that matched that description passing cars at a high rate of speed and driving in and out of their lane.
“I approached the vehicle on the passenger side due to heavy traffic and the vehicle not being off on the shoulder very far. As I approached the front passenger door, the driver rolled down the window, and I immediately smelled a strong odor of marijuana coming from inside the vehicle.
“Adam stated that his license was suspended and asked if he was going to jail…I noticed that his eyes were bloodshot and watery, and his speed was slow and slurred. I also observed a marijuana container in the cup holder in reach of the driver.
“There was also a prescription bottle in the cup holder in the center console in reach of the driver,” with the name scraped off the container that had several tablets of Baclofen 20 mg, a commonly used muscle relaxer, the affidavit alleged.
“There was also a half-smoked marijuana joint that was laying on top of the car keys to the vehicle that were sitting in the cupholder in the center console in reach of the driver. That joint laying on top of the car keys and the strong odor of marijuana led me to believe that Blevins was smoking marijuana while driving,” the deputy alleged in his affidavit.
After arresting Blevins for driving while suspended, DUI and speeding, the deputy decided not to do standard field sobriety tests “for safety reasons due to him being unsteady on his feet, the traffic being heavy, and pavements being unlevel where we were stopped.
“Blevins refused the blood test by stating, ‘no, I just want to go to jail.’ I asked Blevins if he would like a DRE (drug recognition expert) evaluation, and he refused by stating, ‘no, I just want to go to jail,"” the deputy alleged in his affidavit.
Blevins had been placed on five years’ probation on April 21, 2022, in Creek County for felony driving under the influence of drugs in Drumright on April 16, 2021, while driving on a revoked license and possessing the drug, Alprazolam, court records show. At that same Creek County sentencing, Blevins, who admitted he had methamphetamine and drug paraphernalia, was given a concurrent five years’ probation for being a felon in possession of a 9 mm pistol after a 2017 Muskogee County conviction of possessing a firearm on probation for which he had been given ten years’ probation.
In Muskogee County, Blevins had been given five years of probation on Jan. 12, 2022, for third-degree burglary of a vehicle in 2020, court records show. In Wagoner County, Blevins had been convicted in 2018 of misdemeanor DUI in 2015, court records show.
