By: Patti Weaver
(Stillwater, Okla.) — A Chandler woman has admitted carrying contraband, described as cell phones, marijuana and tobacco, into the Cimarron Correctional Facility in Cushing while she was employed at the private prison on Jan. 4, 2018.
Brooke LeDawn Dixon, 29, was placed on five years’ probation with extensive conditions including being prohibited from visiting any facility where inmates are housed, in accordance with a plea bargain approved by Payne County Associate District Judge Stephen Kistler last week.
Dixon was ordered to have a substance abuse evaluation, perform any recommended follow-up, undergo random drug testing, do 100 hours of community service and pay a $500 fine, court records show.
According to a prison worker who was checking employees at the front lobby, “when Dixon went through the metal detector, the metal detector went off,” Cushing Police Officer Bill McCarty wrote in an affidavit.
“Dixon went through the metal detector three times before he contacted his shift supervisor,” the affidavit said.
A shift supervisor “had Dixon walk through the metal detector again, and the metal detector did not clear Dixon,” the affidavit said.
“Dixon stated she had met a lady and received packages from the lady,” the affidavit said.
“Dixon told me she purchased a car in August and did not have the money to purchase the tag. Dixon told me the tag was going to cost her around $800,” the Cushing officer wrote in his affidavit.
Dixon said that she was approached by an inmate who “told her if she would bring some stuff in to him, he would purchase her car tag,” the affidavit said.
The inmate was convicted in 2008 of first-degree rape in Oklahoma County in 2005, for which he is serving a 30-year prison term, state Department of Corrections records show.
The inmate was also convicted of drug distribution, acquiring proceeds from drug activity, and carrying a firearm, all in 2005 in Oklahoma County, DOC records show.
Dixon said that the inmate “instructed her to meet a lady in Edmond where she received the three items,” the affidavit said. Dixon said she did not know the lady or what was in the packages, the affidavit said.
When the Cushing officer opened the three items wrapped in black tape, one contained five mini-cell phones, another had 1.6 ounces of what appeared to be pipe tobacco, and another had 2.8 ounces of a substance that field-tested as marijuana, the affidavit said.
Since Dixon was given a deferred sentence last week, she will not have a record of the offense if she successfully completes the terms of her probation.
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