(Stillwater, Okla.) — A Drumright teenager — who is on probation for endeavoring to manufacture a drug in Creek County — has been jailed in Payne County on charges of possessing methamphetamine within 1,000 feet of a park and eluding a Cushing police officer, both on Valentine’s Day.
Nickolas Lane Hunt, 19, was arraigned last week from the Payne County Jail where he was being held on $40,000 bail. He was ordered to appear in court on March 3 when he can ask for a preliminary hearing.
If convicted of his two-count charge in Payne County that was filed last week, Hunt could be given a 25-year prison term and fined $15,000, court records show.
A year ago in the Drumright division of Creek County District Court, Hunt pleaded guilty to endeavoring to manufacture a drug in 2013 for which he was placed on seven years’ probation except for 90 days in jail and assessed $500.
Hunt also pleaded guilty to child endangerment for which he was given a concurrent four-year probationary sentence except for 90 days in jail and fined $500, court records show. He was released last year on April 17.
Five months later, the Creek County District Attorney’s Office filed a motion to revoke Hunt’s probationary sentence — which remains pending while he is in the Payne County Jail, court records show. Two months ago in Payne County District Court, Hunt pleaded guilty to possessing methamphetamine in a hotel parking lot directly across from Cushing High School and having drug paraphernalia, both in 2012.
Hunt was released on a personal recognizance bond by Payne County Associate District Judge Stephen Kistler, who ordered the state Department of Corrections to compile a youthful offender accountability plan prior to Hunt’s scheduled sentencing for June 20 of this year.
In that Payne County drug case, Hunt was originally taken into custody at 2:40 p.m. on Sept. 22, 2012, in the Wilshire Inn parking lot by Cushing Police Officer Rachel Hentges on an arrest warrant in a juvenile case, court records show.
“As I walked Hunt to my patrol car, he told me that he was going to have more charges filed on him. I asked what he meant by that statement and he told me he had a used syringe in his pocket,” Hentges wrote in her affidavit.
“Hunt also stated he had a container that previously had ‘some stuff’ in it, but reported there was not anything in it then,” the affidavit said.
“During the search I found a capped syringe in Hunt’s left front pocket,” which appeared to have a small amount of blood and a clear liquid in it, the officer wrote in her affidavit.
“Also in the front left pocket, I located a small brown container with a black lid,” in which there was a white powdery residue that tested positive as methamphetamine, the officer wrote in her affidavit.
The items were recovered at 1720 E. Main Street, directly across from Cushing High School, the affidavit said.
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