(Stillwater, Okla.) – A Cushing prison visitor was arraigned Monday from the Payne County Jail where she was being held on $10,000 bail for failure to appear in court four months ago on a felony charge of bringing marijuana into the Cimarron Correctional Facility.
Brittany Elizabeth Dluzniewski, 20, of Tulsa, was ordered to appear in Payne County District Court on Feb. 2 when she can seek a preliminary hearing. If convicted, she could be incarcerated for five years and fined $1,000, court records show.
Cushing Police Officer Matt Piatt arrested Dluzniewski, then 19, at the prison on July 13, 2014, at 5:23 p.m., court records show. She was released on $5,000 bail a week later, but arrested again recently for failure to appear in court in September as ordered.
Prison Sgt. Chase Wright “advised me he recovered tobacco and marijuana from an inmate who removed it from his two-year-old child’s pull-up in visitation,” the Cushing officer wrote in his affidavit.
The inmate, who is serving a three-year sentence at the Cushing prison for assault and battery with a dangerous weapon in Tulsa County, “denied knowledge of the contraband and stated he saw there was something in his daughter’s diaper so he took it out and that’s when Sgt. Wright came and got him,” the affidavit said.
Dluzniewski, the child’s mother, said she received a call from the inmate, her child’s father, “a few days ago from a 313 area code,” the affidavit alleged.
Dluzniewski said she was told he “was going to get hurt really badly if he didn’t pay his debt to other inmates,” the affidavit alleged.
“Dluzniewski stated she intentionally was going to bring the contraband in herself, but her clothing kept her from entering the visitation room,” the affidavit alleged.
“Dluzniewski said after she was told she couldn’t go in, she went into the restroom and put the contraband in her baby’s pull-up.
“Dluzniewski said she then put the baby through the metal detector until the child’s grandpa was cleared to take her back to see her dad,” the affidavit alleged.
“Dluzniewski said she left to go get another shirt so she could go into visitation. Dluzniewski said she messed up badly and accepts full responsibility for her actions,” the affidavit alleged.
“Dluzniewski added the contraband was ‘weed and tobacco’ one-half ounce of ‘regie’ (regular weed) and three pouches of ‘Top tobacco,’” the affidavit alleged.
Sgt. Wright gave the Cushing police officer several packages, one of which contained marijuana that Dluzniewski said was given to her in Tulsa, the affidavit alleged.
Dluzniewski said she intended to give the package to her baby’s father to pay his debts to other inmates, the affidavit alleged.
She said the other package contained tobacco that she bought in Tulsa, the affidavit alleged.
‘Dluzniewski added that someone else wrapped the packages so they could be smuggled in because she did not know how to do that,” the affidavit alleged.
The inmate declined to make a statement for the Cushing officer, the affidavit said.
The state Department of Human Services “interviewed Dluziewski and made the determination to take custody of the child,” the affidavit said.
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