(Stillwater, Okla.) — A Cushing man — who was already on probation on two drug charges — has been given an 8-year prison term for delivering $50 worth of methamphetamine to an undercover state narcotics bureau agent in front of an apartment in Cushing.
Victor Manuel-Lomboy Celso Jr., 27, was sentenced Friday by District Judge Phillip Corley in accordance with a plea bargain that revoked the balance of his probationary sentences in two 2009 drug cases.
Celso was ordered to pay the cost of his incarceration, along with $1,250 in fines and assessments, court records show.
An undercover agent with the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics wrote in an affidavit that on the evening of April 10, 2012, he purchased .4 grams of methamphetamine from Romana Annette De La Torre and Victor Manuel Lomboy Celso Jr. in front of duplex apartments in the 100 block of W. Oak Street in Cushing.
After paying De La Torre $50, “In my presence, De La Torre handed the money to Celso. Celso then handed the methamphetamine to De La Torre. De La Torre handed the methamphetamine to me as we departed from Celso,” the agent wrote in his affidavit.
Two years earlier, Celso had been given five years’ probation and ordered to pay $1,250 in fines and assessments along with performing 100 hours of community service for possessing pseudoephedrine with intent to manufacture methamphetamine at 3100 E. Main in Cushing, court records show.
When he was sentenced in that case, Celso was also given five years’ probation and ordered to pay $1,200 in fines and assessments for possessing methamphetamine during a traffic stop at Highway 177 and 92nd Street, court records show.
De La Torre, 44, of Cushing, who was his co-defendant in the methamphetamine delivery case to the state narcotics agent, was given a two-year prison sentence followed by eight years of probation and ordered to pay $1,250 in fines and assessments along with her cost of incarceration last April in that felony, court records show.
De La Torre discharged that sentence in November and is currently serving a three-year prison term for drug possession in 2008, for which she was originally given probation in the Drumright division of Creek County District Court, DOC records show.
De La Torre previously discharged a two-year prison sentence that she was given in October 2012 for possession of substances with intent to manufacture methamphetamine in Payne County, DOC records show.
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