By: Patti Weaver
(Stillwater, Okla.) — A Stillwater man, who was released from prison last year after serving time for methamphetamine possession in Oklahoma County, remained jailed today on $100,000 bail in Payne County pending a Sept. 15 preliminary hearing on a charge of possessing the same drug in Stillwater with intent to distribute.
Former Cushing resident Casey Tyler Johnson, 29, reputed by informants to be “actively selling heroin and methamphetamine,” was arrested at 4:30 p.m. on July 17 following a traffic stop on a vehicle in which he was a passenger, Stillwater Police Officer Josh Carson alleged in an affidavit.
“Casey was wearing baggy pants with one leg pulled up. Detective Moore has had numerous dealings with Casey and knows him to be an active gang member,” the police affidavit alleged.
After a methamphetamine pipe was found in Johnson’s right pocket, “In his left sock, I found an additional methamphetamine pipe and two zip-top baggies containing a crystal-like substance, one bag of which field-tested as methamphetamine and the other field-tested as heroin, Officer Carson alleged in his affidavit.
At the time of his latest arrest, Johnson was free on $5,000 bail on a 2019 charge of making a drug delivery in Stillwater, a felony on which he has been scheduled for an Oct. 6 pre-trial hearing, court records show.
According to the Oklahoma Department of Corrections, Johnson was released from state prison in April of 2019 after serving two and one-half years of a seven-year prison term for methamphetamine possession in Oklahoma City in 2016.
Johnson had previously been charged with marijuana possession in Payne County in 2013, for which he was placed on five years’ probation under a deferred sentence in 2014 that was changed less than nine months later for violating probation to a three-year suspended sentence of which six months were revoked five months later for his again violating probation, court records show.
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