(Stillwater, Okla.) — A Cushing woman who admitted endeavoring to manufacture methamphetamine at her residence in the 1100 block of E. Greenlee has been given a 10-year prison term followed by probation for 10 years.
Mary Margaret Vaughan, 46, was sentenced Friday by Associate District Judge Stephen Kistler in accordance with a plea bargain with the prosecution that called for her to have drug treatment in prison.
On her release, Vaughan must have a substance abuse evaluation, follow any recommendations, have random drug tests, and pay $5,650 in fines and assessments, the judge ordered.
Her co-defendant, Charles Lee Herring, 53, who lived in the same residence, had pleaded guilty in April, but was allowed to withdraw that plea on Aug. 1 by Kistler, court records show. His case remains pending.
Payne County Sheriff’s Deputy Dan Nack, who arrested the couple on Dec. 4, 2013, alleged in an affidavit that Herring said “he does not know how to cook meth; however he buys pseudoephedrine for Mary to do so and gets meth for it. He advised this has been going on for several years.”
“Mary advised that she does cook meth. She advised that she also purchases pseudoephedrine for that,” the affidavit said.
Their home in the 1100 block of E. Greenlee in Cushing was searched on Dec. 4, 2013, by a team of deputies from the Payne County Sheriff’s Office, the affidavit said.
In the bedroom beside the bed were “two individual shake method methamphetamine labs,” Nack alleged in his affidavit.
Ten additional “older one-pot or shake method methamphetamine labs were also found here,” the affidavit alleged.
Thirteen additional bottles were located in a bathroom cabinet — four containing a liquid, one of which was field-tested as positive for methamphetamine, the affidavit alleged.
“Several of these were also hand-labeled Thursday, Friday, Saturday, etc.,” the affidavit said.
“These were all identified as used methamphetamine labs, each representing an individual meth cook capable of producing methamphetamine,” the affidavit alleged.
“Mary states that the purpose to label the bottles with days is to identify later when she made it after the bottle is stored. Both agreed that each bottle represents at least one cook done,” the affidavit alleged.
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