Cushing man accused of possessing stolen car

  (Stillwater, Okla.) — A Cushing man, who was arrested 11 days after allegedly crashing a stolen 2014 Honda and attempting to elude a sheriff’s deputy from McElroy and Fairgrounds Road to Lakeview and Fairgrounds Road, has been jailed on $22,500 total bail pending his arraignment Wednesday.

    If convicted of all of his charges, Ryan James Davidson, 27, could be incarcerated for seven years and fined $10,500, court records show.

    Davidson was driving a car that was reportedly stolen in Stillwater when Payne County Sheriff’s Deputy Zach Wheeler attempted to stop him at 1:21 am on June 30 in rural Stillwater, his affidavit alleged.

    “As we were approaching Fairgrounds, I was pacing the vehicle ahead of me at approximately 87 mph in a posted 45 mph zone. The vehicle was also traveling in the middle of the road, well over the center line. As the vehicle approached Lakeview Rd., it signaled as if it were going to turn westbound but made a sharp turn eastbound.

    “The vehicle crashed into a barbed wire fence on the northeast corner. I approached the suspect vehicle with my department-issued service pistol. The driver-side door was open upon my approach, and a white male matching the male I observed in the passenger seat earlier was exiting the vehicle with his hands in the air,” the deputy wrote in his affidavit.

    The passenger, who was cooperative, “was unsure of where Ryan went after the vehicle wrecked out,” the affidavit alleged.

    At about 1:42 am, Deputy David Sloan and his K-9 partner started a track for the suspect, whose red shirt was located west of the wreck, the affidavit alleged. “At approximately 2:27 am, we discontinued the track and released the perimeter after failing to locate Ryan Davidson,” Deputy Wheeler wrote in his affidavit.

    While inventorying the vehicle, Deputy Lori Williams “located a camouflage backpack containing approximately 14.2 ounces of marijuana, two glass pipes and a small wad of tin foil containing a blue pill that appeared to have been burned. Based on my training and experience, I believed the pill to be Fentanyl. The glass pipes and the blue pill field-tested a presumptive positive for Fentanyl,” Deputy Wheeler alleged in his affidavit.

    Eleven days later, Davidson was arrested by Cushing police and subsequently charged with driving on a suspended license a Dodge Durango at 1100 E. 9th in Cushing and possessing methamphetamine, court records show.