(Stillwater, Okla.) — A Cushing woman was placed on five years’ probation Friday for passing a forged check at a Cushing convenience store and possessing marijuana at a Cushing park, both felonies to which she pleaded guilty.
As part of a plea bargain, Christy Lynn McEntire, 25, was ordered Friday to have a substance abuse evaluation, to follow any recommendations, to have random drug testing and to perform 100 hours of community service.
McEntire was also ordered to pay the cost of 30 days in jail that she had already served, along with $1,850 in fines and assessments, as well as restitution.
Cushing Police Sgt. Adam Harp wrote in an affidavit that a woman reported on July 31, 2013, “her wallet was stolen from her purse while she was at the women’s clinic in Stillwater, Oklahoma, and the suspect in the theft was Christy McEntire.”
The victim said that she was contacted by an employee at Bill’s EZ Out on Main Street that a check was returned to their store, the affidavit said.
McEntire’s name was in the memo section of the check for $100 on Aug. 7, 2013, to Bill’s EZ out, while the victim’s name was printed in the signature section, the affidavit said.
“I asked McEntire about the forged check that she passed at Bill’s EZ Out and she said that she did not know what I was talking about,” during a phone call on Aug. 14, 2013, Harp wrote in his affidavit.
While she was free on bail on that charge, McEntire was accused of possessing marijuana and drug paraphernalia at Roy Kemp Park in Cushing in January of this year.
The Cushing police sergeant had been sent shortly after 5 p.m. on Jan. 17 to the park in the 800 block of E. Oak Street on a report of a white woman in a pink hoodie possibly smoking marijuana on a park bench, an affidavit said.
“I made contact with Christy and told her that someone had called the police department and gave a description of her possibly smoking marijuana in the park. Christy denied smoking marijuana in the park and said that she was smoking cigarettes,” Harp wrote in his affidavit.
Asked if she had any cigarettes, McEntire reached into the front hoodie pocket and retrieved a pack and a lighter, the affidavit said.
“I asked Christy if she had anything else in her front hoodie pocket, and she reached into the pocket with both hands and I could hear what sounded like a wrapper crinkling in her left hand,” Harp wrote in his affidavit.
“I asked Christy what she had in her left hand and she just stared at me and did not say anything. I again asked Christy what she had in her left hand and she said she smokes.
“I asked Christy if she would remove her left hand and show me the item and she handed me a clear plastic baggy containing a green leafy substance believed to be marijuana,” which she said belonged to her, Harp wrote in his affidavit.
“It should be noted that Christy was at the park with her four-year-old child,” the affidavit said.
“Before placing Christy into the police car, she told me that she had a smoking pipe in her hoodie front pocket, which she said that she used to smoke marijuana while at the park,” Harp wrote in his affidavit.
