(Stillwater, Okla.) — A Cushing man who admitted possessing methamphetamine, Xanax and Valium has been placed on five years’ probation as part of a plea bargain approved in court on Friday.
Drake Ryan Furrh, 23, who had been jailed for the past three weeks, was released Friday with conditions including complying with the methamphetamine registry.
Furrh was ordered by District Judge Phillip Corley to have a substance abuse evaluation, to follow any recommendations, to undergo random drug testing and to perform 100 hours of community service.
Furrh must also pay the cost of his incarceration along with $1,250 in fines and assessments as a condition of a five-year deferred sentence.
Furrh was arrested at his residence at 2:20 p.m. on July 20 by Cushing Police Officer Rachel Hentges, who had been sent there to keep the peace while his ex-girlfriend picked up her belongings, an affidavit said.
While she was packing, Furrh’s ex-girlfriend told the officer that she did not turn in her statement from the previous day about her prescription medications being stolen “because she had found out that Furrh had them and was selling them,” the affidavit said.
When the Cushing officer confronted Furrh about his ex-girlfriend’s medications, he denied having them and said that the pill container in his right front pocket was his, the affidavit said.
“Furrh reached into his pocket and pulled out a small green prescription pill container with no label,” that had a small baggy containing methamphetamine and pills the officer recognized as Xanax and Valium, the affidavit said.
Furrh — who was arrested for drug possession without a prescription — then said that the methamphetamine was not his, but his ex-girlfriend’s, the affidavit said.
Court records show that his ex-girlfriend was not charged with any crime in the incident.
“Furrh pleaded with me to make a deal with him and he would tell me where (his ex-girlfriend) bought the methamphetamine,” the officer wrote in her affidavit.
“I advised Furrh I could not make him a deal, but he could tell me where the methamphetamine came from,” the officer wrote in her affidavit.
Cushing Police Officer Matt Piatt “patted Furrh and removed his property prior to placing him in my patrol car,” the officer wrote in her affidavit.
“He removed Furrh’s cell phone and handed it to me along with his other property. During this time, the cell phone alerted there was a text message or call,” the officer wrote in her affidavit.
The officer said she looked at the screen and saw a message that read “Got any tabs?” the affidavit said.
“During booking, Furrh asked me to retrieve cell phone numbers from his phone before putting it in his property,” the officer wrote in her affidavit.
A second text message was received that read “Got anything?” the affidavit said.
When the officer confronted Furrh about the text messages, he said that they were meant for his ex-girlfriend so she could sell her prescription pills, the affidavit alleged.
Furrh claimed that she used “him and his cell phone to arrange sales on her pills and then she would meet the buyers and sell her prescription pills,” the affidavit alleged.
Inside the prescription bottle, in addition to methamphetamine, “there were 17 Valium, nine whole Xanax pills, five half Xanax pills, and two and one-quarter pieces of a Xanax pill,” the affidavit said.
Three years ago while he was on probation, Furrh pleaded guilty to disturbing the peace in Cushing by fighting on Feb. 11, 2011. For that misdemeanor, Furrh was given a 10-day jail term and ordered to pay his incarceration cost as well as a $100 fine.
Eleven months before he admitted that charge, Furrh was placed on one year’s probation except 10 days in jail for drunk driving, having no valid driver’s license, and possessing marijuana as well as a smoking pipe, all in Stillwater on April 24, 2010.
For those misdemeanor charges, Furrh was ordered to pay the cost of his incarceration, to have a drug and alcohol evaluation, to follow any recommendations, to attend a victim impact panel, to perform five hours of community service and to pay $675 in fines and assessments.
A year before that, Furrh was placed on one year’s probation for two counts of domestic violence and one count of malicious injury to property in Cushing in 2008, court records show. He was ordered to take an anger resolution class, complete a life skills course, perform 45 hours of community service and pay a $150 fine.
Since he was given a deferred sentence Friday on his felony drug charge, Furrh will not have a criminal record of that offense if he successfully completes his five-year probationary period.
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