(Stillwater) — A Cushing woman, her fiance and another man were charged Monday with manufacturing methamphetamine at her home in the 800 block of E. Walnut Street, where children were present.
Kimberly Sue Barton, 40; her fiance, Ronnie Glenn Day, 31, who lives with her; and Michael Lynn Foster, 45, who resides on N. Battleridge in Cushing, could each be given a life prison term plus four years if convicted of making methamphetamine and child endangerment, both on Jan. 21.
Barton, who remains jailed in the drug case investigated by the Payne County Sheriff’s Department, was previously arrested in the parking lot of a Cushing restaurant for allegedly driving under the influence of drugs and alcohol last fall, court records show.
Cushing Deputy Police Chief Tully Folden had been sent to the Steer Inn Family Restaurant shortly before 6 p.m. Oct. 21, 2009, on a report of “an intoxicated female that had just left with a small child,” according to his affidavit.
Barton, whose 9-year-old daughter was sitting in the front passenger seat of her car, smelled strongly of alcohol when the officer contacted her in the parking lot, but she initially denied she had been drinking, Folden wrote in his affidavit.
She later admitted she had drunk “a couple of big shots” of whiskey, and had taken two prescription drugs, a soma and a hydrocodone, about 45 minutes earlier, the affidavit alleged.
Her fiance, Day, arrived at the scene and said he had told her not to drive, the affidavit alleged. Day said that Barton had drunk about one-half of a bottle of whiskey, the affidavit alleged. Day later took custody of Barton’s 9-year-old daughter, the affidavit said.
The Cushing deputy police chief found an open one-liter bottle of whiskey on the floorboard behind the passenger’s seat and a hydrocodone bottle, the affidavit alleged.
In that misdemeanor case, Barton was freed on $1,000 bail and ordered to appear in court on Feb. 4 on drunk driving and transporting an open container of liquor charges, court records show.
Her fiance, Day, who also remains jailed on the Cushing methamphetamine manufacturing charge, was already on probation for embezzling $239 worth of gasoline from Drumright Oilwell Services between November of 2008 and February of 2009, court records show.
Day was given a two-year deferred sentence on his guilty plea last July to the misdemeanor charge, which was investigated by Cushing Police Detective Adam Harp.
Day had been terminated from Drumright Oilwell Services in October of 2008 and charged his former employer’s business account 11 times for gasoline on various dates at Harris Gas Station in Cushing when he was not employed with the company, according to an affidavit by Harp.
Foster was arraigned Monday on the Cushing methamphetamine manufacturing charge and ordered to return to court Feb. 12 with an attorney.
According to court records, Foster was previously charged with methamphetamine possession in August 2008 in Payne County, but that case was dismissed.
Foster was convicted of drug possession in Logan County, Oklahoma, in 1996 and in Howell County, Missouri, in 2002, court records show.
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