Brandon McCraw
(PCSD file photo)
By Patti Weaver
STILLWATER — A 38-year-old Cushing man with drug convictions in Payne and Lincoln counties has been jailed on $100,000 bond pending his arraignment Tuesday on a charge of trafficking 6.94 grams of Carfentanil, described in court records as a synthetic opioid.
Due to his criminal record, Brandon Milas McCraw could be given as much as a life prison term plus a $500,000 fine if convicted of aggravated drug trafficking after conviction of two or more felonies.
McCraw was arrested the week before Thanksgiving after an unknown powdery substance seized from his Cadillac during a Sept. 22 traffic stop by Cushing Police Officer David Smith was analyzed and reported by the state crime bureau’s laboratory on Nov. 14 to be Carfentanil, an affidavit alleged.
The officer had observed in the 1300 block of E. Main Street in Cushing at 6:13 am on Sept. 22 that McCraw’s Cadillac “had a defective passenger side brake light and a tag cover over the issued license plate,” his affidavit alleged.
“As I began running the vehicle’s information, Officer James Robinson arrived as a backing unit. While Ofc. Robinson wrote McCraw a warning (for his brake light), I utilized my K9 partner, K9 Blitz, to conduct a free air sniff around the vehicle.
“K9 Blitz ultimately sat indicating a final alert to the presence of the odor of narcotics coming from the vehicle. I located a white powdery substance in a baggy, located in another baggy shoved under the hood latch to the vehicle.
“There was also a piece of paper with a phone number on it. I seized the unknown powdery substance,” for chemical testing at the state crime bureau, Officer Smith alleged in his affidavit.
According to court records and the state Department of Corrections, McCraw had been released from prison in December of 2023 after serving less than five months of a one-year sentence for being a felon in possession of a firearm in Lincoln County.
McCraw had also served about a year of two concurrent prison terms for drug possession and uttering forged instruments in 2012 in Lincoln County, DOC records show. McCraw had also served two years and four months of two concurrent five-year prison terms for endeavoring to manufacture a drug and being a felon with a gun in 2013 in Payne County, DOC records show.
