(Stillwater, Okla.) – A Cushing woman who served five months in prison on three drug convictions has been ordered to appear in court on Nov. 18 for a preliminary hearing on a felony charge of possessing methamphetamine within 1,000 feet of Cushing Upper Elementary School.
Andi Lee Bass, 27, has been jailed on $7,500 bail since her arrest last month by Cushing Police Officer Michael B. Bruggman, court records show.
At 3:41 a.m. on Sept. 16, the officer saw someone walking through the middle of the roadway in the 200 block of N. East Avenue in Cushing, according to his affidavit.
When the Cushing officer arrived at E. Oak Street and N. East Avenue, Bass was standing on the east side of the roadway, his affidavit said.
“Bass appeared to be sweating and she was breathing heavily. I asked her if everything was okay, and she stated she was almost attacked by a dog before I stopped,” the officer wrote in his affidavit.
She was arrested 11 minutes later when the officer learned that she had three arrest warrants from Payne County, the affidavit said. All three were bench warrants for failure to appear in court and pay court costs, records show.
“I asked Bass if she had anything in her purse or on her that was illegal and she stated, ‘No, there should not be.’ Bass repeatedly asked if we could let her go and she stated she would take care of the warrants on her own.
“She also stated she could get out of the handcuffs if she wanted to,” the officer alleged in his affidavit.
“While booking Bass in, she said she needed to tell me something. I asked her what it was and she stated there was a pink bag in her purse that had multiple syringes in it and a couple of them were used,” the officer alleged in his affidavit.
“I took possession of the pink wallet and found inside five syringes, two of which appeared to be used, a green guitar pick, a silver metal spoon with a white dried residue and a small clear zip lock baggy with a white crystalized powder and what appeared to be a small piece of white cotton inside it.
“The small clear baggy was approximately two and a half inches in length and one and a half inches wide,” the contents of which field-tested as methamphetamine, the affidavit alleged.
If convicted of possession of methamphetamine within 1,000 feet of a school, Bass could be incarcerated for four to 20 years and fined $10,000. If convicted of a misdemeanor count of possession of drug paraphernalia, she could be given a one-year jail term and $1,000 fine.
According to court records, Bass was convicted of endeavoring to distribute the pain medication, hydrocodone, in Cushing on March 29, 2012, to an undercover agent with the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs. On Dec. 28, 2012, she was given a five-year prison sentence, but actually served only about five months before she was freed on a supervised pre-release program, state Department of Corrections records show.
Bass had previously been accused with two men of possessing substances with intent to manufacture methamphetamine at Highway 33 and Euchee Valley Road on March 12, 2010, when she was also charged with possessing methamphetamine and drug paraphernalia. After the prosecution dropped the intent to manufacture methamphetamine count against her, Bass pleaded guilty to the two other counts for which she was place on seven years’ probation, which was revoked on Dec. 28, 2012, to a concurrent five-year prison term, of which she served only about five months, records show.
Bass had also previously convicted of possessing methamphetamine at 66th and Harmony Road on May 24, 2009, for which she was placed on seven years’ probation, which was revoked on Dec. 28, 2012, to a concurrent five-year prison term, of which she served only about five months, records show.
Bass was placed on supervised pre-release by the state Department of Corrections on July 25, 2013, records show.
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