(Stillwater, Okla.) — A Stillwater woman – who was investigated following a reported road rage incident in Perkins on Highway 33 — has been ordered to appear in court on Jan. 16 for a pre-trial hearing on charges of possessing methamphetamine residue and drug paraphernalia inside a backpack in her truck.
Kindra Calynn Whitmore, 30, of Stillwater, could be incarcerated for 25 years and fined $11,000 if convicted of the two-count charge, court records show. She remains free on $2,500 bail.
Perkins Police Officer Charles Danker advised Payne County Sheriff’s Deputy Rockford Brown at 11:40 a.m. on Aug. 5, 2014, of “a road rage incident that occurred somewhere in Payne County’s construction zone on Highway 33,” according to an affidavit.
“Danker advised me that the driver of a black Camry had been passed by a black quad cab truck driven by Kindra Whitmore,” the deputy wrote in his affidavit.
“Danker said that when the truck passed the Camry, he witnessed the passenger brandish a black handgun,” the affidavit alleged.
When Whitmore and her passenger were asked if they had brandished a handgun, the passenger said “she had raised a bat up because she was scared, but never showed a gun,” the affidavit said.
Both women consented to the deputy’s looking through the vehicle, the affidavit alleged.
“Upon the first pass-through the vehicle, I never located any weapons other than the bat.
“I asked Deputy Justin Henninger to do a second pass for me, and he located a black pellet pistol that looked identical to what a full size 9 mm .45-caliber pistol would look like,” Brown wrote in his affidavit.
“Henninger located it inside of a backpack in the back seat near the passenger’s side,” which Whitmore said belonged to her, but she forgot it was there, the affidavit alleged.
“Upon further examination of the backpack, I located a large 8 x 4 inch hard-sided case that zipped up containing over 30 1 x 2 inch baggies commonly used to transport narcotics, a digital scale, a 50 gram weight, one plastic pill container, one razor blade, q-tips, alcohol swabs and a red straw that was cut and commonly used as a snorting straw to ingest illegal narcotics,” Brown alleged in his affidavit.
“I tested residue from the straw at the Sheriff’s Office and it did test positive for meth,” Brown alleged in his affidavit.
When the women were again questioned separately, the passenger said “it was Kindra who brandished the pistol,” the affidavit alleged.
“Whitmore told me that the backpack was hers, but the paraphernalia inside of it was not hers. She told me that the pistol was hers, but she did not brandish it,” Brown wrote in his affidavit.
“She said she got it out and held it above the console, but it was (the passenger) that brandished it – but they did it because they were scared,” the affidavit alleged.
The Camry driver said “he had a previous incident with the black truck driven by the two females in Logan County after he exited I-35 when he passed them and accidentally cut them off,” the affidavit said.
The Camry driver said “once they were on the two-lane road (Payne County), the truck tried to pass him, and he sped up not allowing them to pass,” the affidavit alleged.
He said “he did finally allow them to pass and when they did, the passenger held a black handgun up where he could see it through the window very clearly,” the affidavit alleged.
He said “the passenger was waving the pistol as if to make it clear that he could see it,” the affidavit alleged.
He initially told the dispatcher that the passenger was a male, the affidavit said.
The deputy said that the passenger “has short hair and was wearing a cutoff shirt and could’ve been confused for a man,” the affidavit said.
Both women were released by the sheriff’s deputy, who said he would submit the case to the District Attorney’s office for charges, the affidavit said.
The passenger was not charged with any crime in the alleged incident, court records show.
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