Sammy Ledford
(DOC file photo)
By Patti Weaver
(Stillwater, Okla.) — A Glencoe man has been given a 12-year prison term for possessing methamphetamine with intent to distribute, which was found in his van last August in a Stillwater parking lot after a police K-9 indicated the presence of a drug in the vehicle.
Sammy Lee Ledford, 39, pleaded guilty to that 2022 case as well as possessing a stolen Ford truck in Payne County in 2021 that had been taken from 4 S Ranch in Logan County for which he was given a concurrent four-year prison term last week.
As part of a plea agreement with the prosecution, District Judge Phillip Corley told Ledford in court that he would suspend the balance of his sentences in both cases when he completed the Bill Johnson Drug Offender Work Camp in prison.
Ledford and a woman with him in the van were jailed on $25,000 bail each following their arrests by Stillwater police on Aug. 11 after six grams of methamphetamine along with digital scales and packaging material were allegedly found in the vehicle, court records show.
According to Payne County court records and the Oklahoma Department of Corrections, Ledford had gotten out of prison on July 17, 2020, on pre-release supervision after serving about two years and four months following his termination from Drug Court.
Ledford had previously been convicted of possessing methamphetamine in Stillwater in 2016, two counts of second-degree burglary in 2015, and two counts of possessing stolen property in 2015 and 2012, court records show.
His companion, Vanessa Kay Day, 48, of Glencoe, remains in the Payne County Jail on charges of possessing methamphetamine with intent to distribute along with having drug paraphernalia pending a Nov. 7 court appearance at which she can seek a preliminary hearing.
According to court records and the Oklahoma Department of Corrections, Day had previously been convicted on July 31, 2020, of false personation in Osage County for which she was placed on three years’ probation except for serving 30 days in jail. Day had also been convicted in 2021 of misdemeanor embezzlement in Pawnee in 2019 for which she was placed on probation for one year with an order to pay $69 restitution.
Day had also been convicted in Pawnee County in 2017 of passing bogus checks in 2016 for which she was initially given a three-year deferred sentence with an order to pay $2,165 restitution, but her status was changed in 2021 to a one-year suspended sentence. Day had also been convicted in Oklahoma County in 2015 of obtaining a controlled drug by a forged or altered prescription in 2011, for which she was given a two-year suspended sentence.
