(Stillwater) — A Cushing teenager has been charged with possessing methamphetamine and marijuana within 1,000 feet of Cushing Memorial Park and in the presence of a 12-year-old child.
Tiffany L. Hulsey, 19, who remains free on $5,000 bond, was arraigned last week on the felony charge and ordered to return to court Aug. 12 with an attorney.
Hulsey also was charged with misdemeanor counts of possessing metal knuckles and drug paraphernalia, court records show.
She was arrested at her mother’s home in the 400 block of East Cherry Street by Cushing Police Sgt. Tully Folden about 5 p.m. on July 23, according to the officer’s affidavit.
The police sergeant had been sent there to talk to Tiffany Hulsey and her boyfriend about their alleged attempt to break into their recently vacated rent house in the 900 block of East Maple Street, according to Folden’s affidavit.
When Hulsey opened the front door, “I could smell a strong odor of burnt marijuana coming from the interior of the residence,” Folden alleged in his affidavit.
Asked who was smoking marijuana, Hulsey said no one, according to Folden — who alleged in his affidavit that as he then reached to open the screen door, Hulsey pushed it closed.
Folden then pushed Hulsey toward Officer Justin Sappington, the affidavit said.
When Folden opened the door, he saw several individuals running toward the back of the residence, ordered them to stop, and had them go outside where they were handcuffed, the affidavit alleged.
While the police sergeant was talking to Gina Hulsey, who owns the residence, Tiffany Hulsey said that she was smoking the marijuana in the house, the affidavit alleged.
Asked for permission to search the house, neither of the Hulseys would answer, Folden wrote in his affidavit.
After he obtained a search warrant, the police sergeant found a number of items in Tiffany Hulsey’s bedroom — including drug paraphernalia, marijuana, metal knuckles, a set of digital scales, five heat-sealed baggies and a note on the dresser saying “they can get an ounce for 80 dollars,” the affidavit alleged.
In a bathroom, which Tiffany Hulsey said she shared with her brother and 12-year-old sister, the police sergeant found — on top of the bathroom mirror — two used spoons with a crystallized substance that tested positive for methamphetamine, the affidavit alleged.
The house is located 300 feet from Cushing Memorial Park, the affidavit said.
Tiffany Hulsey could be given more than 11 years’ incarceration and fined $1,250 if convicted of the three-count charge filed by Payne County First Assistant District Attorney Tom Lee.
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