Cushing ex-convict jailed on gun & meth charges

  STILLWATER — A 57-year-old Cushing man has been jailed on $50,000 bond pending an Aug. 3 court appearance at which he can seek a preliminary hearing on charges of being a convicted felon in possession of a gun and having methamphetamine with intent to distribute.

   Curtis Lamont Hagler, who has a 30-year criminal record, could be given as much as a life prison term plus 10 years if found guilty of both felonies, court records show.

   Hagler was arrested by Cushing Police Officer David Smith at 6:27 pm on June 29 in the parking lot of Bill’s EZ Out at 1107 E. Main Street in Cushing, according to his affidavit.

   “Prior to my arrival, I received information that Curtis Hagler had been observed at that location. I also had prior and current knowledge that Curtis Hagler had an active Payne County arrest warrant (for trespassing and malicious injury to property.)

   “Due to Curtis Hagler’s known history of possessing weapons and resisting arrest, I drew my department-issued TASER as a precaution and gave him loud verbal commands to turn around and place his hands behind his back. Curtis Hagler initially failed to comply with my commands.

   “After I turned on the TASER and again ordered him to comply, Curtis Hagler turned around and placed his hands behind his back. Based on the confirmed active warrant, I placed Curtis Hagler under arrest.

   “While I was in the process of initially detaining Curtis Hagler, he made a spontaneous, unsolicited statement, without questioning, advising that there was methamphetamine inside a small container that had been removed from his pocket during the initial detainment.

   “Curtis Hagler also stated there was a .38 Special revolver inside the black satchel he had been wearing around his neck. Curtis Hagler further stated he was about to be involved in a transaction in which he intended to give the revolver to another person.

   “Additionally, Curtis Hagler stated that he sometimes slings methamphetamine…the term ‘slings,’ in the context of illegal narcotics, is commonly used to describe the sale or distribution of methamphetamine.

   “I searched the property that had been removed from his person and recovered a .38 Special revolver from the black satchel. I also located a small baggy containing a crystal-like residue, a second baggy containing a crystal-like substance, a lighter, a smoking device and a digital scale that was powered on, set to weigh in grams, and contained a crystal-like substance on its surface,” the Cushing officer alleged in his affidavit.

   According to Payne County court records and the state Department of Corrections, Hagler went into prison in 2011 and was released in 2014 after serving three years and four months of two concurrent 10-year sentences for domestic abuse in 2009 and concealing stolen property in 2010. At the same time, after his probation was revoked in his earlier cases, Hagler served concurrently three years and two months for robbery with a weapon in 2006, two and one-half years for cocaine distribution in 2003, and two years and two months for robbery by fear in 1995.