(Stillwater, Okla.) — An ex-convict from Drumright who allegedly had methamphetamine in his possession when he was arrested in Cushing last week has been ordered to appear in Payne County District Court on Friday. John Thomas Davis, 31, who was released from state prison 14 months ago, remains in the Payne County Jail on $60,000 total bail on two separate charges of possessing methamphetamine in Cushing. Last year, Davis was charged with attempting to manufacture methamphetamine at a house on Luella Street in Cushing, along with possessing meth and drug paraphernalia, all on May 20, 2011 — four months after he got out of prison. As part of a plea bargain, the drug manufacturing charge was dropped on July 22, 2011, when he pleaded guilty to possessing methamphetamine, syringes, spoons with meth residue, and digital scales. Payne County District Judge Phillip Corley stayed Davis’s sentencing until he completed the Payne County Drug Court program — which he never started, court records show. As a result of that failure, the judge issued a bench warrant for his arrest — which was accomplished in Cushing on March 13. Davis was then charged with possession of methamphetamine after a former felony conviction, attempting to elude authorities at the intersection of Cherry and Harrison Streets in Cushing, possessing a smoking pipe and used syringe, and operating a car at 9th and Linwood Streets in Cushing without a driver’s license, all on March 13. According to court records, Davis was convicted in 2004 in Coweta County, Georgia, of manufacture and sale of methamphetamine, for which he received a five-year sentence. Five years later, Davis was convicted in 2009 in the Drumright division of Creek County, Oklahoma, of assault and battery on a police officer, for which he was given a two-year prison term to be followed by seven years of probation. However, he only served seven months for that offense, Oklahoma Department of Corrections records show. Davis was also convicted in 2009 of bail jumping in the Drumright division of Creek County, Oklahoma, for which he was given a consecutive one-year prison term, of which he served about four and one-half months before he was released in January 2011, DOC records show. If convicted of his new Payne County charges that were filed last week, Davis could be incarcerated for 13 years, court records show.
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