Tyler Dean Boyce
(PCSD file photo)
By Patti Weaver
STILLWATER — For the second time in two years, a Perkins man has been charged with maintaining his residence as a place where people go to use and sell illegal drugs.
This time, Tyler Dean Boyce, 39, who has also been charged with possessing fentanyl and drug paraphernalia, has been jailed on $100,000 bond, court records show.
Boyce has been ordered to appear in court on June 18 for a preliminary hearing on a three-count charge carrying up to 12 years’ incarceration on conviction.
At the time of Boyce’s arrest at 8:24 pm on April 3, he was still on probation on his 2023 conviction for maintaining a house where drugs are kept, court records show.
Ten officers went to Boyce’s residence after a search warrant sought by Perkins Police Officer Tyson Lester was granted by Associate District Judge Michael Kulling on April 3, court records show.
Perkins Police Chief Bob Ernst, Deputy Police Chief Shane Dean, Sgt. Jeremy Gass, Officers Lester, Hunter Bradley, Devin Freel and Jason Thompson were at Boyce’s house along with Payne County Sheriff’s Deputies Daryn Zanfardino, Joseph Jones and Jacob Farmer, according to Lester’s affidavit.
“Deputies Jones and Farmer went to the back side of the residence. Myself and all Perkins officers approached the front door. I knocked on the front door loudly and yelled, ‘Police search warrant! Open the door.’
“At that time, I heard Deputy Jones yell, ‘Show me your hands right now’ from the back yard. I told Officer Freel to use the battering ram on the front door to enter the residence.
“The door gave way after two strikes, and I entered the residence followed in order by Officer Bradley, Deputy Chief Dean, Officer Thompson and Officer Freel with our firearms drawn.
“I observed Boyce to be standing outside, and Deputies Jones and Farmer had him at gunpoint. Officer Freel detained Boyce in handcuffs as myself, Deputy Chief Dean and Officer Bradley and Officer Thompson cleared the residence.
“I had all deputies, Deputy Chief Dean and Officer Gass stay with Boyce, who had been placed sitting in a chair in the kitchen. Deputy Zanfardino read Boyce the Miranda warning, and Boyce agreed to speak to us,” Officer Lester alleged in his affidavit.
Four soft drink cans “contained multiple cut straws, balled up pieces of burnt foil (used for ingesting Fentanyl) and multiple clear plastic baggies containing a crystalline residue,” that tested positive for methamphetamine. “I unfolded the burned pieces of foil and located two burnt, but still intact, pills in separate pieces of foil,” that tested positive for Fentanyl. “In a backpack in the closet next to the front door of the residence, Officer Freel located a glass smoking device with residue,” Officer Lester alleged in his affidavit.
“I began speaking with Boyce. Boyce stated that the last time he used narcotics was 3-4 days ago. I asked Boyce when the last time someone was at his residence and got high. Boyce stated earlier in the day on 4/3/2025, a male came to his house and did get high,” Officer Lester alleged in his affidavit.
After Boyce was arrested, Officer Freel transported him to the Payne County Jail, the affidavit said.
“I seized Boyce’s cell phone, which I will be applying for a search warrant for,” Officer Lester wrote in his affidavit.
Two years ago, on May 16, Boyce was convicted of maintaining a house where drugs are kept and sentenced to six months in jail followed by four and one-half years of probation on which he remains, Payne County court records show.
