(Stillwater, Okla.) — An ex-convict from Cushing — who was paroled from prison three years ago after serving drug sentences — has been given a 14-year prison term for manufacturing methamphetamine at a mobile home two months ago in the 400 block of N. Luella Street in Cushing.

    William Ellis Towry, 35, who listed his residence in the 1400 block of E. Broadway Street in Cushing, accepted a plea bargain Friday for four 14-year prison terms, one 10-year prison term, and one one-year jail term, all ordered to run concurrently by Associate District Judge Stephen Kistler.

    Towry — who has been jailed on $100,000 bail since his arrest two months ago — pleaded guilty Friday to manufacturing methamphetamine, possessing the drug, maintaining a house where methamphetamine was used and manufactured, encouraging a 16-year-old child to manufacture methamphetamine, illegally using a police scanner and possessing drug paraphernalia.

    His wife, Rachelle Dawn Bannister, also known by the surname Towry, 33, who is currently on probation for possessing methamphetamine twice in 2004 and robbery and burglary in 1997, has also been charged with manufacturing methamphetamine, possessing the drug, illegally using a police scanner and possessing drug paraphernalia, at the same mobile home on N. Luella Street at the same time.

    Rachelle Bannister Towry remains in the Payne County Jail on $50,000 bail pending an Aug. 8 preliminary hearing on her charges.

    Kelli Marie Wiggs, 21, who listed her residence as the mobile home on N. Luella Street, pleaded guilty last month to manufacturing methamphetamine there, possessing the drug, child endangerment, and possessing drug paraphernalia, at the same time.

    Wiggs, who had been jailed on $50,000 bail, was placed on probation in June for 10 years and ordered to pay $850 in fines and assessments, along with the cost of her incarceration. She also was ordered to register on the methamphetamine registry.

    The case was investigated by Payne County Sheriff’s Deputy Brandon Myers, who wrote in an affidavit, “I had received numerous reports that William Towry, Rachelle Bannister and Kelli Wiggs were manufacturing methamphetamine at that residence and at other locations in and around Cushing.

    “I had checked utilities on the residence and they are in the name of William Towry. The residence is a mobile home on the east side of the street approximately one block and a half south of Highway 33 on Luella,” in Cushing, the deputy wrote in his affidavit..

    “I had also received information that a burglary had occurred across the street at Allied Waste and the stolen items were at one time at that residence,” the deputy wrote in his affidavit.

    The deputy wrote in his affidavit that at 4:39 a.m. on May 20, he went to the residence to conduct a “knock and talk,” after Cushing Police Officer Matt Piatt advised him that he just saw Wiggs at the residence.

    William Towry allowed him inside where assorted items used in the manufacture of methamphetamine were located along with the drug and paraphernalia, the affidavit alleged.

    The suspects were arrested and two children were released to the state Department of Human Services, the affidavit said.

     According to state Department of Corrections records, William Towry had been convicted in 2005 of two separate drug charges in Payne County including manufacturing and possessing a firearm during the commission of a felony. He was given two 10-year prison terms, but was paroled in June 2008 after serving about three years in prison, DOC records show.

    Rachelle Dawn Bannister Towry was convicted in Payne County in 2007 of first-degree burglary and robbery with a dangerous weapon in 1997, and two separate charges of possession of methamphetamine in 2004, court records show. Four years ago, in those cases, she was placed on probation for 10 years — except six months in jail, court records show.

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