Jeremy Gokey
(PCSD file photo)
By Patti Weaver
STILLWATER — A 38-year-old Cushing man has been jailed on $12,500 total bond pending a court appearance this week on charges of possessing marijuana with intent to distribute and having fentanyl on March 25, as well as maintaining a house where drugs are kept, along with possessing methamphetamine and/or marijuana and drug paraphernalia on March 18.
If convicted of all of his drug-related charges, Jeremy Alan Gokey could be incarcerated for 23 years and fined $38,000, according to court records.
Gokey was arrested at 1:07 am on March 25 by Cushing Police Officer David Smith on an outstanding warrant for maintaining a house where drugs are kept on March 18, court records show.
On March 25 at 1:03 am, Smith, with other Cushing officers and Payne County sheriff’s deputies, served a search warrant at Gokey’s residence in the 800 block of E. Moses Street where suspected fentanyl and marijuana were found along with a smoking pipe, ammunition, an imitation firearm, baggies with a crystal-like residue, and a scanner capable of picking up law enforcement frequencies, an affidavit alleged.
When Gokey was interviewed in the Cushing Jail, he “advised he likes to get high,” Officer Smith alleged in his affidavit.
On March 18 at 1:43 pm, Cushing Police Officer James Robinson had served a search warrant at the same house where he found a clear baggy with a crystalline substance that tested positive for methamphetamine, a soda can containing a substance that tested positive for methamphetamine, a case with multiple different rounds of ammunition and a flare gun that was loaded with a shotgun shell, his affidavit alleged.
“It should be noted that when we opened the front door, it was readily apparent that the consumption of marijuana was occurring inside the home due to the smoke and being able to smell it,” Officer Robinson alleged in his affidavit. Multiple baggies with white residue, smoking devices and multiple bags with a green leafy substance were found inside the common area of the house, the affidavit alleged. Three individuals were detained, the affidavit said.
“Jeremy Gokey resides at this residence and has lived there for multiple years,” the officer wrote in an affidavit for an arrest warrant.
According to Payne County court records and the state Department of Corrections, Gokey had previously been convicted of child abuse in 2005 and marijuana possession in 2006 for which he received two concurrent 10-year probationary sentences.
