Steven Shane Haggard
(PCSD file photo)
By Patti Weaver
STILLWATER — A 55-year-old ex-convict, who said he had been staying at the Lazy L Motel in Cushing for three years as an employee until his arrest, has been given a three-year prison term followed by four years of probation for possessing methamphetamine with intent to distribute, as part of a plea agreement with the prosecution approved in court last week.
Steven Shane Haggard, who has also been known by the alias of Dale Wayne Wadlow, pleaded guilty to the charge after it was reduced by the state from drug trafficking on Nov. 4. After Haggard finishes his prison sentence and goes on probation, he must undergo random drug tests, Payne County Associate District Judge Michael Kulling ordered.
Haggard, who said “he sells drugs for extra money,” told Stillwater Police Detective Josh Carson “he had been to prison five different times in the past for drug-related crimes,” according to the officer’s affidavit.
Haggard was arrested at 3 pm on July 15 at the Lazy L Motel in Cushing where “methamphetamine, packaging material, working digital scales and pre-packaged methamphetamine were located hidden around his room along with U.S. currency in different denominations adjacent to the scales,” the Stillwater police detective wrote in his affidavit.
“I also found a black zippered bag sitting on the toilet containing pre-packaged methamphetamine and digital scales,” in the bathroom that Haggard was coming from when Stillwater police arrived to serve simultaneous warrants at two rooms in the Cushing motel, the detective wrote in his affidavit.
At the other room that was searched, a woman said she had been living with Haggard in his room until recently, the affidavit said.
She said, “she was a methamphetamine addict and purchased her drugs from Steven,” in his room, the affidavit said. She said she only had a methamphetamine pipe in her room, which was found there by police, the affidavit said.
She said she rented a storage unit just north of the Cushing hotel where “Steven stored several backpacks in the unit, but (she) did not know what was inside,” the affidavit said. She provided a key to her storage unit and consented for police to search it, the affidavit said.
She “told me the book bags on the south side of the unit belonged to Steven. On a metal filing cabinet on the south side of the unit, I observed two backpacks. A black pack had identification tag on it that said ‘Steven Haggard.’
“Inside the bag I located three pistols, a black High Point 9 mm, a Taurus .380 and a Ruger 9mm, along with ammo and holsters were all found in the bag. Steven has had multiple felony convictions in Oklahoma County and is unable to have firearms,” the detective wrote in his affidavit.
“A total of 28 grams of methamphetamine was seized,” according to the affidavit.
Other individuals in the motel rooms at the time the search warrants were served were not charged in connection with the incident, court records show.
Haggard has a 30-year criminal record in Oklahoma County, state Department of Corrections records show.
Haggard was convicted 21 years ago of attempted manufacture of methamphetamine and possession of the drug in Oklahoma City, for which he was originally given concurrent prison terms of 10 years and three years in 2004, both of which were modified in 2005 to 15 years of probation, DOC records show.
Haggard had also been convicted in 1996 of drug possession and given a five-year prison term of which he served four years, DOC records show. Haggard had previously been convicted in 1995 of methamphetamine possession and given a two-year prison term of which he served one year and three months, DOC records show.
