(Stillwater, Okla.) — A Cushing woman — arrested at Memorial Park in Cushing — was ordered Monday to stand trial on charges of possessing methamphetamine within 1,000 feet of the park and bringing the drug into the Cushing City Jail.
Brenda Renae Stinnett, 36, who remains jailed on $15,000 bail, waived her right to a preliminary hearing Monday on a two-count felony drug charge. She was ordered to appear for arraignment in trial court on June 13.
Cushing Police Sgt. Adam Harp arrested Stinnett shortly before noon on May 23 at Memorial Park on two outstanding municipal warrants, according to his affidavit.
“While Master Patrol Officer Bill McCarty was booking in Stinnett, she retrieved three clear plastic ziplock baggies containing a white powdery substance from her bra area and placed them into her mouth and attempted to swallow them, but MPO McCarty was able to forcibly get the three plastic baggies out of her mouth,” the affidavit alleged.
“I asked Stinnett about the three plastic baggies containing the white residue and asked her what the substance was and she said, ‘You know.’ I responded by saying meth and she said, ‘Yes,"” Harp alleged in his affidavit.
“Stinnett said that she forgot that they were in her bra and she wanted to get rid of them and placed them in her mouth,” the affidavit alleged. A portion of the substance from one of the baggies field-tested as positive for methamphetamine, the affidavit alleged. “After Stinnett was processed into the jail, I checked my backseat of my patrol car and noticed a homemade light bulb smoking device used to smoke illegal narcotics, methamphetamine, shoved halfway under the backseat where she was sitting,” Harp alleged in his affidavit.
“At the beginning of my shift and after every transport, I check the backseat area of my patrol car for weapons and illegal contraband,” which he had done when he reported for duty, Harp wrote in his affidavit.
“It is believed that the homemade light bulb smoking device was placed there by Stinnett during transport. It should also be noted that during the book in process that Stinnett had a regular light bulb in her property,” the affidavit alleged.
“Stinnett also had two razor blades that were found in her black makeup bag that she said that she uses for her makeup,” Harp wrote in his affidavit.
If convicted of possessing methamphetamine within 1,000 feet of a park, Stinnett could be given a 20-year prison term and a $10,000 fine.
If convicted of bringing methamphetamine into the Cushing City Jail, Stinnett could be given a five-year prison term and a $1,000 fine.
