(Cushing, Okla.) — A Cushing woman — who is on probation for multiple counts of drug possession — was arrested with a Cushing man in the parking lot of Cherry Lane Apartments at 1:16 a.m. Sept. 20, Cushing Deputy Police Chief Tully Folden told KUSH today. Alphuea Colleen Armstrong, 45, and Steven E. Taylor, 45, who were in the same vehicle, were both charged with possession of methamphetamine within 2,000 feet of Cushing High School with intent to distribute, court records show. Armstrong was also charged with possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia — described as a tin containing a small metal spoon with residue, a ziplock bag containing residue, a ziplock baggy containing nine smaller baggies with methamphetamine residue, a small straw with residue and a white case containing methamphetamine. She appeared in court last week and remains free on $7,500 bond pending her return Oct. 21 with an attorney, court records show. Taylor was also charged with possession of drug paraphernalia — described as a bag containing digital scales with methamphetamine residue, four ziplock baggies containing residue and a ziplock baggy containing methamphetamine. He appeared in court last week and remains free on $5,000 bond pending his return to court Oct. 26 with an attorney, court records show. Both consented to a search by police who were called to the area located 838 feet from Cushing High School — on a report of a suspicious vehicle that matched the one they were in, the Cushing deputy police chief told KUSH today. Cushing Police Officer Matthew Piatt was familiar with Armstrong, whom he had arrested the previous year at 100 E. Broadway in Cushing for driving with a revoked license and possession of the painkiller oxycodone without a prescription at 12:44 a.m. on Feb. 28, 1010, court records show. Last September in that 2010 case, Armstrong, who has also been known by the surname of Gillum, was placed on five years’ probation with an order to follow all the treatment recommendations contained in a background report for the court. She was also ordered to perform 100 hours of community service within 12 months and to pay $1,050 in fines and assessments, court records show. Last September in a 2007 case, Armstrong was found to be in violation of a deferred sentence, which was changed to a five-year suspended sentence for possession of methamphetamine, possession of Lortab and Valium without a prescription, actual physical control of a vehicle while under the influence of intoxicating substances, and possession of drug paraphernalia. In that case, Armstrong had been arrested by Cushing Police Officer Adam Harp at 1:54 a.m. on Jan. 25, 2007, in a vehicle in the parking lot near the front door of a convenience store in the 2000 block of E. Main Street in Cushing, court records show. She awoke when the officer opened the driver’s side door of her vehicle, which was still running with the headlights on, court records show. In that arrest, her vehicle was located 429 feet from the Cushing High School’s north parking lot, Harp wrote in an affidavit.
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