(Stillwater, Okla.) — A Cushing woman — who was twice convicted of possessing methamphetamine in 2005 — was given a five-year prison term Friday for twice possessing a drug near Cushing High School in 2013.
On her release from prison, Laurie Darlene Bacon, 41, who pleaded guilty to those charges as well as possessing drug paraphernalia, must serve five years of probation and pay $3,300 in assessments.
In her latest case, Bacon was arrested by Payne County Sheriff’s Deputy Dan Nack for possessing marijuana and a smoking pipe across the street from Cushing High School on Dec. 17, 2013.
At the time, Bacon had been free on $10,000 bail on a charge of possessing methamphetamine and drug paraphernalia at her residence in the 500 block of S. Little Street on Nov. 21, 2013, court records show.
After her latest arrest two months ago, Bacon was jailed on $50,000 bail, court records show.
In 2006, Bacon had been convicted in two separate Cushing cases of possessing methamphetamine in the presence of a child — and having substances with intent to manufacture the drug, possessing a drug within 1,000 feet of a minor and having a drug without a prescription.
Bacon was placed on 10 years’ probation and required to complete a one-year in-patient program at Jordan’s Crossing Teratment Center in Oklahoma City instead of drug court.
However, eight months after she went into that residential treatment program, she was discharged for having contraband in the facility, state Department of Corrections Community Sentencing Specialist Dee Miller reported to the court in August 2006.
Three months later, then-District Judge Donald Worthington revoked part of her probation and gave her a three-year prison term of which she apparently served nine months, court records show.
When she was arrested three months ago at her Cushing residence, Larry Steven Wallace Jr., 36, of Cushing, was also arrested for alleged possession of methamphetamine and drug paraphernalia. He was freed on $1,000 bail and ordered to appear in court on March 3.
In that case, Payne County sheriff’s deputies served a search warrant at Bacon’s residence, which had “a hang-out type room, with tattoo equipment throughout the room,” Nack wrote in an affidavit.
In the tattoo room, from which Wallace emerged, a set of gravity scales was on top of an end table, which contained a drawer with a small baggy having methamphetamine residue and two white prescription pills, the affidavit alleged.
“One loaded syringe with approximately 15 ccs of clear liquid was located inside a wooden end table. Two additional used syringes were located in the trash can of this room rolled up with sandwich baggies,” the affidavit alleged.
In Bacon’s bedroom, the deputy found three small yellow baggies, two of which field-tested as positive for methamphetamine residue, the affidavit said. A spoon with cotton had a small marijuana-type pipe, the affidavit said. Three more used small yellow baggies were in her trash can, the affidavit said.
Because of her criminal record, Bacon could have been given a 42-year prison term and fined $22,000. Her five-year prison term, followed by five years of probation, was imposed Friday in accordance with a plea bargain with the prosecution.
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