Carlos Miller
(PCSD file photo)
By Patti Weaver
(Stillwater, Okla.) — An ex-convict, who moved to Cushing after he got out of prison in 2017, was ordered on Friday by District Judge Phillip Corley to surrender his medical marijuana card for one year while he spends nights and weekends in the Payne County Jail — pending his sentencing on Aug. 25, 2023.
Carlos Staphon Miller, 47, had pleaded guilty to being a felon in possession of a gun that had been reported as stolen, and having marijuana with intent to distribute as well as possessing drug paraphernalia — all found in his apartment when a search warrant was served on May 16, 2019.
Miller did not have an agreement with the prosecution regarding his sentence that had been scheduled for last Friday by the judge, who postponed it for one year, court records show. Miller could be given life in prison.
Miller had been free on $50,000 bail since the day after he was arrested at his apartment on S. Timber Ridge at 6:30 am on May 16, 2019, following a search by a team of deputies, Cushing police, and an agent from the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics for drug ledgers, a gun, ammunition and narcotics, according to an affidavit by Payne County Sheriff’s Investigator Brandon Myers.
When the door was answered by a juvenile boy at 6:15 am, “I could immediately smell an odor of burnt marijuana in the residence,” the investigator wrote in his affidavit. Two juveniles on a living room couch were released to a family member and taken to school, the affidavit said.
Miller, who was in the far north bedroom, “told me that the black 1911 pistol and a shotgun was in his closet,” the investigator wrote in his affidavit.
The .45-caliber pistol had been reported stolen when a man’s truck was burglarized within the past month, the affidavit said. A drug ledger owe sheet was found in a nightstand drawer, the affidavit said.
