By: Patti Weaver
(Stillwater, Okla.) — Two ex-convicts arrested by Stillwater police at the Wilshire Inn in Cushing have been jailed on $250,000 bail each pending their court appearances on Sept. 13 on charges of trafficking methamphetamine and possessing two guns during the commission of a felony.
Nathaniel Marteze McCormick, 35, of Cushing, who was released from prison four years ago, and Krystal Dawn Littlesun, 36, of Stillwater, who got out of prison three years ago, could each be given a life prison term if convicted of trafficking 38.2 grams of methamphetamine, court records show.
The pair had been arrested at 3:30 pm on July 23 at the Wilshire Inn in Cushing by Stillwater Police Detective Josh Carson, who had learned that McCormick had an outstanding felony warrant and was staying with Littlesun at a Cushing motel, according to his affidavit.
“McCormick was recently involved in a shooting inside Stillwater city limits and ran from officers when contacted,” the detective alleged in an affidavit.
“We arrived at the Wilshire Inn motel and entered the west parking lot. When we pulled in, I observed Deputy Nack and Detective Elliott stop their vehicle and observed Nathaniel McCormick rush into a room. McCormick was ordered to the ground and complied just inside the door,” to a room that had been rented by Littlesun, the detective alleged in an affidavit.
“Krystal Littlesun was sitting on the bed in the room. As I stood McCormick up, I observed a large amount of methamphetamine, working digital scales, and packaging material in plain view inside the room on top of a small refrigerator. Two guns were sitting in an open purse next to Littlesun,” the detective alleged in an affidavit.
After the detective went to Stillwater to obtain a search warrant, he returned to the Cushing motel to serve it, the affidavit alleged.
“Methamphetamine, working digital scales, packaging material and two guns were seized. One gun was a .22 caliber revolver,” chamber-loaded, with the serial number obviously scratched off, the affidavit alleged. “The other gun was a .380 caliber semi-automatic pistol,” the affidavit alleged. “Contraband was located all over the room,” the affidavit alleged.
According to court records and the Oklahoma Department of Corrections, McCormick has prior felony convictions from Payne, Creek and Tulsa counties — including for methamphetamine possession, stolen property possession, maintaining a place for keeping or selling drugs, domestic violence, having a stolen vehicle, and false personation.
Littlesun had previously been convicted of drug possession in 2014 in Pottawatomie County for which she was imprisoned and of drug possession in 2007 in Payne County for which she was given probation under a deferred sentence, DOC records show.
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