(Stillwater, Okla.) – On Monday when she was scheduled to have a jury trial on a methamphetamine trafficking charge, a Cushing woman accepted a plea bargain for a 10-year probationary sentence on a reduced charge of possessing the drug with intent to distribute at her home in the 1200 block of E. 9th Street.
Melissa Leigh Boles, 41, pleaded guilty Monday to the amended drug charge, as well as possessing a handgun with a defaced serial number and operating a mobile radio scanner in the commission of a crime, for which she was given concurrent probationary terms of five years and three years, court records show.
Boles was ordered by District Judge Phillip Corley to comply with the state’s methamphetamine registry, as well as pay a $2,500 fine, a $150 state crime bureau laboratory fee and a $250 assessment to the District Attorney’s Drug Fund, court records show.
Her husband and co-defendant, Verldon Patrick Boles, 53, a convicted child molester, was charged with trafficking methamphetamine, possessing a handgun after a former felony conviction, and possessing drug paraphernalia. He remains free on $150,000 bond pending a court appearance this week.
Payne County Sheriff’s Deputy Gregg Russell wrote in an affidavit that he was contacted about 11:30 a.m. on Sept. 2, 2014, by officers from a Drug Task Force, the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics, the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Sac and Fox Nation, who went to the Boles’ residence to serve a federal arrest warrant on Melissa Boles.
While officers were knocking on the door, a state narcotics agent “observed Melissa on the floor in the west bathroom moving around and doing something on the floor,” according to the affidavit.
The agent then “knocked on the window and ordered Melissa to get out of the bathroom and to go to the front door, which she did,” the affidavit said.
Melissa Boles was arrested on a federal warrant for alleged delivery of methamphetamine and placed in federal custody, the sheriff’s deputy said.
One of the officers saw a black Crown Royal bag on the bathroom floor where she had been, “along with plastic baggies with white crystal-like substance in them on the floor next to the toilet,” the affidavit said.
At about 12:10 p.m. that day, the sheriff’s deputy sought and received a court-ordered search warrant for the residence, where various baggies containing a white crystal-like substance were found in a bathroom attached to the master bedroom, according to the affidavit.
After the state narcotics bureau agent said “he observed Melissa in this bathroom on the floor when he ordered her to go to the front of the house, I assumed that Melissa was trying to flush the meth in the toilet,” the sheriff’s deputy wrote in his affidavit.
“I then obtained a small sample of the water in the toilet and it tested positive for being meth. I then took three vials of samples of the water that tested positive for being meth, first weighing 21.8, second 23.7, third 27.0 grams, and a plastic bowl with blue lid containing a white residue,” the deputy wrote in his affidavit.
“In the southeast bedroom in a dresser I located on the north wall in the top drawer a Kel-tec 9 mm handgun with the serial numbers removed/ground off. In the same drawer were several items and three pill bottles displaying the name Melissa Boles,” the deputy wrote in his affidavit.
“In the living room of the residence, I observed a police scanner near the east wall that was turned on and working. I asked Deputy Nack to key up his radio and the scanner picked up Nack’s radio,” the deputy wrote in his affidavit. “On the floor of the living room in front of the couch, Nack located a women’s pair of pants and in the right front pocket, Nack located $50 cash and in the watch pocket a plastic baggy containing a white crystal-like substance,” that field-tested positive as methamphetamine, the affidavit said.
“Under the coffee table/footrest, I located one pink plastic bowl with white residue and one small red cup with residue, and one single crystal shard on the floor next to the cup (meth),” the deputy wrote in his affidavit.
“Checking both Melissa and Verldon’s criminal history, I found that Verldon was convicted of a felony in Florida back in 1987 for fondling a child,” the deputy wrote in his affidavit.
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